How to choose seasonings?
When purchasing, you can refer to the "ingredients" on the back of the package, which lists what ingredients the food contains. Next is to look at the nutrition label, you can clearly compare the content of calories, protein, sugar, fat and other information.
Common high-calorie sauces:
Salad Dressing
BBQ sauce
Teriyaki Sauce
Bean paste
Margarine
Jam
Peanut butter
Garlic sauce
Cheese sauce
Lower calorie sauces:
Wasabi
Ketchup
Mushroom sauce
Yellow mustard sauce
Japanese style sauce
Sauce can be high in calories, usually from oil (fat) and sugar (carbohydrate). In addition to calorie and nutritional considerations, chemical additives such as preservatives, flavor enhancers, etc. should be considered before purchasing. The main purposes of food additives are: prolonging shelf life, adjusting vision, adjusting taste, improving food quality, enhancing nutritional value and facilitating manufacturing.
Preservative
Color retention agent
Leavening agent
Colorant
Sweeteners (released sweeteners are one of the eleventh categories extended from the original flavoring agents)
Thickener
Sea salt
After exercising and sweating a lot, eating foods containing sea salt can replenish various minerals. Excessive intake is not good, but skipping salt can also cause many health problems.n fact, a lot of sodium intake comes from processed foods, such as potato chips, lunch meat, etc. If you have reduced the intake of these foods, your sodium intake has been reduced a lot, so you don’t have to worry too much about taking in too much sodium in your meals. .
Rosemary
It is very fragrant when used with minced garlic. Often served with minced garlic with lamb, it also goes well with mushrooms and fish. Also, the ingredients are relatively natural and generally do not add too many chemicals.
Turmeric Powder
The taste is just right, not too heavy or too strong, and it is one of the necessary ingredients in curry powder. Ground turmeric is used to marinate chicken and is sometimes added to fish. Add it to rice and cook it to turn brown rice into a fragrant turmeric rice. Turmeric powder contains "Curcumin", which can help regulate physiological functions and promote metabolism.
Yellow mustard
A very low-calorie seasoning that can be seasoned even in small portions.
(Some brands add honey (honey mustard) or the like, so it's relatively high in calories, so be careful.)
Healthy cooking oil choices
When the intake of oil is insufficient, not only will the skin and hair roots become dry and fragile, and the energy in the body will be insufficient, it will also affect the composition of the cell membrane, making it easy to get sick. In addition, the fat in the oil has the function of keeping warm, and some people who live in severe cold areas for a long time will eat animal fat.
However, there are many choices of cooking oils on the market. Although some cooking oils can make dishes more delicious, they can cause problems such as high blood pressure and high blood lipids. Sunlight Employment Agency recommends employers and foreign domestic helpers to pay more attention to the choice of cooking oil, which is not only delicious, but also healthy.
Olive oil
Rich in polyphenols and oleic acid, it helps in laxatives. The oleic acid in it has the effect of reducing bad cholesterol, strengthening good cholesterol and preventing heart disease.
Recommended daily dose: 1-2 tablespoons
Sesame oil
Contains sesamin (Sesamin), which can delay the aging of the liver due to aging. Can also be reached directly through blood vessels
Liver to function. In addition, sesamin can increase skin temperature and blood flow, thereby preventing skin aging.
Recommended Daily Dosage: 1 teaspoon
Linseed oil
Contains alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), which can soften blood vessels and prevent high blood pressure. It can also prevent the aging and hardening of blood vessels and prevent immune cells from getting out of control.
Recommended Daily Dosage: 1 teaspoon
Rice oil
Contains vitamin E, which has powerful antioxidant properties and can prevent aging. It also effectively stimulates the metabolism of the skin, which is beneficial to the skin problems caused by wearing masks for a long time.
Recommended Daily Dosage: 1 teaspoon
Sunlight Employment Agencyhopes that the healthy seasonings recommended above will enable employers and helpers to maintain a healthy diet even during the epidemic, and at the same time, it will also help the children and the elders to eat with peace of mind.
