February 15th, 2017 | Updated on February 26th, 2024
Reduce the junk from your diet is the first step to weight loss. But sometimes, the healthy foods you swap in are surprisingly high in fat and calories. That’s why serving size matters—even when it comes to fruits, nuts, yogurt, and salads.
So stop sabotaging your diet, If you strike the right balance use these 21 superfoods that can make you fat.
1. Tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to Asia. After water, it is the most widely consumed drink in the world.
2. Tofu
Tofu, also known as bean curd, is a food made by coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting curds into soft white blocks. It is a component in East Asian and Southeast Asian cuisines. Tofu can be soft, firm, or extra firm.
3. Coffee
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds of berries from the Coffea plant. The genus Coffea is native to tropical Africa, Madagascar, and the Comoros, Mauritius and Réunion in the Indian Ocean.
4. Strawberries
The garden strawberry is a widely grown hybrid species of the genus Fragaria. It is cultivated worldwide for its fruit. The fruit is widely appreciated for its characteristic aroma, bright red color, juicy texture, and sweetness.
5. Apples
The apple tree is a deciduous tree in the rose family best known for its sweet, pomaceous fruit, the apple. It is cultivated worldwide as a fruit tree, and is the most.
6. Atlantic & Farm-raised Salmon
Salmon /ˈsæmən/ is the common name for several species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. Other fish in the same family include trout, char, grayling and whitefish. Salmon are native to tributaries of the North Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
7. Frozen Fruit
Since fresh produce is often shipped from so far away, it loses a fair share of their nutrients before you can enjoy them. On the flip side, frozen fruits and veggies are typically frozen shortly after they’ve been harvested, which means they’re chock full of antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals.
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8. Acai
The açaí palm is a species of palm tree in the genus Euterpe cultivated for its fruit and hearts of palm. Its name comes from the Portuguese adaptation of the Tupian word ïwaca’i, ‘[fruit that] cries or expels water’.
9. Nut Butter
A nut butter is a spreadable foodstuff made by grinding nuts into a paste. The result has a high fat content and can be spread like true butter, but is otherwise unrelated.
10. Prunes
A prune is a dried plum of any cultivar, mostly Prunus domestica or European Plum. The use of the term for fresh fruit is obsolete except when applied to varieties grown for drying.
11. Dark Chocolate
Dark chocolate is a form of chocolate which has a higher content of cocoa butter and less milk than other forms of chocolate. Government and industry standards of what products may be labeled “dark chocolate” vary by country and market.
12. Agave
Many people think agave is a healthy source of sugar because it comes from a plant and doesn’t spike your blood sugar. But the truth is that it’s not any better than white granulated sugar, which also comes from a plant. In fact, agave may be worse for your system than table sugar.
13. Coconut Oil
Coconut oil, or copra oil, is an edible oil extracted from the kernel or meat of mature coconuts harvested from the coconut palm. It has various applications.
14. Avocado
The avocado is a tree that is native to South Central Mexico, classified as a member of the flowering plant family Lauraceae. Avocado also refers to the tree’s fruit, which is botanically a large berry containing a single seed.
15. Bean-based Pasta
They’re packed with protein, folate, thiamine, and fiber but that doesn’t mean you should pile your plate sky-high with the stuff. Lentil and bean pasta varieties still have calories that can contribute to weight gain.
16. Red Wine
Red wine is a type of wine made from dark-colored grape varieties. The actual color of the wine can range from intense violet, typical of young wines, through to brick red for mature wines and brown for older red wines.
17. Olive Oil
Olive oil is a fat obtained from the olive, a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin. The oil is produced by pressing whole olives. It is commonly used in cooking, whether for frying or as a salad dressing.
18. Smoothies
A smoothie is a thick beverage made from blended raw fruit or vegetables with other ingredients such as water, ice, dairy products or sweeteners.
19. Tuna Salad
Tuna salad is typically a blend of two main ingredients: tuna and mayonnaise or mayonnaise-substitute. The tuna used is usually pre-cooked, canned, and packaged in water or oil.
20. Sandwich Wraps
A wrap is a type of sandwich alternative made with a soft flatbread rolled around a filling. The usual flatbreads are wheat-flour tortillas, lavash, or pita; the filling usually consists of cold sliced
21. Veggie Burgers
A veggie burger is a hamburger-style, or chicken-style, patty that does not contain meat, but may contain animal products such as egg or milk.
Source: eatthis.com ,en.wikipedia.org
