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Shopping forhealthy food at the grocery storecan be intimidating, especially with endless choices and confusing labels.
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It can be difficult to know what to buy if you don’t know where to start.
One of the hardest parts about grocery shopping is not knowing what you’re really getting with a product.
Choosing healthy items depends on the types of food you like and your personal nutrition goals.
Rice-A-Roni
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Not to mention, each serving of this rice comes with a whopping 960 milligrams of sodium.
This rice gets you far too close to these limits for just one side item.
Rice-A-Roni
This bag also contains six grams of saturated fat, almost half the recommended daily limit.
Consistently eating too much sodium can lead to high blood pressure and other heart complications.
This sausage also containssodium nitrite, a common meat preservative that has been linked to cancer.
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Krave Chocolate
Young also listsKrave Chocolateamong the unhealthiest grocery items.
This is concerning because it can increase the risk of weight gain, heart disease, and diabetes."
Eating a breakfast food like this will just spike your blood sugar and leave you feeling hungry.
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Plus, they’re considered unhealthy grocery items because they’re high in sugar and saturated fat.
Take Great ValueWheat Bread, for example.
Trans fats have also been linked to an increased risk of heart disease and other health issues."
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However, some sodas are considered even worse than others because of their sugar content.
TakeCrush Pineapple, which has a whopping 85 grams of added sugar per bottle.
Kraft
It does contain grape concentrate, but this beverage is mostly sugar.
Bolthouse Strawberry Banana Drink
Another example of tricky marketing is this Strawberry Banana bottled smoothie fromBolthouse Farms.
That is hundreds more milligrams than is recommended in an entire day.
Lay’s
They’re full of 20 grams of sugaralmost theAmerican Heart Association’s recommended daily limit.
It also contains 35 grams of sugar and 106 grams if you decide to indulge in the whole pint.
Cheetos
Fritos
Bugles
Target
Doritos
Hormel
Hillshire Farm
Jimmy Dean
Buddig
Eckrich
Oscar Mayer
Walmart
Courtesy of Cheerios
Courtesy of Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Kellogg’s
Krave
Cap’n Crunch
Post
Keebler
Target
Instacart
Entennmann’s
Little Debbie
Sam’s Club
Walmart
Walmart
Old El Paso
Sara Lee
Mission
Instacart
Instacart
Courtesy of Sunkist
Instacart
Instacart
Pepsi
Fanta
Starbucks
High Brew Coffee
Simply
Welch’s
Bolthouse Farms
Marie Callender’s
Banquet
Jimmy Dean
El Monterey
Instacart
Courtesy of Banquet
Little Debbie
Ben & Jerry’s
Ben & Jerry’s
Target
Magnum
Haagen-Dazs
