Jelly nutrition Jiemi also known as jelly, because of the appearance of crystal clear, bright color, soft and smooth taste, sweet and moist and deeply loved by women and children. Jelly is not only lovely in appearance, but also a healthy food with low calorie and high dietary fiber.
The raw materials for jelly production are mainly sugar, carrageenan, mannan, calcium, sodium and potassium salts. Calculated on the basis of 15% sugar, each 15 g of jelly produces 8.93 kcal of heat in the body, while the average adult has a daily heat supply of about 2500 kcal, so the jellies generate heat energy in the body. The proportion is extremely low.
The colloidal jelly is made of carrageenan and mannool mixed sugar and boiled, cooled and condensed. The amount of these two substances added in the jelly is 0.8%~1%. Carrageenan is a seaweed plant. Mannan gum is a glucomannan extracted from Araceae plants. It is a natural plant polysaccharide that is safe and harmless. These two gums are water-soluble dietary fiber, dietary fiber is a very important and internationally recognized functional food base, according to surveys. The intake of meat, protein, and fat in the diets of many urban residents in China far exceeds the national average and is close to the level of developed countries. This “high-protein, high-fat†diet can easily lead to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, gastrointestinal discomfort, and obesity. Symptoms, etc., but the rich dietary fiber in jellies has positive significance in preventing the above "modern civilization disease."
Jelly needs to add calcium, potassium, sodium and other minerals during the manufacturing process. These minerals are also elements of the human body. Such as the body's bone needs a lot of calcium, cell fluid, tissue fluid contains - a certain proportion of sodium and potassium ions, these ions play an important role in maintaining the osmotic pressure of the cell, the body's acid-base balance, nerve information transmission.
Jelly of different color varieties also has its unique nutrition, such as high calcium jelly is rich in calcium, high fiber coconut ice is rich in water insoluble dietary fiber, AD calcium jelly is to strengthen vitamin A, D and calcium, some varieties of jelly Add carotene or spirulina. These different nutrients have their own special physiological effects on human health.