Sugar caloric content

Sugar – the generalized name of a class of the chemicals having sweet taste, the majority of which are used in cookery. It is the carbohydrate consisting of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Chemically various substances can have sweet taste, however do not classify them as sugar, some of them are used as sugar substitutes, caloric content is much lower than them that allows to use these sweeteners diabetics.

There are different types of sugar received from various sources. Simple sugar call monosaccharides, fructose and a galactose belong to them glucose (also known as a dextrose). The granulated sugar which is most often used as foodstuff is disaccharide which in an organism is hydrolyzed in fructose and glucose.

Sugar which caloric content is high is in fibers of the majority of plants, however in sufficient concentration for effective extraction is present only at a sugarcane and sugar beet. The sugarcane is the huge grass which is grown up in the conditions of tropical climate in the Far East since ancient times. Sugar beet is the root crop cultivated in more cool climate.

The majority of the conducted researches confirm that observance by the person of a diet with sugar, used in a large number, harmful affects on his health. Such food allowance leads to obesity, often is an origin of a diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, weak-mindednesses, degenerations of a macula lutea and caries.

Influence of sugar on a human body

Having high caloric content, sugar supplies a body with instant energy which, however, is not enough for long time. When it gets to blood, will be transformed to glucose which is the simplest form of sugar. Then glucose is absorbed by cells of an organism and energy is developed.

The people suffering from low blood pressure are recommended to use several times a day a little sugar which caloric content is quite high as it leads to gradual increase in blood pressure.

The human brain cannot effectively function without sugar. At total absence in a food allowance or at the excessive use of this product there can be a temporary inability of a brain to perceive and process information obtained from external environment.

There is a popular belief that the diet with sugar leads to a hyperactivity at children, however the conducted researches disprove these guesses as in most of the control groups participating in experiments, special change in behavior of children it was revealed not.

Sugar caloric content: nutrition and energy value of a product

Caloric content of sugar is quite high therefore this product is not used practically in one diet, however at the use in moderate quantity it does not do harm to a figure.

Nutrition value and caloric content of sugar at the rate on 100 g makes:

• Lipids – 0 g;
• Saturated fats – 0 g;
• Monounsaturated fatty acids – 0 g;
• Cholesterol – 0 mg;
• Sodium – 1 mg;
• Potassium – 2 mg;
• Sugar caloric content – 387 kcal;
• Carbohydrates – 100 g;
• Food fibers – 0 g;
• Vitamin C – 0 mg;
• Calcium – 1 mg;
• B6 vitamin – 0 mg;
• Magnesium – 0 mg.

To define how many calories in tea with sugar, are necessary to the tea caloric content which depends on the fortress of drink and averages 10 kcal on 250 ml regardless of a type of tea, to add the caloric content corresponding to the number of spoons of the sugar added to drink. So, for example, if three spoons of sugar are added to tea and at the account that one teaspoon of sugar of calories contains 34,83 kcal, one cup of such tea will have caloric content in 115 kcal. One tablespoon of sugar of calories contains from 68 to 93 kcal.

Sugar caloric content: a diet for weight loss

For anybody not a secret that the excessive use of salt and sugar which caloric content is high in a day food allowance can cause damage to health of the person. Reduction of salt and sugar in a diet can be quite complex challenge, food without these additives often becomes tasteless. The diet without salt and sugar should not begin sharply, better gradually to reduce the use of these products and to replace them with others, safer for health of an organism. Fruit and berries, and also natural sweetener – a stevia can perfectly replace sugar, instead of salt it is possible to add dry ginger and garlic, nutmeg or cinnamon to food.

The approximate menu of a diet without salt and sugar which caloric content is high has the following appearance:

• Day of the 1st: a breakfast – one orange, one boiled egg and a glass of low-fat yogurt. A lunch – the beef stake prepared on a grill without oil, stewed vegetable marrows and paprika. A dinner – boiled fillet of a tuna with mushrooms;
• Day of the 2nd: a breakfast – two ripe pears and muesli from 1,5% milk. A lunch – boiled chicken fillet and a quarter of crude carrots. A dinner – 300 g of boiled shrimps and 200 g of fresh green peas;
• Day of the 3rd: a breakfast – muesli and natural yogurt. A lunch – vegetable soup and stewed cabbage with mushrooms and carrots. A dinner – roast from beef with vegetables with rice;
• Day of the 4th: a breakfast – apple, a pear and regardless of that, how many calories in tea with sugar, a glass of tea with 1 tsp of sugar. A lunch – two boiled hard-boiled eggs and the baked champignons with onions. A dinner – boiled chicken fillet, a piece of firm cheese and a boiled cauliflower with broccoli and carrots;
• Day of the 5th: a breakfast – a half of grapefruit and tea without sugar which caloric content is high. A lunch – two polished crude carrots with lemon juice. A dinner – 200 g of boiled fillet of a tuna;
• Day of the 6th: a breakfast – the fat-free natural yogurt. A lunch – an omelet with mushrooms and corn, several berries of strawberry and banana smuz. A dinner – 200 g of boiled chicken fillet;
• Day of the 7th: a breakfast – porridge. A lunch – vegetable soup. A dinner – a beef stake and vegetable greens salad.

It is possible to correct a diet on such diet in which because of a negative impact on an organism and high caloric content sugar and salt are excluded independently, it is enough to adjust a diet.

Keeping to this diet, it is necessary to eat food each 2-3 hours as for a long time it is proved that if to eat 5-6 times a day, then the metabolism accelerates that is extremely useful for health of an organism and promotes weight loss, and also it is necessary for prevention of gastrointestinal diseases.

The first meal has to be accepted to 12 o'clock in the afternoon, and the dinner to have in 4-5 hours prior to a dream. Very important principle of a diet is the use three times a day in small quantity during having a snack of any proteinaceous food (cottage cheese, bean or meat). Food is forbidden to be salted and only once it is possible to add a sugar spoon in which calories not so are not enough to tea. Diet duration – one week. It will be difficult to observe it at the initial stage, but over time it is possible to get used to such diet and even after such diet ends, and the person will pass to a diet with sugar and salt, nevertheless the use of these products will be not such high, as before observance of a diet.