In UK baked beans is projected as a healthy food. However, a g tin of baked beans was found to contain 20 g sugar and a good deal of salt. From the health aspect, we have to keep our sodium intake limited to mg per day. Low intake of sodium is essential for controlling ailments like Hypertension.
Some food manufacturers do produce processed foods with low sodium content or potassium substituted for sodium. But in a world where commercial interests precede everything else one can never be too sure.
Manufacturers are concerned that if taste of each product is not optimized by adding salt, the convenience food will not sell.
These foods are dependent on significant amounts of salt for their palatability. Salt also acts as an appetizer and enables the masking of undesirable effects of food processing. Some manufacturers have naturally occurring sodium in their product. No extra salt is added. For instance, MTR believes in giving solutions to the customer by adopting the best technology possible. We use retort pouches that can preserve the food in its original form for a year or so.
The packaging is such that it obviates the need for adding preservatives. This ensures that we provide the best foods that are tasty, healthy and high on nutritional quotient. The processes used for making convenience foods are such that they retain the goodness and freshness of the ingredients.
This ensures the right quality and taste. In a scenario where people are running against time, the convenience foods helps them in cooking up a delicious and nutritious meal in the shortest time possible.
The packaging industry has also benefitted as they offer variety of packaging formats that are designed with easy open features, portion control or multipack layouts.
The time lag between the date of processing, date of packing, date of sale and date of consumption is far too long. Some convenience foods are too oily and spicy. Adayar Anand Bhavan, a well known eatery in South, also sells snacks , pickles and chutneys that are made in house. Their products are priced at a premium because they have a certain brand reputation. Their products are of high quality but not necessarily healthy. The convenience foods tastes great when you are hungry and we eat them quickly albeit absent mindedly.
They contain all the ingredients that your body does not need — typically high in calories, fat , sugar, salt etc. Convenience foods can certainly be part of a well balanced diet but they can never substitute the latter. Another flip side is that large portions of fast foods encourage over eating. No doubt the pizza was home delivered, the packaging was great, the taste was good but consumption of the pizza made us hungrier. A typical veg pizza contains the regular suspects — onion, tomato, capsicum, cheese.
Fiber rich beans or Vitamin A rich carrots are never part of the menu for pizzas — Why? Homemade soups from fresh vegetables are any day better than ready-to-eat soup powders that are available in the market that are exorbitantly priced. A kg of tomato costs Rs 20 but a packet of soup powder costs something like Rs with ingredients that may not necessarily have nutritive value. Once upon a time convenience foods consisted largely of readymade or easy to make versions of food stuff which were difficult to produce from scratch.
Gits Gulab Jamun mix , Rava idli mix etc. But now, companies puree fresh garlic or tomato and pack it in jars. Lemon juice is available in a concentrated form.
It is so easy to squeeze a lemon but when we are pressed for time, we have excuses not to do so. Look at items like Ginger garlic paste, tamarind paste. Thus, you do not have to worry to get a long list of different food items as if you were cooking on your own. This may not only save you time, but it may also save you some nerves, especially if you go shopping in a store where the selection is rather limited and you may not find everything to cook with fresh food on your own.
When you cook on your own on a regular basis, you might also have to plan what to buy and when to prepare your meals. This might not be an issue if you only work moderate hours, but it may become a problem if you work quite long hours and need all your mental capacities for your job and your private life in order to work. Thus, depending on your individual circumstances, you might not want to do all the planning that is necessary for fresh cooking and go for convenience products instead.
Even if you are a fan of cooking at home, you might experience times in your life which are quite stressful and overwhelming and you might simply not have the energy to cook during these exhausting times. Therefore, in those times in your life, you might rather want to rely on convenience food since you do not have to worry about anything and can just reheat it and you are done. Even though cooking is not that difficult, there still is a steep learning curve and you have to spend some time to inform yourself and to prepare some dishes before you will become better.
If you stay in hostels and sleep at a new place almost every day, chances are that there will not be too much time for cooking and you may also lack the proper equipment to cook. Thus, convenience food may also be a viable option for your travels in order to use your travel time efficiently. Some people also simply do not have a kitchen at all.
If you live in a small apartment, there might only be a shared kitchen space. However, quite often, there will be far too many people using this space and you might not want to wait until they are done with cooking. Instead, going for convenience food may sound like a good idea since you can save plenty of waiting time.
Even though convenience food might not be considered to be healthy, it might still be healthier compared to most fast foods. Therefore, if you do not want to cook at all, it might be a good idea to go for convenience food instead of fast food since it might still be healthier on average.
However, I still recommend that you learn cooking since it can be quite a lot of fun and you will be able to live much healthier through cooking by yourself compared to relying on convenience food. Instant soups and chips can be stored for many months or even years and are will still be suitable for consumption due to the large amounts of preservatives that are contained in those convenience products. Thus, if you want to store your food for a long time for some reason, you might want to go for convenience food.
It is also quite easy to prepare convenience food. In many cases, you just have to read the description and almost everyone will be able to prepare these kinds of food in a proper manner. However, there will be some leftovers and food waste which you will often dispose of into the trash bin.
By using convenience products instead, you can vastly decrease the amount of food waste since convenience products are portioned and you will not have to throw away too much. Since you do not have to cook and can just reheat your convenience food most of the time, there will also be far fewer dishes to clean up. Washing the dishes is not a thing that many people like and therefore, it might be quite nice if you do not have to do it if you go for convenience food instead of cooking by yourself.
Although there are several benefits of convenience food, there are also some issues that come along with it. Although these solutions are more in demand from younger generations, the new trends in food packaging demonstrate that older people are also showing increasing concern for their health, in terms of both diet and physical activity, making them potential consumers in this market.
There are several different packaging solutions for convenience food, depending on the formats and materials, as well as the target consumers. According to a study by the statistics platform Statista, the revenue from convenience food in Europe is currently 43 million euros, with the market expected to grow 2. The figures also show that the average consumption per person in will be In Spain this is a relatively new market, but it is increasing exponentially and the volume of business is approximately 2.
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