Quality cottage cheese, which does not contain palm oil, is as good for the body as natural bee honey. The idea of combining these products in one dish is not new. Nutritionists believe it is beneficial for those who are losing weight. However, the question of whether it is possible to eat cottage cheese with honey is much broader, and affects not only nutrition.
The content of the article
- 1 What is cottage cheese
- 2 What is natural honey
- 3 Calorie content and absorption rate
- 4 Who can eat
- 5 Expected benefit
- 6 Противопоказания
- 7 How to cook
- 7.1 To bake or not to bake?
- 8 We spoil the kids with benefit
- 8.1 Homemade yogurt
- 8.2 Homemade curd
What is cottage cheese
This fermented milk product is obtained in the process of fermentation, most often, of cow’s milk and separation of the liquid – whey. It is popular in Europe, excluding its southern regions, and also partially in Japan, North America, and Great Britain.
It is classified by fat content (its percentage is usually indicated when sold in stores). It can be low-fat, low-fat, classic and fatty.
In terms of chemical composition, natural curd mass is mainly proteins and fats. It also contains many macro- and microelements, vitamins. The product is a rich source of calcium, potassium, phosphorus, zinc, sodium, magnesium, iron.
In baby food and nutrition for pregnant women, breastfeeding women, it is valued precisely for the excess calcium and the presence of complete protein.
What is natural honey
A high-quality honey product is a combination of simple sugars in the form of fructose and glucose, as well as water, a small dose of pollen.
Once in the digestive system, it is quickly absorbed into the bloodstream thanks to simple sugars that do not require additional processing with enzymes.
The content of trace elements – up to 200 items. There are noticeably less vitamins. Folic, ascorbic, pantothenic acid, B vitamins, carotene are present in sufficient quantities. Moreover, carotene is sixty times more than in beef.
To read:
Natural bee honey – its benefits and possible harm
Calorie content and absorption rate
In terms of calorie content, honey is in the lead. In one hundred grams of a bee product, on average, from 300 to 350 kilocalories (indicators vary depending on the variety and, accordingly, the proportions between glucose and fructose).
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Diet and honey – can you combine
100 grams of curd mass in a fat-free state contains 71 kilocalories. At 18 percent fat, this is 240 kilocalories.
Fatty cottage cheese bought from village grandmothers is as natural as possible. It is eaten in smaller amounts than low-fat mass, but the health benefits are greater..
Both products are absorbed quickly enough.
The honey product is absorbed into the blood in about 15-20 minutes. Therefore, it should not be mixed with nuts, sprouted cereals (absorbed for about two hours).
The exact time of assimilation of cottage cheese is unknown, but biologists say that denaturation of milk proteins promotes their speedy breakdown by food enzymes. During digestion, the stomach secretes less hydrochloric acid, enzymes, juice than when eating whole or fermented milk.
One of the most controversial topics is whether it is possible to add honey to cottage cheese?
It is believed that the presence of fast carbohydrates interferes with the high-quality assimilation of milk proteins (not all amino acids enter the bloodstream). It takes more time to assimilate a dish than when eating food separately. And the benefits will be less due to the formation of toxins.
Nevertheless, such dishes are still popular and are considered very useful for the human body at any age.
Who can eat
Curd-honey mixtures are added to the menu:
- athletes and persons experiencing great physical or mental stress;
- pregnant women, as calcium and protein are extremely important for a growing fetus;
- breastfeeding women who lose a lot of micronutrients with milk;
- children, as a rich source of proteins, potassium, calcium;
- people experiencing overweight problems (both products have lipotropic properties, that is, they significantly accelerate and improve fat metabolism).
Expected benefit
The useful properties of honey and curd dishes include:
- saturation of the body with vitamins, macro- and microelements important for it;
- an increase in the level of hemoglobin in the blood;
- strengthening bone tissue and cartilage at any age (especially useful with active growth);
- mild diuretic effect and, as a result, getting rid of edema;
- normalization of fat metabolism;
- assistance in the functioning of the cardiovascular system in atherosclerosis, hypertension, heart disease;
- normalization of the gastrointestinal tract, liver.
Противопоказания
The main contraindication is the ability of a medical product to cause an allergic reaction.
It cannot be introduced into the diet:
- with food intolerance;
- diabetes mellitus (prohibited without a doctor’s permission);
- skin diseases, accompanied by a retention of carbohydrates in the epidermis.
To read:
How to recognize and treat honey allergies
How to cook
The simplest dish that is considered a classics of healthy eating is to take for breakfast or dinner:
- from 100 to 150-180 grams of low-fat cottage cheese;
- one or two teaspoons of honey product in a liquid state.
It is not worth adding nuts, dried fruits, berries to the resulting mixture in the morning, since they do not combine in terms of the speed of assimilation.
But in the evenings, the dish can be spiced with a pinch of cinnamon, which has fat-burning properties.
To bake or not to bake?
It is often advised to bake apples filled in the core with a mixture of honey product and cottage cheese.
In our opinion, this is also not worth doing. After all, any heat treatment reduces the healing properties of honey. Heating above 40 degrees Celsius destroys plant antibiotics, lowers the enzymatic activity of the bee product, vitamins are lost, and the composition of sugars changes.
If we want to get the usual delicacy at the end, we can bake it. But if we are talking about a healthy diet, and benefits for the body, this method of preparation should be avoided.
Remember! Honey and cottage cheese are most useful only raw..
We spoil the kids with benefit
For the younger generation, there are delicious “raw” recipes that exclude baking and loss of useful properties of the honey product.
Remember! Bee products are given to children with extreme caution.… They begin to introduce it into the diet literally at the tip of a teaspoon.
Homemade yogurt
It is taken:
- 200-250 grams of medium-fat curd;
- half a liter of kefir or fermented baked milk;
- two medium bananas;
- a teaspoon of honey product (can be replaced with jam if you are allergic to bee products).
All components are blended in a blender until smooth.
Homemade curd
It is taken:
- 200 grams of not very fatty cottage cheese;
- four tablespoons of sour cream;
- one or two teaspoons of honey product.
All components are whipped with a mixer until smooth.
The same curd mass is usually sold in stores, but no one can guarantee its quality. And with home cooking, you can control both the fat content of the dish for the child, and its proportions, sweetness.
Thus, it is very easy to adjust curd-honey dishes to suit your needs. When losing weight, preference is given to low-fat cottage cheese. Intensive workouts, physical, mental stress require the use of more high-calorie meals. In childhood, it will be useful to add banana, kefir, sour cream to the mixture.
There are a minimum of contraindications for such dishes, but there are many benefits..
Even if there are doubts about serving on the same plate, a compromise can be found. For example, drinking warm herbal tea, and with it a bite to consume honey or cottage cheese – in one step (in the morning) a bee product is added, in the other (at lunch or in the evening) a fermented milk dish.
