Some foods look high in calories but are actually low in calories, mainly due to the way they are cooked. For example, in the case of potatoes, the main component of potatoes is starch, and potatoes are very high in calories from the component point of view. If you make it into mashed potatoes, the starch content inside is not more than 20%, the calorie is very low.

Food calories are, as the name suggests, the energy of the food, which does not refer to a single element. Food calories is a collective term for all the elements in food, which includes protein, fat, sugar and carbohydrates in food, etc. Food calories are produced by the, ****together action of these elements. By consuming these foods, human beings provide their bodies with sufficient energy for the purpose of sustaining life. The amount of food calories, is to grams as a unit of calculation, according to every 100 grams of food contains calories, drawing a different food calorie table, different foods can produce different food calories.

II. Which foods seem to be high in calories, but are actually low in calories.

Many foods are mistakenly thought to be high in calories because of their sweet flavor and ample water or because they are categorized as meat. The actual calories are very low, as if watermelon is a sweet fruit, but watermelon is rich in vitamins, and each 100 grams of watermelon contains only 25 calories. In addition, although the chicken breast meat according to the type of division belongs to meat, but the chicken breast meat is rich in protein, according to the calorie table shows that every 100 grams of chicken breast meat contains calories is 131 calories, in the cooking on the choice of boiled chicken breast meat, the calorie is obviously lower.

Three, how to pick seemingly high calorie actually low calorie food.

On how to pick low-calorie food, I personally believe that you can download the calorie table of the most common foods through online platforms, which can be used as a reference for picking the food with the lowest energy. At the same time, when choosing food, follow the principle that natural food is lower in calories than processed food. In general, low-calorie foods have a **** the same point, the volume of high fiber content, such as green leafy vegetables and fruits. In addition, in the cooking method, boiled, steamed and stewed than fried to low-calorie, while not destroying the original nutrients of the food.

Some natural foods such as watermelon, grapes, and chicken breasts seem to have a high calorie count from the outside, but the actual calorie count is very low.