Summer snack! Eating raisins is easy and won’t make you fat

In the hot summer, low-calorie "Grape and Snow Fungus Chocolate" is easily served! "Healthy Sweetheart" Ke Nianxuan loves delicious desserts but is worried about gaining weight, so she invites "Handsome Chef" Yang Shengyao to make a delicious, healthy and non-fat summer dessert to share with everyone. It is not only low in calories and unique in taste, but can even be paired with raisins for an added sweetness. (Video/Photographer Huang Zhiwen)

"Healthy Sweetheart" Ke Nianxuan (left) invited "Handsome Chef" Yang Shengyao (right) to make a summer snack that won't make you fat. (Photography by Huang Zhiwen)

Female artist Ke Nianxuan has had a special liking for sweets and snacks since she was a child, but for the fear of gaining weight, in addition to exercising regularly every day to maintain a good figure, she is also very knowledgeable about her favorite low-calorie nutritious snacks, including raisins, which are healthy and nutritious snacks because of their low calories, diverse nutritional ingredients, and antioxidant effects.

The "Grape and Snow Fungus Chocolate" snack demonstrated by "Handsome Chef" Mr. Yang Shengyao is simple and easy to learn. It uses local ingredients such as snow fungus (white fungus or tremella), which contains protein, polysaccharides, collagen and dietary fiber, and is one of the precious foods for women.

This snack also uses California raisins, which makes Ke Nianxuan very happy, because raisins are not only delicious, but also rich in iron and antioxidants, such as anthocyanins, polyphenols, and resveratrol. Eating 40 grams (about a handful) of raisins is equivalent to eating a portion of fruit, which is very convenient and can enhance beauty. Teacher Yang Shengyao also emphasized that raisins not only add flavor to cooking, but are also rich in minerals, large amounts of fiber and multiple vitamins, and do not contain saturated fat and cholesterol, making them both healthy and delicious.

Eat raisins to remove tooth debris

In addition, there is a little-known benefit of eating raisins. According to a new study published in the American Journal of Food Science, the stickiness of raisins helps to remove residual food stuck on teeth and indirectly helps prevent tooth decay. In particular, raisins contain ingredients such as oleanolic acid, oleanolic aldehyde, betulin, and betulinic acid. Oleanolic acid can inhibit bacteria and prevent the formation of dental plaque.

4 tips for eating sweets without gaining weight

1. Avoid eating desserts on an empty stomach: Usually, calories are absorbed best on an empty stomach, but it is easy to eat a lot without realizing it. At this time, you can eat more low-calorie snacks, such as raisins, yogurt, fruits, or soda crackers.

2. Choose desserts to eat after meals: High-calorie desserts such as cheese cake are better eaten after meals, because they are digested together with the dietary fiber in the meal, the calorie absorption will be relatively less, and it is easy to feel full, reducing the burden on the stomach and intestines, and keeping away from the risk of obesity.

3. It is strictly forbidden to have desserts as midnight snacks: After dinner, the body's absorption of calories will be accelerated. If you eat desserts or fried snacks after a meal and go to bed immediately, your blood sugar will easily rise quickly and be converted into fat, causing weight gain and affecting your health.

4. Eat slowly and concentrate: The faster you eat snacks, the faster your blood sugar rises, and the calories cannot be consumed, so they will stay in the body and turn into fat. Therefore, enjoying dessert slowly can help burn calories and help stabilize your mood.

Teacher Yang Shengyao emphasized that raisins not only add flavor to cooking, but are also rich in minerals, large amounts of fiber and multiple vitamins, and do not contain saturated fat and cholesterol, making them both healthy and delicious.

"Grape and Snow Fungus Chocolate" is a sweet snack that is simple to make, healthy and delicious. (Photography by Huang Zhiwen)

"Grape and Snow Fungus Chocolate" Dessert

1. Materials:

a. Fresh white fungus: 60 grams.

b. 40 grams of raisins.

c. 60 grams of sweet wine.

d. 100 grams of cocoa powder.

2. Method:

a.Cook the snow fungus with water and add maltose.

b. Soak raisins in liqueur until soft, then chop.

c. Mix the two together and then sprinkle with cocoa powder to make ultra-low-fat bionic chocolate.