Pies and buns, cakes and rolls, cakes and cookies won't leave indifferent admirers of pastries. But sweet fancy bread has one essential minus - high caloric content. Excessive consumption of pies and buns will lead to a set of weight sooner or later.
Flour
Any hostess knows that flour is a major component for preparation of sweet fancy bread, exactly thanks to it dough turns out homogeneous and necessary on consistence. Most of hostesses mistakenly believes that flour has no relation to the caloric content of a ready-made product. Actually, flour consists of a complex of plain carbohydrates which lead to excess weight. Replacing a top-grade flour, with coarse flour or whole-wheat flour, it is possible to reduce the caloric content of a ready-to-eat meal considerably.
Eggs
The following, irreplaceable component of rich pastries - egg. Exactly thanks to eggs, dough becomes soft and magnificent and elastic. However, eggs contain a large amount of cholesterol which has negative impact on an organism. In pastries where a large number of this product is used, it is better to replace eggs quail. They, of course, are more expensive, but are considered as dietary. An egg powder also good alternative to eggs, doesn't contain cholesterol absolutely.
Sugar
Sugar is an integral part of rich pastries. Sometimes its quantity in the test and a stuffing exceeds all imaginable norms. And, as we know, the more in structure, the caloric content of a ready-made product is higher than some sugar. For decrease in caloric content sugar is recommended to be replaced with honey or jam. If similar is impossible, the amount of sugar needs to be reduced.
Desi
Oil is often used for preparation both the test, and various stuffings for fancy bread. It is impossible to call oil in itself very useful product because of the high content of animal fats which adversely influence work of a liver. Also oil increases cholesterol level in blood and caloric content at it not small about 600 kcal / 100. Those who cares for the figure are recommended to replace a desi with sour cream or fat kefir, and for a stuffing, instead of oil, to use the apples or bananas ground in puree.