Pasta - a tasty and nutritious product which is loved around the world. As they belong to flour products, long time were considered as the enemy of a figure. But whether so it actually and whether it is necessary to refuse pasta during a diet?
Do you love pasta? And correctly you do!
Pasta contain about 75% of carbohydrates, 12% of protein and less than 3% of fat. Besides, in them there are B1, B2 and PP vitamins and also a small amount of cellulose. Caloric content of 100 g of a dry product is about 340 kcal while in the same amount of boiled pasta of only 100 kcal.
Pasta and weight loss
Pasta contain slow (complex) carbohydrates which, unlike plain carbohydrates, give long feeling of satiety and supply an organism with energy. Observing moderation, even at a regular upotreblneniye of pasta, you won't gain excess weight. However there are several nuances.
First, choose pasta only from firm grades of wheat (it is specified in structure on the label, ""durum"" or ""group A""), ideally - from whole-wheat flour. Secondly, in preparation time don't digest pasta, cook them to a state ""al an awning"" (time of cooking is specified on packing). Thirdly, combine paste with vegetable sauces, greens and seafood, but not with cutlets and sausages.
What pasta harm a figure
It is considered that pasta from soft grades of wheat contain less than substances, useful to an organism, but in them there is a lot of starch. The regular use of such product can quite affect weight. On packings usually there is a mark: ""group B"", ""2nd class" "or" "soft wheat flour"". By the way, the glycemic index of pasta of group B is approximately twice more, than at paste of the firm grades welded ""al an awning"".
Detichesky recipes from pasta
Pasta with vegetables
2 portions on 300 kcal
- 200 g of a long-cut wide macaroni
- 1/2 large eggplants
- 250 g of tomatoes
- 1 small bulb
- 1 garlic glove
- 1 h a sauce spoon with greens
- 20 g of a grated low-fat cheese
- salt, pepper, basil
1. Slices of an eggplant to salt and leave for 10 minutes. Onions and garlic to crush, spasserovat in vegetable oil. Add an eggplant and to fry slightly. Add sauce and the cut tomatoes, extinguish 10 minutes.
2. Cook pasta following the instruction on packing. Mix with vegetables, strew with a grated cheese. Decorate with a basil.
Pasta with parmesan and cinnamon
2 portions on 260 kcal
- 180 g of pasta
- 50 g of a Parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons of low-fat sour cream
- 1/2 h spoon of cinnamon
- salt, pepper
Boil pasta according to the instruction on packing. Fill with salt, перецм and sour cream. Strew to grated suras and cinnamon.
Council: instead of parmesan it is possible to use any other cheese of firm grades.