Healthy nutrition - Bio products
Healthy nutrition
People are increasingly paying attention to the composition and quality of products. This means that more and more Bio snacks and natural products appear on the market. Healthy, better quality and organic food is put above the price. Interest in how to live ecologically, as well as what products are healthy and good for the environment is on the agenda.
In the European Union, every organic farm is subject to strict controls and has its own unique certificate. Seeing this sign, we are sure that the product comes from organic farming. There are currently 11 companies in Poland issuing certificates, including: PNG, Agrobiotest, Bioeksperta, Biocert, PTRE, Ekogwarancja i Cobico.
Certified Organic Agriculture
Organic farming is environmentally friendly, food production methods and animal breeding, which runs naturally without boosters, artificial fertilizers, nutrients and protective agents, reduce the risk of cancer and other diseases. Greater awareness of people about mass animal breeding and fertilizers used in plant cultivation as well as more nutrients and macro elements in Bio food means that the popularity of healthy food is constantly growing.
Organic farming support
Financial support obtained under the measure organic farming can significantly help in running a farm using organic methods. Subsidies for ecological purposes are ancillary to the development of demand for BIO products and are financed under the European Union's agri-environmental program.
Organic products are more expensive than conventional ones.
Organic food is slightly more expensive than mass produced. This is because crops using organic methods give about 20 percent less yield. In addition, the costs of such crops and breeding are more expensive. Soil that must be properly prepared. It cannot be contaminated with artificial fertilizers, no genetically modified plants (GMOs), consequently organic food producers wanting to increase their income, also raise product prices, which is a natural phenomenon.
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Development of Organic Farming in Europe
Despite the high demand for Bio food, there are still few farmers and especially those at a young age engaged in farming. Young people and women are only 11% of people working on the land, which is a big problem for many European Union countries. The future of agriculture is uncertain because of the migration of young people to large cities. However, there are exceptions such as in Italy, where young people who, thanks to their skills and experience in other sectors, bring completely innovative ideas and business prospects, profitable in the agricultural sector.
Italy is number one in Europe in terms of the number of young people employed in agriculture. There is a movement of competent and innovative young farmers, people who want to play biologically intensive roles and take care of the environment, which is more and more polluted.
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Fashion for a healthy lifestyle
Fashion for a healthy lifestyle means that interest is growing not only for healthy food, but also for the environment around us. We pay more and more attention to packaging and from which materials everyday products are made. It becomes important for us that they are fully biodegradable and healthy for ourselves. Manufacturers undertake noble investments, environmental protection programs and promote healthy eating.
Health first!
Following the growing fashion for a healthy life, manufacturers of household products also followed PFOA-free pans and pots, i.e. perfluorooctanoic acid, are becoming more and more popular. PFOA is a harmful substance used to produce Teflon in pans, raincoats or take-away packaging.
Therefore, this substance contributes to thyroid problems, infertility and even cancer. Teflon pans are still popular, manufacturers declare that the PFOA content is trace, and the acid is not released into food, but the condition is to keep the surface in good condition, which should be free from scratches or damage. Therefore, the producers of dishes, following the trend of healthy food, began to produce pans, pots free from PFOA. The frying pan market is quite wide, a wide range of non-stick surfaces such as ceramic, porcelain free from materials harmful to health. Manufacturers compete with the production of new surfaces, scratch-resistant, long-life, non-stick and most importantly HEALTHY!
The trend for healthy food as you can see is not only the food itself, but also how to store this food and how we will prepare this food on what surface this food will be prepared. Therefore, we should not only pay attention to products that must of course come from organic farming, but also how we prepare and serve food.
Therefore, in our opinion, if you choose a non-stick frying pan, you should choose one that has the markings PTFE-Free and PFOA-Free or one of them. Branded, advanced pans must be labeled so that their user knows that the equipment is reliable and will not poison it.
In Poland, there are many stores that sell organic food below a few of them.
