Shattering the rumors? Burgers are junk food ?

Is it really true that mom says burgers are junk food ?

First of all, let's figure out what junk food is. The term junk food comes from the English word junk food. but no health organization has ever given a clear definition of it.

What we usually call junk food refers to two categories:

1. food that provides almost only calories and lacks other nutrients;

2. food that provides more of a single ingredient than we need on a daily basis

Burgers are not junk food at all! Based on this definition, let's take a peek at the ingredients of a burger to see if it's junk or not ?

1. Burgers are bad Let's first look at what's inside a burger ?

Vegetables? Salad dressing? Burger buns? Patty

Most bad burgers are baked with flour belonging to the very common carbohydrates. And carbohydrates can be digested and broken down into sugar, giving us calories directly.

It is indeed possible to gain weight if you consume foods that are higher in calories over a long period of time. But this is something you don't have to worry about at all, because compared to the rice and noodles you often eat burger bad is very low in calories.

A piece of burger billet:175 calories;

A bowl of rice:200 calories;

A bowl of noodles:280 calories;

2. Meat patties

The most commonly used patties for burgers are beef, fish and chicken. But really, no matter what kind of patty it is, it's rich in protein. A single patty contains almost 23.9% protein alone, so there's nothing "junky" about a burger!

Beef? Chicken, fish? Three types of meat in a patty.

Is it true that the patties are made by frying and deep-frying, so down to the health of it? No, no. You simply do not know, burger patties, in addition to frying and deep-frying, but also boiled, baked, barbecue. And even if it is fried, the fat content in the patty is far less than the amount you need to consume in a day! The fat content of a patty after frying is about 11G, and the amount of fat a person needs to consume in a day: 60-80G.

3. Vegetables We can often see lettuce, onion, tomato, cucumber slices of these flowery green vegetables in the burger. In addition to making the burger taste more refreshing, they also provide our body with a variety of essential vitamins.

Lettuce: contains vitamin C, vitamin E, carotene;

Onion: contains the trace element selenium, onion skin also contains anthocyanins;

Tomato: rich in vitamin A, vitamin C and other vitamins;

Cucumber: contains vitamin B2 vitamin C and vitamin E;

The most critical thing is that burgers in the vegetables are not cooked at high temperatures, so there is almost no loss of vitamins!

4. salad dressing For salad dressing, many people are love and hate, love because it is too delicious, hate because salad dressing in a few flat all fat. But don't worry, because the fat content of common salad dressings in burgers is not high.

The fat content of 25G of different salad dressings is as follows

A burger contains about 25G of salad dressing.

Thousand Island Dressing:11G;

Caesar Dressing:9G;

Mayonnaise:16G;

Burgers have a little bit of fat, so it's not like they're being called "junk food. And even if you add up all the calories from the bad burger, patty, veggies, and salsa, it's still not that much.

The amount of calories a person needs to consume in a day: 1,500 to 2,000 kilocalories. To put it bluntly, if you eat only a burger for three meals a day, the total calorie count will not exceed the limit!

Bread blank 175 calories;

Salad dressing 99 calories;

Patty ?191 calories;

Vegetables ? Negligible;

Total:175+191+99=465 calories.

Name Calories/kcal

Energizing xx burger ? 590;

Spicy xx burger ? 57;

Field xxburger ? 443;

Double Layer Custard xx Burger ?450;

X Big Mac ? 500;

McSpicy XX Burger ?570;

Appendix:

One "Junk food, what is it ? Junk food, is not a rigorous scientific concept, the World Health Organization said:Never issued a list of junk food. It is translated from the English word Junk Food. and refers to food that provides few calories, no nutrition, or too much of a single ingredient. Cookies have a lot of carbohydrates and very little other nutrients. Coke and milk tea are seriously overloaded with sugar. A 500ML bottle of Coke has about 54G of sugar, while the recommended daily sugar intake for adults is about 24G.