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What You Should Know About The Poultry And Dairy Products-Healthy Living Part 6
We have learnt about soup, meats and fish to eat on a low fat diet in the past a few parts of “healthy living”. Today we are going to talk about how to get the best of poultry and dairy products.
Chicken, poussin, duck, goose, guinea fowl, quail and turkey provide easy options for both everyday cooking and celebratory meals. Among these poultry, chicken and turkey are excellent sources of animal proteins for low-fat, low-cholesterol content, provided lean poultry is used. But the dark meat of poultry is higher in fat content than white meat.
However, duck and goose are extremely high in fat and should not be included unless the fat is drained off and removed. Skinless duck and goose have?similar calorific and fat content than the equivalent skinless chicken.
Although the fat from chicken and turkey are much less quantitatively than that in meat, but is best drained off and removed in the same manner as in the preparation and cooking of all meats.
Eggs contain most of the recognised vitamins with the exception of vitamin C and most of the minerals that the human body requires for health. Egg whites, which are proteins, may be eaten and used for cooking as much as desired. But you should avoid egg yolk which contains one of the most concentrated forms of fat available?namely cholesterol.
Milk and dairy products such as yogurt, cheeses, and buttermilk contain an efficiently absorbed form of calcium. One pint or more daily of non-fat or skim milk should be taken. Use fortified milk with added amounts of vitamin A and D, as now commonly in use.
Cheese protein is classified as a high quality protein as it provides good amounts of all the amino acids required by the body, from the diet, for correct function. But the majority of cheeses are very high in butterfat content and so cannot be used in the low-fat diet.
But there are still quite a few exceptions. Cottage cheese is the favourite one for those on a diet. It is a soft, fresh-curd variety of cheese that has been made from dry curd and non-fat milk, specified by federal law and must contain a minimum amount of butterfat to meet legal requirements.
When you buy and use cottage cheese, one thing you should always check is whether they are creamed or not. The creamed cottage cheese of course does contain fat. The failure to notice that is the most frequent pitfalls in the use of cottage cheese.
Cheese made from milk whey and a favourite of Italian cooks, those various brands of cottage cheese such as “Slim Cheez” or Ricotta Cheese which taste like creamed cottage cheese can be used for low-fat menus. Some cheese spreads or dips which made from non-fat or cottage cheeses are also very good choices for low fat diet.
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What You Should Know About The Poultry And Dairy Products-Healthy Living Part 6
We have learnt about soup, meats and fish to eat on a low fat diet in the past a few parts of “healthy living”. Today we are going to talk about how to get the best of poultry and dairy products.
Chicken, poussin, duck, goose, guinea fowl, quail and turkey provide easy options for both everyday cooking and celebratory meals. Among these poultry, chicken and turkey are excellent sources of animal proteins for low-fat, low-cholesterol content, provided lean poultry is used. But the dark meat of poultry is higher in fat content than white meat.
However, duck and goose are extremely high in fat and should not be included unless the fat is drained off and removed. Skinless duck and goose have?similar calorific and fat content than the equivalent skinless chicken.
Although the fat from chicken and turkey are much less quantitatively than that in meat, but is best drained off and removed in the same manner as in the preparation and cooking of all meats.
Eggs contain most of the recognised vitamins with the exception of vitamin C and most of the minerals that the human body requires for health. Egg whites, which are proteins, may be eaten and used for cooking as much as desired. But you should avoid egg yolk which contains one of the most concentrated forms of fat available?namely cholesterol.
Milk and dairy products such as yogurt, cheeses, and buttermilk contain an efficiently absorbed form of calcium. One pint or more daily of non-fat or skim milk should be taken. Use fortified milk with added amounts of vitamin A and D, as now commonly in use.
Cheese protein is classified as a high quality protein as it provides good amounts of all the amino acids required by the body, from the diet, for correct function. But the majority of cheeses are very high in butterfat content and so cannot be used in the low-fat diet.
But there are still quite a few exceptions. Cottage cheese is the favourite one for those on a diet. It is a soft, fresh-curd variety of cheese that has been made from dry curd and non-fat milk, specified by federal law and must contain a minimum amount of butterfat to meet legal requirements.
When you buy and use cottage cheese, one thing you should always check is whether they are creamed or not. The creamed cottage cheese of course does contain fat. The failure to notice that is the most frequent pitfalls in the use of cottage cheese.
Cheese made from milk whey and a favourite of Italian cooks, those various brands of cottage cheese such as “Slim Cheez” or Ricotta Cheese which taste like creamed cottage cheese can be used for low-fat menus. Some cheese spreads or dips which made from non-fat or cottage cheeses are also very good choices for low fat diet.
