Dried fruit
The safest and most useful of the sweets for our health are dried fruits. They are classified as concentrated sweet products. They contain the wrong kind of sugar that we eat every day. A fructose and glucose, which are useful carbohydrates. To these useful substances, you can add a lot of micronutrients, vitamins and pectins, cleansing the intestines. Dried fruits are easier to satisfy hunger, even in the role of snack they are much less caloric than hot dogs. But all the above facts do not mean that dried fruits can be consumed in any quantity. And here you need to remember the sense of proportion, so that there are no problems with the stomach. Nutritionists believe that an adult can eat no more than 4 to 5 berries of dried apricots or prunes every day, 2 to 3 dried figs and a handful of raisins.
Chocolate
Chocolate is also included in the list of useful sweets that you can eat every day. But only bitter chocolate! And the higher the percentage of cocoa, the better. Chocolate is considered a strong antioxidant, prolonging a person's life. And also it charges with energy, helps to cope with stress, leaving no room for autumn depression. In addition, 40 grams of natural dark chocolate daily helps to normalize blood pressure and strengthen the blood vessels of the heart. The daily optimal dose is 10-15 grams. To concentrate attention and improve memory, you can prepare a wonderful drink. We make it like this: half a glass of hot milk mixed with half a teaspoon of cinnamon, add one lemon zest, 50 grams of bitter chocolate and a spoonful of crushed ginger. The drink is very tasty and nutritious.
Honey
Honey, though a high-calorie product, is perfectly absorbed by the body. Therefore, it is not terrible for those who follow their figure. This treat also treats (medicine No. 1 for colds), and beauty helps to save. Honey contains up to 70 nutrients, such as vitamins B 2 , PP, C, calcium, sodium, magnesium and many others. Enzymes contained in honey will help you regain your appetite. In day it is useful to eat up to 2 table spoons of honey. Believe me, from such an amount you will not get well. But every day honey can be eaten only by adults and in the absence of allergies. To children of younger age honey is not recommended at all because of a huge quantity of various microcells.
Marmalade
Marmalade is also a sweet, but with different properties. In the confectionery factories, marmalade is produced on the basis of molasses, gelatin and pectin. The latter lowers the level of cholesterol in the blood, improves the work of the stomach, removes toxins from the body. The greatest amount of this substance contains apples, plums, apricots, black currants. Therefore, the most useful is jujube from these fruits. Just pay attention to one point: with the development of new technologies in marmalade, artificial dyes and the same pectin are increasingly added. Therefore, do not be too lazy to read the composition to make sure of the presence of pectin compounds. A useful "dose of marmalade" is 20 - 30 grams per day. Similar properties have such sweetness as marshmallows.
Jam
If you belong to the sweet tooth tribe, do not be too lazy to cook jam. It is much more useful than other sweets. Of course, after a long heat treatment, not all the beneficial properties of berries and fruits are preserved in it. But it is quite possible to find mineral salts, organic acids, fiber. To preserve the beneficial substances of the gifts of nature, the berries with sugar simply rub and place in the refrigerator. All year it will be for you a source of vitamins. Remember only that the original products must be of perfect quality, the sugar is white, not brown. Those who decided to buy jam in the store, give advice: carefully read the label to distinguish the natural product from pseudo-raw materials. In the present, jam should only include sugar syrup and fruit berries, but no starch, stabilizers and all sorts of food additives.
If sugar, then brown or white?
You can not drink tea or coffee without sugar, then use not different substitutes, but the same sugar, only brown. He, unlike his fellow, is much more useful. After all, it passes less purification and contains vitamins, minerals, vegetable fibers, which make the process of its assimilation unburdensome for the organism. The best varieties of brown sugar are produced in South America, it is also called reed. It is fragrant, slightly sticky, and, understandably, expensive. Domestic is cheaper, but inferior in quality, as it is white sugar, tinted with molasses.
And finally
So, we learned that you can eat marmalade, bitter chocolate, dried fruit every day from sweets. To sweets we very often resort to difficult vital moments, as to an antidepressant. In fact, the habit of "jamming" with sweets or cakes not only does not help fight depression, but makes us even more irritable. And here's the thing. Under stress, blood sugar levels rise, as a natural reaction to unpleasant situations. Sweet still increases the level of sugar, and, accordingly, worsen our mood. Therefore, to combat stress, choose another method, for example, walking outdoors or dancing.