5. Baked beans
Even though this may seem like a quick and healthy option, baked beans might be one of the poorest choices when it comes to canned food. They are usually packed with saturated fats, a lot of added sugar, and preservatives, so if you love a good portion of baked beans, you should go the homemade route instead. Plus, you can add some minced beef to them as well!
6. Canned fruit packaged in syrup
It might be tempting to buy some canned fruits for that salad you promised your grandkids last weekend, but you should consider some things before doing that. Most of the fruits are peeled, chopped, or sliced before being canned, which means a lot of their nutrients are lost in the process.
For example, doctors recommend eating apples raw and unpeeled because they contain a lot of vitamin K, vitamin C, and potassium compared to peeled ones. You may be surprised, but a lot of canned fruits are full of added sugar because they are conserved with a lot of syrup.
Compared to a homemade fruit salad made from fresh fruits that only have 10 grams of carbs and 40 milligrams of vitamin C, a can of fruit cocktail contains up to 40 grams of carbs and fewer milligrams of vitamin C.
24 thoughts on “8 Worst Canned Foods You Could Ever Buy”
It’s true that vegetables canned with brine are neither healthy nor tasty, but if you drain off the brine and fill the can with water, then pour out the water, you’ll have a vegetable that you can season to your own taste. It works pretty well.
There are all beef and pure pork hot dogs available. Aren’t cows and pigs just as natural as turkeys? Beef and pork hot dogs may contain more fat, but saturated animal fat is good for your brain and cell growth.
The problem is that beef and pork hot dogs are heavily processed and you are eating a lot of toxic. In addition to that natural doesn’t mean free of antibiotics, growth hormones and lungs medication to make that pig or cow fat and big to be able to go to the slaughter. Think about that the next time you buy process food.
Since when?
Saturated fat is not good for the brain, it’s healthy cholesterol that is protective of the brain. It is not converted from saturated fat, it is converted by low fats.
A heart healthy diet helps produce these healthy cholesterols and reduce plaque in the arteries.
Processed meats of any kind are very bad for multiple organs. The meat we grow in this country is grown and kept in a way that makes it unhealthy to your body.
Unless you see with your own eyes, the animal where it’s being raised and kept you cannot count on its health or nutrition.
Thank you! O:-)
Basically it is telling us that “SALT BAD”. I agree, to much is bad. So read labels and think smart. As my Doctor always tells me… If it taste good spit it out…
I thought I was going to read something new and spectacular..Common sense tells you what to look for on canned foods and I am 84 years of age and have eaten and now am surviving on many types of canned foods and fruits…But thank you for the info?!?
What about Nathan’s Hot Dogs? Bad? Good? In different? If you look at canned fruits most have corn syrup which is especially bad for you from what I comprehend. Sure fresh is best but, I would have to say everything in moderation!
I always have Nathan’s Hot Dogs in the Fridge, a great, low calory treat anytime.
Read ingredients. Not any better than ballpark or ? All lunch meat and hot dogs and chicken nuggets are loaded with crap you wouldn’t eat if you saw how they were made. I worked in a meat processing plant for a short time….. ugh. Ugh. Ugh!
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Nothing wrong with tuna
Not so, it’s really old news that canned tuna contains enough mercury to make it highly carcinogenic!
The metal leached from the can is what concerns me. No metal canned food for us but we do use things preserved in glass occasionally
It’s more about the Bisphenol A from the coating on the inside of the can that is so dangerous.
Gees, it will all kill us in the end. Really people key word “moderation” as if we are to believe everything we read about how bad most of our food is, we would not eat. Eating too much of just about anything will result in negative consequences (including fruits and vegetables). Additionally, if you are going to write about foods that people should never eat, the story is not complete unless you offer alternatives.
Hebrew national makes hot dogs nitrate free..are these ok or at least better?
Tuna is OK in a tin and baked beans.
I don’t know of an alternative to canned tuna. I always keep a couple cans of tuna in the pantry for a quick tuna salad, but don’t fix it on a weekly basis. What are my options?
Unfortunately, Tuna in a tin is not ok. But hey, we all die from something eventually right? Mercury