So what is her verdict on my grocery shopping? <\/p>\n
Not as bad as I expected, I’m relieved to learn. While there are UPFs in there, that doesn’t necessarily make it an unhealthy food shop. In fact, Hanan says, “there’s a good mix of foods which cover each food group”.<\/p>\n
Just because some products have a long ingredient list, it doesn’t make them “inherently bad”, she explains, with the nutritional value “far more important”.<\/p>\n
What about foods that contain ingredients I can barely pronounce, never mind recognise? Hanan takes my son’s chicken nuggets as an example.<\/p>\n
“There are mandatory vitamins and minerals which manufacturers in the UK are required to add to white wheat flour such as calcium carbonate, niacin and thiamin,” she says.<\/p>\n
Raising agents, such as disodium diphosphate, are used alongside sodium bicarbonate (baking powder) to make the batter crisp and light.<\/p>\n
Hanan says even the most chemical-sounding ingredients will have been tested and approved under UK food laws.<\/p>\n
“But while chicken nuggets are a good source of protein,” she warns, “they are higher in fat and salt than a plain chicken breast, so I would eat them in moderation as part of a balanced diet.”<\/p>\n
I tell Hanan my son usually eats them with raw carrot sticks and pasta.<\/p>\n
“One food does not make your diet healthy or unhealthy,” she says, “it’s about getting that balance over time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So what is her verdict on my grocery shopping? Not as bad as I expected, I’m relieved to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-783800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}