Baking bread also has its impact on our figure as part of a diet. A nutritionist reveals how to choose our baguette when we want to lose weight.
Often criticized in diets, the bread However, it has its place in your balanced meals as long as you know how to choose it well and eat it sensibly. If certain types of bread are to be banned when you want to lose weight, the baguette remains a pleasure that you do not deprive yourself of, for breakfast as well as for dinner. As with many foods such as pasta and eggs, its cooking is not to be overlooked when monitoring your diet and weight.
If the trend is rather towards the consumption of white and soft chopsticks lately, undoubtedly under the influence of the many popular supermarket breads (bun bread for burgers, sandwich loaves, etc.) on the shelves of industrial breads, it would be better to eat our well-done baguette according to Isabelle Sylvestre, a dietician-nutritionist interviewed by the magazine She.
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Bread, that’s why eating a well-baked baguette helps us lose weight
According to the dietitian-nutritionist, it would be better to opt for a well-cooked baguette when trying to lose weight because the crispy texture of well-cooked baguettes forces us to chew well and take the time to eat. “Speed is the enemy of better eating” she recalls, indeed. Chewing is, in fact, very important for achieve a feeling of satiety. Eating crunchy bread would therefore be more effective than eating a soft baguette as part of a diet where you want to eat less and be in a calorie deficit. In addition, this cooking makes the baguette much tastier. Enough to take full advantage of this pleasure of the table!
With this bread baking, the traditional French baguette would also be much more digestible because she “would promote the degradation of vegetable proteins, in particular gluten, which would help to feel lighter” and thus limit the “feelings of bloating or stomach ache, often linked to undercooked bread” explains Isabelle Sylvestre. Something to refine your silhouette the air of nothing by fighting against the formation of gas in the intestine. All you have to do is get into the habit of asking your baker for a well-baked baguette!