Hello again, here you will find a lot of easy low fat
recipes, because we have to address both our food and health.
Normally people often think that low fat recipes means you have to go without. the key to low fat
cooking is using fresh, good quality ingredients, prepared using simple, quick cooking techniques. Buy
your meat from a good quality butcher, always buy seafood from a reputable fishmonger and when buying
vegetables and fruit try and buy seasonally from markets and greengrocers, where freshness and quality
are ensured.
However are some important information about Fat. For example, there are vitamins that are only
solubilized by fats, known as fat-soluble vitamins, such as the vitamins A, D, E and K.
This means they are only digested, absorbed and transported together with the fat. In addition, the fat
is the main source of fatty acids, important in the diet.
It's healthier unsaturated fat consumption because it is easier to break the chain unsaturated for
saturated chains.
Fats have many functions such as source and reserve of energy (any one gram of fat yields 9 kcal of
energy), besides being an important heat insulator (a fatty tissue of mammals) for animals to protect
themselves against the cold. They are important for the synthesis of other substances, or to improve
the functioning of these, such as fat-soluble vitamins, lipoproteins, and certain sex hormones that
depend on the existence of fat to an ideal function. |