I will tell you about 5 health functional foods that you should absolutely not buy if you eat them. Many people buy and eat health functional foods such as vitamins and omega 3 to take care of their health. But do you know that there are foods or supplements that you will be scammed if you buy them? Please refer to it when purchasing.

1. Enzyme Products

Health functional food that you will be scammed if you eat. The first is enzyme products. Companies advertise them as if they were alive, but enzymes are not living microorganisms or bacteria. Enzymes were originally health functional foods, but they were excluded from health functional foods because there was no scientific evidence of their effectiveness.

And for enzymes to enter our body and work, certain temperature and acidity conditions must be met simultaneously, but it is very difficult for these two conditions to be met at the same time.

Therefore, most of the enzyme products sold on the market do not work at all even if you buy and eat them. Bromelain, a protein degrading enzyme that many people take, is a typical enzyme that is not well activated in the body.

There is no research at all on what temperature and what acidity grain fermentation enzymes or cereal fermentation enzymes that are overflowing on SNS are activated. Therefore, seeing fake reviews overflowing on the internet or SNS and eating enzymes because they are good for swelling, diet, detoxification, and immunity is a scam.

2. V-line products, products that remove swelling

The second product that you will be scammed if you eat is V-line products, products that remove swelling. There are commonalities in the products that claim to remove swelling or make your V-line. They prevent swelling from eating salty things. In other words, products that remove swelling caused by something wrong with your body or because you are gaining weight cannot be excreted. The problem is that they don't even work properly on swelling from eating salty things.

Looking at swelling products, you will see that they contain fruit or vegetable powders or extracts that are rich in potassium, such as banana, pumpkin, beet, moringa, and corn silk.

Potassium can excrete sodium in the body, so it can prevent swelling from eating salty foods, but the problem is that it is meaningful when you eat a lot of those ingredients in their original form, so that enough potassium is ingested. It is simply impossible to have an effect by eating powder, extract powder, juice, etc. used in swelling products.

There are also products that say that they are good for removing swelling with various medicinal herbs. How much medicinal herb will be in one stick if you eat it? Moreover, medicinal herbs are not tasty, so you can't put in a lot of them.

Instead of eating those things, please go to a Korean medicine clinic and get a prescription for Korean medicine. Foods or supplements that claim to remove toxins or make your V-line will scam you. It is much better to eat bananas when you eat salty foods.

3. Probiotic products without the health functional food mark

The third product that you will be scammed if you eat is probiotic products without the health functional food mark. When buying supplements, it is best to avoid buying products without the health functional food mark.

Among them, probiotics are especially important to watch out for. If a probiotic product is a probiotic product but does not have the health functional food mark, please do not eat it. It is unethical to make such products.

Why do I tell you not to eat health functional food probiotic products? Because you can't know what kind of probiotics are used, how much is put in, or how much the probiotics are alive.

There may be only one, or the ingredient may have been used with dead probiotics because of poor storage conditions. Even if they advertise it as a live probiotic, there is no legal problem at all unless they advertise functionality.

4. Film-type propolis products

The fourth product that you will be scammed if you eat is film-type propolis products. Most film-type propolis products are not health functional foods, so you cannot know the amount of propolis or flavonoid used. The reason why young children eat them so well is that when making the product, they focused on taste rather than propolis. No matter how much you eat those products, there will be no effect.

If you look it up, there are also film-type propolis products that come out as health functional foods, but I don't recommend those either. It was made as a health functional food, but the flavonoid content is very low. The reason why the flavonoid content is ridiculously low even though it is made as a health functional food is because there is no regulation that says 'put in more than this amount' when making propolis products for oral antibacterial purposes.

In other words, it is only a health functional food and can contain a little more propolis than ordinary food. If a film-type propolis product contains enough propolis or flavonoid, you can eat it.

5. Complex functional psyllium husk products

The last fifth product that you will be scammed if you eat is complex functional psyllium husk products. Complex functional psyllium husk products that contain psyllium husk and other functional ingredients should be avoided as much as possible.

This is because psyllium husk is excreted as feces, and other functional ingredients that are together can be excreted with the psyllium husk. As a result, the probiotics do not work at all and just go in and out of our mouths.

Of course, some functional ingredients that are absorbed or dissolved very quickly in our body will be able to pass through the psyllium husk gel and be absorbed to some extent even if they are trapped in the psyllium husk gel, but a considerable part of those ingredients will also have to be excreted out of the body along with the psyllium husk.

Therefore, when choosing psyllium husk products, it is best to choose products that do not contain other functional ingredients. When you eat psyllium husk, it is best not to take other supplements with it.