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Healthy ice cream with cottage cheese, yogurt or stevia ice cream does not have to make you fat
The summer temperatures of the last days have brought the ice cream shops good sales. Delicious ice cream is not only popular with children. Unfortunately, many varieties have quite a few calories that can be felt later on the hips. But there are also some that contain less fat and sugar.
Do not worry about unnecessary pounds
For a nice summer's day, many citizens have to enjoy a delicious ice cream. However, health experts point out again and again that the portions should not be too large, because ice cream usually has many calories. In order to avoid additional fattening, consumers should best abstain from chocolate sauce, crumble and cream domes. In addition, if you choose the right varieties, you do not have to worry about unnecessary pounds and you can treat yourself to a larger portion.
Healthy ice cream with healthy ingredients. (Image: sarsmis / fotolia) Demand for "healthy ice cream"
Not every ice cream is a fat and sugar bomb. According to news agency dpa's Annalisa Carnio of Uniteis, the union of Italian ice cream producers, demand for "healthy ice cream" has risen sharply in recent years. "Healthy ice cream" should contain natural fats and high quality fruits. However, colorants and preservatives are taboo. The retailers have responded to the increased demand and customers are lured to the bars of the ice cream parlors with fruit ice cream, sorbet or vegan varieties. As the expert said, just the offer of fruit ice is constantly being expanded.
Creamy ice cream has a lot of calories
Creamy ice cream has a particularly high calorie content. Depending on the size can quickly come together 200 calories. Fruit variations contain little fat and are therefore "lighter". So a ball of fruit sorbet contains about 80 to 90 calories, a ball of chocolate, however, about 140 calories. If you pay attention to the carbohydrate content in bread units (BE) as well as the calorie count, ice cream is sometimes allowed for people with diabetes. This was pointed out by, among others, the organization diabetesDE - German Diabetes Aid in Berlin.
Make your own ice cream
The managing director of the Munich ice cream parlor Sarcletti, Jürgen Elsner, swears by ice cream "with less sugar and less fats". For those who want to pay attention to their line, he advises on varieties such as curd orange, yoghurt cassis or buttermilk mango. Because these leave behind "no sugary feeling and no feeling of fullness". Of course there is also the possibility to make your own ice cream. "When I make ice cream myself, I'm the master of ingredients and decide what gets in there. I can dispense with all the ingredients used in industrial ice cream production, such as emulsifiers, stabilizers and thickeners, "explained cookbook author Gabriele Redden. For those who often want to make ice cream, they recommend a supercharged ice machine. Eiscafe chef Elsner, it is also possible without expensive kitchen appliances. So you can mix frozen fruit puree - such as wild berries or rhubarb - with yogurt and sugar, refine the whole with finely cut mint or lemon balm and put back in the freezer. About ten minutes later stir again and serve after half to three quarters of an hour.
Stevia or honey as sweetener
Furthermore, milk and cream can be easily replaced by yoghurt, quark or buttermilk. And it does not necessarily have to be sweetened with refined sugar. Mrs. Redden relies on Stevia. However, her colleague Anni Daulter advises dpa in her book "Ice pleasure on a stick" to honey, agave syrup or palm sugar as a sweetener. But if you still want to have vanilla or chocolate ice cream, you should enjoy the ice slowly, according to the expert Annalisa Carnio. Because that creates a feeling of happiness and simultaneous satiety. With ice cream from the supermarket you do not necessarily have to buy the most expensive. Thus, chocolate ice cream from the discounter in a test of the Stiftung Warentest could convince quite recently. (Ad)
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