Low-calorie salad dressings are a healthy alternative to regular dressings, but consumers should be wary of advertising claims and check the calorie content on food labels. Homemade dressings can also be made with low-calorie ingredients.
Salads are not only an extremely healthy choice in food, but they can also help dieters lose weight. However, pouring on salad dressing to add some flavor to a meal can negate the salad’s low calories and healthy benefit. Fortunately, there are many varieties of low-calorie salad dressings that are just as delicious as regular salad dressings.
There are many different types of commercial salad dressings that cater to different dietary needs. Low-fat, fat-free, oil-free, sodium-free, low-calorie, and low-calorie dressings cater to how the body uses ingredients calories, which can affect an individual’s health and weight. For example, an oil-free, low-calorie salad dressing may be beneficial to a person who has a problem not only with her weight, but also with cholesterol.
Low Calorie Salad Dressing is available in almost all flavors of regular dressing, such as bleu cheese, Russian, Italian and so on. Sometimes, the reduction in fat and calories tends to make these types of toppings less tasty. To address this issue, many gourmet recipes have been created that are naturally low in calories but not lacking in flavor.
It’s very easy to make low-calorie salad dressings at home by substituting high-calorie ingredients for low-calorie ingredients that taste similar but are healthier. For example, people who like to use mayonnaise as a salad dressing can easily substitute hanging curds. They can simply drain the whey from the curds and whip it until it’s the right consistency. Another DIY low-calorie salad dressing is lime juice and vinegar.
When choosing a low-calorie salad dressing, consumers shouldn’t be fooled by advertising claims. A dressing can boast of containing only 59 calories per tablespoon (14.78 mL). However, 50 of those calories could come from fat, which dieters should avoid.
The calorie content of every food is required by law in the United States to be published on the food label. Calories from fat, which sit below the total amount of calories per serving, are what consumers should be most concerned about when choosing a low-calorie salad dressing. Calories that don’t come from fat are burned for energy and generally don’t make people fat.
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