Why your 'healthy' diet is anything but – and the food swaps to make
telegraph.co.ukeat better, but are we making the right choices? Anyone with an interest in health knows they shouldn’t consume junk food all day long, but even if you think you’re making good choices, it’s not always easy.The ever-more-dominant villain in nutrition is ultra-processed food.
You’ll be familiar with such products: brightly packaged, temptingly easy to eat and seemingly good value. It’s food that you couldn’t make from raw ingredients at home, with additives that aren’t found in shops – and it is highly addictive.But avoiding the most obvious examples of UPF isn’t all you need to do.
Choosing supposedly healthy options such as higher-protein snacks, vegan meat substitutes and low-fat dairy products means you’re in danger of consuming food with lower nutrition.
Often these products are high in sugar, refined carbohydrate or fat – sometimes all three – and contain ingredients manipulated to have a long shelf life.If you’re time-poor, it’s easy to head to the supermarket and not read beyond the health claims on the front of packages.
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