When it comes to biscuits, you can't live without all kinds of functional biscuits in the supermarket. Digestive biscuits, high-calcium biscuits, soda biscuits ... You can buy all kinds of health with the money from biscuits, which is very tempting. So, is this functional biscuit really useful?

First, the nutrition of biscuits

Although there are all kinds of biscuits in the supermarket, their tastes and shapes are quite different. In fact, their basic raw materials are: wheat flour, oil and sugar.

This means it has more calories, more sugar, more oil, more salt and less vitamins.

1. More heat

1 small ordinary biscuit (10 g) has 40 ~ 50 calories, and four biscuits are basically equal to a bowl of rice.

Step 2 add more sugar

Flour and sugar are the cornerstones of biscuit production and processing, and generally rank in the top three in the list of raw materials (the higher the ranking, the greater the dosage).

The carbohydrate in each 100 g biscuit can be as high as 70.6 g, so every bite you eat is basically sugar.

And most of the wheat flour used in cookies is refined. Therefore, diabetics should be careful when eating cookies.

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Of course, oil is also one of the raw materials, and the representative product with high content is shortbread.

A small bag (200 g) of biscuits is enough to meet the recommended amount of fat for one day, about 60 g.

After eating bag after bag, the fat accumulated layer after layer.

4. More salt

Salty cookies, that is, soda cookies that you often use to lose weight.

The salt content of biscuits per 100g is about 1 g, and the salt content of a packet of biscuits is about 200 g, which is equivalent to eating 2 g of salt.

According to the dietary guidelines of China residents, the recommended maximum daily intake of salt is only 6 grams. More importantly, you must eat three meals.

5. Less vitamins

The raw material of biscuits is mainly wheat flour, and various vitamins are not rich.

In the process of processing, high temperature baking will also cause the loss of vitamins, so the vitamin content in biscuits is often low.

To get enough vitamins through biscuits, a person needs to kill 1 ~ 3 Jin of biscuits every day, and he will probably feel sick after eating them.

Second, coarse grain biscuits and sandwich biscuits ... are they really that magical?

Because the raw materials are basically the same, these so-called "functional biscuits" are just a vest.

1. Coarse grain biscuits or graham crackers.

It is said that it is rich in dietary fiber and promotes digestion. Also known as digestive biscuits, but in fact, we can find from the ingredient list that the source of dietary fiber is mainly wheat bran, which ranks lower in the ingredient list.

The amount of wheat bran in biscuits is even less than that of vegetable oil and sugar.

To promote digestion, you still have to eat fruits and vegetables and coarse grains.

2. Calcium milk biscuits

Just listening to the name makes people feel that the calcium content is high and the nutrition is rich.

But in fact, the calcium content per 100 g biscuit is only 1 15 mg, which is similar to that of 20 g (about 2 spoonfuls) whole milk powder.

3. Sandwich biscuits

Margarine, hydrogenated vegetable oil, etc. A sandwich sandwiched between two biscuits contains more fat than biscuits.

4.soda cookies

How dare soda crackers claim to be low in oil? Dr clove made a special trip to the supermarket to investigate.

In fact, its oil content is not less than that of well-known biscuits, and the salt content of soda biscuits is often higher than that of other kinds of biscuits. Patients with hypertension need special attention.

There are so many problems with biscuits that they can only be summed up in one sentence-"If you want to be healthy, you must give it up first!" 」。

However, "if you can't quit, you must be healthy."

Third, how to eat biscuits scientifically?

1. Select the correct one.

Understand the advantages and disadvantages of biscuits and choose the one that suits you best according to your own needs.

Coarse grain biscuit: Although it is not worthy of the name, it does have a higher dietary fiber content than ordinary biscuits.

Calcium milk biscuit: the calcium content is indeed higher than the ordinary one.

Nut biscuits: Some biscuits even add nuts as accessories, which will be more nutritious than ordinary biscuits.

Cookies: Most of them are high in fat.

Soda cookies: more salt.

2. Eat in moderation? Clever collocation

Eating food is to know how to broaden your threshold for eating food. Don't just eat cookies, just moderate.

Don't you eat fruits and vegetables and coarse grains? Since we can't give up, we should match scientifically and balance our daily diet.

For example, the model of 100 g biscuit +200 g fruit or the model of 100 g biscuit +200 ml yogurt is healthier than the model of "300 g biscuit+water", which simply throws away the gap of several blocks.

Finally, I present the truth of 12 about "eating biscuits scientifically"-"Choose skillfully, match skillfully, keep your mouth shut and open your legs."

Refer to Dr. Lilac's popular science article: "If you say that digestive biscuits helps digestion, do you really use it to help digestion?" 》

Authors: Master of Health in Wang Liang and Peking University; Editor: Li Huai.