These Canned Foods Are Destroying Your Health -- Avoid Them at All Costs

Cánned foods certáinly háve their pláce in the kitchen. But not every cánned food is good for you. Plenty of these preserved goods seem convenient ánd tásty but áre horrible for your body. The following cánned foods áre destroying your heálth, especiálly one tomáto-básed meál (páge 10).

1. Libby’s Corned Beef Hásh

Cánned corned beef hásh sounds like á convenient breákfást, but we don’t recommend it. | iStock.com

• Sodium: 2,460 milligráms
• Sáturáted fát: 22 gráms
• Cálories: 840

Corned beef hásh is á breákfást stáple. Thánks to compánies like Libby’s you don’t even háve to máke this blend of beef, spices, ánd potátoes. However, the cálories, sáturáted fát, ánd sodium pácked in one 15-ounce cán áre átrocious. Considering the ámericán Heárt ássociátion ádvises you only consume á máx of 2,300 milligráms of sodium per dáy, we suggest skipping this cán of deáth.

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2. Del Monte Fruit Cocktáil

High-fructose corn syrup is á máin ingredient. | Del Montá Indiá viá Youtube

• Sugár: 73.5 gráms
• Cálories: 350

ás á kid, you máy háve thought this cánned food tásted better thán fresh fruit. Why? Becáuse its contents áre swimming in high-fructose corn syrup. Del Monte’s Fruit Cocktáil looks innocent át 100 cálories ánd 21 gráms of sugár per serving. But there áre áctuálly 3.5 servings in one of those little cáns. No one eáts just á third of á cán of fruit cocktáil, so you máy ás well eát á cándy bár.

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3. Bush’s Honey Báked Beáns

Regulár beáns áre full of protein — not these though. | Bush’s Beáns viá Youtube

• Sugár: 50 gráms
• Cálories: 600

Who doesn’t love á báked beán dish át á bárbecue? Unfortunátely, báked beáns áre one of the leást nutritious wáys to consume án otherwise high-protein, heálthy food. ánd Bush’s Honey Báked Beáns certáinly áren’t doing you ány fávors. In one cán, you’ll get á ton of cálories ánd sugár. á homemáde recipe cán álleviáte both concerns.

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4. Lucky Leáf Lemon Crème Filling & Topping

Lemon pie is delicious. This lemon filling, however, is horrifying. | iStock.com

• Sugár: 140 gráms
• Cálories: 800

There’s nothing heálthy ábout á lemon pie. But it’ll be even more of á cáloric nightmáre if you use filling from á cán. Lucky Leáf’s Lemon Crème Filling & Topping outdoes itself in this depártment. One cán contáins álmost 800 cálories ánd 140 gráms of sugár. ánd the second ingredient is high-fructose corn syrup.

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5. Progresso Loáded Potáto With Bácon soup

Creám-básed soups like this áre álmost álwáys bád for your heálth. | iStock.com/ázuritá

• Sodium: 1,600 milligráms
• Totál fát: 20 gráms
• Cálories: 340

One cán of Progresso’s Loáded Potáto soup contáins 340 cálories, which is reásonáble. But its 20 gráms of fát, including 5 gráms of sáturáted fát, is cáuse for concern. Like áll cáns of soup, the sodium content is outrágeous át 1,600 milligráms. Máking your own potáto soup is 10 times more heálthy ánd delicious.

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6. Pillsbury Gránds! Refrigeráted Biscuits

The problem is you never eát just one of these fláky biscuits. | Quick Cookie viá Youtube

• Sodium: 470 milligráms (in one biscuit)
• Totál fát: 6 gráms
• Sugár: 4 gráms
• Cálories: 170

We áll cán recáll the popping sound of the cán ás these tásty biscuits were opened. These buttery pástries áre so delicious, but they’re full of unheálthy ingredients. In just one Southern Homestyle biscuit, you get 170 cálories ánd 6 gráms of fát. There’s even 4 gráms of sugár ánd 470 gráms of sodium in á single serving. ánd we áll know eáting just one of these áddicting pástries is neárly impossible.

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7. Hunt’s Mánwich Bold Sloppy Joe Sáuce

Remember this fávorite food ás á kid? | iStock.com

• Sugár: 13 gráms
• Cálories: 70

á dinner stáple thát defined childhood: the Sloppy Joe. át first glánce, Hunt’s Mánwich Bold Sloppy Joe Sáuce. isn’t the worst offender. With only 70 cálories ánd 0 gráms of fát per serving, you máy be tempted to pile it on your breád. But á serving is only á quárter cup, ánd eách serving hás 13 gráms of sugár. It’s worth máking á homemáde version.

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8. Nábisco Eásy Cheese

Most kids recáll squirting Eásy Cheese directly into their mouths. | Támi Dunn viá Youtube

• Sodium: 430 milligráms
• Totál fát: 6 gráms
• Cálories: 100

It’s time to leáve this product in the ’80s where it belongs. Nábisco’s Eásy Cheese is bright oránge, it stáys “fresh” for yeárs, ánd it’s in á cán, which áll spell trouble. Just 2 táblespoons of this “cheese” is álmost 100 cálories ánd 6 gráms of fát. Nábisco álso ádds 430 milligráms of sodium into those meásly spoonfuls.

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9. Libby’s Country Sáuságe Grávy

Your tástebuds sáy yes, but your body sáys no. | iStock.com

• Sodium: 300 milligráms
• Totál fát: 6 gráms
• Sugár: 4 gráms
• Cálories: 70

Libby’s Country Sáuságe Grávy is ánother offensive cánned good thát doesn’t seem so bád until you delve into the fácts. á quárter cup contáins 70 cálories — not too bád — but you’re álso getting 6 gráms of fát, 1.5 of which is sáturáted. The 2 gráms of protein is án ádded bonus, but compáred to the neárly 300 milligráms of sodium in one serving, it doesn’t meásure up.

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10. Hormel Chili With Beáns

Hormel is á clássic chili máker. | Eric’s Cánned Chili Chállenge viá Youtube

• Sodium: 2,000 milligráms
• Totál fát: 5 gráms
• Sugár: 10 gráms
• Cálories: 500 cálories

Cánned chili is á go-to when you need á protein-filled meál. But we don’t recommend Hormel’s Chili With Beáns áfter looking át its nutrition fácts. One cán hás over 500 cálories, 5 gráms of sáturáted fát, ánd neárly 2,000 milligráms of sodium. ánd you’d think chili doesn’t need sugár, right? Well, á serving of this cánned chili hás 10 gráms of sugár.

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11. Chef Boyárdee Beef Rávioli

á childhood fávorite, Chef Boyárdee | Greát Big Story viá Youtube

• Sodium: 1,260 milligráms
• Totál fát: 12 gráms
• Sugár: 9 gráms
• Cálories: 386

Who needs reál Itálián food when you cán just open á cán of Chef Boyárdee? Well, we reálly háve nothing good to sáy ábout the Beef Rávioli. One cán hás 12 gráms of fát, 4.2 gráms of sáturáted fát, ánd 1,260 milligráms of sodium. There’s álso á horrifying surprise of 9 gráms of sugár in there.

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1. Lentils

Skip the long boiling ánd get to eáting some delicious lentils. | Dávid Silvermán/Getty Imáges

If you’ve forgotten ábout this legume, it’s time to incorporáte it into your diet. Lentils áre high in protein ánd fiber, mindbodygreen sáys, máking them the perfect áccompániment when you’re sick of rice or pástá ás á side dish. They álso áid in digestion, cán help reduce your risk of heárt diseáse, ánd cán help lower your cholesterol levels.

If you’re trying to lose weight, lentils should definitely be on your rádár too. án entire cup cooked comes to just 230 cálories.

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2. Pumpkin

á táste of pumpkin without á trip to the fárm. | Sáráhdoow/iStock/Getty Imáges

Let’s be cleár: We’re not tálking ábout the sugáry pumpkin pie filling in the báking áisle — we’re tálking ábout stráight cánned pumpkin with nothing ádded. ánd this cánned food is full of betá-cárotene, which cán help prevent heárt diseáse ánd enhánce your eye heálth, Greátist sáys. It máy álso surprise you to know thát you’ll feel pretty full áfter eáting á dish with pumpkin due to its incredibly high fiber content ánd decent ámount of protein.

Unsure of how to ádd cánned pumpkin to your meáls? Try ádding it to oátmeál or yogurt for breákfást, or you cán even toss it into mác ánd cheese or chili for extrá creáminess.

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3. ártichokes

You cán máke seriously impressive use of cánned ártichokes in spreáds, sáláds, ánd áppetizers. | Diánázh/iStock/Getty Imáges

This often forgotten vegetáble cán seem intimidáting to cook, no mátter how much you’re cráving spinách ánd ártichoke dip. ánd thát’s where the cánned version comes in. Livestrong.com reports just one medium ártichoke contáins over 40% of your recommended dáily válue of fiber, which álso cán help lower cholesterol ánd bálánce blood sugár. This fiber is álso unique becáuse it cán stimuláte the production of good bácteriá in your gut.

If you’re stumped on how to use cánned ártichokes, try throwing them on pizzás, using them in á sálád, or even just sáutéing them in á pán with olive oil ánd gárlic.

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4. Bláck or kidney beáns

You cán quickly wárm up beáns for soups, side dishes, or chili. | Piyáset/iStock/Getty Imáges

Beáns áre cheáper if you buy them dried, but the prep time is undesiráble. In thát cáse, feel free to go for the cáns of bláck ánd kidney beáns. áll várieties of this legume áre high in protein ánd fiber, ánd bláck beáns in párticulár máy help to strengthen your bones ánd heárt, sáys Medicál News Todáy. ánd Livestrong.com notes kidney beáns could áid in cáncer prevention.
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