Culinary and Nutrition

 Blog #2 - Carbonhydrates and Added Sugar Differences between Foods that are High in Carbohydrates and Foods with Added Sugar You can find the differences when you read the food labels of the respective food prodcts. The first label is the food that is high in carbonhydrates. As you can see in the section of "Carbonhydrates", it showed 34g with 2g of fibre but there is no sugars. In the second label, the one with added sugars also contains  carbonhydrates (26g in this example) but there is also 22g of sugars. From this difference, you can distinguish between these 2 food products. Food that is high in carbonhydrates Food with added sugars Negative Health Effects of Eating Too Many Added Sugars in Our Diets Based on the information from Harvard Health Publishing (2022) , when you are consuming too much sugars (an adult man taking an average of 24 teaspoons per day), there is a high risk of obesity and diabetes. Besides that, there is a serious impact on heart health. What ...

Blog #1 - Introduction   What is Ultra-processed Food? Ultra-processed foods are made from substances found in food, such as fats and starches, and then other ingredients are added - such as artificial flavours and colours, added sugar, stabliziers, preservatives and more (Drummond, 2022). These foods go through multiple processes (extrusion, molding, milling, etc.), contain many added ingredients and are highly manipulated (Heart & Stroke). These foods include soft-drinks, ice-cream, chocolates, sausages, etc. A recent research commissioned by Heart & Stroke found that Canadians consume almost 50% of their daily calories from ultra-processed food.  It showed that we are eating a significant amount of processed food every day. According to Heart & Stroke, Ace (2018) and McManus (2020), there are plenty of researches indicated that those consumed a large amount of these ultra processed food will be overweight or obese and have a higher risk of many diseases, in...