For various reasons, more and more people are choosing to eat fast food. Can the fast food at tourist spots, on the top floors of shopping malls, and the various snack stalls everywhere provide people with adequate nutrition? What are the characteristics of the six common types of fast food? Let's hear what the nutrition experts have to say.
1. Hamburger Meal
Review: It has meat and grains, but no vegetables at all. You must buy a side salad yourself to basically meet the nutritional balance. The meat patty contains a certain proportion of fatty meat, which people with high blood lipids should be mindful of.
2. Lamb Soup or Lamb Organ Soup with Crumbled Bread
Review: There are almost no vegetables; the chopped green onions and cilantro together don't even add up to 10 grams, a huge gap from the 200 grams needed for a meal. The fat content is not high, but the salt is severely excessive. It is recommended to add a small plate of unsalted, blanched green vegetables to eat with the soup. The advantage is that it is high in protein, iron, and B vitamins, and lamb organs contain vitamins A and D.
3. Crossing-the-Bridge Noodles
Review: The starch and protein can meet the needs, but there is a lack of vegetables, and insufficient minerals and dietary fiber.
4. Rice Bowls (盖饭)
Review: Although rice bowls come in many varieties—such as with pork ribs, braised pork, beef, chicken, or fish—and they all come with a small amount of vegetables, it's basically more meat than vegetables, making it hard to achieve a reasonable ratio of meat to vegetables. The staple is all rice, lacking coarse grains, legumes, and potatoes.
5. Malatang (Spicy Hot Pot)
Review: The variety of foods is rich, and the fat content is moderate. If you can choose more green leafy vegetables, algae, and tubers yourself, you can meet the nutritional needs of a meal. However, the flavor is often too salty, and the vegetables are cooked for too long, leading to severe loss of nutrients.
6. Ramen Noodles
Review: A large bowl of salty broth is used to coax people into eating the noodles. It is severely lacking in vegetables, coarse grains, and legumes. The variety of food is very monotonous, and the salt content is severely excessive.