Calories In Chinese Food Are High And The Sodium Is A Real Killer

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Calories In Chinese Food Are High
Thanks To Loads Of Oils & Fats.......

Any Idea how High the Calories in Chinese Food?

With the lavish oils in deep-fried, double-fried, battered and breaded cook styles?

It's delicious; tasty; appetizing; "finger-licking" good, mouth-watering fantastic......In short, yummy, yummy, yummy....

I'm sure you've other wonderful words you want to use to express your love for the food.....

I love Chinese food but......

Do you know Chinese food is very fattening?

I know, being Chinese.

This is thanks to the generous splash of oils in the cooking that makes most of the food high in calories.

I can say that it isn’t the healthiest food around and lots of us don’t realize how bad it can actually do to your waistline.......

You'd think that the veggies would do no harm - veggies, right? Full of vitamins and minerals and very low in calories.

Hey! Wait till you see the veggies (like eggplants, string beans, varieties of greens) soaking up oil like nobody's business!

One single dish of veggies, stir-fried style, mind you, is at least 500 calories!

And indeed many Chinese food easily chart well over 800 calories in one single dish. If you go for Chinese restaurant food, it's also loaded with salt (sodium)!

Let me give you some Ideas "how high is high" the Calories in Chinese Food

(P/S: The food listed are based on those served by Chinese restaurants)

Ready?

OK, Let's Start With Soup First

1 serving of egg drop soup - 100 calories; sodium 900 mg

Hot & sour soup - 100 calories; sodium 1,100 mg

Wonton soup - 100 calories; sodium 800 mg

Then The Appetizers

1 Egg roll- 200 calories; sodium 400 mg

1 Spring roll 100 calories; 100 calories; sodium 300 mg.
Note a thinner wrapper and smaller size give spring rolls fewer calories than egg rolls

6 steamed vegetable dumplings - 400 calories; sodium 1,100 mg

6 steamed pork dumplings - 500 calories; sodium 900 mg

4 BBQ spare ribs - 600 calories; sodium 900 mg.
1 order equals to 2 pork chops. Some appetizer!

Now The Veggies

Stir-fried greens - 900 calories; sodium: 2,200 mg.
The added oil and the high sodium are no help here....

Eggplant in garlic sauce - 1,000 calories; sodium: 2,000 mg.
This veggies literally soaks up all the oil!

Szechuan string beans - 600 calories; sodium: 2,700 mg

Stir-fried mixed veggies (Buddha's delight) - 500 calories; sodium: 2,200 mg

Mixed veggies with tofu (home style) - 900 calories; sodium: 2,200 mg.
The high calories in this Chinese food is due to the deep-fried tofu...

Go On To Meat - Chicken, Pork, Beef...

Chicken with black bean sauce - 700 calories; sodium, a ridiculously high of 3,800 mg!

General Tso's chicken - 1,300 calories; again ridiculously high sodium of 3,200 mg!

Lemon chicken - 1,400 calories; sodium: 700 mg.
It’s like eating 3 McDonald’s McChicken sandwiches plus a 32-oz.Coke. The culprit is the deep-fried breading that causes high calories in this Chinese food

Kung pao chicken - 1,400 calories; sodium: 2,600 mg.
The calories are high thanks to the added cashew nuts

Mu Shu pork (without pancakes) - 1,000 calories; sodium 2,600 mg.
If with pancake, 90 calories for each 8-inch pancake or 60 calories for each 6-inch pancake

Sweet & sour pork - 1,300 calories; sodium: 800 mg

Orange (crispy) beef - 1,500 calories; sodium: 3,100 mg!
It's roughly ¾ pound of flour-coated, deep-fried meat, bad stuff as it contains high level of saturated fat!