• Question: Do you monitor you're own food and check the ingredients, calories, salt, fats ect ?

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      Asked by 843fscd37 to Andrew, Dilip, Emma, John, Ruth on 13 Nov 2015.
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        John Gleeson answered on 13 Nov 2015:

        I’d love to play it cool and say no… But I remember one day in 4th year of college one of us bought a yoghurt covered rice cake and we proceeded to pass the packet around the group reading the ingredients… It’s normally out of interest. Like how did they thicken it? What colours are involved? What preservatives are in there. If you wanna excite a group of food scientists give us a new product so we can discuss the ingredients 😛

        But I might be the only one out of this group?

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        Emma Feeney answered on 17 Nov 2015:

        I am really curious about what is in the food I’m eating. I try to avoid eating gelatine where I can, because it comes of the bones of animals, so I have to read everything because its used as a stabiliser for loads of delicious things, like chocolate mousse (which I love) and various yoghurts and cheesecakes.

        I do also look for the nutrient content, but more out of curiosity, it generally wouldn’t stop me from eating it!

        Nope, John I’m with you, love reading ingredients on a new product!! I also like to read the back of the shampoo bottles to see whats in them.

        Anyone else do that?

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        Andrew Quigley answered on 17 Nov 2015:

        Maybe I’m the odd one out in this group? I usually eat first, ask questions later!

        Although when I’m eating my cornflakes in the morning I read the box. The ingredients are on the box, so does that count?

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        Ruth Hamill answered on 17 Nov 2015:

        Yes, I think its important to be aware of what you are eating, and watch out for fat, sugar and salt in foods. Many processed foods especially ready meals and takeaways, contain so much salt that you can reach your daily dose in a single sitting. And sometimes its labelled as sodium and sometimes salt, and its hard to make sense of it all. Of course you cant generally see or monitor what’s in a takeaway food product but the University of Ulster/Safefood have just published a survey detailing the calorie, fat sugar salt content of typical indian takeaway meals and just in a single typical Indian starter (which I adore!) you will get one third your daily dose of salt, and your meal could contain far more than the entire calories for the day, and twice as much fat as you should have, not good!!!

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