Do YOU know what’s in your food? Take our healthy eating quiz

Do you really know what’s in your food? Take DailyMail.com’s surprisingly tricky quiz below to find out.

We might think we know what’s healthy for us: fruits and vegetables are good, sugar and sweets are bad.

But some of the products on supermarket shelves marketed as healthy are packed with a surprising amount of calories, fat, and sugar.

Nutritionist Lon Ben-Asher told DailyMail.com: ‘Just because a manufacturer labels or markets a product as healthy, doesn’t mean it’s good for you.

“More often, choose fresh whole fruits, vegetables, low-fat or fat-free dairy products with no added sugars/sweeteners, and look for no added salt on the label of packaged foods.”

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Mr. Ben-Asher recommended eating foods in their most natural form to “get the nutritional and health benefits without compromising your health based on added fats, sodium, sugars or sweeteners, and extra calories.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a healthy diet is one that emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free or low-fat milk and dairy products. in fat.

It also contains a variety of protein foods such as seafood, lean meat and poultry, eggs, and nuts. It is also low in added sugars, salt, saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol. The CDC recommends staying within the daily calorie intake of 2,000 calories for women and 2,500 for men.