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Snacks to many people brought childhood memories, these healthy snacking principles to know!

Epidemics continue to recur in many areas of the opening of the home epidemic prevention, people's lives have slowed down with the epidemic, the daily needs of the living material has become tense, have opened the group purchase of fruits and vegetables and meat and other necessities, but also let the fresh fruits and vegetables into a "luxury goods", and even some of the people did not grab fresh fruits and vegetables, and began to snack as a staple.

This is the first time I've ever seen a person with a high level of health and fitness.

When it comes to snacks, many people have the impression that they will be linked to "junk food". With the development of snacks, there are many different kinds of snacks, and the pursuit of snacks has increased from satisfying the taste buds to the realm of deliciousness and healthy ****existence.

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Interesting History of Snacks

Snacks, as food consumed outside of the three meals a day, have a rich and interesting history of development, counting snacks along the way to the development of each era has left a deep impression of the snacks.

In the 50s and 60s, snacks are synonymous with a luxury, unlike now so rich in variety, many snacks are picked by the person with a stretcher to sell on the streets, most of which are handmade snacks, such as dried sweet potatoes, persimmon cakes, thatched grass tip, stirring the sugar thinning, plum ginger, lard cream and so on are 60 years after the childhood memories.

The 1970s saw the emergence of real snacks known as "national products", such as dolls head ice-cream, Pagoda sugar, red bean ice lollipop, cream of wheat, Dabai rabbit milk candy and many other snacks, which is the most memorable of the snacks are Pagoda sugar, although it is known as sugar is actually still the same, but it is still the same, so it's not a bad idea. Although it is known as sugar is actually a repellent medicine, I believe that many people who have eaten Pagoda sugar are not too willing to recall the scene, and now on the market has not seen the figure of it.

After the eighties and nineties, snacks are more pursuit of delicious and fun, but also a lot of foreign snacks began to gradually enter the domestic market, the formation of imported products and domestic snacks competition, puffed food has become the mainstay of the snack market, but also emerged a lot of snacks that can evoke memories of people's childhood, such as instant noodles, chocolate gold coins, cat ears, spicy strips, bubblegum, QQ sugar

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Types of snacks

With the improvement of people's living standards, the types of snacks are also increasing, the development of snacks available to people to choose from has been very rich to meet the people's taste of a variety of pursuits, snacks can be divided into these categories. The first step in the process is to make sure that you have the best possible chance of getting the best out of your life.

√ candied fruit

This type of snacks sweet and sour flavor favored by many people, as early as in ancient times when people used honey to pickle the fruit, and now a lot of honey is used instead of sugar, common candied fruit has dried melon and fruit, candied jujube, mango preserves, canned fruit, plums, Sour date cake and so on.

√ puffed fried food

puffed food is the use of deep-fried, extruded, sautéed, baked, microwave and other production processes will have a significant increase in the volume of food, mainly grains, beans, potatoes, and vegetables as raw materials ingredients, these snacks give a more crispy texture, the main shrimp sticks, potato chips, and vegetables. strong> Mainly shrimp sticks, potato chips, squid crisps, popcorn, crackers, instant noodles and so on. strong> Common meat and egg snacks are beef jerky, ham sausage, pork, dried fish, dried shrimp, marinated eggs and so on.

√ Nuts and grains

With the increase in the types of snacks, but also gradually become a necessity in daily life, people on the snacks of nutrients and health has become the core of the concern, nuts rich in nutritious and healthy snacks on the gradual rise of nut snacks is more daily consumption of the types of nuts

The common nuts are peanuts, ham, pork grains, dried fish, dried shrimp, marinated eggs and so on. strong> Common nuts are peanuts, melon seeds, walnuts, almonds, macadamia nuts, pine nuts, figs and so on.

√ Candy

Candy snacks should be the most popular among children, mainly sugar, powdered sugar syrup and food coloring as the main raw material, its taste and variety is also very rich, common milk sugar, chocolate candy, shortening sugar, fudge, maltose and so on.

√ Soy products

There are a lot of snacks in life is to use mung beans, peas, fava beans, red beans and other beans as raw materials, the most commonly eaten peas and fava beans snacks outside, there are also Netflix level of snacks chili is also soy snacks, Soy snacks and soybean milk, soybean milk, Tofu brain, mung bean cake, dried beans and so on.

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Principles of Healthy Snacking

In our daily life, eating snacks is as a dietary food, to do a reasonable choice, to choose snacks at the right time, in the right amount, to follow the following principles Snacks can also eat out of health.

- Eat snacks do not affect the main meals

The main source of nutrients needed by the human body is still the three meals a day, snacks are only as a nutritious supplement to the main meals, snacks eat too much impact on the normal diet of the three meals a day, snacks instead of meals is a kind of behavior of the cart before the horse, caused by the body's nutritional deficit affects the body's health.

So eat snacks and meals at least two hours apart, the morning at nine o'clock and three or four o'clock in the afternoon is the best time.

The amount of snacks should not be too much, so as not to affect the appetite for meals, it is worth noting that half an hour before bedtime should not eat snacks.

- Choose natural and nutritious snacks

Snacks are prone to loss of nutrients during production and processing, and when choosing snacks, try to choose natural snacks, such as milk, fruits and vegetables, nuts, etc. Don't just pursue the taste to give up the nutritional value of the snacks, more conducive to health, to meet the body's nutritional needs is the first choice.

- Eat less oil and high sugar snacks

Often more oil, high sugar, salt and other snacks are children like to eat, the common instant noodles, chocolate, candy, spicy snacks and other snacks taste heavy, these snacks are easy to consume too much to cause obesity and health effects.

Avoid unconscious snacking

A lot of people take snacks as a kind of recreational food after dinner, during the friends' party to talk, watch TV to catch up with dramas, surf the Internet and so on, will prepare snacks, chatting and catching up with dramas while enjoying themselves, and unknowingly snacking on a lot of food. In order to avoid unconsciously eating too many snacks, you can prepare a small amount of pre-packaged snacks or small packages of snacks to control eating too many snacks.

Life can't be without snacks, but eating snacks should be careful, reasonable and healthy choice of snacks that are good for health, in order to enjoy the snacks to bring us real happiness.

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