Popcorn - good and bad

In English, the word "roor" has two meanings:

1. Cotton, shot.
2. Folk, popular.

Both of these translations fully correspond to the beloved many delicacies - popcorn or popcorn.

The first to learn how to make popcorn American Indians. In addition to the excellent taste qualities, nutritional value and usefulness of air corn, they evaluated the unusual shape of the ready grains. They used to create jewelry, as well as for rituals of divination and divination.

The Use of Popcorn

Today, popcorn is associated, first of all, with watching movies and cinemas. Buying a ticket for the session of the next best seller, we certainly take popcorn and sweet soda. Let's find out how useful this food is and how often you can treat yourself to a delicious popcorn.

Popcorn is obtained by rapid heating of corn kernels to 170-180 degrees. This is a fairly gentle way of cooking, allowing you to save most of the nutrients.

In popcorn contains a large number of vitamins, most of all - group B. So, for example, B4 - choline, helps the body get rid of cholesterol and is necessary for the work of cells. Other B vitamins contribute to the proper functioning of the human nervous system and are responsible for the metabolic rate.

Popcorn is rich in microelements: zinc, iodine, potassium, magnesium, etc.

The caloric content of corn kernels is 325 kcal / 100 g. By the volume of popcorn this is 2 times more than the largest box in the cinema.

Harm to popcorn

And yet, do not get involved in popcorn. This type of product can be consumed no more than once in 2-3 months.

The reason lies in the way the popcorn is cooked and in the additives with which the corn kernels are abundantly flavored.

The composition of popcorn - both ready-made and semi-finished products for cooking at home - includes the following ingredients:

1. Butter. In order to make the popcorn tastier, it is prepared in oil. Often it is hard to digest for the body palm oil. The calorie content of such a product is simply off scale. In a large box, sold before the entrance to the cinema contains 1250 kCal. Plus, take into account the fact that when heated, oil and fats produce carcinogens that provoke cancer.
2. Flavorings, stabilizers, flavor enhancers. The harm of these products and not worth talking about. We will only remind you that when they are heated, the negative effect on health is amplified many times.
3. Salt and sugar. There are too many of them in popcorn.

All the above factors negate all the positive properties of popcorn.

Is it possible to have popcorn on a diet?

Do not deny yourself the pleasure, treat yourself to a harmless popcorn.

Really useful can only be popcorn, cooked at home. In order to make it tasty, you can add a small amount of salt and natural spices. This popcorn is low-calorie and useful. It can be recommended in small amounts as a snack during a diet.

To fans of exotic weight loss courses, we do not recommend in a pure form a diet on popcorn. But to replace popcorn bread is quite possible: tasty, satisfying and much less caloric.

It should, however, clarify that in the diet can only include slightly salted or fresh popcorn, since sweet popcorn contains too many calories.

The advantage of including popcorn in the diet menu is also in high fiber content, which will help cleanse the intestines and normalize digestion.