Chinese cooking vs Western cooking, which is healthier?
In the eyes of many people, Western cooking is relatively simple, especially compared with high-temperature stir-frying, with less oil, fast process, seemingly low fat and low energy.
But in fact, many Western foods are big fat collectors, and eating them often will make you unconsciously gain weight.
For example, a piece of snowflake beef that looks like "serious" lean meat is actually covered with white fat patterns, which are very tightly combined with lean meat...
"Life Times" interviews nutrition experts to help you find out the big fat collectors in Western food and teach you to eat Western food healthily.
Experts interviewed
Registered nutritionist Gu Chuanling in China
Zhu Yi, Associate Professor, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University
The fat content of 100 grams of snowflake steak is as high as 23 grams, which is much higher than the sharon steak (8.3 grams/100 grams) and the filet (10.7 grams/100 grams).
First of all, let's see what is the difference between steaks with different names ↓
Philippy, T bone, sirloin, etc. correspond to the meat in different places on the cow, the average fat content is basically below 5%, and the fat is more distinct, and the fat does not want to eat directly cut off.
The beef used in snowflake steaks may appear in different parts, and when the fat content of a steak reaches a certain amount, it may "become" snowflake steak.
The fat of the snowflake steak is hidden very deeply, and when it is raw, the white fat is evenly distributed between the lean meat like marbles, which can be seen at a glance;
However, during the frying process, the fat of the white flower will melt and seep into the lean meat, so that you can feel the richness, tenderness and juiciness of the steak, but you cannot notice the presence of fat.
When eating out, try to order as little snowflake steak or control your intake, in the menu, they often appear in the name of Kobe steak, Wagyu beef steak, etc., you can check with the waiter when ordering.
What other seemingly low-fat "fat-hiding" players in Western food? The dietitian did an inventory.
Vegetable salad
Vegetables are indeed low in fat, but salad dressings are high in fat; if they are not specifically labeled as low in fat, they are usually between 40% and 80%.
Because the amount of raw vegetables that can be mixed with a spoonful of salad dressing is very small, if you eat half a kilogram of vegetables, the fat content of salad dressing is higher than the fat content of fried vegetables.
If you put 25 grams of salad dressing in 1 vegetable salad, it is equivalent to eating nearly 20 grams of fat.
Thick soup
Pumpkin soup and mushroom soup are loved by many people, and their strong flavor is mainly due to butter, cheese and cream.
For example, the ingredients of mushroom soup in a Western restaurant are: 65 grams of mushrooms, 20 grams of cheese, 10 grams of butter, 55 grams of whipped cream, 12 grams of flour, and salt/chicken flour.
Mashed potatoes
Do you also think that the mashed potatoes in Western restaurants are particularly fragrant and delicious?
The reason is that important ingredients are used - butter, light cream, and the amount of butter in the mashed potatoes is even as high as 30% of the potatoes.
pizza
When making pizza in Western restaurants, butter will be added when making noodles, generally 10% of the amount of flour, and if it is a meat-stuffed pizza, the fat content is higher.
In order to make the pizza silk, there will be enough cheese, looking at the appetite, eating is also full of flavor, the calorie is higher.
The data shows that a certain brand of pizza has about 1600 kcal of calories, and a single piece (dime) of calories is about 250 to 280 kcal, and the calories ingested after eating need to walk for about 45 minutes to be consumed.
dessert
Desserts are not only sugary big households, but also have a lot of fat content, such as the fat content of a brand of egg tart skin is as high as 22.4%.
This kind of dessert layer is particularly obvious, the entrance is crisp and crisp, the role is the oil, especially will often use some health-less, relatively high saturation of hydrogenated vegetable oil, also known as "vegetable cream", "margarine", "shortening" and so on.
How to avoid these high-fat meals on the menu and enjoy a Western meal scientifically?
Staple food selection
Less pizza as a staple food, or order smaller sizes; make pizza at home, and try not to put butter when making noodles.
Among pizzas with various flavors, vegetables have the lowest calories, followed by lean meat, fruits, and seafood, and the highest are bacon, sausages, sausages, and eels.
If you've already ordered bread or pasta as a staple, it's best not to order mashed potatoes; if you want to eat a fragrant mashed potato at home, you can add a little butter and replace the light cream with formula.
Salad soup drink options
When ordering a salad, you can ask the chef to put the salad dressing on a small plate and decide how much to put it on his own, or simply don't use the salad dressing and add garlic vinegar to make a "Chinese mix".
Although the soup is rich in flavor, be sure to drink less or simply order the broth; if you want to be "sweet", try a refreshing drink such as an avocado shake.
Snack options
Try to eat as little fried food as possible, such as fried and honey chicken wings, the data show that 100 grams of chicken wings have a calorie of 194 kcal, a fat content of 17.3 g, and the energy of chicken breast meat of the same weight is 133 kcal.
Many people will increase the dessert option after Western food, which will increase the intake of refined sugar, which may lead to problems such as overweight and obesity; even if you want to eat, you should avoid the taste that is particularly crispy. ▲
Editor of this issue: Menglian Xu
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