Wafers: calorie, benefit and harm

Today, waffles occupy a solid niche in confectionery practice. In any cookbook in the confectionery section, you can always find a chapter about them. Wafers, the calorie content of which is not inferior to other confectionery products - one of the many varieties of cookies, which has the form of a thin plate with an impression of honeycomb structure. Usually wafers are prepared from liquid dough in baking forms specially designed for baking.

Wafers can be baked not only as a separate dessert, but to make more complex confectionery masterpieces, for example, rosettes with stuffing, straws, wafer cakes, etc. Lovers of a slim figure, I would not recommend to abuse them or even completely abandon such a product as wafers: its caloric content is quite high (from 300 calories to 100 grams).

Dry and crispy leaves, called waffles, are baked in special waffle makers according to a very simple recipe. The composition of the classical version is as follows: water, eggs, flour, sugar powder. The baked goods are cut into smaller pieces. The filling can be very different, most often fatty or berry-fruit. Especially popular are wafers in chocolate, the caloric content in them, should be noted, the largest (more than 500 calories per 100 g of product). The product can have a variety of shapes, be completely or partially glazed with chocolate or other glaze.

Producers usually wafers with fruit filling are made in 5 layers, on the basis of fat - 9 layers. Of course, products with fat filling are very gentle and in the mouth they are pleasantly melting, but they are not useful. I would say, they are harmful. On the supermarket shelves a large selection of wafers based on fat fillings. Such fillings are nothing but trans fats. Many manufacturers do not withstand technological norms, and similar fats in the product go off scale. I think, it is not necessary to explain much that because of such a poor-quality product in the human body, excess cholesterol accumulates. In this filling can be added flavors, which benefit the body does not bring. Wafers, the calorie content of which is high, except for harm, excess weight, cholesterol, diseases will not bring anything good, except that two minutes of taste pleasure, until you are reinforced by them.

To negative factors that adversely affect the body when consuming a large number of waffle products, some scientists consider the disease of breast cancer, the risk of developing diabetes. Immunity is lowered from them, excess weight is observed.

But if you think that this is all, then I would like to emphasize that, despite all the airiness, the apparent ease, the wafers are very caloric. Fatty wafers, whose caloric content per 100 grams - 300 kcal adversely affect our health. What to say, about when we eat chocolate wafers, the calorie content of which reaches 516 calories.

If your arguments are weak and you are still fans of waffle products, I would like to bring a classic recipe and share some secrets for home-made waffles. So, you should take milk, butter, eggs (all ingredients of the same temperature, in order to better mix). To make a dough, rub the butter, then add the sugar. Eggs separately beat until the formation of foam. Sift flour, add soda, extinguished with a bite, pour into butter, whipped with sugar. The flour should be poured in portions, alternating with milk, stirring constantly. After this, pour the beaten egg into the dough and mix thoroughly again. Such a simple recipe, cooked in your kitchen, at least a little to save the family from the use of trans fats. After all, only your imagination can be cooked here, absolutely any stuff can be prepared, these desserts are enjoyed not only by the kids, but also by the adult inhabitants of the house.