Chinese Food Calories
Chinese Food Calories: Chinese Food
Eating out dining on chinese food can be a healthy experience if you know your chinese food calories and choose the right chinese foods. Some chinese meals are low in fat and full of vitamins and minerals due to the high vegetable content. However chinese food calories can be high in both chinese food from Chinese restaurants and chinese food takeaway. This is due to chinese food being cooked with large quantities of oil with many chinese dishes being deep-fried.
As well as the food itself make sure you go easy on the quantities when ordering chinese food. Rather than ordering side portions of rice or chips each get one portion of chips or chinese rice to share between two. If you then choose a main course each which is loaded with vegetables rather than meat and batter, you can have a chinese meal with is relatively much lower in calories compared to standard choices.
Below are some pointers to consider when eating out on chinese food.
Chinese Food Starters
Most starters for any type of food including in particular chinese are not good for a dieter. They tend to be nibble type food that are small but tasty due to the way they are cooked which usually involves deep frying and coating in breadcrumbs or batter. As the starters also appear small and inoffensive on a plate they are easy to keep eating due to their bite-sized pieces. Some of the chinese food high calorie offenders are crispy wontons, spring rolls, crispy seaweed, sesame prawn toast, prawn crackers and spare ribs. The best choices for low chinese food calories are the soups such as hot and sour and chicken and sweetcorn.
Chinese Food Rice
When choosing rice always remember that picking boiled as opposed to fried rice immediately cuts the chinese food calories. the calorie content of meals if you choose boiled rather than fried rice. A typical serving of boiled rice has 380 calories. A standard serving of egg fried rice is 630 calories. If you choose the special fried rice containing pieces of chopped mixed meat and prawns the calories add up even more.
A good diet tip is to choose a main course and couple with a serving of bean sprouts or mushrooms and bamboo shoots (most chinese restaurants and chinese takeaways do variations of these plain dishes). Being just vegetables in a plain, often just soya, sauce you can cut the calories down even further.
Chinese Food Crispy duck
A well known chinese favourite but a serving of crispy duck of just one pancake filled with duck meat contains around 200 calories! In addition this chinese appetiser is often served as oart of the starters and not even as a main course! This chinese food calorie content is so high as the duck is served with it’s fattiest part intact-the skin.
You can still enjoy a bit of this dish though if you are wise and load up on the shredded cucumber with a little plum sauce and either some of the lean duck meat and no skin or the salad, sauce and a small pancake.
Chopsticks
By making use of the traditional chopsticks you can slow down the speed of eating your food thus limiting the amount of calories you consume.
Useful links
Chinese Food Calories Counter
Food calorie counter
Alcohol calorie counter
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