2023-12-29 19:40:00
Baguettes made with only flour, water, yeast, and salt are diet foods. / Pixabay
If you are on a diet, you should avoid temptation from snacks such as bread and cookies. Would you believe if bread was a diet food?
However, good bread, ‘baguette’, is considered a diet bread. Baguettes are the representative bread of France. Just as our staple food is rice, baguettes are a staple food in France.
Baguettes must be made with only flour, water, yeast, and salt. In France, the ingredients for baguettes were regulated by law in 1993. In other words, if you use other ingredients such as butter and cheese, you cannot call it baguette.
Baguettes made with only flour, water, yeast, and salt are much lower in calories than other breads. Baguette bread has 279 kcal per 100g, most of which comes from carbohydrates (57.5g).
Considering that a croissant with butter contains 450 kcal per 100g, baguettes are a very low-calorie bread.
In addition, the texture of baguettes is helpful for dieting. The Chosun Ilbo introduced research results showing that hard and crunchy foods help with weight loss. To use an analogy, a hard baguette bread is better than a soft castella bread.
According to the results of a study recently published by researchers at the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands, chewing more food slows down your eating speed, makes you feel full faster, and allows you to eat less food.
The researchers divided 50 participants into four groups and provided them with four lunches with similar calories.
First, we divided them into foods that contain food additives such as sweeteners, preservatives, and colorings and that have been heavily processed and modified, and foods that have undergone minimal processing.
Afterwards, each of the two meals consisted of one meal consisting of foods with a hard and crunchy texture, and the other consisting of foods with a soft texture.
As a result of the experiment, participants consumed 26% fewer calories (about 300 kcal) when they ate foods with a harder texture, regardless of the degree of processing.
Although the meals served had the same number of calories and similar taste ratings, hard, crunchy foods required more chewing to swallow, slowing the overall rate of food intake by up to half.
The researchers said, “If we eat slowly, our bodies become more aware of the amount of food we have consumed, and we feel full more quickly, allowing us to stop eating.”
If you consume an appropriate amount of ‘traditional baguette’, which has a hard and crispy texture and does not contain butter, etc., you will be able to see the effect of weight loss.
To enjoy baguettes deliciously, we recommend dipping them in olive oil or balsamic vinegar instead of high-calorie cream cheese. [End_mark]
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