Puree is not a special kind of dish, but a special technology in which the ingredients are mixed, crushed, rubbed through a sieve or whipped with a blender almost to a creamy consistency. It is an excellent nutritious, light food that is digested without a trace. Therefore, in the first place it is recommended to use it for young children, elderly people and patients with pathologies of the stomach and intestines. But a healthy person does not harm a dish that has been eaten.
Cooking mashed potatoes from a variety of foods: vegetables, fruits, mixtures, boiled root vegetables, meat, etc. How many calories in puree will be in the end, you can determine the composition of its ingredients. The least nutritional value in vegetable dishes, more - in potatoes with butter, sweet berries and fruits.
How many calories are in the mashed potatoes?
Puree can be made from fresh or cooked foods. It can be monocomponent or a complex dish. If mashed potatoes are made from fresh ingredients, that is called "from the garden", which are simply crushed, then there will be no more calories in it than in the raw materials. For example, the caloric content of puree from celery will not exceed 13 kcal, which is similar to the nutritional value of a raw vegetable. Caloric content of cauliflower puree, which was previously boiled, added spices, salt and butter, will also not be too high. After all, the components themselves did not contain a large number of calories. Caloric content of pumpkin puree will be more significant - about 88 calories, because in a vegetable quite a lot of carbohydrates. The same number of calories will be in mashed potatoes, and this is not taking into account additional ingredients. The highest caloric value for fruit puree, as it is usually cooked with sugar. And the fruit itself can not be called a low-calorie food, they almost always contain a lot of carbohydrate compounds.