If there is one regular place we go to when we are in the supermarket, it is the frozen food refrigerator, which is usually full of products that include food coloring, preservatives, flavors and aromas, as well as sugar and salt in large quantities.
These are foods with harmful potential that can not be defined as healthy at all if they form the center of our menu.
Consumption of more than 2,500 mg of salt a day, for example, can lead to a risk of high blood pressure and heart disease. Increased consumption of sugar causes diabetes. Also, preservatives include chemicals that are not necessarily healthy and not suitable for the human body, a condition that can be harmful. In our hormonal activity system as well as in kidney and liver function.
It is true that it is very convenient to buy a frozen food and then thaw or heat it, but in many cases these are unhealthy foods that are simply worth avoiding.
Here is a simple rule of thumb by which you can rate the same foods: Try to consume foods that include as little as possible the components sugar, salt, fats and preservatives.
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Frozen pastries
Cinnamon cookies for the oven, biscuits, waffles, ready-to-bake cakes, rolls, dessert items for heating - all of these are loaded and high in sugar, salt and fat, and should be avoided (although there is nothing to say, they are very tasty).
Delicious, but loaded with sugar.
Waffle, Photo: EPI.
Frozen dinners
The main problem with these dinners is the amount of salt, sodium, present in them, which often exceeds 1,000 mg per meal. The reason is that salt is used as a good preservative, so it is present in many of the ingredients in the meal - not only to give it flavor but also to Maintain its quality.Similarly, these meals are often poor in vegetables.
The recommendation is to compare these types of meals and choose the healthiest, if we must buy them following our way of life.
Pizza roll snacks
These snacks include an unhealthy combination of sodium, imitations of cheese, fats, nitrates and phosphates.
Each of these ingredients comes in large and very unhealthy amounts, so if you want to eat pizza, it is better for you to eat fresh and real pizza - and stay away from these snacks.
Frozen pies
Even a frozen vegetable pie usually has too much calories and fat.
True, pies are a comforting dish but very high in calories and fats, and this is all the more true in meat pies.
Of course there are exceptions, but for that you have to make a comparison of ingredients - which often also comes at the expense of taste.
Comforting, but high in fat.
Cherry pie,
Frozen pizza
For the most part, there is no real difference between frozen pizzas and pizza roll snacks.
They are high-calorie foods, with salts, fats and preservatives.
Of course there are relatively healthy pizzas with a thin cereal dough and vegetable icing, but these are exceptional compared to what we are usually used to buying.
Sausage wrapped in dough
Admittedly, this is a very tasty dish, one that we sometimes indulge our children in - and eat it ourselves from time to time.
However, it is important to know that this is a combination of two unhealthy products: the sausage itself, which contains sodium and unhealthy chemicals along with meat that has undergone extreme processing, which threatens our blood and heart pressure, and which can also cause diabetes.
Also, change the sweet batter above the sausage, which is made from a nutrient-free substance that only undergoes frying before freezing, which hurts it more.
Frozen French fries
Seemingly it's just potatoes, right?
so no!
Read the ingredients of this product, and you will discover a large amount of oil and calories.
According to Fox News experts, when we order fried chips at McDonald's, the dish will include 530 calories and 22 grams of fat.
A large portion of fries at KFC comes with 610 calories and 25 grams of fat, while the chips of the "Wendy's" hamburger chain include 610 calories and 28 grams of fat.
The nutritional profile of the frozen chips we buy at the supermarket is similar, so you should carefully check out the product we are buying.
Justifies the calories?
Frozen French fries,
Frozen calzone
Typically, these delicious dough foods usually contain 1,700 mg of sodium per serving, which has led many experts to declare that they cross the preferred threshold for sodium intake per day. Of sodium, for all the damages involved.
Sour-sweet chicken
Chicken is a very healthy way to get protein, but in sweet and sour dishes there is a huge amount of sugar, up to about 40 grams of sugar per serving.
If possible, it is best to prepare this dish yourself and freeze it, thus controlling yourself over the amount of sugar in it.
Sweet pastries for toaster
Frozen foods like Belgian waffles come with processed carbohydrates at a level that causes the loss of any nutritional value they have, and they also include high amounts of sugar.
In fact, there are chemical preservatives here that add their refined white flour, refined sugar, fructose-rich corn, and we have not even started talking about the syrups.
In other words, there are products high in sugar, chemicals and fat without any nutritional value, unless you consider damage to the body as such a value.
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