Tips for your healthy shopping

Eating well is essential to enjoying good health. As we often tell you, this is one of the basic pillars on which a healthy lifestyle is based. However, beyond creating a varied and nutrient-rich diet, good nutrition begins with making healthy purchases. Do you think you know how to select products correctly? Check it out by reviewing the following tips!

Shopping can be a simple and easy task. However, doing it correctly and in an appropriate way, which promotes a healthy diet that benefits our health, has its fine print. If you want to know the guidelines that will help you to carry out this step perfectly, keep reading and take note. Do you think your shopping is healthy? Find out now!

Tips for healthy shopping

Seasonal foods

One of the aspects you should take into account when making your healthy purchases is to select seasonal foods. These have great advantages over any other option. When we choose to pay attention to this aspect, we acquire all the nutrients of the food and, in addition, we do so enjoying the best flavor, color and aroma. Therefore, make sure that seasonal foods make up a high percentage of your basket.

Check the ingredients

There are times when we turn over a product to check the ingredients and stop reading after the third or fourth ingredient in the endless list. You should know that the best option will always be the one with the fewest ingredients. Ideally, there should be around five. Also, something to keep in mind is that the position of each ingredient determines the quantity present in the product, being higher in the first positions and decreasing as the list develops. In this sense, if you notice that, for example, sugar is among the first three ingredients, you can deduce that the quantity present is high.

Watch out for flashy signs!

We are often carried away by advertising signs that describe a product as organic, 100% natural or high in fibre. Ignore these advertising techniques and check the labelling, the fine print. While it is true that these products comply with current legislation, they often hide a certain ambiguity that can cause confusion.

Other basic considerations for your healthy purchase

Preservatives and additives are present in safe proportions in the products.

Make the majority of your basket of natural foods rather than ultra-processed products.

There is no need to fear all processed products as they also play a fundamental role in our healthy purchasing and there are good options within this category.

Frozen foods are suitable for our diet and we should not be afraid of them. They preserve the properties of the food intact.

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