Whether cooking at home or eating in a restaurant, many people like to soak rice in vegetable soup, thinking that it is nutritious, but is it really nutritious? Is vegetable soup harmful to health?
Authors: Wang Xufeng national second-class nutritionist, national third-class nutritionist trainer, master of nutrition and food hygiene; Director of Food Inspection Department of Beijing Yiqing Senior Technical School; Nutrition guest of Beijing TV Life Channel "Life One-Stop"; Nutrition guest in the column "Search, Eat, Drink and Play" of Beijing Art Broadcasting. Classic case:
One of my classmates is pregnant, and her mother-in-law came to Beijing from other places to take care of her. Her mother-in-law is a thrifty housekeeper. Every time I finish eating, I have to finish the soup left under the plate, and I also "force" my daughter-in-law to drink it. I also plausibly said: This nutrition is all in the soup.
Presumably, there are not a few such old people. They have lived a hard life and can't hide any waste. In their eyes, vegetable soup is oily and fragrant, and it is a "good meal", so it is even more reluctant to throw it away. So, what nutrients are contained in vegetable soup? Should I drink vegetable soup or not? Which vegetable soups are bad for your health?
Nutritional analysis of vegetable soup
There are many nutrients in vegetable soup.
On the one hand, vegetable soup does contain many nutrients, because some water-soluble vitamins, minerals and a small amount of bioactive substances in dishes are dissolved in the soup during cooking. For example, when green leafy vegetables are fried, vitamin C, folic acid and vitamin B2 will be partially dissolved, and the oil in vegetable soup will also promote the dissolution of some fat-soluble vitamins such as carotene, lutein and vitamin K. From this perspective, this soup really should not be wasted.
No: There is a lot of oil and salt in vegetable soup.
On the other hand, the soups of many dishes contain a lot of oil and salt. The Nutrition Society of China suggested that we consume 25-30g of edible oil every day, but in fact, the average daily intake of Beijing residents is 50g, which is nearly twice the normal range. According to the Investigation Report on Nutrition and Health Status of Residents in China issued by the Ministry of Health in 2004, the biggest problem in China residents' dietary structure is excessive fat, and the proportion of fat energy supply in urban residents' diet is as high as 35.0% (38.4% in big cities), far exceeding the reasonable upper limit of 30% recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Excessive fat is an important reason for the high incidence of chronic diseases such as obesity, obesity, fatty liver, obesity and cancer. If you drink a layer of oily vegetable soup, you will consume more oil than the standard.
This is especially true of salt. The World Health Organization recommends that we eat 6 grams of salt every day, but the average daily intake of Beijing residents exceeds 13 grams. A high-salt diet will not only increase our risk of hypertension, but also aggravate kidney disease and the fact that more salt is harmful. In addition, some vegetables will dissolve some nitrite, oxalic acid and pesticides in their soup. So from this point of view, this vegetable soup is best not to drink.
Xu Feng recommended: What soup can I drink?
To sum up, drinking vegetable soup depends on specific issues:
First, the fried, fried and roasted dishes have high fat content in the soup, so the soup is not suitable for eating.
Secondly, spicy dishes, such as roasted eggplant, tiger skin pepper, fresh broken rice, kung pao chicken and so on, are not only rich in oil, but also rich in salt, so it is best to throw away such soup.
Third, soups of steamed vegetables and stews are often low in fat. If the taste is light and the blood pressure is normal, it's okay to drink it.
Fourthly, for cool vegetables, such as sweet and sour ones, vegetable soup is low in oil and salt, and many natural pigments, vitamins and minerals are dissolved in it. This vegetable soup is nutritious, low in salt and fat, and can be drunk.