Practically each person is familiar with tables of caloric content of products in which it is possible to find information on that how many calories contain in a product. However whether it is possible to trust similar tables blindly?
Instruction
1. The person adhering to a diet dreams to get desirable forms with the maximum comfort, but looking at favourite dishes, thinks of that how many calories contain in it. Having the table of caloric content before eyes, you can always estimate, than any given product for your figure is fraught. First, they are necessary to those people who seek to support a healthy lifestyle and watch the weight. Excessively high-calorie food is simply unacceptable for them. If you carry yourself to those - just use tables and count calories for a daily diet. By the way, many institutions of public catering use similar tables. Having come to cafe or restaurant and having picked up the menu, you sometimes can see calorie content in any given dish.
2. However similar tables have not only advantages, but also shortcomings. Keep in mind that product caloric content in many respects depends on a way of its preparation, agree that the boiled and fried meat have the different caloric content, but the general power value. Therefore calculation of calories according to the table can be wrong. Consider, for example, that cellulose (bread) can reduce receipt of calories in intestines of the person, and it means that the caloric content of a dish decreases. Also pay attention that there is such concept as biorhythms of bodies that means that at different times day our organism digests food differently.
3. But how to remember all contents of the table? To learn everything by heart at all not obligatory, simply remember calorie content at 20-30 products. It is necessary in order that the nobility how many and what you need to eat in day. For example, 100 g of boiled beef contain 300 kcal, and the same 100 g of butter of the whole 900 kcal! Consider the age requirements and count the caloric content of the daily diet.
4. Try to adhere also to the following knowledge of the caloric content of any given products. Water, tea, coffee, spices have no caloric content (except for sugar and cream, of course).
5. If you cook meat, then consider that 20% of its crude caloric content get to broth (fish gives 15%). Pay attention to these figures when calculating caloric content of broths. During frying of 20% of oil gets to a product, that is if you poured 50 g of oil on a frying pan and fried on it 10 cutlets, then 10 grams (88.9 kcal) got to cutlets, each cutlet means took in itself 8.9 put. But if you did gravy, then consider all oil in which you poured on a frying pan.
6. Caloric content of grain and pasta is always specified in terms of a dry product, and they, as we know, when cooking inflate and increase in volume. Consider the caloric content of all ingredients and after the dish is ready, weigh it, so you will be able to calculate the caloric content of the prepared portion. The same with soups: weigh all ingredients or a ready dish and count its caloric content. On average 100 grams of soup contain 30-60 kcal.
7. Remember that the weight of ready-made products is less, than crude as they uvarivatsya and roast away, therefore, caloric content increases by 100 grams of the prepared product. Remember that meat loses 40% of weight, a bird - 30%, fish - 20%, rabbit flesh - 25%, heart - 45%, a liver - 30%, language - 40%.