Apple is a wonder fruit. Not only does it have lesser calories, it offers many nutrients to the body. Apples are easier to carry in your lunch pack, cheaper than most other good fruits and the calories in apples are worth every bit. A medium apple can have as less as 80 calories and can be the perfect afternoon snack. An apple contains about 80% or more water, which is why it can float on water and offer a variety of minerals and vitamins tothe body
Apple calories VS benefits
Truth is, apple calories are negligent when compared to its many advantages for you. Apples are a great source of soluble as well as insoluble fibres. The skin in the apple is as important as the fruit and must never be removed. It contains these special fibres which can prevent cholesterol build up in your arteries, reducing your chances for heart strokes and arthritis.
Negative Calories
The insoluble fibres help you intestines absorb a lot of water, facilitating good digestion. This is why the calories in apples are often counted as ‘negative calories’.
Negative calories mean that the apple calories are much lesser than the number your calories your body will burn trying to digest the food. Isn’t that amazing? On top of that apples are a great source of Iron, Potassium, Calcium and Vitamin A as well as Vitamin C. Apple is known to prevent certain kinds of cancers and also reduce the risk for diabetes in patients who are susceptible.
The calories in an apple are immaterial when compared with the goodness of a single apple.
Breakdown
While the apple is made of 80% water, it has just 10-15% of carbohydrates and about 5%protein. Just adding as less as 1 apple in your diet everyday can result in better digestion and bowel movement. It acts as a natural mouth freshener and has a refreshing effect. If you do not like eating apples, you can get the goodness of an apple from consuming a glass of apple juice for breakfast every day. The calories in 100ml of apple juice range between 40-50 calories, depending on sugar content. However, juice doesn’t give you the fibres your body will get from eating a raw apple.
Adam and Eve
Not even Adam and Eve could resist an apple, and thus they were expelled from the eden, but did not died like God had mentioned before in genesis in “for on the day you eat of it you shall surely die.” Which means apples don´t kill. Unless they´re rotten of course. They look tasty and they´re good, But not better than hamburgers of course. Balance is the key, you need many types of different nutrients to be healthy and enjoy the most that your body has to offer you, which is your life. So make sure every diet you perform is aiming for living a better life in terms of body and brains, instead of doing it to “look like something” else, and then you´ll really start attracting worthy partners.