Ice cream: harm and benefit

It's no secret that all our compatriots are not indifferent to the ice cream. To the point that even foreigners who have visited our country, with great bewilderment, tell in their homeland that Russians are fond of this product to the point of foolishness, and to the extent that they use it even in the winter season on the street when the air temperature drops up to minus thirty.


Of course, this statement is slightly exaggerated, but samasut is correct. In our country, both adults and children buy ice-cream in a variety of circumstances: on holidays and on weekdays, cool yourself on a hot weather or just cheer up on a cloudy day. The view of such excessive use of all is different. Some believe that there is ice cream every day, while others believe that its use should be limited to two times within a week.

As far as the harmful effect of ice cream on the organism is difficult to say. Rather, it will pay attention to the fact that with regard to all food products - everything must be respected. Even such a harmless product, like ice cream, can be both harmful and useful.

What is the favorite ice cream for everyone? As for the way of its production, ice cream is both soft and hard. Ice cream soft can not be colder than minus five degrees Celsius. The taste of this ice cream is rather gentle, but it can not be stored for a long time. Ice cream hardened at the plants, frozen to minus twenty-five degrees. It tastes more firm and dense, and can be stored for a year.

With regard to the degree of fat content, there are several types-cream, milk, fruit and berries and plombir.

Ice cream

Fruit-berry ice cream does not contain fat, sugar is present only in a ratio of 30%. It is made from puree of natural juices and fruits.

Milk ice cream in its composition has a smaller amount of sugars - about 16%, and its composition includes fat in small amounts, about 6%. Ice cream has 10% fat and 15% sugar. The seaweed also contains 15% fat, thus being the most fatty variety.

An excellent product is natural animal fats, which give energy and strength. It should be noted that today many manufacturers also use a mixture of vegetable fats, explaining this by the fact that ice cream has a lower caloric value and a lower price. This is true, but as for its nutritional value, especially against the background of all possible emulsifiers and fillers, it is doubtful .

If the ice cream is made from natural products, there are a lot of useful substances: amino acids more than 20, fatty acids about 25, vitamins 20, mineral salts and enzymes that are important for correct metabolism, about 30. For this reason, there is an opinion that one serving of ice cream is capable of "brain loading".

If the ice cream was made from natural milk, it is undoubtedly useful. After all, this way, it is caloric, nutritious, able to restore energy and even satisfy hunger.

Some otolaryngologist doctors recommend eating ice cream regularly, as this will help develop a so-called local immunity, which will teach the throat to a low temperature. Of course, all this is done gradually, ice cream at the same time is cautious, in small quantities.

Benefit and harm

Specialists of the Institute of Nutrition believe that a product such as ice cream can not benefit everyone. First of all, it is caused by its caloric value - 500 kcal in 100 g. Also, because of the sugar content in it, ice cream is contraindicated for people who have extra pounds, as well as suffering from diabetes mellitus.

It is not recommended to use ice cream, made to the fat of people who have cholesterol levels higher than normal. The big part of nutritionists are not advised to take a great interest in flavored varieties of anime: lemon or strawberry it.d. The whole point is that the composition of similar products necessarily includes fruit essences and various artificial substances. It is safer to use fruit and berry varieties.

The least fat is milk ice cream, which is why it is the least caloric. It should be remembered that in any form of ice cream contains in sufficient quantities digestible sugar, which increases the glucose in the blood.

Excessive intake of ice cream can cause headaches. Perhaps, this fact will seem foolish to someone, however, relying on the nominal statistics, this is indeed the case. About a third of the people of the whole world are suffering from headaches precisely because of the use of ice cream in large quantities. If there is ice cream very quickly, you can lower the body temperature, while the vessels narrow, and the brain begins to receive blood in smaller amounts. Thus, for this reason, the head begins to ache.

From the use of ice cream should refrain people who suffer from ischemia of the heart, caries and atherosclerosis. Every day there is ice cream should not even perfectly healthy people. Recommended - two or three times a week.

As for children, one should not allow them to replace ice cream with a full-fledged intake of food. But here the opinions of various specialists differ. Some offer to give ice cream to children after eating as a dessert, because you can not kill the appetite in this way. Some experts adhere to the opinion that after eating, the consumed ice cream can make digestion difficult.

But there is also a golden mean - ice cream for children can be offered as an afternoon snack, for example with forest berries, which will helporganism to assimilate fats and sugar.

Let's pay attention that many people are accustomed to ice cream there is a naked, on the street. But so we eat together with ice-cream exhausts of cars, street dust, dirt, as ice cream attracts to itself this all. In the event that the ice cream you bought on the street, eat it in the park on a bench or in a summer cafe.

If the measure with the use of ice cream will be respected, it is possible for everyone. And note that in Russia ice cream is used 4-10 times less than in the US or European countries.