Soup is the main element of any complete meal. Not many people think about whether eating soup is healthy. After all, from early childhood the truth is learned that soup is important for health. However, now disputes often arise between fans of this liquid and nutritious dish and opponents who claim that the soup is a thin mess that does not provide much benefit to the body.
Today in the article we will find out whether it is healthy to eat soup every day. Let's look at the pros and cons of eating the dish. Let's remember some of the most preferred dishes belonging to the category of soups.
What is soup: definition
Before we get closer to the question of whether soup is good for the body, let’s remember the variety of the dish (there are already about one hundred and fifty recipes for its preparation on the planet) and what it represents.
The basis of the dish can be various meat broths, fish or vegetable broths. Soup can also be called any dish consisting of at least half water or other liquid. Every country and every nationality (even the smallest one) must keep at least one recipe for a liquid dish in its traditional kitchens.
We also need to remember that almost any soup (or rather, its method of preparation) has more than one option. Let's take, for example, the familiar and adored borscht. There are more than a hundred variations of its preparations.
The harm of soup as a daily food product
Foods can be combined in different ways, some are beneficial, others are harmful. Opponents who believe that soup brings more than just health benefits rely on the following indicators.
- Cooking is a method of processing foods, as a result of which a large number of their beneficial properties are lost. With prolonged treatment with boiling water, you can lose more than 70% of beneficial vitamins and other essential substances.
- The nutrition process requires a certain amount of time to process certain products. Broth made with meat is absorbed too quickly by the intestines, which does not give the body time to prepare to process the undigested meat extracts.
- Hormonal growth stimulants and antibiotics used in animal husbandry are completely transferred into the broth when cooked.
- The benefits of the first dish are also influenced by its composition. Too fatty soup, with the addition of ingredients fried in large amounts of fat, semi-finished products, all kinds of industrial sausages, synthetic flavor enhancers, cannot be recommended for healing the body.
Modern nutritionists focus on the unsafe health of soups prepared from low-quality products in a way that is obviously harmful to health. Soup plays an important role in the nutrition menu. In order for it to be healthy, it is better to prepare it, adhering to certain rules.
- When choosing meat for broth, it is better to give preference to meat cut from the youngest animal. In this case, it is better to choose the lowest-fat varieties, for example, lean pork or veal, rabbit, chicken.
- When cooking poultry, it is best to remove the skin. This procedure will make the dish dietary and will eliminate excess cholesterol.
- When preparing the broth, when the ingredients boil for the first time, it is better to drain the broth, then add clean water, on the basis of which the second one will be prepared, containing the least amount of harmful impurities.
- When adding vegetables to the soup, it is recommended to simmer them separately, adding them to the soup already prepared a few minutes before the end of cooking.
Since soups mostly consist of water, and it can store information and transfer it to a person after consumption, it is better to cook in a pleasant mood, with positive thoughts and emotions, in a good mood. Food prepared with love and care, taking into account the above tips, will become a real panacea for the human body.
In this article, I will tell you whether you should eat soups, borscht, etc.)). Are there any benefits from them, if so, what are they; as in general soups, borscht, etc. affect the human body and much more...
In the post-Soviet space, all of us (or the absolute majority) were taught from childhood to eat (traditionally for lunch) first the 1st, and only then the 2nd)). That is why, for us (I mean our people, well, maybe not all, but the absolute majority) - soups, borscht, etc. this is a familiar and tasty thing)), passed on from generation to generation, and which will not surprise anyone...
To be honest, I’m even afraid to talk negatively about this matter, in case they throw stones at me, hehe)). But, as always, I’m not going to hide the truth.
In soups, borscht, etc.
- mostly contains
LIQUID
(water, about 50% if memory serves) and
VEGETABLES
(well, for example, borscht contains beets (beets), carrots, cabbage, potatoes, onions, beans, tomatoes (tomatoes)), in some also have COMPLEX CARBOHYDRATES (for example, or).
For those who don't know, vegetables and fruits
- vital (needed), because are necessary components of a balanced diet and are not inferior in importance to other essential substances (,), because They contain vitamins and minerals and fiber.
- I don’t think it’s worth talking about vitamins and minerals, because... and so you all understand that they are extremely important (vital) to every organ, every gland, every muscle and cell of our body for the balanced and not only functioning of the whole organism.
- But few people know about fiber... and it, in turn, is extremely important, because... absorbs accumulated waste and toxins and removes them from the body, contributes to the absence of constipation, etc.; promotes better digestion of food; binds cholesterol and tactfully removes it from the body, and thus the cholesterol level decreases, and with it the risk of atherosclerosis and other diseases; and also has many other extremely useful functions.
But, be that as it may, soups and borscht
- not the best product (in my opinion) possible. In short, soups, borscht, etc. are the worst quality alternative (analogue) to fresh VEGETABLES and FRUIT! Why? Yes, because in soup, borscht, etc. will contain much, I emphasize, MUCH less vitamins and minerals and fiber than fresh fruits and vegetables.
For those who don’t know, heat treatment (it is present in soups, borscht, etc.) kills vitamins and minerals, which cannot be said about fresh fruits and vegetables (which is why it’s better).
This is it, in a nutshell. In many foreign countries, people do not eat soups, borscht, etc. at all. and what now, do they all have ulcers, colitis, gastritis, problems with the gastrointestinal tract, digestion, etc.?))
Of course not... And all because people simply)) have the opportunity to eat all year round (well, if not the whole year, then in any case, much more often than here) FIBER (fresh vegetables and fruits), accordingly, they there is no need for an alternative (replacement, like ours). That's all (the whole secret).
We (in our countries) do not have such an opportunity during the cold season (winter). Accordingly, to compensate for this (lack of fiber, vitamins and minerals), a worse quality alternative (analog) is used, i.e. the same soups, borscht, etc.
- In general, if you have the opportunity to eat fresh FRUITS and VEGETABLES all year round, then you can easily avoid eating SOUP, BORSCH, etc. without being afraid AT ALL that you will have problems with the gastrointestinal tract, gastritis, ulcers, constipation, etc. made-up crap (proof of this is the huge number of countries that do not consume soups, borscht, etc. AT ALL, for example, England, Italy and etc.).
- If you do not have the opportunity to eat vegetables and fruits all year round (for example, in the cold season, i.e. in winter), then SOUPS, BORSCHS, etc. in my opinion, they are even necessary, because it is still BETTER than nothing at all. Those. this way you will get at least some vitamins and minerals, at least some amount of them, and, accordingly, at least some fiber. Do you understand?
Those. in other words, fresh VEGETABLES and FRUITS are 100 times better than soups, borscht, etc., but if you don’t have them, then at least something (soups, borscht, etc.) is better than nothing at all...
Let’s talk about the fact that soups, borscht, etc. are something incredibly useful, and everyone should use them daily, otherwise there will be problems with the gastrointestinal tract, digestion, etc. , - under no circumstances will I (impossible). This is not even close to the case. But don’t get me wrong, I’m also not saying that soups, borscht, etc. - this is categorically BAD, and they should not be eaten. This is also not even close to the case. Although, there are exceptions.
Many experts argue that meat or chicken soup/broth, etc. can be potentially hazardous to health. The fact is that soups (liquid food) are absorbed very quickly by the intestines, unlike solid food. And it is this, in turn, that does not allow the liver to have time to process the meat extracts contained in them (after all, who doesn’t know, meat is not only beneficial for the body, it also contains harmful substances), as a result, toxins not broken down by the liver enter the blood and can cause harm to many internal organs
