What do you look for?
examples
fat, sugar, sodium content
calories
ingredients, specifically __
how processed/packaged it is
etc.
Details are always appreciated. No wrong answers, I want to know how you decide.
Mr Brightside
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If you are from the uk the food standards agency have brought out a traffic light labelling system for identifying how healthy a food is... ie green go ahead, amber eat in moderation and red eat sparingly. I think it is very effective and many of the big supermarkets now use it! hope this helps, it certainly simplifies the whole thing...
Good luck...
Anonymous
in general I look at fat per 100g and saturated fat - whether I consider it high depends on the product and my mood and how much I want to eat it. If it was something unhealthy like ice cream I'd expect the fat to be high, so I suppose I decide based on what I would expect. eg if I look at a pack of biscuits and they're 40% fat then I'd be surprised and think that was more than I'd expect and consider them unhealthy - its a very subjective system I use and not at all scientific.
Z0HRA!
well im a vegetarian so i eat healthy food and when im buying stuff at the grocery store i look at the nutrion facts for food with low sugar, calories, total fat, and carbs. then i look for foods that are high in all types of vitamins, iron, protein, fiber, calcium, and stuff like that :D
i hope that helps! and also you want to get natural or organic type of food kuz that stuff is always healthy.
Miss_Suzy
I look at fat content first, then calories, then I'll quickly look to see if it has preservatives.
You have to be careful with organic food also, sometimes it still has a high fat content, and it not always your best choice.
Anonymous
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