What is the calorie content of glazed curd bars?
Glazed curd cheese - one of the most favorite sweets of all children. Sometimes adults also want to enjoy a sweet treat.There is a choice for every taste: you can find a delicacy with raisins and dried apricots, with vanilla and chocolate, with coconut and banana, with jam and condensed milk.
Composition
Curd dessert is a tempting treat. Usually, in addition to cottage cheese, the composition of cottage cheese delicacy includes:
- butter;
- sugar;
- vanillin.
Also included in the product is chocolate glaze.
Often in the composition indicated on the product packaging, you can find a list of various chemical additives (stabilizers, emulsifiers, sweeteners, flavors). Sometimes manufacturers replace milk fat with palm oil.
Such components are not beneficial to human health, but are widely used in the food industry in order to increase the shelf life of products, as well as give them a particularly bright taste.
If you are an ardent opponent of such additives, then you will have to prepare such a delicacy at home on your own, because in almost all cheese produced industrially you will find artificial ingredients.
The main component of the product is cottage cheese. It is rich in a number of vitamins and minerals necessary for the full functioning of the human body. The composition of cottage cheese includes calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, as well as vitamins A, E, C and group B. In addition, here you will find a number of essential amino acids (components of proteins). Such amino acids include lysine, tryptophan, methionine and others.
Calorie and BJU
100 grams of the product contains on average about 400 kcal. By simple calculations, you can determine that for 1 pc. accounts for about 160-200 kcal.
The content of BZHU in the product is as follows:
- 7-10 g of proteins (proteins);
- 36-48 g of carbohydrates;
- 21-24 g fat.
The number of calories, as well as proteins, fats and carbohydrates in glazed curd bars can vary significantly. It all depends on what ingredients are added to the product (pieces of fresh or dried fruit, jam, condensed milk, cocoa powder, raisins).
In low-calorie cheese curds, the amount of calories can be reduced by half and amount to 200 kcal per 100 grams of product.
Benefit and harm
Like any other product, cottage cheese delicacy has a number of properties. Some of them have a positive effect on the human body, others have a negative effect.
Since the dessert has a rather high energy value, it is able to quickly saturate the body. This property is important for those people who are engaged in heavy mental or physical work, as well as for those who want to quickly restore their strength.
In addition, the glazed curds are sweet, which means that Consumption of the product can improve mood, increase the level of the hormone of happiness. Also, the treat significantly reduces the level of stress and is a means to prevent depression.
Some researchers suggest that moderate use of this product stimulates the gastrointestinal tract.
Despite this variety of positive qualities, cottage cheese dessert can bring the body harm. Chemical and artificial additives that make up the treat have a negative effect on metabolic processes. It is necessary to carefully read the label to avoid troubles and health problems. Especially careful should be those people who are prone to allergies or do not tolerate any components of the product. Because of the high content of fat in the product, curd fats should not be used by people suffering from peptic ulcer and other gastrointestinal diseases.
Glazed delicacy is not a dietary product, so it should be avoided by those people who want to lose weight and are actively watching their figure. The systematic consumption of cheeses in large quantities can lead to the appearance of extra pounds or even obesity. You can always cook the most low-fat cheese curds yourself.
When preparing a healthy delicacy at home, you will be sure of the quality of the ingredients added to the dish.
How to cook at home?
To make a delicious delicacy with your own hands, you will need:
- 300 g of cottage cheese;
- 80 g butter;
- 70 g sugar;
- 150 ml of cream;
- 70 g of chocolate for icing.
First you need to mix cottage cheese and butter, then add sugar to the mixture and mix the ingredients thoroughly until smooth. The next step is the formation of curds. They can be given any shape.
To prepare the glaze, you need to melt the chocolate in a water bath and mix it with cream. Dip cheese in the glaze and ship the refrigerator. The product is ready to eat when the icing hardens.
You will learn more about glazed cheeses from the following video.
