Each 100 grams of hot pot contains around 1000 calories.

When we have a hot pot meal, the calorie intake is almost 874 calories just from eating fatty beef slices, vegetables, tofu and other such natural ingredients. And when many people eat hot pot, they also order some meatballs, which have about 215 calories, so that adds up to more than a thousand.

If we also use a lot of dipping sauces or choose spicy hot pot, then the calories will push 3000 calories. It's already almost worth ten bowls of rice.

Hot pot is mainly eaten by vegetables and meat dishes mixed together and cooked. Therefore, the nutritional value of the hotpot itself actually comes from looking at how the diner chooses the dishes to shabu-shabu. If there are more vegetables, then there will be more nutrition.

Choice of food ingredients for hotpot

More vegetables, potatoes, mushrooms, and soy products, less meat, and some processed semi-finished products are best left out. These semi-finished products are: lunch meat, ham sausage, fish balls (fish balls made of pure fish meat are not included), etc.

Vegetables should be the food with the most variety and quantity, and it is best to have a balance of all kinds of vegetables, and there must be leafy greens that are beneficial to the body: spinach, coriander, cilantro, lettuce leaves, pea shoots, broccoli, leafy green lettuce, and oilseed rape.

Then choose some light-colored vegetables according to preference, such as cabbage, winter melon, white radish, bamboo shoots slices and so on. Mushrooms can also be ordered more, many hot pot restaurants have mushroom platters, it may be worth ordering one, you can eat several kinds of mushrooms at a time.

Meat: It's best to order lean sliced beef, fish and shrimp, sliced chicken, tripe, duck blood, which are lower in fat.

Reference for the above: Baidu Encyclopedia-Hotpot