Soup is the foundation of any real meal. It is not for nothing that soups are called first courses. They are nutritious, tasty and not too high in calories. All this allows you to actively use soups in the diet of losing weight. And here the main thing is to correctly calculate the calorie content of soups. And this often causes problems, although this process is not at all complicated. Although several nuances still exist, and it is necessary to take them into account.
In order to calculate the calorie content of the soup, you first need to calculate the calorie content of all products that will be used in the cooking process. The calorie content of products in all tables is indicated by 100 g. It must be divided by 100 to get the number of calories in one gram, and then multiply the resulting number by the weight of the product prepared for cooking the soup.
Then all the products, their weight and the number of calories in them are recorded on a piece of paper. Here is the first point that it is important to pay attention to - it is necessary to record the amount of water, in liters. Of course, the calorie content of water is zero, but it makes a significant contribution to the final weight of the product. After all this has been recorded, it is necessary to calculate the total weight of the finished dish, adding up the mass of all the products used, the calorie content develops in the same way. This will be the number of calories in the whole soup, and to find out the calorie content of 100 grams, this number must be divided by the total weight and multiplied by 100.
Another point related to this topic is the calculation of the calorie content of broths. This is also easy. It is believed that in the broth remains 9% of the calories from the meat that was cooked in it. So you need to calculate the number of calories in meat and take 9% of this number. This will be the total number of calories, it must be, as in the previous case, divided by weight and multiplied by 100.
As you can see, it is not at all difficult to calculate the calorie content of soups , if you do not forget to count water, take into account the peculiarities of calculating the calorie content of broths and do not forget elementary arithmetic operations. Another nuance, it is important not to get confused with commas, otherwise the result may differ from the real one by an order of magnitude.
On the Internet it is easy to find various calorie tables. However, you shouldn’t blindly believe them, because each housewife has her own recipe, which means that the calorie content of soups will vary. It’s better to calculate all your dishes once and write them in a separate notebook, and then use these notes than to use other people's calculations.
However, the calorie table of soups can still be useful to housewives. Including, this table will approximately check if there were any errors in your calculations. Indeed, similar soups should not differ significantly from each other. The following is a brief table that lists the most popular soups:
- Beef broth - 4 kcal;
- Chicken broth - 1 kcal;
- Ukrainian borsch - 49 kcal;
- Rassolnik - 42 kcal;
- Mushroom soup - 26 kcal;
- Pea soup - 66 kcal;
- Ear - 46 kcal;
- Cabbage soup - 38 kcal.
This table allows you to once again make sure that the calorie content of soups is extremely small. So, you can eat quite a large amount without sacrificing the figure. At the same time, the soup gives a long feeling of fullness. In addition, soups positively affect the digestive system, and indeed the body as a whole. Many nutritionists recommend eating at least one bowl of soup every day.
Again, the very way the soups are cooked speaks of their usefulness. The broth retains all the nutrients and nutrients from meat and vegetables. Moreover, under the influence of high temperature and water, some bonds in the fiber are destroyed, and it softens, which facilitates the process of its digestion. As you know, in the normal state, fiber is very poorly digested by the human body, but it has a lot of useful properties. So soups are not only tasty, but also healthy.