Low-fat food is a diet that limits the supply of fat. Low-fat food includes fat and cooking oil contained in the food itself. A low-fat diet refers to foods with a low ratio of triglycerides to cholesterol.
Low-fat foods include meat: roast beef, beef liver, mutton and chicken. Fish and other seafood: carp, sturgeon, flounder, clam, crab, shrimp, oyster, etc.
Don't covet low-fat food. Researchers suggest that labels should indicate more accurate calories to prevent people from eating too much and guide the public to eat healthily.
In addition, consumers should choose natural low-fat fast food, such as fresh fruits and vegetables; Instead of low-fat, processed fast food (such as biscuits and potato chips). Also, when you have a desire to eat fast food, you might as well have a glass of water.
In the past few decades, Americans have always regarded fat as the enemy of weight and health. This kind of worry is not unreasonable. In 1960s, scientists discovered that saturated fat in red meat and dairy products would increase the cholesterol content in human body, leading to cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, in the "food guide pyramid" promulgated by the US Department of Agriculture, fat and edible oil are "shelved" and listed as "restricted food".
Smart food producers immediately followed suit and played "low-fat cards" one after another. It seems that as long as it is labeled as "low fat", it will be healthy food.
But the theory that "low fat is good for health" has not stood the test of time. In the past 20 years, Americans have been reducing high-fat foods in their diets, lowering their cholesterol levels and smoking less and less, but the incidence of heart disease has not decreased as expected.
In particular, obesity has been prevalent since the early 1980s, and type II diabetes has also spread rapidly in the same period. Their development is almost synchronous with the popularization of the theory of "low fat is health", which also implies that there is a certain relationship between them.
It seems that we are now living in a world without fat, carbonic acid and sugar products, but there are still more and more adults and children who are overweight or obese.
legal ground
AnnouncementNo. 10, 2008 of the Ministry of Health-Relevant matters concerning the implementation of "Standards for the Administration of Food Nutrition Labeling"
Article 3 The food whose daily consumption is less than10g or10ml and whose total surface area is less than1000m2 as mentioned in Article 16 of the Code refers to edible starch, raw sugar and raw sugar products, bulk candy, chocolate and chocolate products, tea, coffee and cocoa, some condiments and yeasts.
For foods with a total surface area of less than 100 square centimeter, if nutrition claims or nutrients are marked, it is allowed to use non-tabular or written forms, and it is also allowed to explain without using nutrient reference values (NRV), but the energy and core nutrients must be marked according to the specifications.