Caloric content of sushi

Sushi or sushi – the traditional Japanese dish consisting of a large amount of ingredients therefore the caloric content of sushi depends on the products used for their preparation.

Traditional Japanese sushi:

• Nigirudzus (to Niger – in Japanese a handful) – the most widespread way of preparation used in European cuisine;
• Makidzus – Kolobok from rice with a stuffing inside wrapped in leaves of seaweed of a chain pump;
• Osidzus – the rice laid in a small wooden box from above gives all the best fish;
• Tirasidzus – the rice which is laid out on a dish powdered from above with vegetables or seafood.

Basis of preparation of any kind of sushi is in a special way the boiled rice of special grades. At rice which is used for sushi, caloric content from 330 to 340 kcal in 100 g.

Sushi diet

Considering that sushi – food portion, quantity the caloric content of sushi in a diet is calculated not on 100 g, and on 1 piece. Depending on the products used for making sushi, caloric content fluctuates from 60 to 100 kcal in 1 piece.

The diet is recommended to sushi not only because of the low caloric content of sushi and beaters, but also as the diet rich with valuable nutrients, vitamins and minerals at the minimum content of the fats presented generally polyunsaturated fat the Omega-3 by acids.

One more advantage of sushi of a diet – its sytnost. At the low caloric content of sushi, thanks to a large amount of complex carbohydrates and the celluloses which are contained in rice, a stomach it is well filled, and food long is digested and is slowly acquired. Increase duration of digestion of food of a squirrel and fats which in a small amount are present at the products supplementing rice in sushi (sea fish, caviar, seafood, a special omelet, Philadelphia cheese or tofu). It allows not to feel long enough feeling of hunger, maintaining breaks between meals, despite the low caloric content of sushi.

It is easy for sushi to diversify a diet, considering a large number of various options of making sushi with various filling. It is possible to eat to five different types sushi in any meal as at the admissible daily caloric content of 1500 kcal, in day they can be eaten from 15 to 25 pieces. Except sushi it is allowed to diversify a diet with salads, miso-soups and sashimi.

The diet at tendency to allergic diseases, gastritis and stomach ulcer is contraindicated to sushi.

Kinds of beaters and sushi, caloric content

In the menu of the Europeanized sushi – bars and restaurants, such views of the land most often meet:

• Beaters (sushi poppies, norimak, makidzus) – the thin, thick or turned-out sushi wrapped in a chain pump alga;
• Nigiri (nigiri-dzus) – modelled sushi;
• Uramaki (syakamaka) – round, the average size beaters "inside out", with several types of a stuffing;
• Temaki-sushi – the sushi wrapped in the chain pump seaweed curtailed in the form of kulechok;
• Inari – the sacks made of a special omelet or tofu cheese, stuffed with rice and other ingredients of sushi;
• Sashimi – the seafood cut by thin layers or a loin of crude fish;
• Gongkan (gunkandzus) – the small oval sushi in a form reminding boats or ships with a stuffing from above of rice;
• Tirasi-dzus (gomoku-dzus, bar-dzusi) – the loose sushi reminding rice salad.

We will consider the caloric content of sushi and beaters depending on a look and filling below:

• Beaters (California type) with a cucumber or avocado, a shrimp or crabmeat and caviar of flying fish – 100 kcal;
• Beaters with vegetables or with avocado – 50 kcal;
• Beaters with a cucumber and crabmeat, avocado or a lettuce leaf – 75 kcal;
• Beaters (Philadelphia type) with a cucumber at various fat content of cheese – from 100 to 125 kcal;
• The beaters (Philadelphia or Moscow type) wrapped in thin layers of fillet of a salmon with a smoked eel stuffing – 195 kcal;
• Beaters with cucumbers and the Japanese omelet – 125-140 kcal;
• The beaters (Dragon type) wrapped by a smoked eel with an avocado or cucumber stuffing with Philadelphia cheese - 260 kcal;
• Sushi with a smoked eel, a salmon, a shrimp, a scallop, a tuna, an octopus, a squid, a yellowtail (rudderfish) or the Japanese omelet – 10-50 kcal;
• Nigiri with a crab, an octopus, caviar of a salmon or flying fish – 45-55 kcal;
• Sashimi from squids – 75-87 какл;
• Sashimi from a yellowtail (rudderfish), an octopus or a grouper – 95-105 kcal;
• Sashimi from flitch or a tuna – 100-110 kcal;
• Sashimi from fillet of a salmon – 170 kcal;
• Sashimi from an eel smoked – 330 kcal.

The calories which are contained in sushi supply an organism with necessary energy. Besides, components of sushi are a source of iron, calcium, iodine, B12 vitamin, complex carbohydrates, celluloses, Omega-3 and Omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids, high-quality proteins.

How many calories in sushi ingredients

The sushi which are especially Europeanized is a convenient and useful food designer in whom, using as a basis the main ingredients and considering personal flavoring preferences and existence of available product set, it is possible to invent for himself fine food. What contents in sushi of calories, it is important to know on condition of observance of a diet.

To count калораж simply, knowing how many calories in sushi ingredients (average value of kcal in 100 g of a product):

• Rice – 335;
• Smoked eel – 326;
• Salmon – 195;
• Shrimps – 100;
• Crab meat – 87;
• Mussels – 77;
• Caviar red – 250;
• Tobiko (caviar of flying fish) – 280;
• Philadelphia cheese – 253;
• Tofu cheese – 76;
• Spaysi-sous – 588;
• Unagi-sous – 236;
• Teriyaki sauce – 119;
• Soy sauce – 70;
• Wasabi – 60;
• Ginger – 17;
• Rice vinegar – 12.

Irrespective of caloric content, sushi is a fine food, on condition of use for their preparation of the freshest fish, algas, the best grades of rice and other qualitative ingredients.