Useful sweets

All of us know firsthand that there are many sweets it is impossible, and it is better than them is not at all as from them spoil a figure, teeth and skin. However, strangely enough, it is not absolutely right. The full refusal of tasty pleasures too not really well affects our health. So, it is time to understand, than are harmful and than sweets on our table are useful.

White death or dolce vita?

Sugar, usual for us, became a cornerstone of scientists, nutritionists, gastroenerolog long ago. Whether the devil how it is painted is so terrible?

Sugar is a household name of sucrose, reed or beet, it is biologically valuable foodstuff thanks to glucose which is formed in the course of splitting in a GIT. Glucose is capable to provide more than a half of energy consumption of our organism. Besides, sugar promotes release of hormone of happiness – serotonin which is responsible for our good mood.

Important! Besides usual sugar in the nature there is still a lactose (milk sugar), a maltose (malt sugar) and fructose (fruit sugar) which contain in the corresponding products.

However, according to the American experts, excessive consumption of sugar promotes decrease in immunity, and, therefore, the resilience to bacterial and viral infections, increases the level of glucose and insulin (that can bring in a result to diabetes), causes deficiency of copper, promotes increase in acidity, accelerates age changes, etc.

So, the full refusal of sugar or its excessive use are equally harmful to an organism therefore in this case it is necessary to use the principle of golden mean. Unfortunately, reduction of consumption of sugar is not limited to refusal of cakes, cookies and candies as almost all producers of food enter into the structures this or that sugar for improvement of taste therefore it is necessary to read attentively labels and to control quantity of a sweet product (nutritionists recommend to consume no more than 60 g a day). And sweet teeth can recommend to pay attention to sweets without sugar, tasty and useful.

Dried fruits

Dried fruits are the most useful type of sweets. Dried fruits contain a large number of necessary mikroelemenkt, biologically active agents and vitamins. The fructose which is contained in dried fruits, because of features of the chemical building, does not increase the level of an insuklin in blood. Dried fruits contain calcium (fortress of our nails and health of hair), potassium (health of nervous system and heart), iron (a blood system). The cellulose and pectin which are contained in these natural products normalize work of our GIT.

Interestingly! In dried fruits contains calories twice less, than in sugar.

Carefully! Excessive consumption of dried fruits is fraught with a meteorizm and diareky. Nutritionists advise that to the adult dokstatochno to eat 3-5 dried fruits of dried apricots or prunes.

Natural fruit jelly

Fruit jelly – one more useful sweet. On confectioneries fruit jelly is produced on the basis of a paktoka, pectin and gelatin. According to the last researches of scientists, gelatin, strangely enough, is useful to muscles, skin, hair and blood vessels. Pectin promotes removal of slags and toxins, cleans intestines, reduces cholesterol level in blood.

Interestingly! Sometimes seaweed an agar for increase in its useful properties are added to natural fruit jelly.

Carefully! Because of development of new technologies in production of fruit jelly cheap zhelitel (gelatin, starch, artificial pectin) and artificial dyes are often used. Natural fruit jelly, so useful, it is possible to receive only from a quince, apples and apricots.

Halvah

Halvah – popular east delicacy. Despite the caloric content (sugar, honey or treacle, nuts and egg yolks or substitutes is a part of halvah), halvah has unique properties: it rejuvenates an organism, calms nervous system, considerably improves blood circulation and process of digestion. This east delicacy is obliged by the biological value to the proteins which are its part, sodium, potassium, calcium, copper, magnesium, iron, zinc, phosphorus and organic acids.

Interestingly! Manually halvah is still done only in Iran, and it is considered the best halvah in the world.

Carefully! In the Russian industrial production sugar and treacle instead of honey which is used only in house recipes now are applied.

So, if sweets on your table are made of natural products (fruit, nuts, honey), then at the reasonable use they will bring only benefit zdorokvyyu as are a natural stimulator of vital activity.