What Exactly Is Processed Food? If any food that is boxed, bagged, canned or jarred and has a list of ingredients on the label, it's processed. They are derived from methods such as canning, freezing, refrigeration, dehydration, and aseptic processing. These processed foods are overloaded with hydrogenated oil, high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, and trans fats. They are lacking in necessary nutrition and loaded with empty sugar, water, fat, flour, starch, artificial colorings and flavors. A stroll down the grocery store's aisles can be a tempting experience with rows and rows of delicious food all wrapped up in colorful packages, beckoning you to give it a try . I have to admit, I am no exception. Good , delicious food that’s appealing and convenient is highly tempting. In Singapore, known for being a food paradise, you can never escape from the wide array of food in every nook and corner.For example, in a single day, my contact with food are found in my house, petrol kiosk, hawker center and night market stalls. How can I resist? It’s a miracle that my Body Mass Index (BMI for short) is within the acceptable range.
Thankfully my parents are health conscious and whenever we have meals at home, they are the healthy diets which includes lots of fresh fruits, vegetables and steamed/baked fish or meat. But once I am out, my diet is out of balance. It is laden with processed food which unfortunately, included curry puffs, burgers,fried food, fries, Slurpees and etc. To top it all up, I usually have a packet of my favourite potato chips or Cheezels. I know that they are all bad for my body system, but I cant help it. For example, the blue colouring in Slurpee stays in my tongue for hours after that. Imagine if my intestines were painted blue! This is evidence of artificial colouring. The yellow colouring in chips and Cheezels turned my fingers and lips a golden yellow. Though processed foods are yummy, they are neither good nor healthy. Sometimes, I feel bloated and sleepy, all thanks to them. I have a new year resolution; that is to cut down on all these processed food. It’s challenging but I’m trying very hard!
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Very good Max. Your explanation is all-rounded and you have completely listed all the main points in your posting. From your posting I can understand that you are trying hard to quit the diet of junk food. We should all have this kind of attitude when we are trying to complete something, like a project. I realized, from your post the bad side effects of eating this junk food. Nice one Max! :)
ReplyDeletethis entry you have wrote is seriously awesome!
ReplyDeletefrom this i believe that we can understand more about processed food and how to cut down on it.now some people may also want to quit this type of junk food and try to eat more healthy food.Keep it up!