Nutrition in foods(particularly cheap foods)

111222

According to this, link, multivitamins don't work and could even be bad for you.

frugal_shopper_2

111222 wrote: »

According to this, link, multivitamins don't work and could even be bad for you.

The actual study rather than the daily mail summary of it can be read here:
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2009/06/02/ajcn.2009.27635.full.pdf
It basically confirms that taking supplements you do not require does not prevent health problems that the supplements in question do not claim to prevent & taking unnecessary supplements can leave you with excessive amounts of certain vitamins which can cause problems if your body is unable to excrete the excess.

Seems rather a pointless study to me as it should be obvious to most people that unless you actually need to supplement your diet because you have a deficiency in a particular vitamin then there is no advantage in doing so & anything in excess is bad for you.

~Chameleon~

Ken68 wrote: »

Liver is cheap, 111, £1 kg but has high chloresterol.
Sooooo, maybe not good for the heart.

Dietary cholesterol has absolutely no effect on your cholesterol levels so feel free to eat your liver. The only thing to watch is the Vitamin A content if you eat excessive amounts of it

antrobus

111222 wrote: »

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I have been buying these ultra cheap smart price instant noodles, and after a quick google i find this.

Instant noodles have no nutritional value and should be avoided. Second, uncooked instant noodles have a wax coating on them to prevent them from sticking to each other. This wax then forms part of the noodle when cooked. When taken excessively, the wax coats the stomach lining and cause stomach problems and at times even cause cancer.

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Proof, if proof was needed, that some people will believe anything if it's on the interweb somewhere.

A._Badger

antrobus wrote: »

Proof, if proof was needed, that some people will believe anything if it's on the interweb somewhere.

What baffles me is that someone, somewhere, sat down and made that story up!

Why? Are they flogging a rival product? Stark raving mad? "'avin' a larf"?

The mind boggles.

antrobus

A._Badger wrote: »

What baffles me is that someone, somewhere, sat down and made that story up!

Why? Are they flogging a rival product? Stark raving mad? "'avin' a larf"?

The mind boggles.

It's normally utterly impossible to work out who actually makes up these things or why they do it. But the one thing you can count on; once they're made up, they come back again and again and again. The 'wax in instant noodles' tale is just another one of those urban myths that over-excites the gullible from time to time. It seems to have recently made a re-appearance on Facebook.

See http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/noodles.asp

threemuttleys

Thing is...even if these foods have little nutritional value, they maybe be all some people can afford. I have just bought a few packs to use in stir fries

Edwardia

Pot Noodles are £1 each in ASDA, Sainsbury's and Tesco
Blue Dragon noodles 1.33 Sainsbury's, 1.29 Ocado, Waitrose, £1 ASDA

Pre-prepared stir fry veg bag £1 at Ocado, Waitrose and Sainsbury's.

geordie_joe

Edwardia wrote: »

Pot Noodles are £1 each in ASDA, Sainsbury's and Tesco
Blue Dragon noodles 1.33 Sainsbury's, 1.29 Ocado, Waitrose, £1 ASDA

Pre-prepared stir fry veg bag £1 at Ocado, Waitrose and Sainsbury's.

Smart price noodles, which is what the OP was talking about, only 11p.

Edwardia

Value food isn't automatically less nutritious but subbing any kind of noodles for veg is less nutritious. If you live on 11p noodles all the time you won't be healthy.