Soup is considered an important and healthy dish, one of the main and favorite in the diet of many people. Many were told that first courses are necessary for the proper functioning of the stomach. Parents try to cook homemade soups for their children. After all, it is important for a child's fragile digestive system to receive liquid and hot food. Such dishes for adults are the basis of a healthy diet.
Recently, the benefits of soups have been questioned. Both purchased in a restaurant or cafe, and prepared at home. Why? Are these concerns about the dangers of soups warranted? It is worth figuring out what gave rise to such an opinion.
The benefits of soups
Soups are really necessary in the diet of every person, especially children. By what means? During cooking, vitamins, microelements, amino acids and collagen are released from the bones into the broth, which is used in the body for the structure of bones, joints, nails, hair. The vegetables used in the preparation of the soup also give the broth the beneficial substances they contain. Indeed, hot and liquid foods are the most comfortable for most people to digest. It is more easily absorbed, thereby enabling the digestive system to recover.
What then is the harm of soups
If you use meat with a lot of fat to make the soup, it puts a lot of stress on the liver and extra unnecessary calories, which can lead to health problems and excess weight. Even if you carefully remove the foam and melted drops of fat, you should always do that. It is advisable to drain the broth after boiling for 15-30 minutes (even 40 minutes is better), and prepare the soup in the second broth. When meat is cooked for more than 2 hours, it becomes tough, more difficult for the stomach to digest, and the amount of nutrients decreases significantly. Bones without meat can be cooked for a longer time - 4-6 hours. On farms, pets are injected with hormones and antibiotics. These drugs are used to prevent infectious and parasitic diseases in animals and birds, to increase the mass and growth rate. To a greater extent, these substances accumulate in the skin, subcutaneous fat, liver, kidneys, stomach. Therefore, when cooking soup, if you do not remove the skin from poultry meat and remove fat, offal, harmful substances pass into the broth. Also, vegetables that are pre-sautéed are harmful, since even with a short frying, toxic substances are formed.
To make the soup only beneficial, you need to exclude those items that make it unhealthy and heavy food. It is better to prepare first courses from lean meat and poultry (beef, chicken, turkey, rabbit), lean fish. When cooking soups, remove the skin from the birds and do not forget to remove the foam. Drain the first broth. Add vegetables to the soup without frying them first. Do not overcook meat in soup. If you follow these simple rules, homemade soups will not harm your health, but will only strengthen it.
