These foods won’t hurt your figure.
“Dessert and nutrition” sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? Chocolate, candy and other similar foods are always associated with “unhealthy” eating habits.
In fact, there are many different delicious options that can satisfy your sweet cravings while still contributing to your healthy lifestyle goals.
A slice of bitter chocolate every day can significantly reduce your risk of heart disease. This is due to cocoa flavonoids, which strengthen the cardiovascular system, lower cholesterol and improve brain function. In addition, such a product improves memory, reaction speed, and information processing speed.
Dark chocolate contains twice as many useful substances as other types of chocolate – an average of 100-200 mg of flavonoids per 100 grams of product.
Nevertheless, you should not abuse even such a useful dessert, a slice of dessert a day will be quite enough. Despite the low glycemic index (20-25 units), the caloric value remains high: for bitter chocolate it is 535 kcal, and for milk chocolate – 550 kcal and above.
The leaders in pectin content among fruits are peels and pulps of apples. Plums, quinces, grapes, blueberries, and gooseberries continue the list.
Products that contain such natural substances reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases, lower the level of bad cholesterol and improve the health of the gastrointestinal tract. Apple pectin, for example, helps control body weight, blood sugar and triglycerides (simple fats).
