Start to have high-Fibre Diets

BREAKFAST

We must have breakfast everyday. After 8 to 9 hours of sleep, human body requires the energy from breakfast to energize up and prepare for a day's hard work. Also, it is a good time to absorb fibres in the morning. Only carefully choosing breakfast food can the body benefited.

1) Choose wheat products sunch as oatmeal, oats, whole wheat biscuits, wheat bread, five-grain bread, bran noodles and congee.

2) Cut fruit into pieces and serve together with yoghurt or eat an apple as a breakfast.

AFTERNOON TEA

Many people love to have afternoon tea to squeeze for rest in the hustle and bustle. However, it is a branch of knowledge to enjoy tasty food and maintain health at the same time.

1) Choose fruit instead of artificial snacks because snacks are rich in sugar and salt that would harm the body in long run. It is a good idea to have an apple or orange as a healthy afternoon tea n the office.

2) Eat fruit skin as well since its fibres content is more than half of that of flesh. Do not waste the skin.

3) Choose sugar-free preserved apricot and raisins for snacks.

LUNCH AND DINNER

People in the city have their lunches hurriedly. They "pour" the lunch box into the stomach within a few seaconds and do not care the nutrition value of food. They eat hurriedly to strike for more recess or go back to work quickly. When go back to home after back, most people prepare their dinner with much meat but few vegetables. Although this impresses your tastebuds, it harms your body.

In fact just know how to choose food and match them well, you can absorb enough fibres within a short lunch and also cook a healthy and tasty meal.

1) Choose beans and vegetables as the main course of lunch with some meat and a glass of high-fibre fruit juice.

2) Choose different kinds of food, especially vegetables and beans to enjoy different flavour and refresh the taste buds.

3) Replace some rice with red rice or brown rice and make a bowl of colourful rice to whet the appetite.

Where to find FIBRES ?

WHOLE-WHEAT FOOD

Wheat or bran products such as whole wheat bread, wheat biscuits, naked barley bread, whole wheat noodles, italian noodles, red rice, brown rice, wild rice and five-grain rice.

VEGETABLE

Different kinds of vegetables and fruit are welcomed. Boiled vegetables and salads are good choices. Serving fruit with skin can absorb fibres and do not just drink fruit juice as it lacks fibres.

BEANS

Red kidney beans, bloack-eyed peas, red beans, mungbean, peas, long beans and honey beans.

HEALTHY NIGH-FIBRE SNACKS

Hard-shelled nuts, preserved apricot, prune, raisins and sweet corn.

Cook Easy & Eat Easy - Vegetable

Vegetable has a high water content of over 90 percent, it provides the body with non-organic salt, iron, copper, potassium, vitamins A,B,C,D and E. Vegetable is to be cooked with appropriate heat and duration as heating it too long wll damage its vitamin C content.

However, if eatern raw, be careful with the germs that hide in the leaves. The common vegetables are Spinach, White Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage, Mustard Green, Cauliflower, Kale, Chinese Spinach, Watercress, Lettuce and Dried Lily Flower ......

Cookware Shop - Pressure Pot

By raising the boiling point by high pressure, they enhance the cooking efficiency greatly. Pressure pots have low aeration and lock the steam inside the pots. As steam increases, the inside pressure becomes higher and higher.

So you need to reduce the preessure before opening the lid after cooking; either by opening the valve and let the steam comes out to reduc e the pressure inside or set the pot aside for a period to let the inner pressure lowered down automatically. Thus pressure pots are fit for long-boiled soups.