More and more friends who lose weight often choose to eat grass. Grass is vegetables, especially raw vegetables.
Chinese cold dishes always feel not too foreign? Western-style salad can also highlight the situation well.
However, many people say that salad dressing is relatively high in calories, and salad is a typical [pseudo-healthy] food that is highly praised.
Is it absolutely impossible to eat salad to lose weight? Obviously not.
Friends who often eat grass must know that there are not many vegetables in a salad.
After removing vegetables, what about some what? Meat (there are few pictures in China that are so kind), many staple foods such as nuts, bread or spaghetti, and one or even two large cups of salad dressing.
It does seem a bit scary. However…
Salad dressing is not necessarily high in calories.
Let’s compare the nutrients of the following common salad dressings.
They are also salad dressing, and the calories are quite different.
If mayonnaise is chosen, it is really a heat bomb, as long as one spoonful, the limit of oil for a meal is enough. However, if you choose lemon soy sauce, you will not grow a fat or two.
You may question a little: What’s wrong with this? Salad dressing should be [sauce]. Is that lemon soy sauce what ghost?
Category is the key to choosing the right salad dressing.
Is what salad dressing?
In English, salad dressing is called salad dressing, not just [XX dressing].
All sauces and seasonings that can be mixed with vegetables or seasoned, whether liquid or semi-solid, can be called [salad dressing].
Interestingly, according to the standard, salad dressing is qualified as long as the oil content is ≥ 10%.
Salad dressing does not have to be high in fat and calories.
Simply, salad dressing can be divided into two main categories:
Vinaigrette: mainly composed of vinegar, grease, spices and salt;
Cream(creamy dressing): It mainly uses mayonnaise or yogurt, sour cream and other basic raw materials.
Therefore, sesame paste with salt and mashed garlic and vinegar with soy sauce are also salad dressings.
Oil vinegar salad dressing will have lower calories than cream salad dressing.
The choice of which calorie is lower depends on the figures on the list of ingredients and nutrients.
Eat salad healthily like this
In fact, there is nothing absolutely impossible to eat. The key lies in the specific quantity and moderation to see if you can control it.
When eating salad, pay more attention to the following points:
Try to choose oil and vinegar and avoid cream.
When choosing cream, it is better to dip it aside and eat it with sauce than to mix it all.
Reduce the frequency of eating salad dressing. If there are other seasonings, don’t add salad dressing.
Yogurt and lemon juice can be used as salad dressing.
Quantity is the key, it is recommended that a meal should not exceed 20g.
Try to add vanilla, such as basil, garlic, etc.
0 calories of salad dressing, you might as well try it.
The demand for weight loss is getting hotter and hotter. Some brands (mainly foreign brands) have introduced 0-calorie salad dressing.
Is it nonsense? In fact, 0 calories of salad dressing is not much magic.
Food developers are probably the smartest people in the world. They can imitate the texture and flavor of ordinary salad dressing by using vinegar, salt, sweeteners, flavors, thickeners and other non-calorie ingredients and food additives.
Friends who like cream texture but are always unable to keep their mouths shut may as well give it a try.
Homemade low-calorie salad dressing
If you can’t buy 0 calories of salad dressing, you can try to make it yourself at home even if your cooking skills are poor.
Recommendation 1: Tofu Salad Dressing
Raw materials (reference ratio):
100g of lactone tofu, 1 tablespoon of white vinegar/lemon juice and 1 gram of salt. If you don’t care so much about calories, you can also add 1 tablespoon of olive oil.
Step:
After the raw materials are ready, put them into a beater and beat them until they are delicate. Without a beater, you can also put them into a fresh-keeping bag and grind them thoroughly.
Recommendation 2: Lemon Pepper Salad Dressing
Raw materials (reference ratio):
1 lemon, 1-2 pepper, 3 garlic cloves, 1 pinch of coriander and 1 gram of salt.
Step:
Chop chili and coriander and squeeze garlic into mashed garlic. Add salt and squeezed lemon juice and mix well.
Finally, returning to the beginning of the article, it is a good thing to love eating grass. For weight loss, in hot summer, when you are lazy (not) and (can) cook, and when you don’t want to stir-fry with hot oil, you can eat more Chinese mixed vegetables or Western salads, which can eat at least one kilo of vegetables a day, and it is not such a bad choice.