EVERYTHING ON FOOD LABELS
Nutritional and therapeutic aspects, indications and advice for the consumer, harmful additives and prevention, mineral water labels
Understanding food labels | |
The different foods and foods we eat every day with diet and nutrition have a peculiar composition in terms of nutrients; this allows us to characterize them and then divide them into the so-called 'FOOD GROUPS' or categories. |  |
| Food groups » | |
Food labels | |
| When we go shopping, do we rely on the senses, the wallet or common sense? Whoever relies on common sense cannot forget that famous Chinese saying which reads: "we are what we eat". And what we eat is reported on food labels! |  |
| Food labels »The label of fresh eggs» | |
Nutritional labels |  |
| Usually the producers of quality food emphasize the properties of their foods, enhancing their nutritional characteristics. Given that producing a healthy and genuine food costs more than resorting to cheap industrial shortcuts, it would be counter-productive and stupid not to specify its beneficial properties. | |
| Nutrition labels » | |
Storage and food additives | |
| When reading the label of a food it is necessary to have an eye for times and for the methods of conservation. Foods maintain their organoleptic and nutritional characteristics intact for a certain period of time beyond which they begin to modify their peculiarities. |  |
| Storage and food additives » | |
Food additives: those who know them avoid them | |
| Some tips to protect the consumer: at the supermarket prefer foods with a low content of additives do the shopping using the brain and not the eyes: if the color of a food is too flashy, compare it to the price ... |  |
| Food additives: those who know them avoid them " | |
Labels and mineral water | |
| Orienting yourself in the choice of the numerous mineral waters available on the market is not easy. The labels placed on the containers are a valid aid in this regard. The label uniquely identifies all the elements and characteristics of a mineral water. However, it is not always easy to correctly interpret the data provided by this sort of "database" |  |
| Labels and mineral water " | |
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