How many times have we reached for a cheaper product because it was “on sale”? Whether it was a bottle of oil, a dietary supplement, or a package of nuts. Price often attracts us before quality. But what at first glance seems like a savings can ultimately affect our body's health. Cheap foods, processed oils, or supplements full of fillers can gradually burden the body, promote inflammation, and disrupt the body's natural balance.
Our health deserves more than just compromise, and this is doubly true when it comes to food, vitamins, or dietary supplements.
Let's take a look at 5 mistakes we can make when buying cheap food and dietary supplements.
The rule here is that well-written advertising sells. The words "purely natural, without additives and chemicals" literally broke the bank. But the price plays a role first and foremost, and that's quite contradictory. The price of products that declare the content of natural substances is often so low that it can't even cover the costs of production. Unless the seller claims something that is not entirely true. Let's take a look.
The manufacturer states often high doses of the active ingredient, vitamins, minerals and other natural substances. However, if we look closer at the composition, we find that the active ingredient often makes up only a small part. Unfortunately, in small print, the manufacturer adds that the product also contains fillers and other chemicals that have nothing to do with supporting health. Their task is to fill the capsule, improve flowability or extend the shelf life of the product.
The rule here is, The longer the shelf life, the higher the likelihood that the product contains something chemical or artificially produced. Prolonged use of these puts a strain on the liver, kidneys, and lymphatic system. All of this can have a significant impact on the quality of our lives in a short time.
But let's be honest: who reads labels carefully, especially if they need a magnifying glass to do so, or don't understand most of what's written there?
It is also worth doing a conversion to a daily dose. Because what is actually in the daily dose costs a few pennies and does not contain what is declared on the product. Moreover, in cheap products, the active ingredient is often in a less absorbable form, so the body will only use a fraction of the declared amount.
Additionally, many manufacturers only use the enzyme weight in milligrams on the label to indicate the strength of the enzyme. However, this information does not say anything. It only states the total weight of the enzyme, including fillers inside the capsule. What matters is the medicinal activity of the enzyme (SPU) and that is determined by its efficiency, not its weight. The higher the SPU, the more effective the enzyme. Be careful whether this enzyme power is contained in only 1 capsule or spread over 2-3 daily doses. Because in this case it is clear that the active ingredient is not even 1/2 or 1/3 in 1 capsule. In terms of price, you will then buy a more expensive product, which also contains fillers that are harmful to the body.
When consuming these chemical fillers, additives, artificial colors or even sweeteners, side effects such as digestive problems or allergic reactions can occur. For example, aspartame is used as a cheap filler in foods or dietary supplements, which can also cause hyperactivity. Other side effects include headaches, dizziness, nausea, skin allergies and vision problems.
The most common “invisible ingredients” in dietary supplements include:
Long-term consumption of these supplements It strains the body rather than strengthens it.
There are a few simple rules you need to know if you want to choose supplements that really benefit the body:
Quality products can also be recognized by how they make us feel. Quality is always reflected both inside and out.
And since we started with the composition of products, let's now look at food. A healthy food should contain simple and understandable components – ideally ones that we can read and pronounce. The longer the list of ingredients on the packaging, the greater the likelihood that the product has been artificially modified, thickened, colored, or flavored.
Even foods are often "enhanced" with various additives, stabilizers, preservatives or artificial sweeteners to make them last longer, look better and taste better. But the body cannot process these substances, so it has to break them down through the liver and kidneys. In the long term, this creates a hidden burden that can contribute to fatigue, overload of the body or inflammatory processes.
Examples of frequently used food additives:
If we want to eat healthy, the golden rule applies: Let's avoid industrially processed foods. So the shorter the composition, the better. Let's buy products that contain real ingredients, such as cereals, nuts, seeds, fruits, vegetables. Let's leave foods that have a chemical dictionary on the packaging instead of a composition and ingredients that we have to decipher by code on the shelf.
In the next part, we will look at how to choose quality oil and how to recognize truly high-quality products.
In the second part of the article we will also bring 5 simple tips for choosing wisely and healthily.
