Tips For Choosing Healthy Fruit Snacks And Rich Nutrition

Apples (Pixabay)

JAKARTA - Eating snacks becomes a common habit in everyday life, because people often feel the desire to eat something between the main meal times due to hunger that appears a few hours after eating, a decrease in energy that can be overcome by snacking or wanting to enjoy a certain taste of food.

However, most people tend to avoid snacks, because they are considered unhealthy, even though according to data, ngemil can actually be a good habit as long as you choose healthy snacks.

Snacks can provide benefits if consumed wisely by consuming snacks from 'whole food' or foods that do not undergo a processing process for too long. Fresh fruits, raw vegetables, nuts, and low sugar yogurt are wholesale food snack contons that can help increase nutritional intake.

"FOODs, especially apples, are an excellent substitute for snacks because of the nutrients and flavonoid content they have. Eating foods that contain flavonoids can reduce the risk of various diseases, ranging from diabetes to cancer," said University of Indonesia nutritionist Vania quoted from ANTARA, Tuesday, August 20.

So far, according to Vania, the habit of snacking is synonymous with processed foods, foods that have gone through many processing processes, such as fried foods that have gone through the frying process.

There are five reasons that make a person consume unhealthy snacks, which are easy to find or are ubiquitous, delicious, cheap, nagih, and become something that is considered fun. Foods that have gone through many processing processes are usually high in sugar, salt, and fat.

"High foods of salt, sugar, fats, all day we have limits on the amount of consumption that can be eaten. Well, these foods usually when we start paying attention to the nutrients or know how to cook rich, we will also know if consumed a little, it's not full but the amount of salt, sugar, fat," said Vania.

Apples can be a processed snack because of the benefits given from apples for health, because they are rich in nutrition and low in calories.

"There are a lot of benefits. The first is low calories. So one medium-sized apple contains about 95 calories, and low glycemic index which helps insulin hormones rise," said Vania.

In addition, the low index of glycemics in apples makes it safe for diabetics to consume. Based on Cohort Study in 2013, it also states that it can help regulate blood sugar well, so that apples are safe for consumption.

It didn't stop there, it turned out that apples also had a high fiber content, around 4.4 grams, high enough for food that was included in the 'whole food' category which made the stomach feel full after eating an apple.

The high vitamin c and potassium content in apples can also be given an apple to meet the ingredients needed by the body.

"Apel contains vitamin c which is quite high, enough to meet the needs of the body in a day. The high politium is also good for those who like sports, because it can prevent rigidity, so that muscles are weak," he said.

Meanwhile, apple skin is also said to have a good content, so that the nutritional content of whole apples, the skin is peeled, made into different juices. Nutrients complete from apples can be obtained through the complete consumption of apples with their skins.