With the improvement of people's living water products, a large number of leisure foods in physical supermarkets or commercial platforms have come into the sales boom, especially puffed foods such as pizza rolls, popcorn, potato chips, which are popular with children and young people because of their crispness and delicacy. However, we always hear the voice that "puffed food is junk food", which makes some consumers hesitate.
Extruded foods are all fried in pure oil? High calories and fat? Can children get sick from eating puffed food? Faced with these doubts, many experts said that consumers tend to be misunderstood by one-sided reports, and in fact puffed food is not "junk food". It is worth noting that "junk food" itself is not a scientific definition, there is no good or bad food, only the dietary collocation of garbage.
Myth No. 1: Extruded food is not nutritious
In fact, not all puffed foods are fried. Extruded food is a kind of leisure food with cereals, potatoes or legumes as the main raw materials, which is expanded by baking, frying, extrusion and so on. The volume of extruded food is obviously increased, and it has a certain degree of crispness.
"The processing principle of puffed food is mainly to make use of the process of volume expansion or tissue loosening after heating or pressure difference changes of raw materials. It is a physical processing technology, which can be divided into direct extrusion type, frying type, baking type, pattern type and so on. At present, there are also new technologies such as air-flow puffing, which are generally used in grain powder, grain powder, etc. Water is added to raw materials such as potato flour and soybean flour to make use of the water in the heating process.
Expansion and vaporization principle drive raw materials to expand by heat and produce loose or crisp food. Fried puffing is only one of many puffing processes.
Does it have nutritional value for puffed food? Extruded food is a deep-processed food of agricultural products. Its main raw materials are cereals, potatoes, legumes, fruits, vegetables or nut seeds. If natural raw materials are added to enrich the formula, the product will be more nutritious.
Advantages of puffed food: puffed food provides a good physical processing method for fine grain production. It not only changes the shape of raw grain, but also maintains and improves the taste of raw grain. People are no longer as difficult to swallow when eating as raw grain. Extruded food is a variety of leisure food, but also can play a supplementary role in the nutrition of the staple diet.
Misconception 2: Food puffing is harmful to human body
It is not difficult for us to find various brands of shrimp chips, potato chips, potato chips and other snacks on the shelves of the puffed food area. Within half an hour, dozens of people choose to buy them, and most of the consumers are young groups. It is worth noting that many parents with children will refuse to buy such products for their children on the grounds that "puffed food is junk food, and how much they eat is easy to gain weight".
Therefore, while enterprises are making good products, due to the influence of traditional concepts, consumers have misunderstood the puffed food, which to a large extent directly leads to the damage of the image of enterprise products.
Is food extrusion harmful to human body? In fact, the puffing technology itself will not bring harm to the human body. The current impression of puffed food is not so healthy, the main reason is that the public do not know the processing technology of puffed food, puffed food is actually a physical processing technology. In addition, due to unhealthy dietary patterns of some consumers, resulting in
Dietary imbalance. This is also one of the reasons why puffed food is misrepresented as "unhealthy".
Equipment manufacturers should invest a lot of money in equipment renewal, renovation and new technology innovation every year to ensure the quality and quality of products through the continuous improvement and upgrading of automation. In order to reduce the fat content in products, especially after frying, deoiling process has been added. Whether the product is healthy or not depends not on frying or non-frying, but on the fat and nutrient content in the final product. this
In addition, food with natural characteristics has been continuously introduced to emphasize the importance of consumers'dietary and nutritional needs.
Misunderstanding 3: Puffed food is junk food
All along, the concept of "junk food" has been widely spread in China, and even become a "forbidden area" for many families. In China, I don't know when instant noodles, fried dough sticks and puffed food are also "honored" to be included.
In this regard, most domestic nutritionists, including many nutritionists, believe that any food has its own nutritional composition, can provide certain nutritional value for the eater, but no single food can meet the nutritional needs of the human body, so it is necessary to match the food reasonably to meet the daily dietary needs of the body.
"Good dietary mix is that every day's diet should contain cereals, meat, fish and eggs, soybeans, dairy, vegetables, fruits, edible oils and so on, and its proportion should be reasonable. On the contrary, even if all foods are healthy, they can not promote health if they are not well matched. There is no unhealthy food, only unhealthy dietary mix, and now with the progress of food processing technology, puffed food.
There are more and more kinds of food and more nutrients, which can be safely eaten. But don't forget to control the appetite for food.
It is hoped that through more channels of publicity, people will maintain a healthy lifestyle, adhere to a balanced diet and appropriate exercise every day. In addition, it is suggested that leisure food enterprises should expand the scope of publicity of food processing skills and common sense of dietary mix, so that consumers can further understand puffed food and learn to mix diet reasonably. Fundamentally clarify misunderstandings.
