How to choose a reasonable snack?

Healthy snacks, generally need to have the following characteristics: 1, high nutritional value. 2, easy to carry and storage. 3, delicious. With the more conditions, the more suitable. Based on the above conditions of screening, first give you three kinds of the most common, the most consistent with the requirements of healthy snacks.

1.Milk

Milk has almost all the characteristics of a healthy snack, complete nutrition, appropriate proportion, easy digestion and absorption, is rich in quality protein, vitamin A, vitamin B2 and calcium. Especially contains calcium, not only the high content, about 100 mg per 100 grams of milk calcium, absorption and utilization rate is very high also is the main source of dietary calcium. The average adult needs 800mg of calcium every day, and the dietary guidelines recommend 300g, which can meet the needs of almost half of our calcium.

Common milk ordinary pure milk, yogurt, low-fat milk and skim milk, generally speaking, snack choices ordinary pure milk and yogurt can be, because they taste generally than low-fat milk, skim milk is better. But for overweight, obesity, dyslipidemia or milk with more friends, suggest to choose low-fat milk or skim milk, compare, as shown in the following picture, a certain brand of ordinary pure milk heat per 100 milliliters of 271 thousand coke (65 kcal), and per 100 ml of skim milk heat only 139 kJ (33 thousand cards), difference of nearly half, such as follow the dietary guidelines recommend daily drink 300ml milk, choose skim milk can eat less 96 kcal of heat, while also reducing the saturated fat and cholesterol intake, are beneficial to control weight and serum lipid.

2.Fruit

Similar to the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables, are rich in dietary fiber, vitamin C, beta carrot element, potassium, magnesium and other healthy nutrition Su, while rich in antioxidant phytochemicals, nutritional value is relatively high, especially for those three servings of vegetables very hard to eat enough of the bag manufacturer people, appropriate to eat some fruit, can make up to a certain degree (but not completely compensate and replace) the lack of intake of vegetables.

Taste, the fruit is rich in organic acids, sugars and aromatic substances, sweet and sour, with a variety of special flavor, it can satisfy the taste of "greed, in line with the conditions of delicious snacks. Carry also more convenient, breakfast to work on the package, or a few in the office, most of the fruit on the two or three day is not a problem, unless unfortunately colleagues to divide.

3.Nuts

Nuts refers to a variety of greasy seeds kind of food, such as peanuts, melon seeds, walnut, cashew nuts, pine nuts, almonds, pistachios can for the body to provide protein, unsaturated fatty acid, vitamin E, calcium and dietary fiber.

Because it is rich in fat, nuts are delicious and it is one of the most popular snacks. However, a lot of people also because it is rich in fat, that is not healthy, easy to gain weight, not to eat. In fact, as long as the choice of nuts, control the total amount of nuts, nuts is also a delicious and healthy choice for snacks.

From the health point of view, a study found that in patients with type 2 diabetes diet every day to add a handful of walnuts, can improve the blood lipid status of a patient. In a study conducted in Spain, 9000 patients with cardiovascular disease were investigated, and found that eating nuts to control blood lipids and heart disease bag factory risk benefit. Therefore, the high nutritional value of nuts, the right amount of food is useful.