First of all, these meal replacement products are basically powdered, which is very unfavorable for postprandial blood sugar control.
Secondly, eating meal replacement powder for a long time may also lead to malnutrition. The proportion of most nutrients in meal replacement powder on the market is very uneven. For example, meal replacement powder in cereals and meal replacement powder in fruits and vegetables are often low in protein, and the content of vitamin C is not up to the daily recommended amount. Milk shake meal replacement is easy to lack vitamins and minerals. If you only eat meal replacement products for a long time, it will easily lead to physical weakness and cause various diseases, such as dizziness, fatigue, hair loss and other malnutrition reactions.
What's more, at present, the meal replacement food industry is a mixture of fish and pearls. In order to lose weight quickly, some unscrupulous merchants illegally add pharmaceutical ingredients harmful to human body, such as sibutramine hydrochloride, phenolphthalein, diuretics and even amphetamine, which cause serious damage to liver and kidney and even endanger life.
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Development of meal replacement
The concept of meal replacement originated in western countries. Thanks to the development of western industrialization, the food industry is also developing rapidly. Some of the earliest foods that reduce blood fat and blood sugar, such as compressed biscuits, can be said to be the embryonic form of meal replacement.
During this period, people have realized the importance of a healthy diet, and began to try to develop some low-fat and low-sugar foods instead of high-fat and high-calorie diets.
On July 20, 2020, at the national forum on weight management and nutrition and health, nutrition catering experts emphasized that a healthy diet should have these characteristics. Nutritional meal replacement food is made of coconut powder or red bean powder, concentrated whey protein, soy protein isolate, skimmed milk powder, round-braced plantain seed shell, chia seed, oat flour, fructooligosaccharides, konjac gum and other raw materials, supplemented by various nutritional fortifiers, and made into meal replacement powder.
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