Have you ever paid attention to the ingredients and nutrition labels on food packaging? Edema, obesity, and health killer are all here!

Do you know what's in your dinner? It takes a lot of work and some clever application of science to make ready-made meals, frozen foods and store-bought snacks taste good and tempt you to buy them. The results are often horrific, so let us tell you the truth. Have you ever paid attention to the ingredients and nutrition labels on food packaging? The killer that makes you edematous, obese and increasingly unhealthy is hidden here!

"Convenience" may be the password to obesity

Take a close look at the ingredients and nutrition labels on your favorite prepared food packages, such as instant soup packs and frozen meals, and you'll be shocked by the salt content. For example, a packet of instant noodles contains 1,820 mg of sodium, which accounts for 80% of the 2,300 mg limit you need in a day (the average person consumes more than 50% every day). Besides shrinking your waistline overnight (due to water weight), a high-salt diet is bad for your stomach and heart. Try to choose snacks that contain less than 600 mg of sodium and less than 250 calories per packaged cooked food serving.

“Diet” foods are often just sugar in a different name

When manufacturers take fat and calories out of foods, they have to put something in to make them taste good, and that something is usually sugar — and lots of it. Nutrition experts point out that many snacks with 100 calories are mainly composed of sugar, dough and oil, which means they are just calories. For between-meal snacks, choose whole grains, nuts, or fruit.

Not everything goes well with bacon

In order to preserve the flavor of pork, manufacturers usually use nitrates or nitrites. Studies have shown that these preservatives or other additives may cause cancer when added to meat. Hot dogs, turkey, and hamburger patties are probably prepared the same way. While you're skipping "uncured" meats (any cured meat naturally produces nitrates), be especially careful about how much you consume, preferably no more than 200 grams per week.

The soy content in vegetarian meat is far different from that in tofu

Any vegetarian bean product has more than 40 ingredients, some of which don’t sound very appetizing: disodium guanylate, anyone? Many of the nutrients that soy has are not usually found in these products. That's because soy is reduced to its single form, meaning you get the protein but not its fiber or antioxidant content, nutrition experts say. They recommend that if you want to reap the health benefits of beans, eat them in whole forms, such as tofu, edamame or miso.

If "nutrition is added", it is not better

"The 'added nutrients' on the label indicate that the cereal contains a variety of nutrients, but the truth is that everything, including fiber and B vitamins, have been removed and then added back in little by little," said a nutritionist. While fortified toast is a bit better than regular (refined) white toast, the word "whole" is what you should be looking for. Whole grains retain all of their original nutrients, like fiber, antioxidants, vitamins, etc., which means they don’t need to have any added nutrients to give them extra points.

“Organic” may be a fiction

Just because a product says "natural" or "organic" on its label doesn't necessarily mean it's healthy. When consumers see these words on packaging, they usually assume that these products are better. In fact, although many organic products do not contain artificial additives, they are still rich in sugar, refined grains and oils. Always check the label before buying any product. Whether it’s organic or not, if it contains saturated fat, or is high in sugar and calories, skip it!

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