In our battle to, in order, try to eat better and healthier and try to eat healthier so that it is not an unnecessary stress but a daily joy, the latter quite difficult as new obstacles are discovered every day., comes the blowout of hidden carbohydrates. If we want to keep an eye on carbohydrates, which does not mean abolishing them (never abolishing them) from our table but limiting the refined and high-glycemic index ones, knowing that there are hidden carbohydrates that we ingest perhaps without knowing it is yet another low blow. In short: so far we have lived knowing that in industrial products there were hidden sugars (corn syrup in biscuits, dextrose, etc.) and hidden salts (sodium, various glutamates and flavor enhancers) but what does this mean? We buy a wholemeal snack from organic and we find a piece of lasagna in the filling?
Well, no. It would be easy to distinguish a lasagna from a snack. Hidden carbohydrates are enemies of a different kind: but if we identified them and neutralized them, we could lose weight much easier. So back to the big question: what are hidden carbohydrates? According to nutrition scientist David Plourdé , hidden carbohydrates are one of the causes of overweight, because they kick up the metabolism, causing us to ingest more carbohydrates than we imagine and engulfing our gut. Here is where we can find the hidden carbohydrates: – cellulose, starch, potato flakes can be found in industrial cheeses: cream cheese, soft cheeses, mix of cheeses, stretched curd cheese preparations. – soluble fiber in egg white