Contents:
- Medical Video: 5 Alternatives to Junk Food
- 1. Dried fruit
- 2. Frozen wine, a substitute for fiber-rich candy
- 3. Greek yogurt with honey and fruit pieces
- 4. Frozen bananas salute chocolate
- 5. Popcorn with a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar
- 6. Black chocolate
Medical Video: 5 Alternatives to Junk Food
Candy is a food that can spoil the tongue with its sweet taste. However, the more frequent eating sweet foods like candy is apparently not healthy for the body. Reporting from Livestrong, most sweet foods can cause problems ranging from tooth decay, the risk of diabetes mellitus, and weight gain. Calm down, there are still some choices of sweets to replace the following sweets. You can snack on sweet foods again, but with sugar levels that are safer for the body.
1. Dried fruit
You can replace sweets with a choice of dried fruit. Dried fruits contain smaller calories than candy, contain more fiber, and minerals from fruits.
But dried fruit contains more calories than fresh fruit. A cup of wine contains only about 60 calories, but 2 tablespoons of raisins contain more than 80 calories. For that, mix your dried fruit with nuts such as almonds, cashews, walnuts, peanuts, and other types of beans to add protein and reduce the amount of sugar.
2. Frozen wine, a substitute for fiber-rich candy
Hearing his name, you must have imagined, right? Yes, instead of consuming sweet sweets, frozen sweet wine can be a substitute, you know. The texture of frozen wine is certainly very crunchy with sweet taste. Freeze as many as 20 sweet grapes and you will get an intake of 50 calories and 12 grams of carbohydrates.
Reported from the Medical News Today page, wine also contains fiber and water, which can help maintain body fluid balance and facilitate regular bowel movements. Wine also contains antioxidants lutein and zeaxanthin which can help maintain eye health. In addition, wine is also beneficial in preventing cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, and constipation.
3. Greek yogurt with honey and fruit pieces
Instead of eating sweet sweets, it's better to replace your snacks with these foods. Not only does it provide sweetness in the mouth, yogurt also provides a creamy and cold texture that resembles ice cream.
In addition, this sweet snack contains greek yogurt protein, contains fiber, vitamins, and minerals from fruit, and contains antimicrobial substances and additional antioxidants from honey. This snack can also maintain the health of your digestive system.
4. Frozen bananas salute chocolate
Substitutes for other sweets that can be tried are bananas dipped or coated in dark chocolate (dark chocolate) which has been melted. Not only bananas, you can replace them with other fruits such as mangoes or strawberries which are no less sweet and delicious.
Banana fruit is an excellent source of potassium. Potassium can help maintain blood pressure and help reduce the risk of stroke.
How to make it easy. Freeze the fruit, then dip the frozen fruit into melted dark chocolate. If you want the chocolate to harden, reinsert the chocolate salted fruit into the refrigerator. You can also eat it right away.
5. Popcorn with a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar
If you want other sweet food snacks, popcorn with a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar can also be a substitute for your sweet candy.
You can make it easily. Make popcorn without adding salt or butter again, and sprinkle with a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar. Three cups of popcorn can reach around 90 calories.
Reporting from the Healthline page, herbs such as cinnamon can help reduce blood sugar levels. Cinnamon can also help lower blood sugar by increasing insulin sensitivity, so insulin is more efficient in delivering blood sugar to all body cells.
Not only that, cinnamon is also rich in antioxidants which can counteract the effects of free radicals.
6. Black chocolate
Black chocolate can be a substitute for sweet candy. Black chocolate which is high in antioxidants serves to ward off free radicals, which is one of the causes of disease and aging. Black chocolate also helps lower blood pressure and prevent heart disease with its flavonol content.
Choose dark chocolate that contains at least 70 percent cocoa and don't snack on too much dark chocolate. Although it has good benefits for the body, an ounce of dark chocolate contains around 150 calories.
