Nutrition Red Flags to Keep an Eye Out for

When you take a closer look at modern food production, you begin to notice that there 
are a lot of sneaky little things that companies can do to hide the facts about their 
products that more discerning consumers might want to know. These companies do 
whatever they can to hide negatively reviewed additives and preservatives of different 
types, so they might utilize tricks that can catch you off guard. In the next few 
paragraphs you'll find out what some of these tricks are and learn nutrition red flags to 
keep an eye out for. 


Fiber Is Low or Missing Completely

This is one that you will see a lot in the production of store-bought bread goods and 
snack cakes. Even though these foods once came from grains, the actual components 
of what made that food a grain are now gone, leaving only the gummy, flakey bots of 
what it used to be. When this fiber is removed, this gooey remnants of the food can stick 
to parts of your digestive tract and form pockets around areas in your intestines. These 
pockets can create serious issues down the road, years later. Processed grains also are 
a trigger for weight gain, so limiting your intake of these types of foods will be essential 
for health reasons. 


Extra Sugars Are Added 

Some foods have had a lot of things done to them to make sure that they can last in a 
truck that is traveling through the desert. Sometimes the processes can rob food of their 
flavor, so the next solution when it is a sweet food, is to simply add extra sugar. The 
sugar that was there is still there, only changed chemically, so now your body has to 
deal with the sugar overload. This is especially bad for diabetic people. Sugars like 
these will appear as maltose, dextrose, high fructose corn syrup, and sucrose.


Trans Fats 

This is a serious red flag. People really shouldn’t eat any trans fats. They are very 
dangerous because they cause a reduction of healthy cholesterol and a rise in the bad 
cholesterol. For some people that could be deadly, and it’s very bad for the heart. These 
foods are so bad that many companies have been ordered to stop using trans fats in the 
food production. There are a number of healthy snacks that you can have instead. 
