{"id":66839,"date":"2024-10-23T06:25:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T04:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/?p=66839"},"modified":"2025-03-30T23:16:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T21:16:27","slug":"why-you-always-need-to-read-food-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/why-you-always-need-to-read-food-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you always need to read food labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<b>According to the NOVA food classification, there are four categories:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Fresh or minimally processed products.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Substances derived from plants or animals through industrial processing.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Plant or animal parts modified with salt, sugar, oils, or fats to preserve or enhance palatability.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/how-our-food-became-garbage\/\">Ultra-processed foods: industrial creations made by chemically recombining food, modifying it, and adding flavors, artificial colors, and other additives.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With all that in mind, even an apparently harmless product like dried fruit can hide potential health pitfalls.<br \/>\nTake this product, for example\u2014a snack you might eat while traveling with a well-known airline.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_single_image image=&#8221;66841&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_separator][vc_column_text]At first glance, based on its ingredients, it appears to belong to the first category: cashews, almonds, chickpeas (fried\u2026), rosemary, <b>salt<\/b>.<br \/>\nBut <b>looking at the back of the package<\/b>, besides the salt\u2014which should definitely be avoided\u2014there is also <b>glucose syrup<\/b> (sugar).<br \/>\nSo this snack, seemingly \u201cinnocuous\u201d, fully falls into the <b>third category<\/b>.<br \/>\n<b>\u201cPlant or animal parts modified with salt, sugar, oils, or fats to preserve or enhance palatability.\u201d<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b>From an almost \u201cdietary\u201d food, it turns into a product that contributes to weight gain.<br \/>\nFor this very reason, food labels must always be carefully read.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_single_image image=&#8221;66842&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even an apparently harmless product like dried fruit can hide potential health pitfalls, just being added some salt and especially glucose syrup (sugar) to make it more palatable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,49,4,1],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-66839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-promotion","category-food-and-health","category-health","category-solidarity","tag-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66839"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68078,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66839\/revisions\/68078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}