Not all people on the planet diet and lose weight. Some people, on the contrary, want to gain a couple of extra pounds, while others want to look the way they do now, without losing weight or gaining weight. Yes, in the end, even coaches sometimes want to drink a cup of tea for a reason, but as a snack with something sweet, but not very harmful. So today I decided to tell you about safe sweets, which can be enjoyed by people who are not on diets, children, as well as anyone who wants something tasty. So, what kind of sweets can you have? eat and at the same time know that they are practically harmless?
Now I want to emphasize the word “almost” (again for my own! It’s a bummer at every step, the article started normally =))))! Since today we will talk mainly about industrial sweets, and not about home-baked goods, it is worth understanding that the modern food industry today produces less than 5% of ABSOLUTELY safe sweets, the remaining 95% is divided in half into either very harmful or almost safe sweets .
And we will start our list with perhaps the safest and even healthiest sweet - honey.
HONEY
Honey is not a dietary product, but a safe sweet that was used long before sugar was invented!
A small historical digression.
Just 100 years ago, people didn’t even know what sugar was. And what? Tell me, until the twenty-first century there lived only fools? Archimedes, Newton, Mendeleev, and many other scientific minds somehow managed without sugar, and this did not stop them from making grandiose discoveries and inventions. If it were possible to submit their brains for examination (sorry for the blasphemy), then they would show 100% clarity, unlike the “glucose-syrup brains” of the modern generation, where every second person cannot live a day without sugar.
All this means that honey used to be sugar, candy, cookies, chocolate, and everything else you can think of. People got by with a maximum of 1 tbsp. honey a day, which served them as both a glucose boost for the brain and a pleasant bonus for tea. Therefore, answering the question of what sweets are possible , the answer is obvious - honey. But in order not to run into fakes and cheap fakes (yes, honey is faked too, don’t be surprised), I will give you some practical advice:
- Do not buy honey in supermarkets or resellers! “Where can I buy it?” - you ask. Try to find people who keep Passika themselves and produce honey at home, as they say “only for themselves, relatives and friends.” This is due to the fact that when producing honey on an industrial scale (for delivery to supermarkets, shops and markets), producers resort to various tricks. One of them is product substitution. Very often starch caramel molasses is sold under the guise of honey. The production of this molasses costs only 18-20 rubles per kilogram, and the cost of natural honey ranges from 500-700 rubles per kilogram! Do you feel where the dog is buried?
- Don't buy liquid honey in winter! This is due to the fact that honey tends to harden. Natural honey cannot remain liquid in winter, remember this! Only acacia honey has the property of remaining liquid for a long time; all other types of honey (buckwheat, sunflower, linden, etc.) begin to become sugary after 3-4 months, forming crystals of sucrose and fructose.
If the honey you bought remains liquid for a long time, this may be a sign that it has been heated. In general, according to GOST, honey can be heated, but be sure to follow these rules:
1) you need to heat ONLY in a water bath;
2) the temperature of the water bath should not be higher than 30 degrees.
Adhering to these conditions, all active enzymes and vitamins will be preserved in honey.
We've sorted out the honey. Go ahead. So, what other sweets can you have besides honey?
Potato cake dietary recipe
The healthiest and lowest calorie option:
- bran - 30 grams. They contain a lot of fiber, which acts as a brush in our gastrointestinal tract, so this option is also the healthiest.
- half a banana. If you take a banana that is very ripe and sweet, you don’t even need to add a sweetener.
- a little honey. Arrange according to your taste.
- 2 teaspoons cocoa. We use only natural cocoa.
Mix bran, banana, honey and 1 spoon of cocoa. Grind everything in a blender. Form balls and roll in cocoa. Now put it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
MARMALADE
The next safe sweet is marmalade. But not just any marmalade, but EXPENSIVE. The following rule applies to marmalade: the more expensive, the better! This is due to the fact that the most expensive substance in marmalade is the gelling agent (gelatin, pectin, agar agar, carrageenan and others). The more of this substance the manufacturer used when making marmalade, the denser and harder the consistency it will be. It is by this criterion that you can determine whether the marmalade in front of you is good and expensive or “so-so”.
Rice. 1 Composition of expensive marmalade
Fig. 2 Composition of cheap marmalade
In addition to a small amount of a gelling agent, cheap, and therefore not very high-quality, marmalade will always contain some kind of preservative. In this case, it is sorbic acid . A preservative is added to increase the shelf life of the product, making it more competitive in the market.
Potato cake pp made from oat flakes
For those who like to eat something tasty, but at the same time healthy for breakfast, we offer this option that can easily replace oatmeal! This recipe is perfect not only for those losing weight, but also for small children who have trouble eating porridge in the morning!
- half a glass of oatmeal. If desired, you can also use a mixture of different flakes.
- 1 sweet and ripe banana.
- 4 tsp. natural cocoa.
Beat everything in a blender. All that remains is to make your favorite PP cakes and enjoy the perfect PP breakfast!
ZEPHIR
Continuing the list of harmless and safe sweets , one cannot fail to mention marshmallows. Good marshmallows differ from all sweets in that they do not contain a single gram of fat; they consist of 80% carbohydrates.
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Marshmallows are made from stabilized foam made from applesauce.
It happens something like this: sugar or fructose, food coloring (if you want to get colored marshmallows), vanillin or another flavoring additive, a stabilizer or a mixture of stabilizers are added to the puree. All this takes a very long time to form into a thick foam, which is then given the desired shape and dried under certain conditions.
It would seem like the PERFECT sweetness, wouldn’t it? Made from natural applesauce, agar agar, and guess what – they added a little sugar, no big deal. But not quite like that...
There are two news, one bad, one good. The bad news is that all the applesauce from which marshmallows are made is sulfated, that is, treated with the preservative sulfite. And, unfortunately, during the production of marshmallows there is no heat treatment, so this preservative remains in the marshmallow! And the good news, although it would be better to say “soothing,” is that sulfite has a very slightly toxic effect, and if you choose from all the store-bought sweets, marshmallows can be considered one of the safest and most harmless.
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So how do you choose safe marshmallows?
- It is better to choose white marshmallows, since colored marshmallows have added dyes, and whether they are natural or not, manufacturers do not always write about this on the packaging, so it is better to play it safe and immediately buy marshmallows that are as natural as possible.
- Don't buy chocolate marshmallows. All chocolate glaze is made from palm oil. You can read about the dangers of palm oil here.
- Marshmallows should not contain preservatives with the prefix “sorbate”: potassium/calcium/sodium sorbate and sorbic acid.
CAUTION
Very often, marshmallows are equated with marshmallows, but this is a big misconception. Marshmallows always contain vegetable fat (palm oil, coconut oil or industrial margarine), but marshmallows do not (with the exception of marshmallows covered with chocolate glaze, where vegetable fat is contained in this glaze).
And another sweet that is confused with marshmallows is marshmallows. There is not, was not and cannot be any applesauce in this sweetness. This product is completely synthetic and is made from either molasses or corn/sugar syrup.
Therefore, if your child comes up to you in the supermarket and confronts you with the fact of what sweets he can eat among all those present on the shelves of the confectionery department , then you can safely buy him white marshmallows, which do not contain preservatives.
Smart cake recipe pp
How to make an unusual three-layer dessert from a minimum of ingredients? The secret to this recipe is that you don't need to make any layers, because the smart cake will do everything for you! Don't believe me? Write down the recipe:
- 2 eggs. Separate the whites and beat until white peaks form.
- 300 ml low-fat milk.
- 90 grams of flour. You can take rice flour, then the dessert will turn out very tender, or you can mix rice with corn.
- Natural sweetener.
From this simple list of ingredients we will prepare this dessert.
In a container, combine all ingredients except proteins. Stir thoroughly. Then add the whites. Place the resulting mixture in a mold and bake. When a golden crust appears, you can take out the dessert.
DRYING (BUBLICS)
Drying is considered a fairly safe sweet if it does not contain hydrogenated fat, namely:
- margarine;
- palm oil;
- coconut oil;
— hydrogenated vegetable oil/fat;
— special purpose fat;
- oils in hardened form.
When choosing dryers, be sure to look at the composition! This should be the first thing you do when you pick up a pack of dryers. You can only buy dryers that contain regular vegetable oil. Be very careful: not VEGETABLE FAT, but VEGETABLE OIL!
But, if you cannot find such drying products, then at least buy those with less than 2 g of fat per 100 g of product.
Carrot cake pp
How about a low-calorie carrot dessert? A very tender and easy-to-prepare dish will be a real boon for the menu. Here's what you'll need for the pp test:
- 110 grams of carrots. Grate on a fine grater.
- 1 egg.
- 50 grams of any flour.
- 50 ml low-fat kefir.
- 1 ripe banana.
- 1 teaspoon baking powder.
- natural sweetener according to your taste.
Now let's mix everything. You can even do this with a blender to get a thick and homogeneous mass. Pour into the mold and cook in the oven for 7 minutes. Cut the PP cake into two parts. All that remains is to grease the pp with cream - beat 150 grams of soft cottage cheese with a sweetener. At the end, simply cut into portions!
Separately, cottage cheese cakes should be highlighted. What is their secret and popularity? The thing is that cottage cheese is a source of protein, which is very important to have in sufficient quantities in your diet when losing weight. Alas, this is not as simple as it seems at first glance. Often, when calculating kbju, there is a shortage of protein, so they try to include it in various recipes, including pp cakes. You can eat such cakes not only in the morning, but even in the evening, which is very convenient, you must agree.
Photo: @dasha_she
COOKIES “BABY CRISPS”
These cookies are far from being dietary, as their calorie content is more than 400 kcal per 100 g, but they are absolutely non-toxic. It contains only flour, sugar and eggs, nothing else, so if you choose between it and palm fat-based chocolates, it is better to choose these crunchies. At the very least, this will be the least “evil” of most industrial confectionery products on the market.
Rice. 3 Composition of “Little Crisp” cookies
PP spinach cake
Here's proof that spinach is good for more than just salads, pies, and soups!
- 50 grams of spinach. Wash and dry.
- 2 eggs. Separate the yolks from the whites. Beat the latter with sweetener until white peaks form.
- 80 grams of flour. It can be rice, oatmeal or any other whole grain.
- 100 ml low-fat kefir.
- 1 teaspoon baking powder.
In a blender, combine all the ingredients except the whipped egg whites. Then carefully add the proteins into the resulting mixture. Our pp dough is ready. Now all that remains is to transfer it into a regular bag, make a hole in it and squeeze out small spinach circles onto the mold. This will be the basis for our pp cake.
Place in the oven until fully cooked. The cake should remain green on top and brown on the bottom.
Now prepare the pp cream: combine 100 grams of soft cottage cheese and the same amount of low-fat cream cheese, add sweetener to taste. Spread cream on diet cakes. You can decorate with mint or berries.
CHOCOLATE
Let's move on. What other sweets can you add to make it tastier?
One of the safest and most delicious sweets is chocolate, but not all chocolate, but only that which does not contain sugar or which contains a safe sweetener.
Examples of high-quality dark chocolate:
— handmade chocolate “Chocolate Farm” (producer Ukraine)
— SHOUD'E handmade chocolate “Picant” (Ukraine)
— SHOUD'E 99% CACAO (Ukraine)
— LINDT ECXELLENCE 99% cacao (France)
— natural dark chocolate without sugar based on stevia “KORISNA KONDITERSKA” (manufacturer Ukraine)
— chocolate “Spartak” bitter (Republic of Belarus)
— “MELANIE” elite 90% cocoa (Republic of Belarus)
— dark chocolate “APRIORI” 99% sugar-free (Russia)
— bitter chocolate “GOLDEN MARK” 70% cocoa (Russia)
— dark chocolate “Pobeda” 72% cocoa without sugar (Russia)
PP potato cake recipe from cottage cheese
Surprisingly, this dish can be not only breakfast, but even dinner. Here is an interesting recipe from low-fat cottage cheese, which you can safely eat even at night.
- 180 grams of cottage cheese. Take low-fat cottage cheese.
- 20 grams of oatmeal.
- 1 tablespoon of natural yogurt.
- 1 tablespoon of natural cocoa.
- Natural sweetener of your choice.
We follow the usual scheme - grind everything in a blender and form pp cakes.
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Photo: @nkryzhnaya
PP cakes without baking
Cottage cheese is also an ideal ingredient if you want to make a no-bake dessert. Here is a simple recipe for this dessert:
- 250 grams of low-fat cottage cheese.
- dried apricots and prunes - 5 pieces of each dried fruit. Soak in hot water for 10 minutes.
- any natural sweetener to your taste, honey is fine.
- some nuts. Grind them in a blender.
- sesame seeds for sprinkling.
Mix all ingredients in a container. Form cakes and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Place in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Low-calorie cottage cheese cake with raspberries
An amazing recipe for lovers of light desserts with berries. We will use raspberries. You can use both fresh and frozen raspberries. Thus, even in winter you can treat yourself to this excellent dessert.
- 200 grams of raspberries. Beat it in a blender until smooth.
- 150 grams of cottage cheese. Take low-fat cottage cheese
- Natural sweetener to suit your taste.
- 10 grams of gelatin and 70 ml of plain water. Pour the gelatin with water and leave for a couple of minutes, then set to cook without bringing to a boil. Let cool.
Combine gelatin and raspberry-curd mass. Place in any container and place in the refrigerator until completely thickened. Cut into portions and the cakes are ready!
PP pavlova cakes
Of course, this recipe is named after the famous ballerina Anna Pavlova. Delicate meringues for people who want to stay slim and beautiful. Write down the recipe. For pp test:
- 4 egg whites.
- 1 teaspoon vinegar.
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch.
- Natural sweetener. It is important that it is small.
Beat the egg whites until small bubbles begin to appear. Then add sweetener and continue beating for another 7 minutes until white peaks appear. After this, carefully add vinegar and starch with a spatula. Mix and place the mixture into a pastry bag. We form nests on a baking sheet and bake at a low temperature - no more than 110 degrees for about 90 minutes.
When our nests are ready, we need to fill them with cottage cheese cream:
Beat 250 grams of low-fat soft cottage cheese with 50 grams of low-fat sour cream, sweetener and a pinch of vanillin. Let's fill our pp cakes and enjoy!
