1. Processed Food Doyou know what processed food is?Processed food has chemicals instead of real food with vitamins and nutrients.
2. Do you know why chemicals are bad for us? Our body doesn’t recognise chemicals in our food.So our body can’t make any good use out of processed food.
3. Do you know what real food is? Real food is food that has natural ingredients in it and no chemicals in it . Real food has been the least processed. e.g butter
4. If we ate processed food all the time, we never would get enough nutrients. This is because there is not enough nutrients in processed food to feed our blood cells. If you ate a lot of this food you would become over weight which would cause other health problems.
5. Preservatives are made for a good reason but sadly preservatives are just as bad as chemicals.
6. Sherry Elton an expert on processed food says 80% of the time you should eat real food and 20% of the time you can eat a little bit of processed food. k
7. If you want to keep away from processed food, it is a good idea to read on the back of packets and see what sort of ingredients it has in it. Or you could grow your own vegies and you could make your own bread. Remember to try and eat the least processed.
