Just yesterday, we told how Timati's daughterthey are kept in tight gloves when it comes to sweets. Like, no chocolate, sweets are dried fruits. And sweets - only without sugar. Simona Yakovlevna, however, did not clarify what is there for dried fruits - maybe she does them at home. But if these are the usual habitual raisins and dried apricots, then, as it turned out, children are more harmful than useful. It all started with the Royal College of Surgeons in the United Kingdom expressed its extreme aristocratic concern about the number of cases when children over five years old have their teeth removed. I had to explain to the representatives of the British Association of Dentists. And this is what Ben Atkins, a representative of this association, said: “It is necessary for parents to restrict children in sweets. Dried fruits can also be a problem - they stick to the teeth and destroy the enamel. You shouldn’t use them as a snack, ”he said unfortunate dried fruit accused of all dental troubles. And even said that chewing chips would be much better for teeth.
Photo:GettyImagesAnd his colleague, dentist Nicole Sturzenbaum, called raisins a dentist's nightmare. "Parents teach their children a healthy lifestyle, healthy eating - but snacking on dried fruit contributes to the development of caries." The thing is that when dried, sugar is added to dried fruit. Or they are even soaked in sugar syrup. And it turns out that such healthy-looking food is simply stuffed with sugar - there is more of it in dried fruit than in candy. And even fresh fruit contains quite a lot of it: a medium-sized orange has 23 grams of sugar. Two strips of Kit Kat contain about 11 grams. And in 100 grams of dried apricots, more than half is sugar. 53 grams! For comparison, a teaspoon contains five grams of sugar. That is, a handful of dried apricots is ten teaspoons of sugar. Cool, right? In general, chips are healthier. For teeth. They still lose in terms of vitamin, microelement and mineral content. Read more:
