| With recent popularity of eating steamboat in winter | | | | absorb so much oil element in the soup, more over the |
| season, many people have steamboat more frequent | | | | high fiber in these vegetables can help to remove the |
| as usual. However there is also some health conscious | | | | oil that park inside our stomach. |
| and healthy diet practicer and analyst complain on | | | | Wrong Perception 3: The calorie level between |
| consuming steamboat is not healthy, potential in having | | | | different sauces are the same. Most of the time we |
| high cholesterol, overheat, and even as worst as | | | | neglected the sauces also contributed high calories into |
| contributing cancerous element to our body. Actually | | | | our diet, as usually we will consume a lot of sauces for |
| there is no bad natural foods, only wrong eating | | | | better taste and flavor. Example the frequent use |
| methods. Here listed out the top 5 most common | | | | sauce like garlic oil sauce, sesame sauce, chilies sauce |
| wrong perceptions about eating steamboat and share | | | | and other sauces will have easily 100 calories in 1 big |
| the right way of consuming this delicious healthy | | | | tablespoon. |
| steamboat cooking. | | | | Suggestion: Replace these above high calories sauces |
| Wrong Perception 1: Mutton and Beef has too high fat | | | | with fresh cut chillies, spring onion, white pepper into |
| quantity level, whereas fish balls and meat balls has | | | | soy sauce, which will reduces at least half of the |
| lower fat. The selection of ingredients of steamboat | | | | calories in the sauces. You can add in 2 teaspoon of |
| will directly impact the fatty and heat level we | | | | vinegar to help in dissolving fatty oil in the foods. |
| consume. In reality, processed fish balls, meat balls, | | | | Wrong Perception 4: Finishing up steamboat meal with |
| prawn dumplings and others has more fat, high salt | | | | desserts or main dish (noddles, rice, etc). Usually a lot |
| level, bad meat quality, at some extend the balls are | | | | of us will finish up the steamboat with some main dish |
| blended with a lot of starch rather than the actual | | | | like fried rice or noodles and some sweets. Actually |
| meat, so it really contains not much nutrition and | | | | this is not right as we might over consume with |
| vitamins. | | | | excessive calories. |
| Suggestion: Select skinny meat, low fat seafood, more | | | | Suggestion: The right way is to consume only 60-70 |
| vegetables or replace meat with bean curd to fill up | | | | percent fullness, if you want to have desserts or main |
| the protein needed. | | | | dishes. If you have taken too much starch base foods, |
| Wrong Perception 2: Green vegetables - more is | | | | just avoid main dishes and drink some teas to help in |
| better. All of us understood that eating more | | | | digestion. |
| vegetables is good, so in steamboat we add lot of | | | | Wrong Perception 5: Slowly enjoy eating steamboat |
| vegetables, soak them in until it is well done. But | | | | for hours while chit chat along. Even we understood |
| particularly in steamboat, green vegetables with big | | | | the benefit of eating slowly, but it does not apply in |
| leaves is subjected in easier to absorb more oil from | | | | eating steamboat, since the steamboat soup base |
| the soup, mushrooms also has the same function, | | | | once it is cooked for more than 90 minutes, the nitrite |
| hence it makes the green healthy vegetables to a high | | | | level in the soup will increase and consuming more |
| fatty and oily vegetables, no longer healthy. | | | | nitrite is not good. |
| Suggestion: Instead of choosing big leave green | | | | Suggestion: Control your steamboat eating session |
| vegetables, why not select those stem type | | | | around one and half hours, no longer than this duration. |
| vegetables like seaweed, lotus, carrot, radish, potato, | | | | Hope you find this practical and useful to you all. |
| and yam. Since these type of vegetables will not | | | | |