Expert reminder: roughage cookies may not be really healthy

Morning time, many people like fast food-breakfast – a glass of milk + a few biscuits.

Although cookies are listed as a top ten world unhealthy foods, but in recent years, roughage biscuit, fibre biscuits sudden for no sugar, rich in dietary fiber that seems to change cookie not healthy image. However, the experts pointed out that the so-called roughage biscuit, biscuits, for high fiber oil and other reasons, it may not be healthy.

Many high-fibre biscuits grease

Now the market has a lot of roughage biscuit, biscuit, such as eight-fibre grains bread, wholemeal, wugu treasures Digestive biscuit, biscuit price than normal cookies, taste also have a variety of options, such as wild flavor, onion flavor, smell of Sesame barley, etc.

Roughage biscuit, fiber cookies really healthier than ordinary cookies? CAU food Institute of nutrition and food security Professor Jack red that grain, beans with mainly insoluble fiber, a rough, many habits of polished rice white people don't like this feels rough.

For them, the content of 3% of crude fiber food is "the Zain throat", and some high fibre biscuits fiber content can be as high as 6% or 10%.

Experts emphasize that high fiber foods if you can taste excellent, rough and not roughness is grease inside has played the role of "lubrication", fiber in oil will become soft.

So the higher fiber products, usually higher fat content. Also, because the saturated fat soft fiber role better, so manufacturers often use rich in saturated fats of hydrogenated vegetable oil or butter, lard, butter and other animal to processing of these products, make them taste fat crisp. Therefore, the more Flaky biscuits means more grease especially high in saturated fat.

Refining of vegetable oils in a new bottle

Today many people are aware of hydrogenated vegetable oil is not healthy.

In the interview journalist found that the roughage cake ingredients used are refined vegetable oil instead of hydrogenated vegetable oil.

Refining of vegetable oils are healthier? Jack red noted that the refining of vegetable oils is a fuzzy term, including the hydrogenated vegetable oil, also includes a rich saturated fat for refining palm oil (fried noodles and potato chips commonly used oil).

Because hydrogenated vegetable oil palm Wolf Books, the reputation is also not very nice, many enterprises use refining vegetable oil to make careless eye.

No sugar cookies may not be true without sugar

Journalists have also seen some roughage biscuit, biscuit with no fiber sucrose flag as a way to attract the fear of eating biscuits after sugar consumers.

For "does not contain sugar" biscuits, Jack red pointed out that cookies allow rapid rise in blood sugar is sucrose, not only the starch cause blood sugar refining increased speed is fast enough.

In addition to starch as the raw material produced by dextrin, malt dextrin, malt syrup, glucose syrup, fructose syrup, etc., in an elevated blood sugar than sucrose has gone. Often claimed that "no sucrose" biscuits, often you can see these ingredients, consumers should pay attention to distinguish.

Biscuit the best selected vegetables containing

Experts also pointed out that no matter how improved cookies ultimately or flour + oil + sugar, is not a healthy food.

If you liked to eat cookies, when you select the cookies should seriously look at packaging instructions and nutrition ingredients. By contrast, contains vegetables, salty and sweet taste is light, low-fat content, also is to taste crisp and not crispy biscuits will be healthier.

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Roughage biscuits for breakfast than eight-treasure porridge

There are many roughage biscuit, fibre biscuits in packaging or advertising on roughage or beans to attract consumers, many roughage biscuit, fibre biscuits mix Proportioning also annotated added bran skin, peanut, roughage or beans.

Experts say that the nutritional value of such cookies is improved because roughage and beans-rich in vitamin and minerals.

However, if you add these substances at the same time, plus a lot of unhealthy fats that harm would be more beneficial. There is indeed a coarse abroad without oil biscuit, but no, I'm afraid that people are seeking taste and a great relationship.

Therefore, experts advise that if you did want to get the benefits of roughage and beans, it is my own wheat and rice, beans and rice, eight-treasure porridge, playing five cereals soybean milk.

(Edit: Justin Lin, internships)