Salads for slimmers
Salad leaves are ideal for slimmers, as they fill you up without piling on the calories. And with peppery salad leaves such as rocket, watercress and tatsoi offering a delicious, natural way to spice up a salad, low-calorie meals don’t have to be bland. An added benefit is that because raw foods take more chewing and digesting, they can help you eat less. While a portion (80g) of Romaine lettuce contains just 14 kcals, iceberg has a mere 11 kcals and green leaf, 12 kcals.
A study by America’s Pennsylvania State University found that people who ate a large 100-calorie salad as a starter, went on to eat 12% fewer calories overall at that meal than people who didn’t have a first course. Those people who had eaten the large salad went on to eat an average 667 calories of a second-course pasta lunch, compared to an average 875 calories consumed by the people who didn’t have the first course – a saving of over 100 calories.
Whether as a side salad, a starter, a main meal or to add extra taste and texture to a sandwich, salads are so easy to make a regular part of everyone’s diet.
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