Many Chinese food lovers ask whether they can eat Chinese food if they are on a
low carb diet. To make it clear, low carb diet doesn't count calories
or forbid certain food groups. You may eat whatever you like and so
much as you can, but take into account the content of carbohydrate in
your meal. During a low carb diet the metabolism stabilizes, and you
can lose weight faster than with a traditional diet. Besides that,
after such a diet, which can imply low carb Chinese food, blood
pressure and insulin level are lowered, while blood sugar is adjusted
and you feel more active.
Some connoisseurs of oriental cuisine claim that low carb Chinese food
doesn't exist, as most Chinese popular
dishes
contain much starch and sugar. Thus, noodles in thick sauce, buns with
savory soup and zesty stews, not to tell about plum sauce or wontons,
are full of carbohydrate and won't do while dieting.
However, there exist a rather wide variety of low carb Chinese food.
The styles of cooking vary from region to region, and the same dish can
be low carb Chinese food in one restaurant,
and contain much carbohydrate in another. So, if you are looking for a
place where low carb Chinese food is served you should compare more
than two restaurants for sugar and starch level in food.
Nevertheless, for those who are on a low carb diet there are some
general things to avoid, like egg rolls, wontons, steamed or fried
rice, noodles and breaded meats. Many Chinese sauces, especially plum
and orange-based ones, contain much sugar and can't be identified as
low carb Chinese food. Apart from sweet sauces there are many spicy
ones which, according to low carb Chinese food experts, also contain
sugar for balancing.
If you would like to order low carb Chinese food choose steamed meats,
thin soups and tofus. If you need sauce, opt for watery one, like
Schezuan prawns, black bean and Moo Goo Gai sauces. At last, you can
order your favorite sweet sauce but ask the waiter to cook it without
cornstarch.
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