The article addresses the challenge of maintaining healthy snacking habits when faced with limited choices, such as those found at motorway service stations. It emphasizes that not all junk foods are equally detrimental, showcasing insights from nutritionists. They recommend basic snacks like lightly salted crisps made of just potatoes and olive oil while warning against flavored and processed alternatives. Low-sugar sweet options exist, but many marketed as 'healthy' are often still laden with unhealthy ingredients. Mindfully choosing simpler snacks can help navigate the temptations of low-quality junk food.
You want them to be lightly salted, not very salted. So if you swerve the flavoured options, some packets aren't too bad as far as snacks go.
Traditional gummy sweets and chewy candies are textbook UPFs and normally loaded with glucose syrup, artificial colours, flavourings and gelatine, says nutritionist Rob Hobson.
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