Useful properties of dried apricots
At once it is necessary to stipulate, that in each kind of dried fruits there is a number of the most useful minerals, vitamins. But in the kuragesoderzhanie important micro and macro elements are particularly elevated.
And dried apricots (dried in the sun apricot bone), and dried apricots (without stones) contain iron (the same that the women lose monthly during critical days), magnesium, potassium (needed for the exchange of substances, the normal state of the nervous system), a number of different vitamins, including number of so-called women's beauty vitamins A and E.
There are health-improving diets in various serious diseases, which include dried apricots and dishes from it. We are talking about diabetes, hypertension, obesity.
A huge plus of dried apricots for weight loss is that it perfectly sucks. Dried apricots are sweet, pleasant to the taste, distracting from the main snacks, from the desire to eat another portion of food. And the sweetness of dried apricots, manifested in glucose and fructose in it, gives the opportunity not to stare at a large piece of cake on plates at close ones during your diet.
How does a dried apricot help to manage excess weight? Here the conversation is special. The most important thing is its correct application.
Caloric content of dried apricots and its use for weight loss
To dried apricots really benefited a woman, a girl thirsting to lose weight, one must remember her high caloric content. Here comes an amazing incident of nature. Fresh apricot (100grams) has a low level of caloric content - within 36-40 calories. But if the same apricot is dried to the state of dried fruit, then already 100 grams of this product has all 270-290 kcal. And dried apricots are so delicious that you put on a plate of it not one hundred grams, and two hundred and you will not notice how to eat everything in one single place.
So, if your diet is extremely low in calories per day - only up to 500-600, in that case you should use no more than a handful of dried apricots per day.
If your daily diet consists of 1000-1200 calories, then you can safely during the day afford a proportion of one hundred grams of dried apricots.
How to choose a good dried apricots?
Before we start using the apricot for successful weight loss, we will learn how to choose exactly the kind that will benefit us the most.
The taste is most pleasing to the fruit of the dream very bright tint, a little reddish. They are sweeter than orange ones. If the seller will praise you such a product, and you will notice on it dark specks -we trust, such a seller should be heeded. These spots are nothing more than a sunburn due to wet drops on the peel of apricots during drying. But there is no harm to the fruits themselves.
But just attracting a lot of bright orange shade of impeccable, it would seem, dried apricots suggests that, most likely, when drying the fruit was processed with chemicals.
Good dried apricots - large, clean, elastic. Ask the seller to give you the fruit to take the sample. Dried apricots should not have a wine taste, stiffness. If such moments are identified, it means that the apricot is not properly stored.
Diets with dried apricots
What kind of dried apricots you bought - a little secret in order to improve its taste and reduce the number of chemicals on its peel, if any. Dried apricots are poured into water and they stand for 10-15 minutes. Then the berries are washed under a stream of clean water. Your private diet on dried apricots can be of various kinds.
- Unloading day on dried apricots - option 1. For the whole day, 200 grams of prepared dried apricots (see above) is divided into 4-5 receptions. We only eat dried apricots. We wash it with green tea. During the day, you need to drink an additional half a liter of drinking water. You can replace half of this volume with mineral medicinal water, for example, Borjomi. Diet with dried apricots and buckwheat. It implies a period of validity from two days to a week. Buckwheat for such a diet you cook in a special way - a glass of buckwheat groats are washed, poured with boiling water, a good wrap in the evening. In the morning you can eat buckwheat. Salt, oil is not added to it. You can eat a bit all day during the day. At other times, use a sweet dish from dried apricots or eat the dried apricots in the amount of 100 grams per day. Do not forget to keep drinking!
- Unloading day on dried apricots - option 2. From fresh apricots squeeze juice on a juicer in the amount of one and a half cup. To add 200 grams of prepared dried apricots and whip everything with a blender. Get a fragrant gorgeous smoothies. All this amount of smoothies is used for one day in parts. Liquid intake is additionally, as in the version above.
- Weekly diet with dried apricots. Since the variants above do not have protein products in their composition, they do not have to resort to them for more than a day. If you want to lose weight, you will need a longer diet - for seven days. During it you exclude flour, fried products, canned, fatty, salted, smoked, high-calorie. The drinking regime is the same as in the versions above up to 1.5-2 liters of water per day. During the day, you should eat one proteinoboard in the amount of 200 grams (legumes, meat, poultry, fish) in a boiled form, or baked, for a couple. Also you can cook a dessert dish with dried apricots. This will be one of the meals. The third time - vegetables (salad from them) or fresh fruit (not bananas and not grapes!).
Dessert with a dried apricots
Here's a recipe for a dessert soup with dried apricots, we want to tell people who want to sit on a "dried fruit" diet. Now you can easily replace it with another option for cooking dishes.
To prepare desserts, you need 50 grams of dried apricots, which must be thoroughly washed and boiled under a closed lid until soft. You can do this in a multivark or in a steam room.
Add a little bit of fructose to the boiled apricots with which you pre-drained the water. Poke it with a bag or grind it in a blender. Again, put on a slow fire, soak to make the mass thick. Remove from heat.
Whisk the two egg whites to fix the foam, mix gently with the flesh of dried apricots. Lay the mass in the portioned form, lubricated with oil from the inside. Put on the oven grill for 10-15 minutes. Ready soufflé from dried apricots can be sprinkled with powdered sugar, although it will be more delicious and refined. 100 grams of apricot dessert "pulls" on 200 calories, which is not very much.
Why should we remember?
Here are some points to remember about when on a diet with dried apricots:
- Do not adhere to this kind of diet after serious illness, with weakened organism, during an acute period of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Kuraga has a laxative effect, quite pronounced. Therefore, during unloading days with dried apricots, try to stay at home. After the cancellation of a fasting day or a diet, high-calorie, sweet, flour, salty, fatty dishes should be introduced into the food in a very tidy, small portion.
- One unloading day with dried apricots allows you to reduce weight to 1.5-2 kg. Weekly dietary nutrition of amber dried fruits will bring more visible "fruits" - weight loss of up to 3-5 kg.