8 Tips For A Healthy Hot Pot
Hot pot can be healthy when you choose your ingredients, soup base and plunging sauces carefully. The Department of Endocrinology at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) explains. “We should have a steamboat!” This is in many cases a clarion call for some festive, heartwarming get-together with family, companions or partners. But is this luxuriously seasoned, a soup-based cauldron of fresh ingredients we call hot pot or steamboat, really great for your body as well? The response is: Hot pot can unquestionably be healthy, so you pick your ingredients, base soup and dipping sauces cautiously to stay away from an overdose of sodium, saturated fats, and carbohydrates in your meal. High Sodium Content in Hot Pot The sodium content in a normal hot pot meal far exceeds the suggested everyday salt intake. Well known hot pot ingredients, for example, fish balls, cuttlefish balls, crab sticks, and meatballs, are undeniably handled food sources high in sodium, educated experts from the Departme...