The Spring Festival is getting closer, and everyone is busy buying festive food, preparing to enjoy delicious meals. While paying attention to food safety, people are also paying close attention to various claims about food nutrition. Especially for people with chronic illnesses, those who want to lose weight, and some elderly people, when choosing festive food, they either become overly cautious and miss out on delicious food, or they indulge their cravings without any regard for the consequences.
The whiter the rice, the higher the quality
The whiteness of rice is related to the degree of removal of the outer bran layer. The more the bran is removed, the whiter the rice becomes, but the more nutrients are lost. The bran is rich in B vitamins and dietary fiber, and the germ of the rice contains vitamin E and polyunsaturated fatty acids.
Fish without scales have high cholesterol
Indeed, some fish without scales have higher cholesterol, such as silver fish, river eels, loaches, rice eels, and cod. However, not all scaleless fish are high in cholesterol. The cholesterol content in hairtail, shark, and scaled fish like grass carp, yellow croaker, pomfret, and sea bass is comparable.
Taking vitamin C supplements can easily cause kidney stones
As long as the daily intake of vitamin C is within 1000 milligrams, it will not cause kidney stones.
Less animal oil, more vegetable oil
Vegetable oil is also a type of fat. Excessive fat intake can easily lead to obesity, hyperlipidemia, high blood pressure, fatty liver, and other diseases, which are actually detrimental to cardiovascular health. Moreover, the polyunsaturated fatty acids in vegetable oil are easily oxidized into epoxy compounds, which are harmful to human health.
The less staple food a diabetic eats, the better
Blood sugar is related to the intake of carbohydrates. Diabetic patients should appropriately control their carbohydrate intake. However, simply reducing carbohydrates can speed up digestion and absorption, causing blood sugar to rise quickly but for a short duration, which can easily lead to hypoglycemia, accompanied by symptoms like palpitations, dizziness, and cold sweats.
Eating only vegetables at night can help with weight loss
Eating less staple food can reduce carbohydrate and energy intake, but eating more dishes will increase fat intake, resulting in even higher energy production. This does not achieve the goal of weight loss; instead, it leads to an imbalance in nutrient intake, which is not conducive to health.
Carotene is only found in carrots
In addition to carrots, which are rich in carotene, other fresh yellow-green vegetables also contain it. For example, pea shoots, tomatoes, red peppers, sweet peppers, rapeseed, bok choy, and amaranth all contain a certain amount of carotene.
Milk consumption in the elderly can cause cataracts
This claim lacks epidemiological data. The formation of cataracts is influenced by many factors. The antioxidant capacity of the elderly is low, so they can supplement with antioxidant nutrients such as vitamin C, vitamin E, β-carotene, lutein, and trace elements selenium and zinc to prevent senile cataracts.