Fast food is better: 7 most harmful dishes of Russian cuisine

Mixed

This is officially the most harmful soup in Russian cuisine. But we are used to thinking that all soups are healthy by default! But remember the composition of the hodgepodge: sausages, brisket, smoked ribs, sausages, ham, meat broth, pickles … But where are the vegetables? Oh yes, there are onions, lemon, olives and herbs for sprinkling. Well, what’s the use? Not only are different types of meat mixed there, but there are also smoked meats and pickles. Salt, fat, cholesterol – in general, nothing good.

Pies

Have you encroached on the sacred? For grandma’s pies? No, we don’t argue, homemade cakes are delicious. And harmful. Firstly, yeast dough is more harmful than puff pastry. And if you add baked goods to the yeast dough – more eggs, butter, sugar – then its calorie content goes off scale to heaven. Secondly, the filling: okay, if it’s unsweetened cottage cheese, berries or stewed cabbage. And if jam, meat or mushrooms? They immediately make the pies even more complex food to digest. Third, the cooking method. The lesser evil is the oven cakes. But fried tastes better. And more harmful at times.

Pancakes

Fast carbs, nothing else – nutritionists are ruthless. “One pancake contains about 100 kilocalories. If you follow the figure, you can eat 2-3 pancakes a day. And not every day, but a maximum of twice a week, “says Elena Livantsova, a nutritionist at the Clinic for Clinical Nutrition, Federal Research Center of Nutrition and Biotechnology.

Fillings make pancakes even heavier: fatty sour cream, sweet jam, salted fish in combination with dough simply kill the body.

Marinated mushrooms

Mushrooms are heavy food in themselves. They won’t make you get better, it’s almost impossible. After all, mushrooms consist of hard-to-digest protein, which the body cannot break down. But he tries, therefore, he is experiencing a remarkable load. And the marinade is also acid and salt. Not every stomach can handle this.

Nutritionists, by the way, say that mushroom soups should be treated with caution. They, too, can turn out to be an unbearable burden for an organism exhausted by diets and stress.

Fried potatoes

With pickled mushrooms, fresh dill and bacon – it’s just a dream! But forget about her. Of course, homemade fries are slightly healthier than fast food fries. But there you are at least limited to serving size. And at home you can eat potatoes and a whole frying pan, no one will take it away. Fat plus fast carbohydrates, starch – neither figure nor stomach will thank you for this. Especially if you fry potatoes not in vegetable, but in butter until crisp.

By the way, in another form, potatoes can be quite a healthy dietary dish. But for this it is better to cook it in uniforms – boil or bake.

Salads with mayonnaise

Salad sounds easy and simple, because it is the basis of dietary nutrition. But only if it’s not Olivier, “Mimosa” or a herring under a fur coat. They have boiled vegetables in their composition, which have a rather high glycemic index. That is, they dramatically increase the amount of sugar in the blood. There is a lot of salt in herring and pickles. Sausage is, in principle, a dubious product. And mayonnaise is pure fat. It’s better to eat a burger than a bowl of Olivier.

“Such salads can be eaten only on major holidays, and even then little by little,” says nutritionist Inna Kononenko. And he gives advice on how to make these dishes a little healthier – read about it HERE.

Stuffed pork

In all honesty, this dish cannot be attributed to Russian cuisine at all. In Russia, meat was baked in an oven, and if stuffed, then buckwheat porridge or mushrooms. Now pork is one of the most affordable types of meat, at a cost approximately equal to chicken fillet. This product itself is quite fatty, and if you stuff it with cheese, mushrooms, pour with mayonnaise, and serve potatoes as a side dish, you will get a dish that is not just high-calorie, but super heavy. Nutritionists advise choosing lean pork, baking it in the oven without additives and eating it no more than once a week.

Mashed potatoes with milk and butter can be distinguished in the category of harmful homemade dishes. Potatoes contain starch, and starch is a set of glucose molecules bound together. In the stomach, these molecules quickly break down, and a large amount of pure glucose enters the bloodstream. Milk and butter also contain milk sugar – lactose. As a result, the dish triggers an insulin spike in the body by increasing the hormone insulin in the blood in response to a sudden intake of glucose. Insulin spikes are dangerous because they can lead to metabolic syndrome, obesity and prediabetes.

Another one of the most harmful homemade dishes, I would include baked goods. As a rule, it contains sugar, and this is again a high concentration of glucose, which, among other things, contributes to inflammatory processes in the body; margarine, which converts to trans fats and causes toxic burden; wheat flour of the highest grade, which in large quantities disrupts carbohydrate metabolism and overloads the immune system, since it contains gluten.

Therefore, it is recommended to use mashed potatoes no more than 1-2 times a month, provided that you have no problems with weight, do it on water and eat with a lot of vegetables and herbs. It is generally better to substitute homemade cakes for fruit desserts without added sugar.