The special place on a dining table was always allocated to soups, they form the basis of a daily diet. However recently some nutritionists challenge advantage of first courses, claiming that it is quite possible to do without them.
Soup is vital hear similar from experts quite strange - to a human body at all seasons of the year. It stimulates appetite, sates and helps to be acquired to other dishes. Besides, broth is considered the richest source of vitamins and minerals.
Any first course gives to an organism energy and heat, accelerates a metabolism and restores balance of liquid that in turn normalizes arterial blood pressure and warns diseases of a digestive tract.
Soup is huge help and for those who try to lose weight. It doesn't stretch a stomach as consider many, and on the contrary reduces its volumes, on condition of the correct use. That weight was gradually lost, broth needs to be eaten at least once in day, limiting a portion to 250-300 g. In this case it is better to replace usual tableware tea or a dessertspoon.
Energy value of soups is low - even at rich meat it makes only 75-100 kcal. And fast soups don't gather even 50.
Lenten soups are considered as the most useful. They not only contain a set of useful substances, but also support healthy intestinal microflora and also improve his motility.
The advantage of a dish will increase if to season it with any grain. Pearl-barley, buckwheat, millet and rice soups are rich with food fibers which bring toxins out of an organism, of salt of heavy metals and interfere with formation of cholesteric plaques in blood.
There are broths it is possible all the year round, but in the summer first course has to be a lung, and in the winter - especially rich.