Does vermicelli have high calories?

In China, vermicelli can be found almost everywhere in the country. Due to different production locations, the thickness of vermicelli varies slightly from region to region. Vermicelli is mostly made from sweet potato flour, and the main ingredient is starch. So don’t eat more vermicelli just because sweet potatoes are low in calories. After processing, the calories of the two are substantially different. The following article introduces the calories of sweet potato vermicelli. Let’s take a look at the details.

Sweet potato vermicelli calories

Sweet potato vermicelli is made from sweet potatoes, which contain 95% starch. Sweet potato is a low-calorie food, its calories are far lower than rice, so sweet potato is indeed an ideal food for weight loss.

But are sweet potato vermicelli made from sweet potatoes also very low in calories? Wrong, sweet potato vermicelli is actually quite high in calories. The calorie content of dried sweet potato vermicelli is 337 kcal per 100 grams, which is not low at all. However, the calorie content of cooked sweet potato vermicelli will drop significantly, and its calorie content is lower than that of rice. Therefore, compared to rice, eating sweet potato vermicelli is still helpful for weight loss.

How to make delicious sweet potato vermicelli

Sweet potato vermicelli can be used as a dish or as a staple food. Here is a minced meat vermicelli dish that is very delicious with rice.

Main ingredients: 300 grams of sweet potato flour, 100 grams of lean meat.

Seasoning: peanut oil, salt, MSG, ginger, green onion, aged vinegar, peanuts, and chopped pickled mustard tuber.

Production steps: 1. Soak the sweet potato flour in cold water until soft, then rinse with cold water and drain for later use. 2. Pour oil into the hot pan, stir-fry the chopped green onion, ginger, garlic and chopped lean meat, and add a little salt and MSG. 3. Pour in clean water, put the sweet potato flour into the pot, and cook it together with chopped onion, ginger, garlic and lean meat. 4. Mix other seasonings evenly together, pour over the sweet potato flour, sprinkle with peanuts, green onions, coriander and pickled mustard, and serve.

Calories of vermicelli

Can eating sweet potato vermicelli help you lose weight?

From the above introduction, we can know that the calories of dry sweet potato vermicelli are very high. Even after being cooked, the calories of sweet potato vermicelli are only slightly lower than that of rice. Therefore, in terms of calories, the weight-loss effect of sweet potato vermicelli is not obvious. However, sweet potato vermicelli has a much stronger sense of fullness than rice, so it is easy to feel full after eating a small amount of sweet potato vermicelli, thereby reducing the amount of food eaten and achieving the effect of dieting and weight loss.

However, this feeling of fullness is just a "deception" to the body, so sweet potato vermicelli cannot completely replace rice as a staple food. Therefore, if you want to achieve good weight loss results, in addition to adjusting your diet, it is also very important to combine it with proper exercise.

Who is suitable to eat sweet potato vermicelli

Although sweet potato vermicelli is not low in calories, it is an ideal ingredient that can both fight cancer and benefit the heart. Sweet potato vermicelli contains beta-carotene, vitamin C and folic acid, all three of which have good anti-cancer effects. In addition to its anti-cancer effects, sweet potato vermicelli is also good for the heart. Because it contains potassium, beta-carotene, folic acid, vitamin C and vitamin B6, which are ingredients that help prevent cardiovascular disease.

Sweet potato vermicelli is a food suitable for all ages. However, friends with poor stomachs should try to eat less sweet potato vermicelli, and when eating sweet potato vermicelli, we should try to chew it before swallowing it to avoid increasing the burden on the stomach. In addition, since 95% of sweet potato vermicelli is starch, diabetic patients should also eat less sweet potato vermicelli.

So can pregnant women eat sweet potato vermicelli? Yes. However, when making sweet potato vermicelli dishes, we must pay attention to using less pepper, salt, and oil, and try to make it lighter, which is more suitable for pregnant women.