Bulos on food accounts for 54% of the fake news detected by doctors who have participated in the I Study on Health Bulos, edited by the #SaludsinBulos Institute and Doctoralia.

They are information that lacks a basis and scientific evidence but that end up penetrating society, such as supposedly carcinogenic foods, the demonization of fruit sugar or the myth of “superfoods”.

These are some of the hoaxes about food:

• Should we discard whole milk in a weight loss diet?

The European Guidelines for Obesity Management in Adults include among their recommendations replacing low-fat dairy with the whole dairy, as an obesity management strategy, taking into account the satiety it causes.

• Does the fructose in the fruit alter children?

The supposed relationship between sugar intake and childhood hyperactivity is a myth that dates back to the 1970s.

Due to the metabolic pathway of fructose, its intake in the form of added sugar is related to various adverse effects such as alterations in glycemic control, hyperuricemia, and elevated triglycerides, but these do not appear when consumed from whole fruits such as It is included in recent systematic reviews.

Among the harmful effects of the consumption of fructose as added sugar is not altered child behavior.

• Can I eat fruit with diabetes?

Yes. The European Commission considers that the dietary advice for people with diabetes should be the same as for the general population, based on healthy eating and taking into account their individual needs.

• Does lemon juice purify?

Neither debug nor do we need it to. We have three organs in the body that are responsible for our “cleansing”: the liver, kidney, and lungs.

Lemon has a significant amount of E-330 but can also be found in many other foods. There is no nutrient in it that justifies any purifying effect on the body.

• Should we consume less chicken if we have a hormonal problem?

NO. Europe banned the use of traditional anabolic agents, hormonal products and β-agonists as growth promoters in all productive species. Another of the hoaxes about food.

• Is it necessary to add a drop of bleach to clean the vegetable?

To wash them it is necessary to keep them under the tap, rubbing each leaf separately. This would be enough with the products we buy in the supermarket.

But if they come directly from the field or we want some more guarantee, you can add a teaspoon of bleach suitable for disinfection of drinking water in 3 liters of water, leave 5 minutes and then rinse.

In bagged lettuce, it would not be necessary because it is already offered completely clean.

• Is the Eco product healthier than the conventional one?

No. Products with the ECO seal are no healthier than conventional ones.

The ECO regulations focus on the environmental point of view. Both one and the other have authorized phytosanitary products (which in neither are in the food) and, in the case of animals, neither has antibiotics or hormones.

• Is it healthy to eat a canned vegetables or frozen vegetables?

In the case of can legumes they may have additives to improve the appearance, but that does not make the product worse, the additives are safe and this is a very simple way to facilitate processing.

The same thing happens with frozen vegetables, before freezing it is given a pre-scalding that makes it easier to fix some nutrients (and some decrease, yes) but in no case justify that they cannot be eaten. They are a great fast and healthy alternative.

• Is drinking watermelon or melon at night indigestible?

This is another of the hoaxes about food. These are fruits to drink at any time. You always have to keep in mind that the main component in both is water, so if you drink a lot of these at dinner, you may have to get up to the bathroom in the middle of the night.