Is drinking drinks "health" really reliable?

The whole ginseng is soaked in a bottle and is praised as "staying up all night"; On the label of Beauty Water, it is written "Water, red adzuki beans, others are gone", which comes with health attributes

Young people figure fresh

"Health water" is expensive

On the beverage shelves of supermarkets, innovative flavors of beverages are often visible

A plant-based drink called "A Whole Root", through the transparent glass bottle, you can see that there is a whole ginseng soaked inside, and the price is significantly higher than the ordinary drinks

Compared with the ordinary drink of three or four yuan, the price of "a whole stick" has increased by four or five times

Relevant practitioners said that ginseng was once only used as a drug, and then gradually liberalized to the field of

There are many more similar "health" waters

Convenience store staff said that the main buyers of such novel drinks are young people, and most of them are mainly based on the mentality of early adopters

Desugaring is starting to get attention

"Zero sugar" and "zero sugar" drinks account for half of the total

Once a drink is called "sugar water", the sweet taste is also the source

Of the nearly 50 drinks on the shelves of a convenience store, 23 were labeled "zero sugar" or "low sugar", accounting for nearly half

In fact, "zero sugar" is not without sugar

Zhong Kai, director of the Kexin Food and Health Information Exchange Center, said that when the sugar content per 100 milliliters is less than 0.

Brew drinks for added well-being

Nourishing ingredients become a selling point

In addition to the health drinks that have been put on the shelves of supermarkets, self-brewed health tea bags such as goji berry tea and rose drink have also become popular

On the e-commerce platform, health brewing drinks such as chrysanthemum goji berry tea and red bean barley flour are quite popular, and the products are mostly sold with slogans such as "solving the overdraft of staying up late", "healthy spleen and stomach", "nourishing health" and so on

Yang Yunshuang, director of the Department of Preventive Diseases of Beijing Longfu Hospital, said that the use of supplements is not more than good, and it is necessary to make appropriate choices

"Now everyone is indeed paying more and more attention to health, but even if it is a common supplement like goji berries, it is not recommended to take it

China Food News(2022-09-19-07 edition)

(Editor-in-charge: Luo Chen)