You should not use:

Chewy candies, toffees, lollipops

Bright candies contain many dangerous dyes and flavors, and this does not include the huge amount of sugar that is added to them. And the well-known fizzy drinks, although fun in the mouth, actually corrode the gastric mucosa.

A variety of toffees, toffees and chewing candies are not inferior to other store-bought sweets in terms of the amount of sugar and harmful substances, but plus their consistency is very bad for teeth, especially in children.

By the way, chewing gum with sugar and dyes is no less harmful. But those that do not contain sugar are completely harmless, but you should still not abuse them.

Store-bought cakes

Pastries and cakes that are made not in proven expensive confectionery shops, but in ordinary factories for stores, usually contain a lot of margarine and other unhealthy fats. They help reduce the cost of the product and increase shelf life, but in principle such sweets are very harmful for the digestive system and the body.

Sweet drinks

Sweet carbonated water and packaged juices are considered almost the leader of all harmful products. Dyes, flavors, preservatives, killer doses of sugar and no benefit. Even from juices! So remove such drinks from your diet and your child’s diet.

Chocolate bars

Chocolate bars are much healthier than regular chocolate bars. Due to the fact that there is a minimum of real chocolate there. But there is a lot of palm oil, trans fats, flavors and other harmful substances.

By the way, you should also not eat chocolates with various fillings, such as caramel, yogurt, mousse, and so on.

What can you replace:

Dark chocolate

Dark chocolate is much healthier than milk or white chocolate, but it should not be overused either. But a couple of pieces a week - no problem.

Sugar-free lollipops

There are such things too, yes, yes. And it’s better to make them at home yourself. Don't be afraid, they taste good, it's just achieved using less harmful substances.

Fruits, dried fruits, berries

Yes, fruits also contain sugar (especially dried fruits), but it is less harmful than that found in cooked sweets. And berries are generally incredibly useful for children, especially in the form of puree.

Fitness bars

They are not harmless, but if you feel like you need an urgent dose of sweets and are choosing between a regular chocolate bar or a fitness bar, choose the latter. There is less sugar (and there are some that do not contain sugar at all), but there are useful substances - muesli, dried fruits, nuts.

Do you think sugar is harmful and healthy sweets are a myth? But don't rush to eliminate sugar completely from your diet. First of all, because it is harmful to health. Glucose (a type of sugar) is needed by our body as a source of heat and energy. This is a kind of fuel for the human body, which also causes a feeling of happiness. If those with a sweet tooth decide to completely give up sugar, this will lead to irritability and constant cravings for sweets.

In this case It is worth replacing harmful sweets with healthy sweets. This will be especially relevant in the fight against winter depression, when you want to drink hot tea with tasty treats.

What healthy sweets can you eat without harming your health?

For us to feel energized and satisfied, our blood glucose levels must be stable. To do this, you need to eat complex carbohydrates and sometimes treat yourself to healthy sweets.

But why healthy sweets? Why can’t we just eat our usual candies, chocolate bars, and cookies? The thing is that an excess of these products only gives euphoria for a while, and in return causes addiction. Over time, sweet lovers develop fatigue and even depression, excess weight, problems with metabolism and teeth. Therefore, for those with a sweet tooth and those who want to stick healthy eating It is advised to reduce the consumption of simple sugar in the form of sweets and cookies.

You can replace them with healthy sweets. We'll tell you which ones.

Honey

Honey cannot be called a dietary product, but it is very useful. Unlike sugar, it contains vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and trace elements. Honey perfectly supplies our brain with the glucose it needs and strengthens the heart muscle. This is the most effective folk remedy for colds and coughs, which is recommended by many doctors. Honey can be put into warm tea, spread on toast, topped with fruit desserts or oatmeal. At the same time, honey is much sweeter than sugar, so you need to add very little of it.

Marmalade

The most important thing in healthy marmalade is natural pectin. If you find pectin compounds on the packaging, then feel free to buy it. This marmalade promotes good functioning of the gastrointestinal tract and relieves the liver of toxins. The norm per day is 20-30 g.

Paste

Paste also contains pectin. The most useful vitamins contained in this sweet are PP, C and B2, as well as iron, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, potassium, sodium. The marshmallow usually contains berry or fruit puree, honey and protein. This delicacy is especially useful for improving digestion. In the store you are unlikely to find marshmallows without harmful additives, but you can prepare it at home.

Apple marshmallow recipe

1-2 kg apples

sugar or honey

Peel the apples, cut them into pieces, put them in a saucepan and add a little water. Cook the apples until the puree is ready, stirring frequently. Depending on the type of apple, you can add sugar or honey to taste. Beat the boiled apples in a blender and cook until the liquid has completely evaporated. Line a baking tray with baking paper and spread a thin layer of puree.

The apple marshmallow should be dried in the oven for about 3-4 hours at 100°C. Then you need to take out the marshmallow and separate it from the paper. It can be easily rolled, cut and stored in a glass jar.

Marshmallow

Marshmallows are classified as dietary sweets, since they have few calories. It contains phosphorus, protein and calcium, so it strengthens the immune system, muscles and bones.

Dried fruits

Dried fruits are considered a healthy snack. These natural sweets help us resist colds, cleanse our intestines and protect our cells from damage. Dried fruits contain fructose, which makes them much healthier than regular sweets, since fructose does not increase insulin levels in the blood.

However, dried fruits should not be overused. This may cause diarrhea. A day you can eat 4 dried apricots or prunes, a handful of raisins, 3 dried figs.

Nut-fruit mixtures

A mixture of nuts, dried fruits and candied fruits helps the digestive system and improves performance. You can eat it as a stand-alone treat or add it to porridge.

Chocolate

Dark chocolate contains a lot useful substances and not much sugar. It improves memory and helps to concentrate, strengthens the heart and blood vessels, improves mood and protects against stress. You can consume 15-30 g per day.

Homemade sweets

For those who can't give up candy, there are homemade candy recipes. Their advantage is that they contain natural and healthy ingredients: nuts, dried fruits, cocoa.

Treats for those with a sweet tooth that are losing weight are topic No. 1, because... without them they have “no life.” In fact, you just need to find out how useful or useless these treats are for a healthy diet.

Any food consists of calories, calories “come” from proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Moreover, the body needs both, and the third, but fatty calories and carbohydrates make you fat if you eat a lot of them at once (more than 300 grams).

Therefore, delicacies exist to be enjoyed, and not to gorge on them, as many do and lose the beautiful outlines of the figure. Treats are eaten after the main meal and little by little - this is the main rule for everyone who controls weight.

The healthiest sweets

No. 1. Chocolate

Chocolate is a leader in protein content, which contains the happiness hormone serotonin - a universal antidepressant. Everything would be fine, but 100 grams of chocolate “weigh” from 550 to 650 kcal. How much chocolate can you eat to relieve stress? You understand that the dose is individual for everyone. There are women who 1-2 days before critical days they eat 2-4 tiles, which is 200-400 grams and from 1200 to 2500 kilocalories, respectively, in other words, from 50 to 100% of the daily calorie intake. Hence the excess weight.
It's not serotonin or even the protein in chocolate that makes you fat. Cocoa butter, which is from 35 to 50% in chocolate, as well as carbohydrate calories from sugars, will fill you up. Chocolate is also the best because its base is vegetable cocoa protein, which is very healthy and contains no cholesterol; it takes a long time to digest and is therefore filling. In addition, chocolate contains many necessary elements: potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, B vitamins, PP, lecithin - in short, everything that is needed for brain function and memory.

How much can you eat: 20-25-30 grams per day is enough. This is a quarter or a third of a hundred gram tile.

No. 2. Dried fruits

Dried fruits are the best delicacy after chocolate. Natural product, in which vitamins, pectins, fiber, antioxidants, fructose and bioflavonoids are all present. A healthy and at the same time high-calorie product, no less than 250, but no more than 300 kcal per 100 grams.
If you are prone to constipation, you can soak dried fruits in the evening and drink the resulting compote in the morning on an empty stomach. The main thing is not to deceive yourself. Dried fruits are the same prunes, dried apricots, dried apples or pears with natural sweetness, but not candied fruits of “poisonous” flowers.

How much can you eat: 3-4 pieces a day.

No. 3. Honey

The calories are the same as in sugar - in 1 tsp. approximately 40 kcal, but honey is much healthier. It contains microelements, vitamins, and bioflavonoids - antioxidants.

How much can you eat: Diabetics - 1-2 tsp. in a day or two. For those who are watching their weight - no more than 1 tsp. in a day. More for skinny people. But we remember that honey is an allergen, it’s better not to overeat.

No. 4. Marmalade, marshmallows, marshmallows, jam

These treats contain no proteins, no fats, no vitamins, and they contain very few microelements. All 300 kcal per 100 grams are “made” from carbohydrates-sugars. But carbohydrates will burn quickly if you remember the rule: don’t eat a lot, just a pack or two.

How much can you eat: 1-2 lozenges, or 1-2 marshmallows, or 1-2 marmalades with tea - and that’s enough. And then after the main meal and not every day. Once or twice a week is enough.

Homemade jam is healthier than just sugar, as it is made from natural berries. But we always remember the dosage rule: in 1 tsp. from 20 to 40 kcal.

How much can you eat: 1-2 teaspoons per day.

The most harmful sweets

No. 1. Sugar

Sugar is 100% carbohydrate calories, pure glucose, 374 kcal per 100 g. Not a single vitamin, no minerals, not a trace of protein.

No. 2. Candy caramel

Candy caramel - 96% carbohydrate calories, 362 kcal per 100 g. No vitamins or microelements.

No. 3. Cola

Cola - 100% carbohydrate calories, 1500 kcal 1.5 liter bottle. Nothing useful.

No. 4. Cakes

Even if the package of the cake bears the “low-calorie” label, don’t believe your eyes, it’s unlikely to contain less than 300 calories per 100 grams. Secondly, margarine is used in confectionery production. Rarely anyone in Russia dares to call it by its real name - trans fats. Are you ready to risk not only your figure, but also your health?

Conclusion: it is better to eat healthy food for this amount of calories, which contains proteins, healthy carbohydrates from vegetables and fruits, bread, cereals, natural berries, juices, vegetable oil, than to absorb “naked” calories. This, in the end, is simply dangerous to health, as it increases the risk of developing diabetes.

Which dough is more harmful?

Unleavened dough - The safest desserts for your figure are those based on flour, water and vegetable oil. Calorie content will not exceed 200 kcal, fat content - 1-2%.

Biscuit dough - flour, sugar and eggs - a light, easily digestible dessert. Calorie content - 280 kcal, fat content - 10-15%.

Puff pastry - butter, flour and eggs, and if also with custard - a heavy and high-calorie dessert. Calorie content - 400 kcal, fat content - 25.9%.

Choux pastry - butter, water, eggs and flour - a fairly easy and stomach-friendly option. Calorie content - 300kcal, fat content - 35%.

Shortbread dough - flour, sugar, eggs, margarine - the heaviest and most unhealthy. Calorie content - 430 kcal, fat content - 45%.

General rules for eating sweets

Sweets should be eaten in the first half of the day before 15-16. This also applies to sweet fruits.
Treats should be eaten after the main meal so as not to provoke spikes in blood sugar. Otherwise, we will get not only a surge and then a rapid drop in mood, but also increased production of the hormone insulin, which is responsible for storing fat.

"Tricky" tricks

1) “Cool” your favorite chocolate, put it in the freezer and eat, or rather, bite it cold.

2) Cut the candy with a sharp knife into 8, or better yet, 16 pieces. Eat mindfully, enjoying every moment.

3) Add cinnamon and vanilla to your drinks and dishes. These spices reduce cravings for sweets

4) Eat sweets consciously, not at night under the cover of darkness and do not suffer from guilt after eating. Enjoy!

5) Focus solely on the process itself. A treat is already a pleasure; you don’t need to “combine” it with watching TV, hanging out with friends or reading a book.

Not all people on the planet diet and lose weight. Someone, on the contrary, dreams of gaining a couple extra pounds, and someone wants to look the way they do now, without losing weight or gaining weight. Yes, in the end, even coaches sometimes want to drink a cup of tea for a reason, but as a snack with something sweet, but not very harmful. So today I decided to tell you about safe sweets, which can be enjoyed by people who are not on diets, children, as well as anyone who wants something tasty. So, what kind of sweets can you have? eat and at the same time know that they are practically harmless?

Now I want to emphasize the word "almost"(again for my own! It’s a bummer at every step, the article started normally =))))! Since today we will talk mainly about industrial sweets, and not about homemade baking, then it is worth understanding that modern food industry today produces less than 5% of ABSOLUTELY safe sweets, the remaining 95% is divided in half or very harmful, or almost safe sweets.

And we’ll start our list with perhaps the safest and even healthiest sweet – honey.

HONEY

Honey is not a dietary product, but safe sweetness, which was used long before sugar was invented!

A small historical digression.

Just 100 years ago, people didn’t even know what sugar was. And what? Tell me, until the twenty-first century there lived only fools? Archimedes, Newton, Mendeleev, and many other scientific minds somehow managed without sugar, and this did not stop them from making grandiose discoveries and inventions. If it were possible to submit their brains for examination (sorry for the blasphemy), then they would show 100% clarity, in contrast to the “glucose-syrup brains” of the modern generation, where every second person cannot live a day without sugar.

All this means that honey used to be sugar, candy, cookies, chocolate, and everything else you can think of. People got by with a maximum of 1 tbsp. honey a day, which served them as both a glucose boost for the brain and a pleasant bonus for tea. Therefore, to answer the question, what sweets can I have?, the answer is obvious - honey. But in order not to run into fakes and cheap fakes (yes, honey is faked too, don’t be surprised), I will give you some practical advice:

1. Do not buy honey in supermarkets or resellers!“Where can I buy it?”- you ask. Try to find people who keep Passika themselves and produce honey at home, as they say “only for themselves, relatives and friends.” This is due to the fact that when producing honey on an industrial scale (for delivery to supermarkets, shops and markets), producers resort to various tricks. One of them is product substitution. Very often starch caramel molasses is sold under the guise of honey. The production of this molasses costs only 18-20 rubles per kilogram, and the cost of natural honey ranges from 500-700 rubles per kilogram! Do you feel where the dog is buried?
2. Don't buy liquid honey in winter! This is due to the fact that honey tends to harden. Natural honey cannot remain liquid in winter, remember this! Only acacia honey has the property of remaining liquid for a long time; all other types of honey (buckwheat, sunflower, linden, etc.) begin to become sugary after 3-4 months, forming crystals of sucrose and fructose.

If the honey you bought remains liquid for a long time, this may be a sign that it has been heated. In general, according to GOST, honey can be heated, but be sure to follow these rules:

1) you need to heat ONLY in a water bath;

2) the temperature of the water bath should not be higher than 30 degrees.

Adhering to these conditions, all active enzymes and vitamins will be preserved in honey.

MARMALADE

Next next safe sweetness- This is marmalade. But not just any marmalade, but EXPENSIVE. The following rule applies to marmalade: the more expensive, the better! This is due to the fact that the most expensive substance in marmalade is the gelling agent (gelatin, pectin, agar agar, carrageenan and others). The more of this substance the manufacturer used when making marmalade, the denser and harder the consistency it will be. It is by this criterion that you can determine whether the marmalade in front of you is good and expensive or “so-so”.

In addition to a small amount of a gelling agent, cheap, and therefore not very high-quality, marmalade will always contain some kind of preservative. In this case it is sorbic acid. A preservative is added to increase the shelf life of the product, making it more competitive in the market.

ZEPHIR

Continuing the list harmless and safe sweets, we can’t help but mention marshmallows. Good marshmallows differ from all sweets in that they do not contain a single gram of fat; they consist of 80% carbohydrates.

Marshmallows are made from stabilized foam made from applesauce.

It happens something like this: sugar or fructose, food coloring (if you want to get colored marshmallows), vanillin or another flavoring additive, a stabilizer or a mixture of stabilizers are added to the puree. All this takes a very long time to form a thick foam, which is then given the desired shape and dried under certain conditions.

It would seem like the PERFECT sweetness, wouldn’t it? Made from natural applesauce, agar agar, and guess what – they added a little sugar, no big deal. But not quite like that...

There are two news, one bad, one good. The bad news is that all the applesauce from which marshmallows are made is sulfated, that is, treated with the preservative sulfite. And, unfortunately, during the production of marshmallows there is no heat treatment, so this preservative remains in the marshmallow! And the good news, although it would be better to say “soothing,” is that sulfite has a very slightly toxic effect, and if you choose from all the store-bought sweets, marshmallows can be considered one of the safest and most harmless.

So how do you choose safe marshmallows?

1. It is better to choose white marshmallows, since colored marshmallows have added dyes, and whether they are natural or not, manufacturers do not always write about this on the packaging, so it is better to play it safe and immediately buy marshmallows that are as natural as possible.
2. Don't buy chocolate marshmallows. All chocolate glaze is made from palm oil. You can read about the dangers of palm oil.
3. Marshmallows should not contain preservatives with the prefix “sorbate”: potassium/calcium/sodium sorbate and sorbic acid.

 CAUTION

Very often, marshmallows are equated with marshmallows, but this is a big misconception. Marshmallows always contain vegetable fat (palm oil, coconut oil or industrial margarine), but marshmallows do not (with the exception of marshmallows covered with chocolate glaze, where vegetable fat is contained in this glaze).

And another sweet that is confused with marshmallows is marshmallows. There is not, was not and cannot be any applesauce in this sweetness. This product is completely synthetic and is made from either molasses or corn/sugar syrup.

Therefore, if your child comes up to you in the supermarket and confronts you with a fait accompli, what sweets can he have among everyone present on the shelves of the confectionery department , then you can safely buy him white marshmallows, which do not contain preservatives.

DRYING (BUBLICS)

Drying is considered sufficient safe sweetness, if they do not contain hydrogenated fat, namely:

- margarine;

- palm oil;

— coconut oil;

— hydrogenated vegetable oil/fat;

— special purpose fat;

- oils in hardened form.

When choosing dryers, be sure to look at the composition! This should be the first thing you do when you pick up a pack of dryers. You can only buy those dryers that contain regular vegetable oil. Be very careful: not VEGETABLE FAT, but VEGETABLE OIL!

But, if you cannot find such drying products, then at least buy those with less than 2 g of fat per 100 g of product.

COOKIES “BABY CRISPS”

These cookies are far from being dietary, as their calorie content is more than 400 kcal per 100 g, but they are absolutely non-toxic. It contains only flour, sugar and eggs, nothing else, so if you choose between it and chocolates based on palm fat, then it is better to choose these crunchies. At the very least, this will be the least “evil” of most of those on the market.

CHOCOLATE

One of the safest and most delicious sweets is chocolate, but not all chocolate, but only that which does not contain sugar or which contains a safe sweetener.

Examples of high-quality dark chocolate:

— handmade chocolate “Chocolate Farm” (producer Ukraine)

— SHOUD’E handmade chocolate “Picant” (Ukraine)

— SHOUD’E 99% CACAO (Ukraine)

— LINDT ECXELLENCE 99% cacao (France)

— natural dark chocolate without sugar based on stevia “KORISNA KONDITERSKA” (manufacturer Ukraine)

— chocolate “Spartak” bitter (Republic of Belarus)

— “MELANIE” elite 90% cocoa (Republic of Belarus)

— dark chocolate “APRIORI” 99% sugar-free (Russia)

— bitter chocolate “GOLDEN MARK” 70% cocoa (Russia)

— dark chocolate “Pobeda” 72% cocoa without sugar (Russia)

ICE CREAM

Quest bars and protein bars

Protein bars, which all jocks love so much, are considered fairly safe sweets, but not everything is so simple. When choosing protein bars, you again need to carefully study their composition (ugh, twenty-five again). Yes, yes, yes, I will never get tired of repeating this, even if you throw stones at me when you meet =)

Make sure that your protein bar contains 3-4 times more protein than carbohydrates. That is, if there are 20 g of protein per serving, then there should be no more than 5 g of carbohydrates (this is ideal). If you see that a serving contains more carbohydrates than proteins, then it is best to find another bar. This one, of course, will be edible, but since you already prefer PROTEIN sweets, then it’s stupid to pay money for carbohydrates; with such success, it’s better to go and eat “Baby Crisp” cookies - the result will be the same.

And of course, make sure that the composition does not contain any harmful food additives in the form of synthetic dyes, sweeteners, preservatives and palm fat. Although you will find palm fat in almost 99% of all protein bars, since all industrial chocolate icing is made on the basis of palm oil, since natural cocoa powder costs tens of times more, and this is unprofitable for the manufacturer.

Well, that's where I'll end the list. safe sweets, I tried to remember all the more or less harmless industrial sweets that you can sometimes treat yourself to. And remember that these sweets are far from DIETARY, if you are at the stage of losing weight and decide: “since the trainer allowed it, then you can,” then the consequences in the form of extra pounds will inevitably overtake you. But if, on the contrary, you want to gain a little or by nature you don’t care how much or what you eat, since you will still remain the way you are, then these sweets will serve you as an excellent alternative to unhealthy chocolate bars and margarine cookies.

I hope this article was useful to you, and I will be very grateful if you share it with your friends) Let more people learn how you can sweeten your life without harming your health.

Sincerely yours, Janelia Skripnik!

1. Toffees, sweets, chewing candies. Any viscous and sticky sweets are a real killer for your teeth. The harm to your figure from them may not be greater than from ordinary lollipops, but the chances of getting caries are many times greater. By sticking to teeth and clogging the spaces between them, soft candies create excellent conditions for the development and nutrition of bacteria. And they successfully eat your enamel. The same goes for caramel and chocolate with liquid fillings.

2. Cakes and cookies. Especially if they are sold not in a first-class confectionery, but in a supermarket, in closed packaging. For reasons of economy and hygiene, manufacturers generously flavor their baked goods with margarine and other unhealthy fats.

3. Chocolate bars. You will be surprised, but chocolate in a bar is really much more harmful than bar chocolate, despite the fact that a standard bar is almost 2 times larger (a bar weighs 100 g, a bar weighs from 40 to 65). The fact is that the bars contain a minimum amount of chocolate as such, and the rest is made up of nougat, caramel and other fillers that are harmful to teeth and contain a large amount of fat.

4. Dried fruits. Mostly harmful because of the trust that for some reason many dieters have in it. It is believed that if it is a fruit, it means it is not harmful. In fact, dried fruits sometimes contain more sugar than chocolate, and we are ready to safely eat as much of them as we like.

What to replace:

1. Sugar-free lollipops. Don't be alarmed, they are still sweet, but the taste is achieved through components other than sugar. This makes the candy much safer for both your figure and your teeth. Finding them is not difficult: as a rule, manufacturers use such a product and put the “Sugar Free” label in the most visible place of the packaging.

2. Chewing gum. Naturally, also without sugar. You just need to chew wisely - no more than 1 pack per day and no longer than 5-7 minutes in a row. Otherwise, you risk getting gastritis and stomach ulcers.

3. Dark chocolate bar. Dark chocolate generally has much less fat than milk chocolate. In addition, it is full of antioxidants and is considered good remedy prevention of cardiovascular diseases.

4. Bananas. Banana is one of the sweetest and most satisfying fruits. It will not only quench your thirst for sweets, but also relieve hunger for a long time. But keep in mind that if you suffer from heartburn, you should avoid bananas.

5. Fruit bars. Go to any pharmacy and you will see there huge selection various muesli and fruit bars. Can be found. For example, a 30-gram bar containing only 100 kilocalories and made with honey and natural fruits.

6. Mini chocolates. Many of the chocolates we are used to have “gone” to a different format and are sold in the form of candies, 15-20 g each. Psychologically, it is much less dangerous for your figure. It is much easier to train yourself to eat one candy bar than to force yourself to eat only half a candy bar.