When I buy some processed food I found a lot of information in the label, but what are the important ones for me?

The calories present in that food, fat, sugar and salt content are important. Moreover, information about the chemicals as additives or colouring agents and the nature of the food, whether it is radiated or genetically manipulated.

All other matters are only advertisement for the industry. Many western countries try to make this a law, the lobbyists are working against this in many countries, but to our surprise Great Britain has this law as a traffic light system, green is good, yellow, not very good and red may be a colour of love but it is the worst. If we can achieve this it is easy for you to avoid all these bad foods for our health, no wonder the food industry is against this. Only the knowledge and thus avoiding these foods has a deciding effect on the industries because only the unsold products make them to change their policy and products.

Could you explain me what to understand when one says fat, cholesterol or fatty acids?

I know it is very difficult to understand and I give you very simple explanation. One could write books on each topic.

If we talk about blood fat then we means triglycerides. Cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and HDL-cholesterol are important to know. The rest is not necessary.

If we talk about the fats in our food then we mean the three main groups – saturated fats, monounsaturated fat and polyunsaturated fats. Fats are long chain organic acids and that is why we tell fatty acids also. Moreover, each group has different fatty acids. If it is written omega-3 or omega-6 fatty acids we mean two groups from the polyunsaturated fatty acids.

All the three types of fatty acids are important to our health.

The saturated fat from the nuts and oils are also different from the saturated fats from the animal fat. For a person who never use these terms it is highly confusing.

Go through slowly, it is easy to understand and in course of time your mouth will play with these words.