If you are professionally engaged in sports, struggle with excess weight or the words "healthy lifestyle" for you is not an empty sound, the number of calories contained in a particular product for you is not just useful information.
Counting calories allows you to monitor the state of the body, choose the right combination of exercises or loads and just be sure that a delicious dinner will not be postponed around the waist.
Even excessive or insufficient intake of fruit can adversely affect the results of the diet. Let's find out how many calories are contained, for example, in a regular sink.
How many calories are in one sink?
Today on the Internet you can find a huge number of calorie counters. But as a rule, there are data on 100 g of this or that product. But what if we are not talking about such averaged units? For example, do you want to supplement your dinner with just one plum?
With the help of simple calculations, we can easily cope with this task. For one hundred grams, there are 3-4 plums, depending on the size and variety. So, we divide the number of calories in 100 g of product by three (large yellow plums in 100 g is exactly that) and find out how many calories are in one sink: 51/3 = 17 kcal.
Caloric content of yellow plum
Everyone knows that the amount of vitamins and nutrients in fruits depends on many factors: variety, area where the fruit has matured, whether enough light and moisture it managed to get, how it was stored, etc.
From the same moments, caloric content also depends. Take, for example, varieties of yellow plum. Its fruits are usually somewhat larger than black, the peel does not have such a pronounced acidity, a set of useful microelements and vitamins is somewhat different from black and red varieties. In plum yellow caloric content is about 49-51 kcal per 100 g of fruit.
Caloric content of red plum
The red plum is somewhat less caloric than the yellow plum. This is due to the fact that in red varieties the bone is usually slightly larger, and therefore the mass fraction falling into the juicy pulp is somewhat smaller. In addition, even the ripe red plum has a pronounced sour taste of the skin of the fetus. This is explained by the lower content of fruit sugar in the red sink. This is the reason why the red plum has a calorie content slightly lower: 47-49 kcal.
Caloric content of fresh plum
Fresh plum refers to a low-calorie product group. In this case, it contains a lot of vitamins and nutrients. Fresh plum helps to cleanse the body, normalizes the work of the intestine. Therefore plums are often included in dietary rations. But plum dried fruits almost double the calorie content of a fresh plum. When drying the sink loses up to 85% moisture, while retaining most of the vitamins, trace elements and nutrients. Therefore, in the dried form, the plum becomes even more sweet, nutritious and, perhaps, useful.
Calorie content of jam from plums
Jam from plums is popular in many countries. In this case, it can be completely different in different places. There are a huge number of recipes for its preparation and secrets, how to give the varen a special taste and color.
In England, the ceremony of tea drinking is not represented without a plum transparent jam, in Bulgaria jams of dandelions are added to the jam from the plums. Many housewives add to the plum jam almonds , young cherry leaves. Very tasty and incredibly beautiful is jam made of red plum and raspberry.
However, regardless of the recipe, plum jam remains very caloric due to the high sugar content. Therefore, it is not recommended to get involved in this delicious dessert.