5 food myths debunked
Chocolate gives you pimples and when you have the flu, you should drink fresh orange juice. Complete nonsense or is there some truth to it? We investigated it for you.
If you cook fruit or vegetables, you lose their nutritional value.
Somewhat true. When you cook vegetables or fruit, you do indeed lose some vitamins that are not heat-resistant, such as vitamin C and folic acid. In that case, the longer you cook it, the less nutritional value remains. But on the other hand: there are also nutrients that are actually activated when you heat vegetables or fruit. Apple pie, anyone?
Oranges are the ultimate solution for vitamin C deficiency.
Oranges do indeed contain vitamin C. But did you know that strawberries score much higher? Seven strawberries already contain your recommended daily amount of vitamin C. In winter, however, strawberries are incredibly expensive, so you might be better off eating an extra orange.
It takes seven years to digest chewing gum.
And if you swallow a cherry stone, a cherry tree will grow in your stomach. Fake news! It is true that your stomach does not digest chewing gum in the same way as a cheese sandwich. And of course, we do not recommend swallowing an entire pack of chewing gum. But it will eventually all come out the same way. And not seven years later.
Chocolate gives you pimples
If we were hoping that one of these was a myth, this would be the one. And three cheers: eating chocolate does not give you pimples. Chocolate does contain sugar and fat, which of course is not good for you if you consume a lot of it. But there is no direct link between getting pimples and eating chocolate.
Sugar makes children hyperactive
Being a child is what makes children hyperactive. And that’s not a problem at all. It has never been proven that sugar is the culprit. Not even in placebo experiments, in which one group of children received sugar and the other did not. So parents, come up with a new reason why your children are not allowed to eat sugar before bedtime. Or just go with the old-fashioned method: ‘Why not?’ ‘Because I said so!’
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