In the summer, you can treat yourself to various fruits and berries, which are not only delicious, but also useful. Like red currants, black berries are useful for losing weight. Nutritionists and doctors say that black currant is a real treasure, which contains antioxidants, vitamins and minerals.
Black currant - good and bad
The content of various substances provides a number of properties that contribute to weight loss:
- The properties of red currants are similar to black berries, since their vitamin composition is almost identical.
- Positive effects of berries on the activity of the digestive system and they also normalize the stool.
- Berries help to improve the functioning of the nervous system, which allows the body to better transfer the stress that it experiences during weight loss.
- Caloric content of black currant is small, so, for 100 g there are 62 calories. Therefore, even with the use of berries in large quantities, you do not harm the figure.
- The composition of berries includes linolenic acid, which takes an active part in the process of splitting fatty deposits.
- Black currant helps to reduce appetite.
- Useful properties have and currant leaves, which can be added to salad, as well as meat and fish.
Harm Blackcurrant can bring to people who showed an individual intolerance to the product. When using berries in large quantities for a long period of time, there may be increased coagulability of the blood. It is not recommended to eat black currant people with high acidity of the stomach, ulcers and gastritis. It is worth considering that vitamins in the currant during the long heat treatment are destroyed, so consume the berries in fresh form.
How to use black currant?
You can eat berries just like that, and also prepare various drinks based on them. Recently, great popularity is enjoyed by smoothies from black currant. Such a drink can be consumed as a snack, and also as a dessert during the main meals.
Ingredients:
- black currant - 200 g;
- water or low-fat milk - 0.5 liters;
- honey, ice.
Preparation
Combine all the ingredients, and whisk with a blender until the ice turns into a crumb. The drink can be decorated with whole berries or mint leaves.
Weight Loss Options
If you want to get rid of excess weight with the help of black currant, you can use a diet that is designed for a month and is based on an alternation of 2 days.
Day # 1
- breakfast: boiled egg, 30 g of cheese of solid grades, 1 tbsp. smoothies of black currant;
- dinner: a small piece of boiled chicken breast, a salad of cabbage, Bulgarian pepper and herbs, dressed with olive oil and 350 g of currant berries.
- dinner: 200 g of low-fat cottage cheese with 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sour cream and 200 g of black currant berries.
Day # 2
- breakfast: 200 g of low-fat cottage cheese mixed with 150 g of black currant;
- lunch: vegetable soup puree without potatoes, squash pancakes with 1 tbsp. a spoon of sour cream, a blackcurrant compote;
- dinner: a serving of vegetable stew without potatoes and 1 tbsp. natural yogurt with the addition of currant.
There is another menu that you can use to
- breakfast: oatmeal in water or skimmed milk, green tea and 300 g of black currant berries;
- second breakfast: 1 tbsp. smoothies of black currant;
- lunch: a portion of low-fat fish or veal, baked vegetables and blackcurrant compote;
- snack: 350 g of black currant berries;
- dinner: a serving of vegetable salad, which must be filled with olive oil.
Do not forget at this time to drink green tea without sugar, and also still fresh water.