Having an idea, even a rough idea (you don’t need to have a very precise one), of what we eat is very important if we want to stay healthy and lose weight. How? For example, by discovering the nutritional values ​​of foods, and in particular by preferring natural foods over industrial foods: in fact, just take a tour of the supermarkets and look for two brands that offer the same type of product to see that the macronutrients listed on the label differ at least by a ten percent, sometimes a lot more.

If for dietary reasons we have to take into account calories or macronutrients, fluctuations of 10 or 15% could make a difference, especially if they occur on the carbohydrates or fats contained in the product.

Therefore, those who want to eat a healthy diet should still aim to improve their diet by avoiding industrial products and instead choose natural ones.

On natural foods, the differences in the nutritional values ​​of foods can at least concern the degree of ripeness of the fruit , which will weigh on its sugar content, because the starches of the unripe fruit during ripening will convert from resistant to less resistant and therefore assimilable.

After choosing more natural sources, let’s see how to accurately discover their nutritional values. Whenever we have doubts like:
– but 100 grams of pasta are equivalent to 100 grams of carbohydrates? – but is it true that goat milk and dairy products do not contain lactose? – how should I consider legumes, as carbohydrates or proteins? these sites will be able to adequately answer our questions (the answers for these above are not found on page 46 as in the puzzle week but I’ll give them to you: they are no , no and carbohydrates . To find out the nutritional values ​​of a food, leave lose the labels and go to values-alimenti.com  e