One conventional unit equals one gram of carbohydrates. In the table of the Kremlin diet, the value of 100 grams of any product in "conventional units" is determined.
In this case, products containing a large number of carbohydrates immediately receive a huge amount of cu, while products where carbohydrates are little are obtained from the force of 0.5-1 conventional units. So, meat (pork, beef), offal, fish and sausages have 0 conventional units, poultry meat and eggs from 0 to 1 conventional unit. In vegetables from 2-3 conventional units (in cucumbers, rhubarb, leaf lettuce) to 14-16 (in corn, potatoes). Of fruits, the lowest content of carbohydrates in lemon - 3 cu, the highest - in dates (68.5 conventional units). Dairy products also have a wide range:. low-fat cottage cheese - 1,9 cu, condensed milk with sugar - 56 US dollars. But in the cereals, bread, pasta and sweets the amount of carbohydrates "off scale": 50 cu. at porridge, and at a sugar sand already 99,8!
Let's figure out how to correctly consider carbohydrates for the Kremlin diet.
Carbohydrate counting according to the Kremlin diet is quite simple. In order to start losing weight, you need to collect about $ 40 a day! Now you do not need to skip breakfast and lunch, even eat at night, but the main thing is not to get through the number of conventional units! There is a temptation: a chicken egg contains 0.5 cu, and 100 grams of red wine - one conventional unit. Therefore, you can eat just two eggs and drink 3.9 liters of wine. Can. But instead of losing weight, you will have problems with the liver. In everything you need to know the measure and observe common sense. Do not eat for a meal for a kilogram of meat or fish, eating up cheese or sausages, although by the number of conventional units this is quite acceptable.
We will count that it is possible to eat on 40 conventional units. So, 100 g of cucumbers - 3 ye, 100 g of ground tomatoes - 4 cu (one can make a salad with vegetable oil - 0 cu), 2 oranges - 16 cu, a glass of kefir - 8 cu, an apple - 9 conventional units. Total: 40 USD. In addition, you can still eat a piece of cheese or meat (it's all in zeros). A very good diet for the day, and easy to calculate.
Of course, it is simply impossible to include all foods and drinks in one table. It is impossible to foresee everything. In addition, new product names appear on the market daily. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary for you to study the labels of the products that you intend to purchase very carefully. There must be indicated the nutritional value of the product, namely: the content of proteins, carbohydrates, fats per hundred grams of the product.
How correctly are carbohydrates according to the Kremlin diet in this case?
You, for example, want to eat a miracle yogurt. Let's look closely at the label - it indicates that the carbohydrate content per 100 grams of yogurt is 16.1 g. A yogurt in a package of 125 g. Consequently, your yogurt contains 20 grams of carbohydrates (cu). How did I find this? Made up the proportion:
In 100 g of yogurt - contains 16.1 g of carbohydrates,
and in 125 g of yoghurt - x g,
hence, x = 125 * 16.1 / 100 = 20.1.
(Consider - if you ate 2 packs of yogurt per day, then the daily rate is fulfilled).
Now, on the basis of this example, we can derive a more general formula, how correctly to consider carbohydrates in products bought in the store. The weight of the product in the package is multiplied by the amount of carbohydrates (per 100g of product). The result is divided by 100. This is the content of carbohydrates in this package.
Also this formula can be used when you need to calculate how much carbohydrate is contained in the tomato you eat. We take the data on the content of carbohydrates from the table of the Kremlin diet - 4 cu. We weigh the tomato (usually the average fruit pulls 100-150 grams). The weight of our tomato is 150 grams. 4 multiply by 150 and divide by 100, we get 6 cu
Counting carbohydrates, it must also be remembered that when cooking, cutting there are small losses of carbohydrates. Of course, to take carbohydrates into the Kremlin's diet to a milligram is unrealistic, and to nothing. One or two cu a big role will not play. The main thing is to carefully study the table of products with the indication of у.е. of each product and make up for itself a list of forbidden foods that you exclude from your diet, and an assortment of those foods that you give preference to, and correctly to consider or count carbohydrates that not to pass "a red border" - 40 cu