When you make little tweaks and adjustments to your daily diet, you can reap major benefits in terms of weight loss, and one way to ensure that happens is by shaving off extra calories from your meals and snacks to enter into calorie deficit, burn fat, and shed pounds that make you uncomfortable. In this post, we list down 17 easy ways to shave off calories from your meals for successful weight loss.
1. Plain Yogurt instead of Greek Yogurt: We often consider flavoured Greek yogurt healthy and a weight-loss friendly food, but that’s not true. Fruity and sweet Greek yogurt that claim to have the richness of fruits have added sugar and preservatives in them, and quite a lot of extra calories. By switching to plain Greek yogurt, you can get lean protein with up to 15 gm of protein and also a good dose of probiotics, minus extra calories.
Issues on GMO certificates for apples have been solved by Turkish and Indian government
The Turkish and Indian governments have come to an agreement on the GMO certificates required to ship GMO apples to India. Indian importers were putting pressure on the Turkish traders, but it seems all problems are now resolved. According to one exporter it’s been a great season, with export volumes having increased by 35% compared to the previous apple season.
Demir Fresh Fruits has had a great apple season, says the owner of the company Alper Kerim. Export volumes have increased and according to him, the quality of the apples has improved a lot: “At the moment we’re still exporting our apples in full swing. The expectation is that we’ll be able to supply apples until the end of May 2021. This year, our export volumes have increased by 35% compared to last year. This is due to newly implemented methods to our packing system and it has increased our quality by a lot. Both the quality of
Immunity boosting F&B products see increased interest at Gulfood 2021 rohma@khaleejtimes.com Filed on February 23, 2021
Experts have noted an increase in demand for fresh fruits, vegetables, and juices, during the pandemic - Photo by M. Sajjad
Certain foods and beverages that aid in boosting immunity have been drawing increased interest from retailers, experts noted at the Gulfood 2021 exhibition.
Speaking to Khaleej Times at the event, several exhibitors revealed that, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, there had been an increase in demand for fresh fruits, vegetables, and other food items that were known to boost the body’s immune system.
1 Limes
What’s the Classic Margarita without the iconic Lime? Fresh Limes are always the best to use as they provide a sharp, clean taste undercutting the entire drink, and really brings the Margarita to that next level. However, at this time of year, Limes tend to be a bit harder because of the colder temperatures – what I usually do is to gently, yet firmly, roll the whole Lime on the work surface a couple of times, this will allow you to get a lot more juice, and therefore a lot more bang for your buck. One Lime will usually create one Margarita, a good rule of thumb when out buying ingredients too.
Ukraine was among top three importers of Turkish oranges in 2020
Exports of oranges from Turkey in 2020 increased by 41% to $129 million as compared to 2019, which was worth over $91 million abroad. Turkey exported oranges to 60 countries in 2020 and the top three importing countries of Turkish oranges were Russia at $63.4 million, Iraq at $19.1 million, and Ukraine at $15.3 million.
“The surge in demand for citrus fruits is largely due to the pandemic. Exports of citrus fruits in general in 2020 amounted to $933 million of which $347 million were mandarins,” said Hayrettin Uchak, the head of the Association of Exporters of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables of the Aegean Region of Turkey, to the Anadolu Agency.