Going to work can be described as the fat accelerator of contemporary young people.
Many people can't figure it out: obviously they don't eat much, how can they be fat?
Then you may wish to recall that your daily life is not like this: buy a few meat buns on the way to work in the morning, order a few dishes from the company downstairs and colleagues at noon, and eat fried noodles and rice bowls downstairs at home in the evening...
Then a study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) may answer your questions.
The study, which selected 15 restaurants in Beijing, found 18 of our favorite dishes and took them back to the lab to measure the calories of those foods.
The results are quite amazing...
Today, let's take a look at what we eat every day!
Rice bowl for one person
Calories can be used for more than one person
If a person doesn't know what to eat, then eat a rice bowl!
On a simple plate, half rice and half dish. It's just right to eat alone.
However, the calories of this one person's meal can be more than one person's share.
You know, if you want to lose weight, the recommended daily calorie intake for women is about 1500 kcal, and the recommended daily calorie intake for men is about 1800 kcal.
Lunch should account for 30 to 40% of the daily calorie intake, which is 450 to 720 kcal.
And the calories of rice bowls, there is no one less than 720 kcal:
* Each food has a different sample from a different restaurant, for your reference, we have selected the median calorie of each food for display
Do you see it! Even the lowest-calorie fish-flavored serrabi rice bowl has a full 727 kcal.
In the good character of "not wasting food", if you go down with a rice bowl, you will eat too much.
And the highest calorie fish fragrant eggplant rice bowl, the calorie even exceeds 1000 kcal, a meal can directly top other people's two meals. If you eat it every day, you are not fat who is fat~
In addition, half of the rice bowl is rice, the staple food accounts for too much, and the dish color is relatively single. This is also a hard injury.
In case the chef has good intentions and is afraid that you will not have enough to eat, give you more rice.
The calories of this meal will top someone else's day...
Stir-fry, the hidden "heat bomb"
Occasionally go to the restaurant, order takeaway, let yourself not just eat, eat more dishes, is actually a very good consciousness.
However, if the stir-fry is not picked well, it is likely to be a hidden "heat bomb".
It just so happens that this study measured the most frequently ordered dishes in restaurants. The result is this:
* The following stir-fries are served in around 300 to 400 g
One person can eat it, and two people can eat it
These dishes, even if two people eat a plate, plus rice, the calories of a meal are likely to exceed the standard.
Some of the recipes themselves are heavy oil and salt dishes, which are even more high-calorie "hard-hit areas".
Three well-known dishes, such as sweet and sour pork ribs, fried meatballs, and spicy chicken, are the top 3 calories in this measurement:
Sweet and sour pork ribs
Fried meatballs
Spicy chicken
Take sweet and sour ribs, don't look at the lean meat, but the operation of first wrapping starch and then frying and then adding sugar is creating a "heat bomb" at every step. The croquettes and spicy chicken are also fried, and the calories are naturally not much lower.
The only things that can be accepted by the heat are fish-flavored meat shreds, hairy blood and small stir-fried meat.
Because the method is relatively simple, unlike the previous dishes that need to be wrapped in starch or fried, the calories are also relatively low. 2 to 3 people eat a plate, in fact, it is still a good choice.
But if you eat alone, the calories will still exceed the standard.
At the same time, even if the calorie is relatively low, there may still be a problem of heavy oil and heavy salt, and it is better to eat it again
The lowest calories in one serving
It's actually ramen and dumplings
Ramen, fried noodles, dumplings, buns... The calories of these staple foods should not be low for most people.
However, this is not the case:
A plate of dumplings, just right for one person to eat!
If the bun is a bun, at first glance, the heat is quite high. But for many people, 4 buns can't be eaten at all, and if you only eat 2 to 3 for a meal, the calories are actually just right.
Of course, the best way to eat is to eat 1 to 2, and then pair it with some vegetables.
The most surprising things are ramen and fried noodles:
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The heat of a bowl of fried noodles, but about 400 kcal, leaves room for adding an egg or chicken thigh. Ramen noodles are less heated, there is no oil, and the taste is light.
But these staple foods also have a hard wound: too much carb, a bowl of belly, and a spike in blood sugar.
If you really want to eat, remember to let the boss add a large handful of green vegetables to the cooking of the noodles, and the noodles can also be less.
Are the above foods very suitable for your three meals a day?
Do you know why you're getting fat?
But having said all that, it should be emphasized that calories are not the whole of food.
Even if the heat of fried noodles and ramen noodles is the lowest, it does not mean that it is the best choice; even if the sweet and sour pork ribs are hugely high in calories, it does not mean that they cannot be eaten at all.
The so-called healthy diet, not low calories can be eaten with confidence, high calories can not be a bite. Heat is only an evaluation dimension, and the more important thing is "quantity" and "collocation".
Knowing the calories of these foods, we can consciously pay attention to "quantity" and "collocation" and eat "good":
Tips for eating out
1. Eat rice bowls
Try to choose a "meat and vegetarian pairing" dish
Rice can be eaten in half
Potato shredded rice bowl is best not to order
2. Eat stir-fry
Try to choose "stir-fried" and "white-seared" dishes
The number of dishes ordered does not exceed the number of people eating
A dish that is too high in calories, one dish is enough
3. Eat buns and dumplings
Meat and vegetarian collocation, you can choose a few vegan fillings
4. Eat ramen and fried noodles
Add more vegetables and eat less noodles
Then an egg or chicken thigh
You know, there's no bad food, only bad ways to eat.
Research and data, let's be a reference on the line ~
On the one hand, China's rich cuisine, some heavy and some light, replaced by Cantonese cuisine may be a completely different result; on the other hand, if you really want to study food, who wants to go to Beijing to study it
This article is reviewed by experts
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