The food label is a tool that, beyond the rhetoric on food fraud, in Italy is still a guarantee to understand more about the food we buy: I know that shopping by sifting through the various food labels is the last thing that you feel like doing it, but it is the first step to your health. Don’t buy based on what you read on the front of the packaging: read on the back, where you will find the nutritional values ​​and the list of ingredients. The surprises are incredible, and they help you very quickly discern what is best for you from what is perhaps best not to buy.
In this article, behind the suggestions of a service that appeared on American TV Today, let’s pay attention to some typical words that we read in the food label of supermarket products. And how to choose to eat better immediately, avoid poor products and improve metabolism by doing without hidden sugars, additives, bad fats and preservatives. A real food cleansing which is the first step to be able to lose weight (and without a diet).

FOOD LABEL: Learn to read it to lose weight

Wholemeal, multigrain, with 5 cereals, with sourdough etc. : the wholemeal product is dark in color, but it is not enough. There must be no refined flours and wheats and sugars, which instead happens when reading the food label of many bakery products, both biscuits and snacks and sandwich bread. The wholemeal flour used is only a percentage of the whole product. Multigrain or 5 cereals are not synonymous with wholemeal. Again, just check the food label to see that there is little wholemeal, in minimal percentages. We often read natural leavening or made with sourdough. But looking at the food label we find instead the use of other leavening agents, including brewer’s yeast: often natural yeasts and sourdough are used as additives, to give only flavor.