I want to eat cold food in summer! Comparison of health value of ice cream and light meals

Summer makes people want to eat ice involuntarily! However, the calories in ice cream make people feel guilty. It seems that eating a popsicle or a bowl of shaved ice will immediately make your legs fatter. In fact, are ice cream really that terrible?

Shaved ice: It is mainly made by shaving ice cubes into thin slices and pouring a variety of ingredients on it. The most common ones are red beans, big red beans, taro, rice cake, grass jelly, etc. Some even have sauces, such as condensed milk, sugar water, chocolate sauce and other sweet sauces to enhance the flavor.

Popsicles: The main ingredients of popsicles are different, but they all have a high sugar content. Common red bean milk ice, cones and popsicles have about 100 to 200 calories. Eating one popsicle a day can increase your weight by 0.8 to 1.6 kg in two months! If you choose ice with simple flavors, ice pops have about 70 to 90 calories, which is healthier than popsicles!

Ice cream sundae: Ice cream with chocolate sauce, sweet and high in fat. A 170-gram serving contains about 300 calories. If you eat a sundae, you need to jog for 38 minutes to burn off the calories! If you have a sundae every day, you will gain 2.3 kg in 2 months. It's scary!

Tofu pudding: Tofu pudding itself does not have high calories, but after adding sugar syrup, the calories and sugar content are not low. It is recommended to add lower-calorie ingredients such as grass jelly and agar-agar. The calories of a bowl of tofu pudding can be controlled at around 120 calories. If you choose ingredients such as red beans and tapioca pearls, the calories will increase to nearly 200 calories. Don't underestimate 200 calories, as it may be the culprit why you can't lose weight.

Some foods may seem refreshing on the surface, but they may not necessarily make you lose weight!

Don’t fall into the trap of eating a cool diet = not getting fat!

Although summer does make people lose their appetite and they just want to eat some cool and refreshing food to stimulate their appetite, but do you know that some foods that appear to be cool may not necessarily make you lose weight!

1. Cold noodles: Most cold noodles are based on oil noodles, with sesame paste and some cucumber and carrot shreds. 100g of oil noodles itself has 165 calories, and two tablespoons (about 30g) of sesame paste have 100 calories. Judging from the large-sized cold noodles on the market, a bowl of cold noodles has more than 900 calories, which is equivalent to the calories of three bowls of rice. For those who want to lose weight, the amount of vegetables is insufficient and the fat and calories are high.

2. Sushi: The key to the calorie content of sushi lies in the salad dressing. Two tuna salad-flavored sushi have nearly 100 calories, and the seemingly light-looking tofu sushi has 70 calories each. It is generally recommended that you drink miso soup, steamed egg custard, or Sichuan hot dishes before eating sushi to fill your stomach. The principle of choosing sushi is to use fresh fish with light Japanese soy sauce and reduce the intake of salad dressing.

3. Salad: Salads can be divided into salads with pure lettuce, salads with vegetables and fruits, or salads with added starch (sweet potatoes, potatoes). Although potato salad is indeed more filling, don’t forget that it is also a root food and eating too much will make you fat. Don’t hold the mentality of "I am eating salad" and eat starch mouthful by mouthful. In addition, the calorie ranking of salad dressings: Thousand Island dressing > sesame sauce > Caesar dressing > vinaigrette > Japanese-style dressing. Choosing Japanese-style dressing is a good choice that is refreshing and low in calories!

Although the refreshing taste is very suitable for summer, some foods that look refreshing on the outside may not be refreshing to the body. Before eating ice cream, carefully check the contents, calories, etc. of the ice cream to avoid consuming too many chemical additives so that you can spend a healthy summer!