Corn flakes (or balls) — a favourite breakfast of many children, and even adults. Its preparation does not take a lot of time that very much facilitates life of housewives. But it is important to his fans to know whether it is useful to a human body, whether also all suit such food.
Caloric content and structure
Are a part of such dry breakfast:
- vitamins A (Retinolum), E (tocopherol), PP (nicotinic acid), H (biotin), group B (B 1, B 2, B5, B6, B9);
- phosphorus (P);
- potassium (K);
- calcium (Ca);
- magnesium (Mg);
- sodium (Na);
- sulfur (S);
- iron (Fe);
- manganese (Mn) and so forth.
Important! 100 g of a product contain 0.8 g of cellulose.
Caloric content (on 100 g):
- dry with sugar or syrup — 374–386 kcal;
- dry without sugar and syrup — 364 kcal;
- with milk — 238 kcal.
In 100 g of a product are present:
- 8.7 g of proteins;
- 1.9 g of fats;
- 77.7 g of carbohydrates.
Advantage and harm
The market provides to the consumer the extensive choice of corn flakes: sweet, salty, dietary without sugar, nurseries, with various additives, etc.
Learn, than oat flakes are useful to a human body.
Advertizing suggests to use them with milk for breakfast, a lunch and a dinner, placing emphasis on usefulness of a product and without a word about its shortcomings. Whether so he is useful as speak about it and whether he can be mean to the person — about it further.
Than corn flakes are useful
Advantage of a product for the person:
- Normalizes an emotional background.
- Improves work of a brain.
- Strengthens nervous cages.
- Takes part in formation of fibers of muscles.
- Suppresses development of tumors.
- Removes inflammation and stimulates activity of bodies of a GIT.
- Enhances appetite.
- Unloads an organism.
Than are harmful
Harmful effects of flakes on an organism:
- Breakfasts with the high content of sugar can become the reason of development of caries and diabetes.
- Cause psychological accustoming in people with weak mentality and children.
- Regular consumption promotes a set of excess weight and, as a result, obesity.
- The product which is artificially enriched with vitamins is capable to provoke development of oncology in the person with genetic predisposition to cancer.
- As a result of frying in flakes acrylamide — the carcinogen contributing to the development of cancers is formed.
- Causes an allergy in newborns and also people with individual intolerance of corn.
- Overconsumption of breakfasts in a dry form makes a meteorizm, sick, pain.
Whether you know? In the West corn is better known under the name maize.
Whether it is possible to eat corn flakes
There is an opinion that dry corn breakfasts are recommended to the people wishing to lose the excess weight or to improve the state of health. Let's deal with as far as it is truthful and whether the women who are in special situation can eat flakes.
At weight loss
Really, corn flakes enter a diet of those who keep to a diet, but not as a breakfast, and as having a snack. As the product bears in itself not only advantage, but also harm, it is important to use it correctly.
Important! Only the flakes which are not containing sugar and syrup in the structure are suitable for weight loss.
Mix it with low-fat yogurt to lower the glycemic index, and eat no more than 1 time a day. It is authorized to add to a dish a little honey, but no more than that.
At pregnancy and GV
During pregnancy it is also not recommended to use strongly processed products — better to give preference to natural vegetables and fruit. But strictly there is no ban nevertheless therefore dry breakfasts are it is possible, filling them with milk or yogurt.
On the 36th week they all the same should be excluded from a diet as flakes sate only mother's organism, and in the absence of physical activities promote a set of excess weight that negatively affects the kid.
When breastfeeding it is also possible to use: dates, almonds, sunflower seeds of a sunflower and baked apples.
This food is not contraindicated to the feeding mothers as it does not cause an allergy in the child. It is authorized to eat only those products as a part of which there is no gluten, otherwise it is worth refraining from their consumption.
At gastritis
At gastritis corn flakes are contraindicated as they can cause exacerbation of a disease. The next stage of a disease — stomach cancer therefore it is important to watch own diet. It is authorized to eat only that food which does not contain gluten (even the slightest mention of it).
At diabetes
At diabetes of 1 and 2 types it is possible to eat corn flakes only in pure form, without any additives, including and sugar. If the disease more difficult, to the patient is not recommended to use corn in any kind. The diet of the diabetic has to consist of the products which are not containing sugar and having the low glycemic index.
At locks
Because of the high content of cellulose the flakes recommend to add to a diet to the people suffering from locks and colitis. They stimulate work of a GIT and normalize a metabolism.
We recommend to learn, than useful oat-flakes in the mornings.
How to cook corn flakes
The safest corn flakes for your organism — prepared independently. For this purpose only corn grits and water will be necessary.
- Take equal amount of water and sugar.
- Heat mix, without forgetting to stir slowly.
- Dense syrup has to become result. Add to it grain and you cook 2 hours.
- Having received dense dense weight, pour it into other capacity for cooling.
- Further roll grain by means of a rolling pin and cut on small pieces.
- Future flakes are baked in an oven at 300 °C to a golden shade.
Video: how to cook corn flakes the Dish it is ready. It can be filled with milk, yogurt or kefir and also to add some honey or fresh fruit.
Whether you know? The corncob always has exclusively even quantity of the flowers forming even quantity of seeds.
Corn flakes, as well as any other product, bear in themselves not only advantage, but also harm for an organism. Even without having contraindications to their consumption, be careful: eat them not more often than 2 times a week and surely fill at the same time with low-fat milk.