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Can slimming corn be eaten as a meal?
Can slimming corn be eaten as a meal?

Corn can be used as a staple food and can play a significant role in losing weight.

Material: 1 ~ 2 fresh corn. Method: Wash the corn, and pay attention to leave the shell and "beard" of the corn, which are rich in nutrition. After that, put a whole corn into the pot, add a proper amount of water and cook for 20 ~ 25 minutes. After it is cooked, you can eat it.

Usually, you can make corn grits and porridge for breakfast, and at the same time, you can also make corn flour into steamed cakes or steamed buns. Corn contains a lot of nicotinic acid and other ingredients. Regular consumption in life also helps to regulate blood sugar. If you want to lose weight, you can eat corn. When the weather is fine, you should take an active part in aerobic exercise, which can enhance your physical fitness.

Zeaxanthin and lutein contained in corn are beneficial to human body and can improve immunity. Corn is the favorite vegetable of many people. In fact, corn is not a vegetable, because it contains a lot of starch and has higher calories than ordinary vegetables. Therefore, in nutrition, corn is listed as a staple food.

What kind of corn is most suitable for people who lose weight, we will know by analyzing it.

The first kind: purple corn.

This kind of corn is purple-black. Every hundred grams of purple corn contains calories 168 calories, moisture 60 grams, protein 4.5 grams, fat 1 gram, carbohydrate 34 grams and cellulose 4.9 grams. Such nutrition distribution generally does not burden people who lose weight.

The second kind: sweet corn

This kind of corn is the common corn in our supermarket, the yellow one. The calorie per hundred grams of sweet corn is 107 kcal, the moisture content is about 75 grams, the protein content is about 3.3 grams, the fat content is 2.5 grams, the carbohydrate content is 17.8 grams, and the cellulose content is about 4.7 grams. Compared with purple corn, sweet corn has much lower calories.

The third kind: white corn

This kind of corn is also called pearl corn. Every 100g of corn has only 66 kilocalories, 83.8g of water, 3.4g of protein, only about 0.6g of fat, about 1 1g of carbohydrates and about 7g of cellulose.

After the above comparison, white corn seems to be more suitable for people who lose weight, but generally speaking, the other two kinds of corn can also be eaten as long as it is not excessive.

But people with weak spleen and stomach are not recommended to eat more corn. People who want to lose weight or diabetics can eat a proper amount of corn as their staple food. It is not recommended to eat corn for three meals a day.