Adherents of a healthy lifestyle and healthy eating often adjust their diet in the direction of reducing the consumption of meat products. Increasingly, modern consumers are turning their attention to various alternative meat substitutes. This soybean substitutes, and legumes, mushrooms. But the wheat product Seitan is recognized as the closest one to taste.
Meat from wheat
The product, made from wheat gluten, to taste and texture most resembles natural meat. It is obtained by washing the starch out of wheat flour, by pouring water up to several times. The remaining gluten is seitan, or meat for lovers of the vegetarian table. To taste, this meat resembles an ordinary chicken, it is actively used by supporters of a vegetarian diet for cooking various dishes.
Useful properties of seitan
Vegetarian meat has recently become not only a product for vegetarians, it has become popular among meat eaters who monitor their health. Seitan is a useful product rich in a variety of amino acids, nutrients and trace elements. A vegetable product for vegetarians, or seitan, with a total caloric value of about 350 kcal per 100 grams of weight, while remaining quite useful and low-fat product: 75 grams of protein account for only about two grams of fat. This nonfat product is preferred by those who watch their weight, many nutritionists include seitan in the composition of approved products for their patients who want to adjust their weight. One portion of seitan for a quarter will fill the body's daily need for sodium, restore the body's electrolytic balance.
Harmful properties of seitan
Vegetarian meat is allowed to be eaten by almost everyone, however, there is one strict contraindication. Those people who suffer from a rare disease of celiac disease, or the inability of the intestine to process gluten from cereals, are strictly prohibited to consume seitan. Violators of the ban risk getting cancer of the digestive tract, ulcerative erosive lesions of the digestive system, osteoporosis and a number of other diseases. With care seitan should also be used by people with a history of allergic reactions, since gluten can act on the body as a strong allergen.