Fast-food translates to fast food. Eating fast food and stalls with the sold hot dogs are available in every city. We are always in a hurry, a snack on the go and rarely think about the fact that such a delicious and nourishing food can be harmful.
After studying composition and caloric content of foods from fast-food chain, scientists came to a disappointing conclusion: the only one serving fast food (fish with french fries, pizza or hamburger), provides full-time (!) One kebab contains an average of 120 grams of fat, while the daily intake of fat should not exceed 70-80, the eat kebab – it’s the same thing as drinking a glass of melted fat for cooking. Regular consumption of this product is lead to rapid weight gain.
The consequences of eating foods from fast food
Few people think about the consequences of using products from fast food. The main problem of such a power in excess of calorie content of large amounts of fat and lack of vitamins.
Another reason that should give up fast food – the wrong combination of fats, carbohydrates and proteins. Typically, a hamburger, hot dog and fries washed down with cold sodas. Because of the low temperature of used soda with a hamburger, the fat contained in its filling, freezes instantly and practically does not decompose.
Fast food just the sensation of hunger, but does not satisfy, since it has few nutrients and minerals.
Fast food leads to a whole bouquet of diseases, because such food is not properly chewed, the food enters the stomach in large pieces. Because of this, there are problems with the gastrointestinal tract, there is gastritis, ulcers and other more serious diseases.
Frequent consumption of fast food in large quantities leads to atherosclerosis, hypertension, liver damage, weakens the immune system.
Washed down with cold food, soft drinks, fat from burgers or sausages freezes, and the stomach can not handle the digestion of heavy meals. This leads, again, to disease and obesity.
Nutritionists argue that fast food contains a lot of calories, fat, cholesterol, carbohydrates and salt. This leads to blackheads and pimples on the face (due to metabolic disorders), this is the best.
In fast food, as a rule, add emulsifiers, flavor enhancers, preservatives, leavening agents and other food additives that adversely affect health.
Features cooking street food
Any heat treatment alters the composition of fats. At a temperature of 200-250 degrees frying, the formation of carcinogenic substances that deplete the linoleic acid, vitamins and other important to humans. This cancer-causing fat is absorbed into the prepared products – potatoes, hamburger, fish.
Not always equipped with bathrooms, outdoor tent, where the seller can wash your hands and work equipment.
Often you can see how the sellers of pies and cakes are taking money hand without special mittens. But money can be transferred through many microorganisms, infections, infectious diseases, etc.
In minced meat can add soy (often genetically modified), bone, cartilage, skin, tendons, and other offal, which is much cheaper for the manufacturer.
In sunflower oil, which is fried street food, there are a considerable number of carcinogens that are formed during prolonged frying. Sunflower oil is no more than six frying cycles, after which it must be drained and thoroughly wash the pot. At street stalls fry until the oil turns dark brown turbid fluid unsuitable for frying. Although, if you fry the sausage in sunflower oil, even fresh, it becomes too thick and it accumulates high concentrations of cholesterol, which can lead to cardiovascular disease.
Egg-par fried grill good at first glance. Deeper layers of meat, which are near the bone – the most dangerous, because there is not enough heat that the bacteria killed, but warm enough that they were present. If you find enough inner layers of fried chicken, reddish color, it is better to refrain from eating such meat.
Visually check the freshness of the carcass is practically impossible, because the manufacturers have learned to carefully conceal even rancid carcass. Do it this way: stale meat is immersed in a larger container, pour in the vinegar solution for several hours and manganese, which completely kills the bacteria and the putrid smell. Then add spices, flavor enhancers and seasonings, making the carcass get a great presentation, a delicious taste and smell.
Tips street food lovers
Try not to eat fast food more than once a week. And it is desirable to do so even less frequently, ideally, does not have. If you do eat fast food during the day, try to eat normally required in the evening. It is not necessary to go to a fast food restaurant on an empty stomach.
If you want to eat very much, and you’re going to buy a pie in the street, pay attention to the seller, it should work in plastic gloves, clean and tidy, to work in clean clothes, and the table he should be clean. If you notice that the seller takes the money and food with his hands without special mittens, it is better to refrain from buying, because the consequences of the use of these products can be severe.
Hot dog, hamburger, chicken wings from the inside
In a hot-mastiff half day rate of consumption of saturated fat. Thirty-eight percent of daily consumption rates are salt, nineteen percent – calories, thirteen percent – cholesterol. Twenty-four per cent – fat, fifteen per cent – half a gram of carbohydrates and risk to human health of trans fats. In the sausage, as a rule, there is a lot of soy and starch, and meat in it no more than ten percent. Its color and texture create food chemical additives, phosphates and increase the amount of sausage. A huge amount of preservatives can keep them fresh for a long time. Sausages that are prepared on the grill, in the structure contain carcinogenic substances.
Buns for hot dogs baked in most low-grade varieties of flour and contain no harmful additives less than hamburger bun. Cheapest in the hot-mastiff and mayonnaise with ketchup. For example, the ketchup is the maximum number of dangerous food additives and a minimum of tomatoes. The most vulnerable part of a hot-mastiff – mayonnaise. After all, it deteriorates quickly at room temperature and it can perfectly replicate a variety of bacteria.
After eating a regular hamburger you eat half the daily requirement of salt and saturated fats. In addition, a hamburger contains other harmful substances: Twenty-five percent of calories and cholesterol, thirty-seven percent body fat, fifteen percent carbohydrate, about two lumps of sugar and half a gram of harmful trans fats. In the bun and sauce has a huge amount of harmful additives, and other equally dangerous substances. Ingredients for making biscuits: bleached wheat flour, soybean oil with trans fats, sulfate, calcium carbonate and calcium silicate, soy flour, emulsifiers, conditioners for the test, the preservative calcium propionate.
Ingredients Sauce: Soybean oil, sugar, propylene glycol alginate, preservative sodium benzoate and potassium EDTA.
After eating all three wings, you run out of half your daily limit for cholesterol. Also, you swallow Twenty-four percent daily intakes of calories and eighteen percent saturated fat. Chicken wings can contain carcinogens and by 10-15% consist of water, salt and phosphates.
In the sauce for the wings, there is a lot of salt and food additives such as sodium diacetate and silicon dioxide.
To prepare shawarma on the most inexpensive and low-grade chicken or pork and meat of unknown origin. Sometimes the meat may already be overdue. All the shortcomings of such meat are hidden by adding extra spices, and salt while cooking it on the grill. If meat is bad fried, it is easy to poison, which often happens. Also, the cheapest are ketchup and mayonnaise. They have a lot of variety of food additives. Lavash is not as bad as the buns for hot dogs or hamburgers, but the situation changed, he still can not. In the course of British experts study found that one serving contains 98 percent of shawarma recommended daily allowance of salt, nearly 150 percent rate of saturated fat and about 1000 calories, that is, half the daily requirement recommended for the average woman.
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