Report debunks 5 top food myths

The Internet is awash with healthy eating advice, but you can't believe everything you read.

A recent survey on the top five false healthy-eating rumors online was featured at the 3rd Chinese Nutrition Communication Conference, which was organized by leading Chinese health publication Life Times, Amway China, and the Chinese Health Education Center, an affiliation under the National Health and Family Planning Commission. The organizers cooperated with several influential websites and mobile news apps to find the most frequent posts with bad nutrition information seen by netizens. From May 7 to 12, the online survey received 39,229 responses, and sorted out the top five most widespread false rumors on healthy eating.

Here are the five rumors, refuted by Ma Guansheng, a top Chinese nutritionist with the School of Public Health at Peking University.