From childhood, we are told that if we want to grow up healthy and strong, we need to eat porridge in the morning and soup in the afternoon.
From childhood, we are told that if we want to grow up healthy and strong, we need to eat porridge in the morning and soup in the afternoon. Everything is clear with porridge, but what about soup? Is soup as healthy as people think?
Let's look at the pros and cons of this dish.
The benefits of soups
A light broth in soup, for example, chicken broth, has a positive effect on the functioning of the stomach, as it contributes to the secretion of gastric juice and, as a result, the normal digestion of foods in the body.
After the holidays, mayonnaise salads, alcohol and sweets, you want to quickly unload your stomach and do everything right, without starvation. Switching to soups is the best option, of course, provided that this dish is not greasy.
This is because most often they use a lot of vegetables without frying, boiled meat and low-fat broth (if you drain the first one, of course). This helps to reduce the calorie content of the dish.
Soup is actually quite a satisfying dish due to the fact that we fill the stomach not only with meat, vegetables, seafood, but also with plenty of water (broth). Water takes the place of other products (more high-calorie) in the stomach.
Chicken broth soup with homemade noodles is very famous for this quality. It will easily restore your body after an illness and return the water-salt balance to normal.
Cream soups are especially quickly digested in our stomach. If you have problems with the gastrointestinal tract and any food is heavy, this dish will be ideal for eating.
This has not been proven by science, but during the period of a cold or cold, everyone has come across the “magic” property of soup - to warm, soothe and “heal”. This is because this dish warms the body from the inside, satisfies hunger well, improves metabolism, and provides the necessary warmth and energy.
"Harmful" properties of soups
Yes, perhaps it is, but only in the very first one, which we usually merge. It is there that both useful and harmful substances from vegetables and meat remain. So, if you do not boil the broth again or do not add fresh vegetables, there is no benefit and vitamins in such a broth.
There are really a lot of vitamins and nutrients in vegetables, just do not forget that they disintegrate as soon as they are subjected to heat treatment of more than 60 degrees. The only thing that will always be with them is this fiber.
If you use fatty meat, such as pork, do not forget that it will make the broth heavier, and it will remain fatty. In addition, many do not separate fat and fat from meat, which certainly provokes the appearance of harmful cholesterol.
Many have heard that drinking water while eating is not recommended, since the stomach does not absorb food well, this also applies to the soup component. Since if you use a light broth, but heavy foods: potatoes, fatty meat, dumplings, food dissonance occurs.
If you do not keep your cattle for slaughter, then you simply cannot be sure of the meat from the store. Many farmers, when raising livestock, use chemicals to increase their weight. substances that break down during heat treatment into creatine and creatinine. This is another incentive to pour the first broth and buy meat only from trusted farmers.
This happens in the case when you have prepared a soup with a very fatty broth, and when eating it, the liver does not have time to process the very fatty extracts. Since they passed by the liver, they begin to wander around the body.
To be more precise, people with a disease of the cardiovascular system are highly discouraged from eating fatty meat and broth from it. Since such a soup only disperses bad cholesterol and clogs blood vessels.