Sweets
Sweets - sweet confectionery made from sugar, chocolate, candied fruit and other products. In the world there are many kinds of sweets - sweets and bars, candies and caramels with various fillings, toffee, truffles and grilling, chocolate, milk and wafer sweets and many other varieties.
On the shelves of shops you can find different kinds of sweets wrapped in beautiful shiny wrappers or packed in colorful boxes. Children and many adults are very fond of sweets and do not imagine how you can live without sweet. Almost every person has their favorite kinds of sweets.
Sweets
is useful or harmful. Carbohydrates - fructose, glucose, lactose, sucrose and other carbohydrates, fats or lipids are included in candies, as in sweets there are few proteins, very few minerals and vitamins. Carbohydrates are a source of energy for our body, increase mental and physical performance, raise the mood. In chocolate sweets, there are antioxidants that affect the metabolic processes in our body, preventing changes in the cardiovascular system and the formation of malignant tumors.
With excessive ingestion of sucrose, lactic acid is formed, which acts destructively on the teeth, tooth enamel is damaged, and the risk of caries is increased.
Because sweets are high in calories, they should not be abused. Excess intake of easily digestible carbohydrates leads to the deposition of fat in the body, the weight of a person increases, and obesity develops. From a large amount of carbohydrates secretion of gastric juice increases and heartburn occurs. There is a metabolic disorder, and as a result, allergic skin rashes - diathesis.
It is more useful to eat candy from dark chocolate with fruit filling of cherries, dried apricots, raisins, prunes, which are rich in antioxidants, pectins, iron, potassium, magnesium. Sweets with whole nuts;walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds and other nuts, they are rich in proteins, potassium, phosphorus and zinc and other useful substances.
Caramels and candy canes are made of melted sugar, which contains all kinds of dyes, flavors, there are no benefits from such sweets, and there is enough harm. Often children, and adults gnaw caramels, and this harms the tooth enamel.
It's no secret that in modern production, all kinds of food additives, flavors, colorants, flavor enhancers, preservatives and other chemicals are added to confectionery products, which give the finished products a pleasant smell, a bright saturated color, a taste, and the shelf life of the product increases.
There are additives that are banned in the production of products that are harmful to human health and, in fact, are poisons-E121, E123, E128 are red dyes, as well as many other dyes and preservatives. Often manufacturers do not indicate the full composition of the product, and many buyers do not even think about what the product is made of and what they actually buy.
Chocolate: bitter, milky, white
Bitter chocolate
The most useful chocolate is bitter or dark. Bitter chocolate should contain a large amount of grated cocoa from 60% or more and cocoa butter, sugar, but milk and vegetable oils should not be. Chocolate contains magnesium, calcium, fluoride, iron, rich in antioxidants. Bitter chocolate happens with all kinds of additives: with nuts, raisins, and other fillers.
Milk chocolate
Milk chocolate is more common and more favorite of all kinds of chocolate, but does not have those useful properties that are available in dark chocolate. Milk chocolate is added to milk products: milk powder and milk fat, cocoa butter or cocoa powder, sugar, various flavors and all kinds of fillers.
White chocolate
In white chocolate, cocoa is absent, but fat there is enough about 40% and the benefit of white chocolate is minimal. The composition of white chocolate includes: powdered sugar, milk powder, cocoa butter, vanilla and salt.
The use of chocolate
Substances contained in dark chocolate, reduce cholesterol in the blood, improve the work of our heart, protect the skin from premature aging, from the appearance of wrinkles, prevent dementia in old age.
Substances - phenamine, serotonin, pentylamine and others create a sense of love, enhance sexuality, improve mood and a person leaves a sense of anxiety, helps with stress and in dealing with depression.
Caffeine and theobromine increase the creative activity and working capacity of a person, improve memory and attention.
Dark chocolate is useful to women during critical days.
The content of fluoride, calcium and antiseptic substances in dark chocolate strengthens bones and teeth, suppresses the formation of plaque.
A flavonoid-antioxidants contained in cocoa prevent the formation of clots in the vessels, have a positive effect on the cardiovascular system, lower blood pressure and improve blood circulation, protect against ultraviolet radiation.
Harm to chocolate
25-30 grams of bitter chocolate per day will bring great benefit to the body, but the extra consumption of chocolate can harm the health.
It is not desirable for young children to eat chocolate, as the nervous system becomes overexcited, and the child will be capricious, it will be difficult to calm him, he can not fall asleep for a long time. Children under five years of black chocolate use is undesirable, and many children do not like such chocolate, because it is bitter in taste. A three-year-old is better to have milk or white chocolate, but in very small quantities.
Do not eat chocolate in large quantities and in the evening, there may be insomnia.
As chocolate is a high-calorie product, excessive use of it is fraught with fat deposition and increased body weight.
Some people may have headaches from chocolate, since the tannin contained in the cocoa narrows the blood vessels. Such people are advised to better consume white chocolate, in which there is no cocoa.
Chocolate is harmful to people suffering from allergies, obesity, and diabetes mellitus.
Marshmallow, marmalade, pastilles
Of all the sweets most useful - marshmallows, marmalade and pastille. They are less caloric and can be used in dietary nutrition. In marmalade, marshmallow and pastille there are no fats, and those who want to lose weight, but can not do without sweets, it is better to replace other confectionery products by them.
Marshmallow and pastyl are better to choose white, because they do not have any coloring agents and without all kinds of additives: glazes, nuts, coconut shavings. They are more useful and contain fewer calories.
Marmalade is a favorite treat for many people. It is jelly, fruit and berry, children are very popular chewing marmalade in the form of animals, fruits, vegetables. Brightly colored marmalade is less useful than a marmalade of dim colors, since there are more dyes in it.
Zephyr, marmalade and pastille are made from fruit and berry puree, sugar, protein, with the addition of pectin, gelatin, agar-agar. Agar-agar is a product that is made from red and brown algae and is used in the manufacture of confectionery as a substitute for gelatin. It contains iodine, calcium, iron and other substances and vitamins. Pectines are made from apples, watermelons and other fruits and vegetables. Also in the composition of marshmallow, marmalade and pastille dyes and flavors are added.
Benefits and harms of marshmallow, marmalade, pastilles
Marmalade, marshmallow and pastille are useful sweets. They help in the work of our thyroid gland, liver, and gastrointestinal tract. They improve digestion, blood circulation and metabolic processes, remove harmful substances and toxins from our body, lower the level of cholesterol, have a positive effect on the condition of our skin and hair. Excessive consumption of marshmallow, marmalade and pastille can harm your health, because they contain sugar and dyes, weight may increase, allergic reactions may occur.
Halva and kozinaki
Halva and kozinaki are considered oriental sweets, but many people love them and eat them.
Halva
Halva is sunflower, peanut, tahini - from sesame, nut from a mixture of different nuts -mindal, pistachios, peanuts and other nuts. Halva is made from sunflower seeds, sesame seeds or from nuts, sugar and molasses, or honey.
It contains useful vitamins and minerals - potassium, calcium, magnesium and others, fats, proteins and amino acids, dietary fiber. In the composition of halva can add a variety of additives - cocoa, chocolate, nuts, vanilla, as well as dyes and flavors.
Benefits of
The substances that make up halva, have a beneficial effect on the human body, rejuvenate and heal it, prevent aging of cells, improve digestion, blood circulation and nervous system work, work of the heart and brain, lower cholesterol. Halva has a beneficial effect on the health of hair and skin, relieves depression and migraine. It prevents the development of anemia and it should be used in the nutrition of children and pregnant women.
Harm
It is not necessary to get very keen on halva, as it is a high-calorie product containing a lot of fat and sugar, which, as is known, leads to obesity, in some people, halva causes allergies.
Halvah, prepared from sunflower seeds, can contain cadmium. Cadmium is a heavy metal that comes from the soil into the sunflower during growth and accumulates in seeds. Cadmium is a toxic substance and is dangerous for human health, as it is deposited in the body, and causes changes and disturbances in the work of the kidneys and the nervous system. There are problems with bones, as cadmium is capable of breaking the mineralization of bones, displacing such useful substances as calcium, magnesium and zinc from the body and hindering the production of vitamin D.
Kozinaki
Kozinaki are sesame, sunflower, peanut, from walnuts and other nuts, dietary- from oat flakes and fructose. Kozinaki are prepared from whole seeds or nuts with the addition of honey, sugar, as well as raisins, dried apricots and other dried fruits are added to the kozinaki. They are rich in various vitamins and minerals, such as potassium, calcium, zinc, iodine and others, amino acids and unsaturated fats.
Use.
Kozinaki useful to include in the diet of children, athletes, people engaged in manual work. The ingredients that make up the kozinaks strengthen and restore the body, help to relieve fatigue, strengthen the liver and muscles, normalize blood pressure and improve blood composition, rejuvenate the body and help strengthen the immune system.
Harm
Like many sweets, kozinaki are a high-calorie product containing a large amount of sugar and fats. Honey and nuts, which are part of the kosinaks, can cause allergies. When cracking kozinakov can damage the tooth enamel.
Sweets cause positive emotions in children and adults, improve mood, increase energy and in limited quantities they should be included in the diet of both adults and children, it is best to eat sweets during a snack.
Excess consumption of sweets and other sweets leads to metabolic disorders and obesity, can harm the body. For the normal work of our body, enough from 50 to 100 grams of sweet, including sugar, jam and honey.
If you do not engage in manual labor, exercise and move little, then the consumption of sweet must be reduced to a minimum. If you can not refuse sweets, try to increase physical activity, walk more, do exercises, walk, and then you do not have to fight with extra pounds.
All children love sweets, and many adult days can not live without anything sweet. And tea, coffee, we drink with sweets, with cookies, with cakes, with jam and other sweets. At any festive table, there will always be all kinds of sweets. No birthday, anniversary, wedding can not do without a cake, and a colorful New Year's gift with sweets is one of the main attributes of the New Year.
