YOGYAKARTA - How many calories are in pempek? As is known, as a typical Palembang food, pempek is tempting, but behind its deliciousness, submarine pempek actually has a fairly high calorie content.
For anyone who is on a healthy diet or counting daily intake, it is certainly important to understand how much energy comes from each bite of pempek. So, the calculation of nutrition can also be more accurate.
How Many Calories Are in Submarine Pempek and Its Nutritional Information?Submarine pempek is one type of typical Palembang pempek made from fish and starch dough, with eggs in it. This pempek is generally fried and served with a spicy and sour cuko sauce.
Quoted from Antara, the number of calories in submarine pempek reaches around 335 kkal per serving. The portion in question is about 1 medium pempek. So, why is the number of calories in this pempek so high?
The first reason, the submarine pempek variant has fish content that is rich in protein, in addition, pempek also contains starch flour as a binding material which contains additional carbohydrate content. Carbohydrates are the energy supplier and contribute to the total calories.
Submarine pempek also contains eggs wrapped inside, which can also increase the calorie content. Eggs contain high protein and healthy fat, so they add to the calorie value of pempek.
In addition, pempek is also a type of food that is fried, and cooking oil can also increase the number of calories. Oil is absorbed into the batter during the frying process, which also plays a role in increasing the calorie content of pempek.
Besides calories, other nutritional information contained in the submarine pempek for a size of about 200 grams (g) includes:
Polyunsaturated fat: 3.574 g Energy: 1402 kj Fat: 14.97 g Saturated fat: 3.471 g Trans fat: 0 g Monounsaturated fat: 6.108 g Cholesterol: 185 mg Sugar: 4.4 g Sodium: 441 mg Potassium: 517 mg Protein: 25.83 g Carbohydrates: 22.51 g Fiber: 0.8 gSubmarine pempek is indeed classified as a food that is quite rich in calories because it contains a combination of the ingredients used, the method of processing by frying, and also the addition of eggs in it. To maintain the balance of calories in the diet, it is recommended to consume submarine pempek in a reasonable portion.
If you look at it as a snack, the calories of submarine pempek are quite large, but still within reasonable limits for the main meal portion. If you want to reduce calories, you can choose to eat pempek in smaller portions.
That's the review of how many calories pempek and the nutritional information contained in it. Hopefully useful. Visit VOI.id for other interesting information.
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