Gentle transparent jelly beckons with its coolness and makes you want to take on a spoon. It can be multi-layered and multi-colored, fruity and milky. It is advised to use during various diets. But what is its main benefit expressed in? And how to cook a healthy product?
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Classic jelly composition
The most common jelly recipe at home consists of using the following ingredients:
- fruit juice or compote;
- sugar;
- gelatin.
To prepare a dessert, gelatin must be fluffed in boiled slightly warm water. Do not pour boiling water over it.
Gelatin is of animal origin. It is made from joints, bones, and tendons of animals and fish. Through a complex drawing process, the adhesive substance is crystallized and an already familiar product called "gelatin" is obtained. Its main components are protein and collagen.
Also in gelatin you can find:
- amino acids;
- glycine;
- alanine;
- hydroxyproline;
- aspartic acid;
- glutomic acid and more.
The benefits of classic jelly are indicated by its composition. Fruit and berry juices contain a storehouse of trace elements and vitamins, which are almost not destroyed during cooking. After all, this dessert requires a minimum of heat treatment.
By adding protein and collagen to this composition, you can get a well-digestible, very nutritious, but low-calorie product.
For maximum benefit, jelly is recommended to be limited to a minimum of sugar when cooking. Better yet, cook without it at all.
Useful types of jelly
Along with gelatin, pectin or agar-agar can be used to make a healthy and light dessert. These substances have a plant basis. Agar-agar is extracted from some types of seaweed, while pectin is found in fruits such as pears, apples, plums. Such gelatin substitutes improve digestion and peristalsis, remove heavy metal salts from the body.
Agar-agar contains iodine, iron, calcium, magnesium and folic acid. These substances are not just beneficial for the body. They slow down aging, strengthen the heart muscle, blood vessels and nervous system, remove toxins and cleanse the liver.
Once in the stomach with food, agar-agar swells and, thus, allows you to feel a sense of fullness. For this property, the products in which this substance is included are recommended to be used to lose weight.
The next substitute - pectin binds salts of heavy metals and radionuclides and removes them from the body. It normalizes metabolism, helps in the work of the kidneys and liver, cleanses them and blood vessels from harmful cholesterol. As a prophylaxis, it is recommended at a risk of atherosclerosis and cholelithiasis.