What is pastry and what types are there?
What is a sweet?
Sweets are one of the delicious foods that have been prepared since the past and are consumed as a dessert or snack. As it is clear from the name of this food, Shiri is a very sweet product that is usually prepared from flour, sugar, oil and sometimes eggs and milk.
Sweets are usually prepared and consumed on various occasions, including Nowruz, for this reason, Nowruz Eid sweets are welcomed by many Iranians. However, this popular product is also used as a snack on other days.
The most interesting things you don't know about sweets
If you also love شیرینی , you have definitely tasted the experience of a crispy cookie melting or the chocolate cream in the middle of a cookie melting in your mouth. It can be assumed that you are confused when buying sweets, and looking at the refrigerators full of sweets, you feel their taste in your mouth.
Big creamy breads with a soft and delicate texture, roasted donuts with chocolate and caramel coatings and traditional sweets with the aroma of cardamom and cinnamon that melt in your mouth, has this miracle of heavenly colors and flavors ever made your heart skip a beat?
Have you ever wondered what the first sweet was or why we all have a special attraction towards sweets and enjoy eating them? These and other interesting facts about sweets are what we are talking about together.
Why do we like sweets?
Many of us experience great pleasure by eating sweet food, pastries and other types of sweets. Unfortunately, research shows that not only do we sometimes overindulge, but we base most of our diet on sugary foods, especially refined sugars that contain fructose.
The fructose in sweets does not stimulate our appetite suppressing hormones unlike other foods we consume. This means that we can eat a lot of sweets but not feel full. On the other hand, many of the sweet things we eat lack important components that we need for a healthy diet. Among them, we can mention vitamins, minerals, proteins, fibers and healthy fats.
Refined sugars are usually used in sweets. These artificial sugars are the same natural sweets that have been converted into various types of sugar during processing. It should also be said that although natural sugars are in a superior position; But there is no problem with the balanced consumption of these sugars during the day.
For many of us, this question has arisen, why do we like sweets in a place where its calories are very high, they do not have many nutrients and instead it has low nutritional value?