Sweets.

Sweets are the type of food that we should eat with moderation. We must eat them in smaller amounts. We shouldn’t give them up, but we shouldn’t eat them very much. We can eat sweets without problem, but we must be careful because they have got substances that if we eat them a lot they are damaging our health. Eating sweets in a fair amount it’s good for us, it provides energy and nutrients that enhance our mood. However if we eat a lot of sweets it will be bad for our health. An excess would increase our cholesterol and probably we would suffer a disease related with overweight and obesity. Our daily diet must have a 55% of carbohydrates and only a 10% must come from the sweets.

The different types of sweets have different ingredients and sources, so they have got their own history. The majority of the sweets that we eat were known because the discovery of America. Others sweets were made with leftovers from others sweets that already exist (for example nougat candy, made with leftovers of almonds).

There are different types of sweets. In the past there were made in home for own consumption, this sweets are “homemade sweets”. But nowadays one new type of sweets exists , they are made in factories, they are called “industrial sweets”.

All the types of sweets have got many calories, but “industrial sweets” are the type of sweets with more calories. Now we will talk about this type of sweets, “industrial sweets”.

INDUSTRIAL SWEETS

Industrial sweets (croissants, doughnuts, chocolate buns, chocolate puff pastry buns, etc.) are very popular in candy shops, vending machines, bakeries and supermarkets. These products have a sweet flavour, pleasant sentations and they are a temptation for everybody.

The mayority of the industrial sweet are sugar, cornflour, eggs, fats of different sources. They provide nutrients and calories. If they have chocolate, cream, etc., the quantity of calories will increase very much. One piece of industrial sweets can be a third or fourth part of the total amount that one person should eat in a day.

People prefer buying industrial sweets because they are cheaper than homemade sweets. Also we can find those everywhere. It is very popular to price our children with them but I think that is so wrong because the amount of sugar is can affect to their health.

HOMEMADE SWEETS

Let me tell you about "home cooking" or "homemade sweets" this are make in our house with rudimentary tools, we don't use industrial machines. The "industrial sweets" fatten a lot because it's has more preserve than the "home sweets". The home sweets are don't difficult make. In the families, the recipe pass from generation to generation, they are very delicious. Preparate home sweets in house is very easy and simple, but people prefer buy industrial sweets because are very cheap and in the supermarket there are very much variety.