The need for clean, nutritious, healthy food is increasingly valued by many people. However, how to choose processed foods to have delicious, nutritious meals that ensure health and are still convenient?
Processed foods – the trend of modern life
At the recent seminar "Healthy Nutrition - Understanding Processed Foods", talking to reporters, Dr. Bui Thi Mai Huong, National Institute of Nutrition, said that nowadays, people are increasingly aiming for delicious, clean, and healthy food.
However, Vietnamese people have many eating habits that affect their health. Specifically, eating too much salt, sugar, and fat.
“Eating too much salt can easily lead to high blood pressure, kidney disease and can lead to risks such as stomach cancer, osteoporosis, asthma... Eating too much sugar causes weight gain, increases cardiovascular disease, increases the risk of diabetes, increases the risk of fatty liver and kidney disease, increases skin aging...
Eating too much fat causes obesity, increases atherosclerosis, harms the heart and brain, causes diabetes and a number of other chronic diseases...", Dr. Huong shared.
Especially nowadays, busy people increasingly prefer to choose processed foods. This is a food source suitable for the lifestyle of modern society.
These foods help people have a quick, convenient, delicious, and nutritious meal. The processing also helps to improve nutritional value, convenience, and safety for users.
Consumers are increasingly prioritizing the choice of processed foods with healthy nutritional ingredients, suitable for themselves and their families.
Mr. Pham The Quyen, Director of Product Research and Development, TH Group also commented that processed foods are the trend of the times. However, consumers are not only interested in fast, convenient, delicious foods but also increasingly put safety and health factors first.
Therefore, for a processed food product to gain the trust of the people, the business needs to be strict from the selection of input materials, the entire processing, packaging and preservation process must meet the prescribed standards, ensuring that people have fresh, clean and healthy food.
Be wise in choosing processed foods
However, with the "jungle" of processed foods, consumers are facing many difficulties in choosing high-quality processed foods that contribute to providing healthy, suitable nutrition for themselves and their families.
Consumers are increasingly concerned about the quality and safety of processed foods, especially in the context of urbanization and rising personal incomes. In addition, there are concerns about the content of preservatives and food additives. Several “food safety incidents” have also raised concerns in the community.
Bui Thi Mai Huong - National Institute of Nutrition shared at the seminar "Healthy nutrition - Correct understanding of processed foods"
However, "as long as consumers update information and have the skills to choose products from reputable manufacturers, they will certainly choose foods that are safe for health, delicious, and full of nutrients," Dr. Huong emphasized.
Dr. Huong recommends that smart consumers when choosing processed foods should pay attention to: Limit ultra-processed and highly processed foods (foods containing many preservatives to extend shelf life or make the final product more delicious or attractive);
Consumers also need to choose foods that reduce sugar and salt by carefully reading the product labels and ingredients to decide how much sugar, salt, etc. to consume per day. At the same time, increase the combination of foods with fiber, raw foods, and minimal processing in the menu.
Food for the "good housewife"
In order to help Vietnamese people have more fresh and healthy foods, from July 2023, TH Group officially introduced to the market the processed food product line "TH true FOOD Vietnamese kitchen - Kind housewife" including a variety of products such as sliced cabbage kimchi, rice cakes, dumplings, bacon, smoked sausages...
All TH processed food products use fresh ingredients, are processed in a modern way, and do not contain preservatives, ensuring the criteria of "good for health".
Mr. Quyen said that TH's processed food products are very strict in selecting and controlling the origin of input materials. The ingredients of TH true FOOD products are strictly selected according to a set of standards, from leading suppliers, easy to trace the origin, ensuring quality, natural, clean and fresh, meeting food hygiene and safety standards, good for consumers' health.
“In particular, all TH processed food products do not use preservatives, ensuring the criteria of being “good for health”.
"The application of modern technological lines in the production process not only helps to preserve the freshness and natural nutrition of the product but also creates a harmonious flavor characteristic of each dish. In particular, TH has used a super-fast freezing system to help preserve the fresh flavor of the product, helping to ensure the freshness and nutrition of the product, prolonging the preservation time of food without the need for preservatives," Mr. Quyen affirmed.
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