All types of bread are not equal to accompany a balanced meal when trying to lose weight. Find out which one to avoid if you’re on a diet.
Bread is, so to speak, an institution in France. The traditional baguette is omnipresent at the table and even as a sandwich to take away for lunch for those in a hurry. Rich in carbohydrates, it is often believed to be a food that makes you fat and that must be banned from your diet when dieting. Wrongly because in reality, it also contains essential micronutrients for our body, vegetable proteins, fibers and even vitamins. It’s ultimately eating excess bread that really makes us fat, not snacking on a piece of it with our meal. But there is still a particular bread to be wary of when trying to lose a few pounds: the soft bread.
Most often bought on the shelves of supermarkets, sandwich bread is indeed the worst bread to eat when you are on a diet, as explained by the dietitian nutritionist Alexandra Retion in his book SOS nutrition, A good daily diet, published at Editions First. This industrial bread is, in fact, less interesting from a nutritional point of view than a traditional baguette or a loaf of bread bought from the local baker. It is therefore less good for health and to avoid as part of a slimming program if you want to reach your goals quickly.
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While it is true that all breads have a high glycemic index, so they are quickly digested and tend to be transformed into fat in the body, sandwich bread is the worst pupil due to its composition itself. even. In these slices of bread ready to be spread or stacked in a sandwich, there is also “fat and sugar not found in a loaf” made by a baker, warns the nutritionist.
It is also a very bad choice of bread in the context of a diet because its texture is very soft, “which does not promote chewing (and digestion)” as Alexandra Retion points out. However, we know how important chewing food is to achieve a feeling of satiety. An element that must be taken into account all the more when trying to achieve a calorie deficit by reducing your food intake, so as not to be hungry just a few hours after eating.
If you’re a fan of this type of bread and can’t do without it, the dietician offers a compromise to avoid frustrations, which too often hinder the success of diets. She advises to abandon industrial sandwich loaves from supermarkets to buy a fresh one from the baker.