Monday, September 22, 2008

Watch Out!!

Food labels often try to disguise the amout of fat, salt or sugar added to boost flavour of the food we buy. Some of them make had cheated in the ingredient sheet. Alert with these words to see what you are really putting into your body.
  • Fat - animal oil, beef fat, butter fat, copha, lard, milk solids, palm oil, tallow, shortening, vegetable oil.
  • Sugar - sucrose, caster sugar, dextrose, fructose, glucose, golden syrup, honey, lactose, malt, brown sugar, maltose, maple syrup, molasses, raw sugar.
  • Salt/Sodium - baking soda, celery salt, garlic salt, monosodium glutamate, rock salt, sodium bicarbonate

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