Sometimes people llels that costlier and hard to get food is more nutritious This is called a food-fad. Lack of knowledge leads to wrong beliefs about certain foods. If we compare the nutritive value of two food items like grapes and spinach, spinach has more proteins, fats, minerals, vitamins than grapes. Yet people prefer to have the more expensive grapes though spinach is more nutritions than grapes.
Some misconceptions about a few foods are as :
1. White eggs are better than brown ones
No – Both types of eggs have the same amount of nutrients.
2. Fish is brain food. It makes you intelligent.
No- Fish is just a protein rich food. It has got nothing to do with intelligence.
3. Eating ladies finger makes you good in mathematics.
No- There is no relationship between eating ladies finger and being good in mathematics.