Showing posts with label sugar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sugar. Show all posts

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Cornflakes: healthy breakfast or dangerous sugar trap?

Corn flakes are often portrayed as healthy breakfast, although in many cases, they are a dangerous trap of sugar. In this text, you will learn what to look for when shopping.

A healthy breakfast is the perfect start to your day! However many people don't know what they really have on the Fr?ht?ckstisch is unfortunately. Cornflakes and muesli are often marketed as super healthy . It is hard to believe that many species are so fully stuffed with sugar , that they can even our endanger health .

"Candy for breakfast?" "Never, that's much too unhealthy!" Despite this setting, a breakfast, shoveling over half of all Germans that is 40% pure sugar and even without knowing it!

Because if you are in the grocery store times in the cornflakesworks shop around, it is completely blinded by the supposedly great effect on the health. From almost every corn flakes Pack radiate words, such as health, fitness and diet. Because who can assume something evil?

But if you look even more closely at the ingredients list , you will must determine that the favourite cornflakes perhaps but can help not to the desired weight with horror and even exactly prevent. Finally sugar is many cornflakes varieties for the ingredients right after cereals in second place!

Many cereals contain about 40% pure sugar. This means that you per serving 10 cube sugar to! This keeps you neither fit nor is it healthy. Look at the list of ingredients is therefore essential. It can also discover, that there are even cornflakes without sugar , then really work a healthy breakfast .

Here are more tips to healthy eating !



Thursday, September 30, 2010

Panela as sugar alternative

Panela is a healthy sugar alternative, but it is unknown to many. Panela has plenty of advantages compared to the normal sugar.

Panela Wladimir Valdes ?Flickr

Sugar is used for cooking, baking and refining and it is almost as important as the salt for us.But panela provides a healthy alternative to the usual sugar.

Panela - what is this?

Panela is a product from Latin America and also under the name Raspa OM, Piloncillo, Panocha Chancaca known.It is an organic sugar which is completely untreated.Because of the cane juice is cooked and this gives rise to a viscous mass which then poured in square shapes and dried. The panela contained much minerals (calcium, iron, phosphorus), sucrose, fructose and vitamin C.

Panela vs. sugar

It can be used, such as the sugar to bake and sweeten.Its ingredients are also very healthy.These substances are solved in the manufacture of sugar and the pure sucrose remains.Sucrose is included in many beverages and sweets and is an integral part of our culture.

The sugar is because it contains many energy, an unhealthy carbohydrate but hardly minerals and vitamins.But because sweet food and drink taste too good, the result that far too much energy is consumed and as a consequence there may be overweight.

Therefore perhaps consider whether you choose the healthy alternative "Panela" for your next cake, tea or coffee.