The 04/12/2016
Each year, dieticians, nutritionists and scientific journalists from the site LaNutrition.fr, identify the list of foods present in supermarkets, which it is preferable to avoid. Objective: to preserve the health of the consumer.
A vast investigation
The 2016 edition of the guide “The right choice at the supermarket” (Editions Thierry Souccar) has just been published. This year, he invites consumers to be wary of 323 products, and ” permanently ban »Of their diet 107 other products. To reach these conclusions, the authors of the survey dissected the labels of 800 products widely used in mass distribution.
Among them, products which nevertheless have a good reputation such as yoghurts: the Yoplait baskets, the strawberry Gervita or the Taillefine 0% all contain at least 10 additives, preservatives and thickeners.
Moreover, the consumer should not blindly trust the ” gluten free “. ” We see horrors », Explains Thierry Souccar, one of the authors of this guide, quoted by Europe 1. ” We replace the wheat flour and we have to give the illusion that we have roughly the same taste in the mouth, that we have roughly the same appearance, so we put fats which are often of poor quality. , we put emulsifiers, we have additive soups and in the end it is a product that is completely far from the nutritional ideal that we are looking for “.
Advice from dieticians and nutritionists
After having carried out this vast study, dieticians and nutritionists recommend that consumers read the labels carefully before putting a product in their shopping cart. The shorter the list of ingredients, the better. The less colorants, flavors, stabilizers and gelling agents, the better.
Consumers are also called upon to favor natural ingredients: flour rather than modified starch, whole milk rather than powdered milk or milk proteins, sugar rather than glucose syrup, for example.
Another tip: choose ingredients that are made up of quality fats (vegetable oils), with little or no added sugars and sweeteners, few or no additives and especially those with fewer calories. In short: keep an eye out!
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