Fried food calorie bomb! 1 fried dough stick = 1 bowl of rice

Taiwanese people prefer fried foods. The crispy taste always makes people forget the potential calorie risks. They eat bite after bite and become more and more addicted. However, nutritionists remind us that fried foods are high in calories. Take the national breakfast "youtiao" as an example. A small portion has as much as 272 calories, which is almost equal to a bowl of rice. For the sake of health, gourmets are better off eating less.

A piece of fried dough stick has the same amount of calories as a bowl of rice

Many people like to have a serving of fried dough sticks with hot soy milk for breakfast, but a 45-gram serving of fried dough sticks has 70 calories from flour and 202 calories from fried fat, totaling 272 calories, almost the same as the 280 calories in a bowl of rice. A bowl of 240cc unsweetened soy milk contains about 70 calories. If you eat fried dough sticks with soy milk for breakfast, the total calories are 342 calories, which does not exceed the 400 calories recommended by the dietary guidelines for adult breakfast.

However, this amount of breakfast lacks fiber and does not satisfy men, so it is not a suitable breakfast ingredient overall. If you like Chinese breakfast, Lin Shuwen, director of the Nutrition Department of Taichung Guangtian Hospital, recommends replacing fried dough sticks with steamed buns with eggs and lettuce (about 340 calories) or cabbage rolls (about 140 calories). This will not only increase your sense of fullness and balance your nutrition, but also control the ideal calorie intake for breakfast.

The calories of a single serving of national delicacy stinky tofu start from 345 calories

In addition, what is the calorie content of stinky tofu, a fried food that Chinese people love to eat? Nutritionist Lin Shuwen said that the main sources of calories in stinky tofu include frying oil and the tofu itself. If calculated based on traditional plate-shaped stinky tofu, 1.5 pieces of tofu are one serving, with about 140 calories. However, after being fried at high temperature and absorbing about 1 spoonful, or 15 grams, of oil, the calories will increase by 135 calories.

However, delicious stinky tofu is not just fried tofu. It also contains sauces made of salt, sugar, mashed garlic and soy sauce, as well as sweet and sour kimchi. If the calories of the sauce and kimchi added to each serving of stinky tofu are 70 calories, the calories of the whole serving of stinky tofu can reach 345 calories.

According to the formula that consuming 7700 calories can increase weight by 1 kg, if people eat one serving of stinky tofu for three meals in a row, they will gain 1 kg after one week. They need to ride a bicycle or brisk walk for 30 minutes every day for one month to burn it off.

In addition to calories, nutritionist Lin Shuwen reminds us that protein foods such as oils and tofu can easily spoil after being cooked at high temperatures, produce free radicals, damage cell membranes, and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer, so people should eat less of them.

A medium portion of French fries has a surprising amount of calories, but it is more carcinogenic than obesity

A medium serving of French fries sold by fast food chains contains about 140 calories from the potatoes themselves and about 135 calories from absorbed fat, for a total of about 275 calories, which is almost equivalent to a bowl of rice. But when you eat French fries in big bites and keep dipping them in sweet and sour sauce, the calorie intake will increase by another 120 calories, which will cause you to gain obesity without you realizing it. As for the ketchup for dipping French fries, one small packet contains about 40 calories.

However, nutritionist Lin Shuwen said that the scary thing about French fries is not only the calories, but also the "acrylamide" produced when starchy foods are fried at high temperatures, which has been confirmed to be a carcinogen.