Thursday, August 18, 2011

Healthy one-dish meal


Grrrrr! This is unhealthy...bad bad bad! The double cheeseburger I had eaten in day three is high in fat, carbohydrates and cholesterol, but it's definitely not a good source of vitamins and fibre. Dadada! A new healthy dish has to be modified from this. Therefore, the new dish has to include more vegetables and fruits for vitamins and fibre, and less meat.
This is a cool wrap! The ingredients are:
1) Whole-grain wrap bread (whole-grain foods are healthier because they provide more fibre. this wrap is the main source of carbohydrates)
2) Tomato (a vegetable high in vitamins A, C, E; good source of carotene and other antioxidants)
3) Red bell pepper (it contains vitamin C, antioxidants, micro- and macro-nutrients)
4) Spinach (a good source of fibre and vitamins, especially vitamin K)
5) Lettuce (provides fibre, vitamin A and folic acid)
6) Organic turkey ham (a meat that provides fat, protein, zinc and vitamin B, at the same time a healthy alternative to grain-fed turkey)
This wrap uses ingredients of all the food groups, thus it is balanced. The ingredients are healthy! Furthermore, it does not require cooking, which retains the original nutrients in the ingredients. Some methods of cooking, such as frying (oily!), can cause food to develop carcinogenic properties.

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