The most interesting facts about food in a condensed form. Part of this knowledge is worth using when making everyday choices or preparing homemade dishes. Part of it will not help you, but it will definitely interest you!
- Add lemon juice to green tea, and make your body use more of its antioxidants.
- The process of industrial drying of fruit deprives them of 30 to 80% of vitamins and antioxidants.
- Ginger can reduce the post-exercise muscle pain by 25%.
- The addition of carbonated beverages to alcohol makes alcohol absorb faster from the digestive tract, and its content in the blood grows faster, as well as the state of intoxication.
- A half-liter coca-cola contains 55 grams of sugar, or 11 teaspoons of sugar.
- The quinine contained in the tonic makes the drink glow blue in ultraviolet light.
- Tomato, banana, pumpkin, watermelon and avocado belong to the same family – berries!
- Beef from cows grazing on pastures contains 3-5 times more omeg-3 than beef from cows fed on cereals.
- The proportion of omega-6 to omega-3 in beef from cows fed with cereal feeds is 6 times higher than in beef from cows eating grass. The excess of omega-6 acids promotes the formation of inflammatory processes, heart disease and cancer.
- Eggs from free range hens contain 7 times more beta carotene, 3 times more vitamin E, 2 times more omega-3 fatty acids and 1/3 less cholesterol than chicken eggs from caged ones in cages.
- On average, 48% of distributors of carbonated drinks (automatic machines from which drinks are poured into cups in fast food and cinemas) are infected with faecal bacteria.
- Calculated on calories, oysters contain 4 times more vitamin K than lean milk.
- Gluten-free products are on average 2 times more expensive than regular ones.
- On a calorie count, egg white contains more tryptophan than turkey meat. Tryptophan is an amino acid building protein that our body can not produce itself.
- Cinnamon is an antioxidant that has the ability to prevent blood clots, stabilize blood sugar levels, prevent isnuline resistance and type II diabetes.
- Dietary supplementation with BCAA acids effectively reduces post-workout muscle weakness.
- 28 g linseed contains 15,000mg of omega-3 and 250kcal.
- Pecans and walnuts contain more antioxidants than blueberries, cranberries, blackberries and currants.
- For the digestion of protein (meat) the body uses up to 35% of the energy contained in it. In the case of carbohydrates and fat, this value is 5-15%.
- A Mediterranean diet or another rich in olive oil by 30% reduces the risk of death from heart disease.
- Consumption of beverages sweetened with sweeteners by 60% increases the risk of developing type II diabetes compared to consuming sugared beverages.
- If we continue to catch fish as fast as it is today, global fishing will collapse in 2048.