Top 10 most dangerous Valentine's Day candy

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it's about the time of the year when Valentine's Day candy began to appear in a large number of stores. Although these colorful foods look naive and sweet, most of the foods on display are over processed packaged foods with added sugar, artificial ingredients and saturated fat. To show real concern, choose antioxidant rich dark chocolate or low calorie homemade spices, such as strawberries with chocolate or raspberry slices of dark chocolate. At the same time, here are 10 of the worst sweets you don't want to give your lover.

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1. Heart of dialogue

they may use the words "crazy 4U", "say yes" or "sweet pea" to disarm you, and their ancient charm can be traced back to more than 150 years ago. Heart of dialogue is a typical Valentine's Day candy, just like corn candy on Halloween. In the same way, decades of living have not improved their chalky taste, nor the fact that their first two ingredients are sugar and sugar - three teaspoons is worth it for 10 tiny hearts. The mixture also contains glycerin, gelatin and artificial flavors.

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2. Don't be fooled by the short list of ingredients. They don't do you any good. The ingredients of these lollipops can basically be boiled into sugar, sugar and artificial things. And don't degenerate because it claims to be fat free. Each little lollipop will put four teaspoons of added sugar into the body, most of which will be converted into fat by the liver and stored. Excessive sugar intake is also associated with obesity and reduced heart health.

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3. I'm sorry, these are not fruits. Unnaturally bright red, sugar soaked cherries sit on one more sugar and then cover with more sugar. For two, you get six to a half teaspoons of sugar, which is sent to the body's toxin processing center, called the liver. This is an unfriendly and abnormal thing for an important organ.

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only three of these truffles added obscene 13g saturated fat in the blood, accounting for 65% of the daily saturated fat limit. They are coated with white chocolate, which is the worst chocolate. There are no cocoa antioxidants, it's just grease. Here are a lot of artificial ingredients and a minimum of strawberry powder, which you can find at the end of the ingredients list.

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5. Interesting dip sauce

What's the fun of mixing genetically modified ingredients and artificial pigments professionally? Not much. The main ingredient here is sugar in the form of glucose, a sugar often extracted from corn, which appears in more and more foods. Why? Because it's an affordable sweetener. For this sweet festival, the interesting dip includes 24 small cards, which are obviously selling to students. They come from Nestle. There is a sign on them that says "good food, good life". But this list of ingredients may do more harm than good.

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6. Braque jube jelly cherry heart

what is jube jelly? The existence of this question alone can guide you away from these sweets. Their semi rigid, half gelatinous chewing texture produces its own chewing types. In addition to carnauba wax and corn starch, each of the five jelly hearts contains 120 calories, four teaspoons of sugar and 40 artificial colors. The most commonly used food dye red 40 is related to carcinogens, which makes these heart-shaped foods less romantic after all.

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7. Troll's sweet and sour Britons' heart

these sweet and sour sweets represent the sweets on Valentine's day, jumping on sharks. In addition to the harmful artificial color of candy, its sour taste can also induce taste buds to think that the sweetness of candy is not as sweet as before. For example: only 12 of these gum contain more than 6 teaspoons of sugar, which is the daily limit for more than half of the population (the daily limit for women by the American Heart Association). Related: can America really cure its sugar addiction?

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8. Russell stover strawberries and cream heart chocolate are the worst, but what "soft" will they leave? The candy's outer shell is something called pastel, which is made up of sugar, fractionated palm kernel oil (a soon to be banned trans fat), partially hydrogenated palm oil (another trans fat that is harmful to the heart), and some other ingredients. To make matters worse, when a simple scan of the ingredients reveals that any natural flavor also exists with artificial flavors, pigments and preservatives, the packaging boasts that it is "natural flavor".

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9. Peek at the heart of the red mini marshmallow - the shaped marshmallow looks really attractive. They even boast about the slogan "never gluten, never fat" - but don't be fooled. The sugar content of one red heart is 26G, which is more than the recommended daily intake of women (25g), 72% of the daily intake of men (36g). You will also find that potassium sorbate is listed as an ingredient. Potassium sorbate is a commonly used preservative, which can damage white blood cells and is related to cancer. Reese's peanut butter heart contains 20 grams of sugar, 80% of the recommended daily intake for women and 56% for men. The candy is also made from partially hydrogenated palm oil, a source of trans fats that increase the risk of heart disease and stroke. There is also TBHQ, a controversial food additive. According to the national medical library, the consumption of TBHQ is related to the visual impairment of human beings, as well as the hepatomegaly and neurotoxicity of experimental animals.

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What do you think? Can you think of other sweets? In this sad Festival,How important should candy be? What is a better way to express love? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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