In order to eat healthy, many people will take raw or dried fruits as snacks, but accidentally fall into the trap of high sugar at any time!
The Consumer Council published a new monthly issue of "Choice" and tested a total of 31 packaged dried fruits in 6 categories on the market and found that all of them were "high-sugar" foods. Among them, the Disney Disney raisins sold for 22.9 yuan were found to have higher sugar levels. The sugar content stated on the packaging is more than 19 times.
In addition, at least 3 pesticides were found in 14 dried fruit samples, and 3 of them contained more than 10 pesticides, which is the highest score among the 6 dried fruit samples!
The Consumer Council published a new monthly issue of "Choice", which tested a total of 31 packaged dried fruits in 6 categories on the market and found that all of them were "high sugar" foods.
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The Consumer Council tested 6 types of dried fruits on the market, including dried apricots, dried blueberries, dried cranberries, dried mangoes, dried raisins and dried strawberries, a total of 31 products.
Among the 6 types of dried fruits, dried raisins have the highest sugar content. Each 100g product contains an average of 57.4 grams of sugar. Among them, the Disney Disney raisins sold for 22.9 yuan have a labeled sugar content of 3.7 grams, but the detected sugar content is 75.1 grams. The distance is more than 19 times.
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The sugar content of preserved apricots is the lowest among the 6 types of dried fruit, with an average content of 35.8 grams per 100 grams. However, Biomen's preserved apricots detected a sugar content of 46.2 grams, which is about 3.3 times different from the label's 10.8 grams.
Regarding dried mangoes, Green Sun Garden has 10 grams of dried mangoes, but the test result found 62 grams, which is 5.2 times the difference, which is the highest sugar among the four dried mangoes.
Together with the detected sugar content of Lei Yue Mun Shaoxiangyuan Strawberry Dried Strawberry, which differs 1.6 times from the labelled sugar content, the difference between the actual sugar content of the 4 products and the labelled value exceeds the regulatory tolerance limit of the Hong Kong "Technical Guidelines on Nutrition Labeling and Nutrition Claims" , The Consumer Council has handed it over to the Center for Food Safety for follow-up.
The difference between the actual sugar content of the 4 samples and the label value exceeds the requirements of the "Technical Guidelines"▼▼▼
The test results also found that 21 of the 31 samples were detected with pesticides, of which nearly 70% or 14 samples detected more than one pesticide, and 4 samples even detected at least 10 or more pesticides , Including dried blueberries from Kirkland Signature, dried raisins from Martha Marks & Spencer, dried raisins from Mariani, and dried raisins from Sun-maid.
In this test, the serving size used by more than half of the samples with labeled serving size, that is, 40 grams, is used as each serving size.
Based on each serving size, one serving of "Lei Yue Mun Shao Xiang Yuan" dried strawberries has the highest sugar intake at 31.5 grams.
If one gram of sugar provides 4 kilocalories of energy, the sugar content of a 40 gram sample provides 126 kilocalories of energy; for example, a 60 kilogram adult walking at a speed of 3 kilometers per hour can consume about 70 kilocalories per kilometer. , He needs to walk 1.8 kilometers (about 36 minutes) to consume the energy provided by 1 serving of dried fruit sugar.
The Consumer Council reminds that the sugar will be concentrated as a result of dehydration of dried fruits, and the sugar content is relatively high, so it is not advisable to overeat them.
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The Consumer Council reminds that some nutrients such as vitamins and antioxidants in the fruit may be lost during the production process, so it cannot completely replace the fresh fruit, and the dried fruit will be dehydrated and the sugar will be concentrated, and the sugar content is high. It is not suitable to overeat. It is recommended to consume People try to choose small packages of products, or divide a large package of dried fruit into small packages to control the amount of consumption and avoid eating too much dried fruit at a time.
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