3 Truths You Should Know About Sachet Salad.
Big fans of sachet salads, 4th range product, be careful!
You will certainly not be saving money and your health will certainly suffer.
Between the salad in a bag and the salad from the market, there is only one step.
4th range products are selling better and better. But a report published by INRA slightly challenged me.
Here are the 3 truths you need to know about packaged salads:
1. Questionable industrial washing
To kill bacteria, major brands use methods that are not very Catholic.
Our salads in sachets are mostly washed in lightly bleached or chlorine-containing baths.
To kill the bacteria they say. Personally, that doesn't mean anything to me yet.
Whether during washing or with the inert gas used for storage in a bag, this type of treatment is totally oxidizing.
What does it mean ? This means that it promotes the premature aging of our cells and the development of certain well-known diseases such as cancer.
2. Deficient salads
As you've probably noticed, a fresh salad always tastes much better than a bagged salad.
Oh and then that smell when you open the bag, I can't anymore.
Sachet salads are sorely lacking in vitamins. In particular vitamins B9 (folic acid) and C: two essential vitamins that can be found in large quantities in a good garden salad, as well as fibers and minerals.
Sachet salads, on the other hand, contain mostly white leaves, cores, and roots.
That's what makes them crunchy, but the greenest leaves in our salads are the richest in essential nutrients.
3. The only advantage of packaged salads
The main selling point of these 4th range salads is that they save a lot of time by avoiding the (supposedly endless) stages of peeling, washing and wringing fresh salads.
For me, it is not a chore and it takes me maximum 5 min. You just have to make the effort to use your hands a little from time to time! We also have a tip on how to wash a salad easily here.
Out of laziness, would it be better to eat poorly? I remain skeptical.
Especially since many health sites recommend that we systematically wash our sachet salads.
So hey, I don't really see the benefit of buying them anymore, right? And then honestly, they spoil these salads very quickly.
BRIEF
So I greatly prefer to buy a small fresh salad (preferably organic) from time to time, rich in taste and nutrients.
What if I have to wash it alone? I take out my friend the white vinegar and presto, a quick clean to kill bacteria and remove as much pesticides as possible, and voila. It is not very complicated.
Same question PRICE, there is no photo, the fresh salads are unbeatable.
Savings made
As for the price of sachet salads, it is exorbitant compared to fresh salads (even organic).
The price of salads in sachets can vary between 6 € per kilo for the cheapest on the market and 25 € / kg.
A fresh salad costs around € 1.30 and its average weight is 340 grams. What per kilo is roughly € 3.80 per kilo.
Buying a fresh salad rather than a bagged salad will therefore save you at least € 2 per kilo purchased depending on the brand of salad usually purchased in a bag.
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