Homemade vs. ultra-processed foods
New lifestyles have pushed family food into the background, taking us further and further away from home-cooked meals, ancestral recipes, and table sharing.
Cooking at home has health benefits:
- We reduce the consumption of ultra-processed foods, rich in sodium, saturated fats, trans fats and refined sugars.
- We do not have permanent food availability, favoring a safe environment, which helps avoid constant snacking.
- We improve dietary fiber intake by increasing consumption of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes.
- We carefully plan the foods we are going to consume at each intake, without randomizing the meals, thus improving the quality of the nutrients.
Increased availability and consumption of ultra-processed foods has a negative impact on health.
Its main results are the increase in body weight and associated pathologies such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, some types of cancer.
We recommend:
- Plan meals so you have all the necessary ingredients at home.
- Avoid canned ones, you can replace them with frozen ones, they are of better quality.
- Decrease industrial baked goods such as biscuits, breadcrumbs, lactal breads and replace them with homemade or bakery options, without so many preservatives.
- Disminuí las carnes procesadas (fiambres, embutidos) y elegí las de mejor calidad.
- Elegir agua potable o bebidas saborizadas caseras, en reemplazo de jugos de sobre o concentrados, gaseosas o bebidas saborizadas industrializadas ricas en azúcares o edulcorantes artificiales.
Empezá con pequeños cambios y mejora tu alimentación y calidad de vida día a día.
