How fatty is your Vada Pav?
We launch a new health series this week, where we ask Get Ahead fitness expert Samreedhi to review the calorie count and nutritional content of popular snacks from across the country. This week's pick is that Mumbai staple, the Vada Pav.
Thanks to easy availability, the vada pav may be the chosen snack of many. Health wise, however, eating one often may not be such a good idea. Here's why.
1 Vada Pav (295 calories) (8.5 gms fat*) = 65 minutes of running to burn these calories.
This deep-fried snack is loaded with calories of the wrong kind -- fat calories. Nutritionally speaking, it doesn't provide much apart from energy. While most of us are careful about the type of oil we use at home, we never stop to wonder what is being used for snacks outside. Most places selling fried snacks constantly re-use and re-heat the same oil over and over again much beyond its smoking point. This causes the formation of unhealthy trans-fatty acids that harm the heart in the long run.
Weight-watcher's tip: If you are preparing vada pav at home, try using minimum oil. Then place them on tissue paper that can absorb some of the oil. Avoid re-using oil used for frying.
*depends on method of cooking
source http://specials.rediff.com/getahead/2006/oct/04slid.htm
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