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Apple diet: salads for weight loss

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Last reviewed: 30.05.2022
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Popular low-calorie salads are often used in dietary methods. The benefits of these fruit and vegetable dishes are manifold. They fill the space of the digestive organs, creating a feeling of satiety, replenish the reserves of vitamins and minerals, promote motility and evacuation of feces.

  • On the basis of apples for weight loss, dishes are prepared with a variety of vegetable ingredients, nuts and other fruits.

With very strict diets, no sauces are used; in less strict cases, low-fat lactic acid products, lemon juice with honey, and apple cider vinegar are most often taken. Under the ban are components belonging to the category of harmful: mayonnaise, chips, crackers, fatty sauces.

  • Salads contribute to digestion and weight loss, not only by following special techniques, but also being present in the usual menu.

They go well not only with cabbage, carrots, celery, herbs, but also with bananas, kiwi, orange, pineapple. In the first case, they are eaten with lean meat, potatoes, legumes. In the second - as a healthy dessert, replacing too high-calorie cakes, pastries, muffins with a fruit salad.

Apple and vegetable salads form the basis of fasting days, practiced by many people regularly, for the systematic control of body weight. When conducting longer diets, it is important not to overdo it and not reduce calories to the point where health problems begin. This condition slows down the pace of metabolism and weight loss, and leaving the regimen is fraught with trouble.

Dietary diets are very boring and monotonous, which does not inspire a person who wants to lose weight. A diet with apples for weight loss may be an exception if you use the recipes created by theorists and practitioners of this matter.

Apple salads for weight loss include a variety of ingredients, depending on the purpose and dietary properties. Vitamin, cleansing, enriching salads with essential substances diversify the menu, fill the stomach with voluminous, but low-calorie food, necessary for weight loss.

  • An interesting recipe is offered to lovers of avocado, the pulp of which is poured over roughly grated apple and carrots. Both fruits are pre-peeled. Avocados are mashed.

Apples are also combined with bananas, in a ratio of 2 to 1. Banana rings and grated apples are mixed with nuts and seasoned with honey-lemon juice to taste. This dressing prevents the loss of natural color.

Natural yogurt is often used as a dressing. It is suitable for apple salad and several vegetables: sweet pepper, onion, peeled tomato. All ingredients are cut into half rings, apples are sprinkled with lemon juice so that they do not darken, everything is mixed together with a lactic acid product.

Carrot and apple salad

Apple salad for weight loss can be supplemented with such a useful root crop as a carrot. Both fruits contain an increased amount of fiber, and this clearly indicates their benefits for digestion and weight loss. The abundance of vitamins makes carrots and apples for weight loss doubly useful.

  • In the light of modern ideas about the dangers of a sedentary daily routine, such a dish is especially useful for office workers who spend whole days at computers.

Salad for a fasting day or constant use is prepared from fresh products according to the following recipe:

  • The washed and peeled ingredients are rubbed on a coarse grater. Small is not good, because you get mashed potatoes. The grated mass is mixed and poured with olive or other vegetable oil.

Fats promote the absorption of carotene, which is present in carrots in the form of a provitamin. Iodine is also important, which prevents fat formation.

The dish turns out juicy, fragrant and tasty. It is not recommended to salt or sweeten it so as not to lose its dietary value. It is allowed to add greens, for example, parsley.

There are other options for carrot-apple salad - with the addition of cabbage, beets, bell peppers, celery. A version of the diet on this salad has been developed, promising minus 3–5 kg in three days. She's tough, but effective. Not suitable for everyone and requires a 2-week abstinence from junk food after the completion of the diet regimen.

Salad with apple and cabbage

In pursuit of new-fangled diets, they often forget about such a useful home-made vegetable as ordinary cabbage. Together with apples for weight loss, it is a fortified dish with many useful characteristics.

  • Nutritionists classify cabbage as a negative calorie food. This means that the body uses more energy to process it than it receives when it enters.

Apples are no less relevant ingredient. It is a storehouse of vitamin and mineral components, an excellent way to regulate the intestines and cardiovascular activity. Salad with apples and cabbage combines the best properties of both plants: combines benefits, taste, fat-burning properties.

  • Simple recipes for vegetable salads have their own secrets.

So, cabbage tastes better with fine shredding. To soften it, they first wrinkle it with their hands, if the diet does not prohibit it, then together with salt. You can add various vegetables to cabbage and apples, at will and taste: celery, carrots, red onions, garden greens, even horseradish - for lovers of savory snacks.

In combination with carrots and boiled beets, cabbage with apples forms the famous panicle salad, which helps to cleanse the intestines and instantly lose some of the weight. For a fasting day, the dish is not salted or poured with oil, only seasoned with lemon or cranberry juice. Another dressing option is a spoonful of vinegar and oil, salt, pepper, sugar to taste.

Celery and apple salad for weight loss

Not only smoothies are prepared from celery and an apple for weight loss. The decoration of boring vegetable diets are salads, where everyone can realize their culinary fantasies. Of course, within the rules of the diet with apples for weight loss.

  • Celery and apples are high in fiber and other weight loss benefits, and their low calorie content makes them doubly effective.

You can eat a salad of these ingredients as much as you want: nutritionists do not limit the amount of a vitamin dish. However, losing weight himself is not able to eat a lot in one sitting, because the fiber, which both products abound in, quickly satisfies the feeling of hunger.

  • For one serving, one stem of an aromatic plant and an apple of any variety is required.

Washed celery is cleaned of long hard fibers and cut into rings. The peeled apple is rubbed. To improve the taste, add green onions, dill, water with oil or lemon juice.

Nutritionists offer a more satisfying version of apple-celery salad, namely with chicken or veal meat. Vegetable components are prepared in the same way as in the previous case, boiled meat is cut into cubes, salad greens are added. Dressing - low-fat mayonnaise in half with sour cream.

Cabbage, carrot and apple salad

For those who are fasting or on a diet, cabbage, carrot, apple salad is the best choice. Especially in winter, when vitamin deficiency begins, because all the ingredients of this dish are literally crammed with vitamins. Someone aptly named the dish "Vitamin Pantry".

  • White cabbage, orange carrots and red slimming apples create a beautiful-looking, tasty and healthy combination that causes a healthy appetite. The addition of finely chopped parsley or onion diversifies the color scheme.

To prepare a salad, washed cabbage is chopped, carrots and an apple without a skin are coarsely rubbed. Standard dressing: lemon juice, pepper, salt, olive oil. It will be tastier if you wait a quarter of an hour so that the ingredients soften and soak in seasonings.

Serve salad with meat or side dishes, for a change in the table in the presence of more dense dishes. Losing weight eat it as an independent dish, at lunch or in the evening. The dietary effect is higher if the salad is not salted and peppered, and it is desirable not to add oil.

If desired, in addition to the named vegetables and apples, the recipe includes celery or lettuce, fresh cucumber. It turns out beautifully if you cut the apples into strips, and grate the carrots on a special Korean grater.

Salad of beets, cabbage, carrots and apples

"Panicle" - such a figurative name was given to a salad of beets, cabbage, carrots, apples. The dietary dish is so effective that it is necessarily included in the diet of women who follow the figure. Regular unloading with the help of apples for weight loss, including in combination with these vegetables, gives not only weight loss, but also vigor, lightness in the body and soul.

  • The second name - "Brush" transparently hints at the cleaning that such food does in the final sections of the digestive tract.

The salad is prepared as follows. Ingredients - coarsely grated carrot and apple, finely chopped cabbage 200g, pre-cooked beets are also grated or cut into cubes. Everything is mixed together, sprinkled with lemon or cranberry juice. It is impossible to add salt, add sugar or something high-calorie if the salad is prepared for the purpose of cleaning and losing weight.

  • There are several Panicle recipes, including fruit ones. Regardless of the differences, the salad acts in many ways:
  1. Starts the functioning of the large intestine.
  2. Supplements a protein diet.
  3. It is a healthy alternative to pasta and potato side dishes.
  4. Enriches with fiber, which cleans the "Augean stables" of the digestive tract.
  5. Reduces cholesterol levels.
  6. It has the best effect on blood vessels and the heart.
  7. Improves the condition and appearance of the skin.

If the "Brush" is eaten daily, 1.5 kg of the mixture per day, then in three days weight loss of 1-3 kg is achieved. In this case, it is necessary to observe the drinking regimen: drink 2 liters of clean water.

Beet and Apple Salad

Beets have unique hematopoietic, cleansing, hormonal and digestive properties. It is combined with many vegetables, as well as fruits - apples, prunes, nuts. Beet and apple salad relieves chronic constipation and helps people who prefer a low-calorie diet lose weight.

  • In addition to beets and apples, celery, cabbage, carrots are useful for weight loss. They are included in salad recipes to diversify the dietary vegetable diet.

To prepare 2 servings, pre-boiled beets (2 pcs.) Are cut into cubes or thick straws, 2 sour apples - the same way. Add a spoonful of raisins. You can take prunes, soaked for softness and then finely chopped. A clove of crushed garlic is added to the mass, salt, pepper, olive oil and lemon juice are mixed together. Oil can be replaced with any other, and lemon with apple cider vinegar. Enrich the taste with your favorite spices. Apply the dressing just before serving.

Also available with mayonnaise sauce. Beets, apples and walnuts are seasoned with homemade mayonnaise and garnished with spicy herbs. The salad is more satisfying, it acquires a special taste after it has been in the refrigerator for a while.

Pumpkin Salad with Apple

Entire treatises have been written about the benefits of both pumpkin and apples for weight loss. Each of them has a lot of useful properties, and if fresh pumpkin is undeservedly rarely present on our tables, then apples, as a rule, are not translated. How do these representatives of the garden combine and how is a pumpkin salad with an apple useful for weight loss?

  • In fresh salads, all the vitamins that these plants are rich in are preserved. They are easy to digest, have a positive effect on the digestive system, eliminate harmful waste and stagnant intestinal masses.

Pumpkin, like its close relative - cucumber, is 90% water. However, a low-calorie vegetable is by no means poor in useful components. On the contrary, pumpkin even contains unique vitamin T. In combination with apples of any variety stuffed with fiber, salad is an excellent dietary dish, and the addition of liquid honey increases its taste and beneficial properties.

  • This is an excellent dessert, especially in summer, when fragrant melon gourds ripen.

To prepare the salad, a large or medium grater is used. The pumpkin is cleaned of the hard shell, it is enough to wash the soft-skinned apples. Add honey - and the dish is ready. Sometimes raisins or nuts are added to the dessert salad, which act as a kind of seasoning. The dish is quite satisfying, for weight loss it is used for breakfast or dinner.

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