Wednesday, January 16, 2008

FAT


Fat:
Fat is nothing but addition in take of calories take by a human per day.....
The Basics Of Low Fat Cooking The low fat cooking has become the need of the hour. Many people fancy low fat cooking because of the benefits they have in store for them. It helps them to keep their body fit and protects them from various diseases such as heart problems, cholesterol etc the article teaches you some of the basics of low fat cooking.This article covers Introduction to low fat cooking recipeMethods of cooking fat low, tipsWhy go for low fat carb cooking?Benefits of low fat cooking recipes Low fat diet and low fat cooking recipes are the in thing of the day. The reasons for their popularity are not very difficult to understand. But the predominant one of them circles around socio-pathological background. So, what are fats? As we all know, fats form an important class of foods which provide certain nutritional value. Physically they are semi solid, greasy feeling compounds of organic chemicals like glycerol and certain fatty acids. Fats help in absorption of vitamins.

You would do better to know more about the different types of fats. Three main types of fats are saturated fats, monounsaturated fats and lastly polyunsaturated fats. Fats from animal source are generally saturated fats whereas vegetable sourced fats are unsaturated types. Saturated fats generally are solids in room temperatures and excessive consumption can generate unmanageable amounts of cholesterol. We will discuss this with low fat foods and low fat diets. Introduction to Low Fat Cooking Recipe Low fat cooking recipes are catching the imagination with increase in health consciousness. Celebrities, dieticians and healthcare magazines are helping the growth of awareness. By definition, cooking low fat, straight away means using less or no fat to cook. Strictly, this does not mean you can not use oils at all. So, the key to low fat foods and low fat diet lies in choosing fat free cooking ingredients. Methods of Cooking Fat Low, Tips Very simply put, you can follow these tips for cooking low fat. When you must use oil as a non stick medium, you have two options. First: make use of a non stick cookware and second: use non stick cooking spray in place of butter or oil.Trim as much fat as possible from meatUse lean, thin meat sticks instead of stouter onesGo for a non traditional cooking procedure like using grilling, microwaving or steaming to avoid fat instead of fryinguse more fat free milk in mashed potatoes or chicken breastsUse soy sauces, flavored olive oil or herbs, spices and even fruits to marinate your food. This constitutes a part of low fat carb cookingMake ice creams and cheese cakes from fat free or low fat creamsAvoid fatty red meat as far as possible Why Go For Low Fat Carb Cooking? It is obvious that saturated fats don't digest completely as they are difficult to breakdown.The saturated fats accumulate in the blood vessels and soft tissues increasing your weight.The undigested fats also convert into cholesterol, and circulate throughout arteries by LDL (bad fat).Arteries are the fresh blood carriers away from the heart.Excessive cholesterol is returned to the liver by another fatty compound called HDL (good fat).If cholesterol is left out in the arteries, they some what harden (formation of plaques), especially in diabetics, and restrict blood flow from heart.So here starts the mother of all the problems. This is the beginning of cardiac failure, stroke and kidney failure. Benefits Of Low Fat Cooking Recipes Low fat carb cooking and a good regimen of low fat diet helps you avoid all these in addition to keeping you away from the more common problems associated with over weight such as arthritis, joint pains and slipped disc. If you thought, keeping healthy was all about eating low fat foods, think again. The aging signs like sagging of your skin at an early age will not perhaps affect you owing to low or no fat accumulation under your skin. Problems like acne, sebaceous cysts will bother you less and don't forget the glow it could bring to your skin.



Basic Guidelines For Low Fat Cooking At the very basis you have to choose your food ingredients like meat, additives, oils and marinating etc. free of fat. Switching over to non stick cook wares and non stick oils help reduce oil intakes. But low fat diet doesn't stop at this. Serious aspirants can obtain a copy of free low fat recipes which usually dedicate a section to cooking methodologies. Consider some of these here: Broiling: This is one good way to making low fat foods. This is also called as roasting over the fire or grilling as in barbeque. Direct cooking over heat or fire does not call for use of much oil in addition to apparent burning of inherent fat contained within. · Micro Waving: Micro waving is safe for defrosting, reheating and some times cooking of select foods. Micro wave ovens cook better because of the enormous energy impact on the food kept inside, but it may not be even as the waves enter the food haphazardly. You may need to continue cooking on a barbeque. The only benefit of cooking by micro waving is it does not require oil. · Steaming: Steaming under high pressures (up to 10kgf/sq.cm), helps breaks down many fats including the saturated fats if you are cooking meat. What you get will be a sort of pre digested food. One drawback with steaming is its unsuitability to friable and roastable dishes. Carefully choose low fat cooking recipe ingredients. Look for fat and cholesterol contents of oils, butter from their packing when you buy. Try using Maionnaise® in place of butter. Your storekeeper may help you find relevant information although you can get the information from a low fat cooking recipe book too. Things To Avoid There are certain things to avoid if you are looking at cooking low fat food. Avoid reheating foods especially in microwave ovens. This, with uneven heating can fail to prevent bacterial contamination. Yogurt and milk contain considerable fat. You can avoid high fat content milk and yogurt. Including It In The Lifestyle If you took a pragmatic look at what you are eating, you will understand, it is really the habituation and taste that are making you to eat what you are. Now it is possible to substitute both of these things. This calls for a low fat diet plan. Keep a tab on your body weight and vital parameters like heart beats and blood pressure. These should tell you when you need to switch to more healthy low fat cooking recipe for a low fat diet before alarm bells could ring.

Facts About Chocolate Diet You can learn some good information about the chocolate diets such as Benefits of Chocolate Diet Certain brands of diet chocolate candy manufacturers claim to pack at least 100 mg of flavonols into each piece. Flavonols are antioxidants which have blood thinning effects helping in reducing blood pressure. A diet chocolate candy is also enriched with soy extracts called as sterols and certain vitamins to help manage cholesterol. This combination of sterols with vitamins stimulates burning of fats and cholesterols.

Calorie Details:

Fats&Sugars

rtion size *

per 100 grams (3.5 oz)

energy content

PURE FAT

9 cals (1 gram)

900 cals

High

Bombay mix

250 cals

500 cals

High

Butter

112 cals

750 cals

High

Chewing gum

8 cals per piece

-

Low calorie

Chocolate

200 cals

500 cals

High

Cod liver oil

135 cals (1 tbspoon)

900 cals

High

Corn snack

125 cals

500 cals

High

Crisps (chips US) average

100 cals

500 cals

High

Honey

42 cals

280 cals

Medium

Jam

38 cals

250 cals

Medium

Lard

225 cals

890 cals

High

Low fat spread

50 cals

400 cals

High

Margarine

50 cals

750 cals

High

Mars bar

240 cals

480 cals

Med-High

Mint sweets

10 cals per piece

-

High

Oils -corn, sunflower, olive

135 cals (1 Tbspoon)

900 cals

High

opcorn average

150 cals

460 cals

High

Sugar white table sugar

20 cals (1 tspoon)

400 cals

Medium

Sweets (boiled)

100 cals

300 cals

Med-High

Syrup

15 cals

300 cals

Medium

Toffee

100 cals

400 cals

High

Meat Type

Calories

Fat

Bacon Calories (average rashers)

500

45g

Beef Calories (average lean)

275

20g

Lamb breast (roast)

398

30g

Lamb Chops (grilled)

368

28g

Lamb Cutlets (grilled)

375

31g

Lamb Leg (roast)

270

17g

Lamb Shoulder (roast)

320

24g

Pork Belly rashers (grilled)

400

35g

Pork Chops (grilled)

340

24g

Pork Leg (roast)

290

20g

Pork Trotters (boiled)

290

23g

Veal fillet (roast)

240

12g

Chicken Calories (average)

140

12g

Duck (roast)

330

30g

Goose (roast)

350

25g

Partridge (roast)

250

8g

Pheasant (roast)

250

9g

Pigeon (roast)

242

13.5g

Turkey (roast)

165

6g

Hare

155

6g

Rabbit

187

8g

Venison

200

6.5

Values for the calories in meats may vary due to different cooking methods!

BREADS & CEREALS

Portion size *

per 100 grams (3.5 oz)

energy content

Bagel ( 1 average )

140 cals (45g)

310 cals

Medium

Biscuit digestives

86 cals (per biscuit)

480 cals

High

Jaffa cake

48 cals (per biscuit)

370 cals

Med-High

Bread white (thick slice)

96 cals (1 slice 40g)

240 cals

Medium

Bread wholemeal (thick)

88 cals (1 slice 40g)

220 cals

Low-med

Chapatis

250 cals

300 cals

Medium

Cornflakes

130 cals (35g)

370 cals

Med-High

Crackerbread

17 cals per slice

325 cals

Low Calorie

Cream crackers

35 cals (per cracker)

440 cals

Low / portion

Crumpets

93 cals (per crumpet)

198 cals

Low-Med

Flapjacks basic fruit mix

320 cals

500 cals

High

Macaroni (boiled)

238 cals (250g)

95 cals

Low calorie

Muesli

195 cals (50g)

390 cals

Med-high

Naan bread (normal)

300 cals (small plate size)

320 cals

Medium

Noodles (boiled)

175 cals (250g)

70 cals

Low calorie

Pasta ( normal boiled )

330 cals (300g)

110 cals

Low calorie

Pasta (wholemeal boiled )

315 cals (300g)

105 cals

Low calorie

Porridge oats (with water)

193 cals (350g)

55 cals

Low calorie

Potatoes** (boiled)

210 cals (300g)

70 cals

Low calorie

Potatoes** (roast)

420 cals (300g)

140 cals

Medium

Rice (white boiled)

420 cals (300g)

140 cals

Low calorie

Rice (egg-fried)

500 cals

200 cals

High in portion

Rice ( Brown )

405 cals (300g)

135 cals

Low calorie

Rice cakes

28 Cals = 1 slice

373 Cals

Medium

Ryvita Multi grain

37 Cals per slice

331 Cals

Medium

Ryvita + seed & Oats

180 Cals 4 slices

362 Cals

Medium

Spaghetti (boiled)

303 cals (300g)

101 cals

Low calorie

Chocolate Bar

Calories per average Bar

Aero

200

Blue Riband

103

Bounty

133

Fry's Choc Cream

205

Cadbury's Wholenut

300

Cadbury's Whirls

128

Creme Eggs

168

Crunchie

186

Dairy Crunch

158

Drifter

255

Kit Kat

110 (2 bars)

Lion Bar

220

Maltesers

180 (small bag)

Mars Bar

127

Milky Bar

150

Milky Way

130

Minstrels

200 (small bag)

Revels

170 (small bag)

Rolo

22 (each)

Snickers

149

Toffee Crisp

190

Topic Bar

280

Turkish Delight

180

Twix

270 (2 bars)

Yorkie

300

Wine

Wine Calories

Alcohol-free Wine

37 calories

Champagne

96 calories

Dry Red Wine

83 calories

Dry White Wine

77 calories

Rose

82 calories

Sparkling

92 calories

Sweet Red Wine

100 calories

Sweet White Wine

103 calories

Fortified Wines

Wine Calories

Bianco Vermouth

167 calories

Ginger Wine

190 calories

Martini Bianco

150 calories

Martini Extra Dry

150 calories

Martini Rose

180 calories

Martini Rosso

192 calories

Port

170 calories

Sherry average

140 calories

All values correct at time of testing, values for wine calories may vary between different sized glasses!

Rice Recipe

Calories per 100 grams (3.5 oz)

Plain Boiled Rice

151

Brown Boiled Rice

140

Savoury Rice

142

Egg Fried Rice

210

Fried Rice

184

Chicken Fried Rice

220

Pilau Rice

188

Pot Rice (snack Variety)

210 per pot

Rice & peas

147

Steamed Rice

162

Spanish Rice

193

Vegetable Pilau Rice

230

Maltese Baked Rice

187

Caribbean Rice

205

Thai Rice Soup

180

Spiced Basmati Rice

195

Rice Pudding

90

White Potatoes

Portion size *

per 100 grams (3.5 oz)

energy content

Raw

-

70 calories

Low calorie

Boiled

180

80 calories

Low calorie

Mashed

200+

108

Low-Med

Baked

100 each average

85

Low calorie

Roast Potato

200+

150

Medium

Potato Waffles

200+

198

Med-High

Potato Powder

-

60

Low

Crisps (chips US)

120 / average bag

500

Med-High

Fried (chips UK)

700

270

High

Potato Salad

200

115

Low-Med

Croquettes

300+ calories

210 calories

Med-High

Crunches

300+ calories

200 calories

Med-High

Saute

-

120 calories

Low-Med

Tinned Potatoes

140 half tin

65

Low

Sweet Potatoes

Portion size *

per 100 grams (3.5 oz)

energy content

Raw

-

90

Low calorie

Boiled

190

85

Low calorie

Baked

120 average size

92

Low calorie

Egg recipes

Calories

Protein

Raw

75 calories

6g

Boiled average

80 calories

6g

Fried in oil

120 calories

6g

Scrambled (2 eggs + milk)

170 calories

14g

Poached 1 egg

80 calories

6g

Scotch egg

140 calories

7g

Omelette

128 calories

10g

Omelette + cheese

240 calories

17g

Quiche (egg & cheese)

300 calories

15g

Egg Fried Rice

210 calories

6g

Meringue

360 calories

7g

Duck egg

170 calories

15g

Quail egg

20 calories

2g

Measure the calorie content of eggs & thousands of foods using accurate nutri-scales.

Fruit

Calories per piece

Carbs (grams)

Water Content

Apple (1 average)

44 calories

10.5

85 %

Apple cooking

35 calories

9

88 %

Apricot

30 calories

6.7

85 %

Avocado

150 calories

2

60 %

Banana

107 calories

26

75 %

Blackberries each

1 calorie

0.2

85 %

Blackcurrant each

1.1 calorie

0.25

77 %

Blueberries (new) 100g

49 Cals ( 100g )

15 g

81 %

Cherry each

2.4 calories

0.6

83 %

Clementine

24 cals

5

66 %

Currants

5 calories

1.4

16 %

Damson

28 calories

7.2

70 %

One average date 5g

5 cals

1.2

14 %

Dates with inverted sugar 100g

250 calories

63

12 %

Figs

10 calories

2.4

24 %

Gooseberries

2.6 calories

0.65

80 %

Grapes 100g Seedless

50 cals

15

82 %

one average Grape 6g

3 calories

0.9

82 %

Grapefruit whole

100 calories

23

65 %

Guava

24 calories

4.4

85 %

Kiwi

34 calories

8

75 %

Lemon

20 calories

3.4

85 %

Lychees

3 calories

0.7

80 %

Mango

40 calories

9.5

80 %

Melon Honeydew (130g)

36 calories

9

90 %

Melon Canteloupe (130g)

25 cals

6

93 %

Nectarines

42 calories

9

80 %

Olives

6.8 calories

trace

63 %

Orange average

35 calories

8.5

73 %

Orange large 350g

100 Cals

22g

75 %

Papaya Diced (small handful)

67 Cals (20g)

17g

-

Passion Fruit

30 calories

3

50 %

Paw Paw

28 calories

6

70 %

Peach

35 calories

7

80 %

Pear

45 calories

12

77 %

Pineapple

50 calories

12

85 %

Plum

25 calories

6

79 %

Prunes

9 calories

2.2

37 %

Raisins

5 calories

1.4

13 %

Raspberries each

1.1 calories

0.2

87 %

Rhubarb

8 calories

0.8

95 %

Satsuma one average 112g

29 cals

6.5

88 %

Satsumas 100g

35 calories

8.5

88 %

Strawberries (1 average)

2.7 calories

0.6

90 %

Sultanas

5 calories

1.4

16 %

Tangerine

26 calories

6

60 %

Tomatoes (1 average size)

9 cals

2.2

93 %

Tomatoes Cherry (1 average size)

2 calories

0.5

90 %

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