The dessert does not have to be sweet, - confectioners are sure. For example, it can be served with a sour fruit sauce. Or give a bitter taste, adding dark chocolate or cocoa. Moreover, in one dessert you can feel 2-3 tastes at once - this will create a wonderful palette. For example, an acidic lemon cream in a cake is well combined with a sweet strawberry sauce when served. A slightly sour fruit salad should be supplemented with honey dressing. Fold three layers - 3 different flavors: neutral sponge cake, lemon custard, fresh strawberry layer is more messy, and you will have a wonderful cake. Fruity delight, low-calorie desserts will be very handy and in the afternoon snack and on the festive table.
Difficult choice
Of course, not all are ready to settle for light desserts. But nutritionists do not call us to this. After all, sweets, and primarily chocolate, contribute to the development of endorphins, the so-called "pleasure hormones." The only question is what exactly, in what quantity, and at what time of the day you will eat. Do not consider sweet "ballast" for the body. It is absolutely a full-fledged element of the basic gastronomy. To keep parity between tasty and useful it is possible, reducing caloric content and volume eaten. The most useful desserts are natural fruit sorbets, pastilles, marshmallows, marmalade, and also yoghurt ice cream. And the most controversial are cakes and cakes with creamy-oil fillers, yeast baked goods, which can cause increased gas production, preventing normal digestion and processing of food. "Any sweet fruit" is suitable for any fruit, but it should be remembered that it is better not to give preference to sugary (kiwi, apples, grapefruits), and the rest to eat no more than 200-250 g per day. In the restaurant menu, pay attention to fruit mousses and jellies, fruit salads, curd desserts. Choosing between simply caloric and fat, you should give preference to the first. After all, extra calories can be used up with additional physical activity. But fatty substances, in large quantities entered the body, a heavy burden will lie on the liver, blood vessels and, eventually, turn into new wrinkles on the hips and waist. But the most important thing about which you need to remember, biting off another slice from a sweet bun: for a figure it is dangerous not to eat something high-calorie or fat, how much to eat a lot.
How much to hang in grams
So how much "sweet" you can safely eat within a day? Traditionally, dessert is carbohydrate food. In the correct diet, carbohydrates are larger than proteins and fats (55-60%, 15-20% and 20-25%, respectively). In this case, cookies and cakes should not be more than 1/10 of the total consumed carbohydrate mass. Depending on the type of dessert, it is determined how much it can be eaten without harm to the figure and health. For example, a fruit salad, seasoned with low-fat sour cream or unsweetened natural yogurt, you can eat at least every day in quantities up to 300 grams per day. Baking should preferably be consumed 2-3 times per week, and not more than 150 g per day. Bitter chocolate can be eaten 10 grams every day or alternate it with a pastille, marshmallow or marmalade - no more than one name per day. The amount of sweet, which can be eaten, is calculated individually. Obviously, for a person who is concerned about the problem of weight loss, the dessert should be limited to a serving of fruit or 10 grams of black bitter chocolate per day. And those who actively participate in sports can from time to time not refuse a croissant with a chocolate or fruit filler or from baking with a creamy cream.
Eat breakfast yourself
To the sweet did not harm the figure, it is necessary to observe the most important rule of consumption of desserts: eat them in the morning, - warn dieticians. During breakfast and even a luncheon, you can afford fatty meals. But for the night it is necessary to confine yourself to light protein and sour-milk food: seafood, fish of low-fat varieties, sour-milk and dairy products not more than 5% fat. We are used to eating desserts after a main meal or separately, washing down with tea or coffee. Nutritionists are not against established traditions. But the cooks are recommended to separate the sweet from the other food and drinks whenever possible: if you drink tea or coffee, then at the end of a sweet meal - this will allow you to taste the real taste of dessert. The most useful desserts are fruit and berry jelly. Ideally - home-made, made from natural fruit juices with pulp and a small amount of gelatin.
4 low-calorie desserts with fruits
- Apple-curd cheese
Remove the core from the whole apple. Season a tablespoon of cottage cheese with honey, fill this mixture with an apple and bake in the oven for several minutes.
- Three-layer mousse
Separately, grind strawberries, kiwi and banana in a blender. Gently, without mixing, place in a glass or kremanki first layer of kiwi, then a banana, then a strawberry. And not a gram of sugar, otherwise the layers are mixed! Put in the refrigerator for half an hour, serve cold.
- Bread and yoghurt
Dry a couple of slices of rye bread and rub into a crumb. In natural yogurt, add vegetable cream (1: 5). Apple clean, cut into slices and scald with boiling water. Add a little gelatin to the yoghurt cream. In the kremanku, fill in a layer of bread crumbs, then a layer of apples, pour over yoghurt cream. Again sprinkle with the crumb, flatten, fill with yogurt.
Less calories
The impression of dessert is largely determined by its appearance. Even the most usual ingredients, presented in a unique combination and served in a beautiful serving, are able to amaze the gourmet. In shops, cafes and restaurants we often meet low-calorie sweets. By appearance they are practically the same as ordinary desserts. Often, they are used instead of natural cream vegetable: they are less greasy. Although not as good. For low-calorie desserts, it is best to use low-fat yogurt or cottage cheese, fruit, honey instead of sugar. The less in biscuit dessert, the easier it is. If you keep a figure, order fruit jelly or a salad. And if you want to pamper yourself with whipped cream, try to make such a cream: as follows, whip the sour cream with honey, add the crushed prunes and a little coconut and pour over the crockery. You can pour the cream with strawberry sauce.