Losing weight with bitter substances: Ginger curbs the desire for sweets
Created: 11/28/2022, 06:30
By: Anna Katharina Kusters
People often avoid bitter foods like chicory, fennel or cabbage.
These vegetables help you lose pounds.
What tastes good and which foods we tend to grimace at and reject with thanks changes constantly over the course of life.
Brussels sprouts, chicory or fennel, for example, are less popular with adults.
This vegetable contains important bitter substances that even help you not to constantly reach for sweets.
Losing weight with bitter substances: Ginger curbs the desire for sweets
Ginger contains many healthy bitter substances.
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Sweet treats are plentiful, especially in the cold autumn and winter months.
It starts with the delicious speculoos biscuit in the afternoon and ends at the Christmas market with mulled wine, cotton candy and roasted almonds.
It is particularly important in winter that not only sweets end up on the plate, but also a large selection of vegetables, herbs and fruit.
A balanced diet in winter not only protects you from unloved colds, but can also ensure that we don't succumb to the Christmas candy rush in the first place.
Because vegetables, herbs and fruit with bitter substances curb the appetite for sweets and at the same time support digestion.
According to Verbraucher-Service-Bayern, bitter substances also work in the body in the following way:
activate the feeling of satiety via various hormones
stimulate bile flow, which has a regulating effect on blood fat levels and cholesterol levels
have a positive effect on the intestinal microbiome
support immune system
have anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties
The need to reach for the biscuit bowl comes to a standstill, as it were.
Losing weight with bitter substances: helpful fruit, vegetables and herbs
The bitter substances contained in food are secondary plant substances.
Many bitter substances can be assigned to the groups of saponins and flavonoids as secondary plant substances.
Some bitter substances are toxic to humans.
These include, for example, the bitter substances contained in ornamental gourds.
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The following types of vegetables, on the other hand, contain health-promoting bitter substances:
fennel
broccoli
aubergine
cabbage
artichokes
There are also some types of fruit that provide the body with healthy bitter substances:
Grapefruit
pomegranate
cranberries
Lemons
oranges
If you want to spice up your salad with some bitter substances in the future, it is best to use the following types of lettuce:
arugula
Chicory
endive
radicchio
Some of the more bitter herbs include cumin, coriander and thyme.
With a little passion for cooking, the winter kitchen can be made a little more bitter and therefore healthier in just a few simple steps.
Tip: Ginger also contains bitter substances and can be easily incorporated into many dishes as a spice.
Losing weight with bitter substances: A bitter day
A day on which you incorporate bitter foods into your diet here and there is quite easy to implement.
For example, start at breakfast by adding a handful of pomegranate seeds to your muesli.
If you like, you can also eat half a grapefruit every morning.
Then, for lunch, you can have a big salad where you mix arugula with endive and garnish with artichoke hearts.
For dinner, you can then focus on a cabbage dish, such as scalloped brussel sprouts or red cabbage braised in garlic and deglazed with soy sauce.
This article only contains general information on the respective health topic and is therefore not intended for self-diagnosis, treatment or medication. In no way does it replace a visit to the doctor. Unfortunately, our editors are not allowed to answer individual questions about clinical pictures.
