We bang on a lot about just eating real food. But what does this mean, really?
Dr Helena Popovic sums it up nicely with this handy real food checklist. Ready, set, bookmark!
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Real food is food that is as close to nature as possible. As fresh, local, seasonal and unprocessed as you can find. Real food promotes health. Food that is not real damages health.
So let’s take a closer look at the criteria of real food:
- Food that was once alive; vegetables, fruit, nuts, seeds and meat.
- Food that can spoil; all the above plus milk, yoghurt, cheese, eggs and tempeh.
- Food that has natural colour, not artificial colouring.
- Food that contains ingredients all of when you can pronounce.
- Food that contains ingredients all of which you can visualise in your mind’s eye. Can you imagine what allyl hexanoate looks like? Neither.
- Food that contains ingredients all of which you could cook for yourself.
- Food that does not include a number as an ingredient.
- Food that does not contain high-fructose corn syrup.
- Food that does not contain trans fats, hydronated vegetable oils or compound chocolate [essentially the sugary store-bought stuff].
- Food that does not have added sugar as one of the top three ingredients.
- Food that does not contain artificial, chemically produced sweeteners.
- Food that does not come with a toy.
- Food that is not advertised by a cartoon character.
- Food that is not served to you in your car.
- Food that your great-grandmother would recognise as food!
This edited excerpt was extracted from NeuroSlimming by Dr Helena Popovic, published by Viking on 3 January 2017, RRP $35.00.
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