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Vegetable Concentrate
Vegetable Concentrate
Vegetable Concentrate
What is it:
Vegetable concentrate is a product crafted by extracting the essence of vegetables, concentrating their flavors, nutrients, and natural sugars, while reducing their water content. This involves extracting the juice or pulp from fresh vegetables, filtering it, and then evaporating most of the water through heating. The resulting concentrated substance is rich in vegetable flavor and nutrients. It is cooled and packaged for use in various food products like soups, sauces, and seasonings.
Rating:
Concentrates are processed forms of vegetables, however, they are processed in a way that retains many of the nutrients. Intake of vegetable concentrates has been linked to many positive health outcomes similar to whole vegetables, such as improvements in various health parameters associated with diseases, improved antioxidant and vitamin levels, and a reduction in oxidative stress. However, it is important to note that vegetable concentrate lacks fiber and may contain more sugar than eating vegetables whole. Vegetable concentrate should not be a substitute for whole vegetables in the diet, but it can aid in improving daily vegetable intake.
Resources:
- Fruit and vegetable concentrate may positively affect the parameters of disease (systematic review)
- Fruit and vegetable concentrate improves parameters of coronary heart disease (randomized double-blind, crossover trial)
- Fruit and vegetable concentrate is associated with increased serum levels of antioxidants and vitamins, and reduced homocysteine and oxidative stress (review)
- Supplementation with fruit and vegetable concentrates improves antioxidant and vitamin status (double-blind randomized cross-over study)
How we rate ingredients
Health is like a bank account, certain ingredients make a deposit into your health bank, meaning they add to
your health. Certain ingredients withdraw from your health bank. We want health promoting ingredients in our diet. To keep things simple, we rate ingredients on a green, yellow, red scale:
Clean
It is naturally occurring in food and has no harmful effects on the body. It is real food. It is health promoting.
Caution
It goes into one or more of the below categories
- It is not naturally occurring in food but doesn’t have data showing it has a harmful effect on the body (additives like Gellan Gum)
- It is naturally occurring but can have some harmful effects on the body (added sugars, oils, gums etc.)
We Avoid
It is known to have a harmful effect on the body (ex. All food colorings, Natural Flavors, MSG, Potassium bromate, aspartame, artificial flavors)
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