Weight loss and calories: Oliebollen and apple turnovers

1. Losing weight and the month of December often do not seem to go together. If Christmas has just passed, New Year's Eve is just around the corner. After all, you will encounter the oliebollen stalls on every corner of the street. Now, oliebollen are not the most sensible snacks if you want to lose weight. But an oliebol is healthier than is often thought. Especially when one would replace an oliebol with an apple fritter. Then a tasty, fatty treat during New Years can not even do that much harm. It is only very important that you know what you are eating. It is important to know how many calories there are in an oliebol, apple fritter, apple turnover and other treats. In this way one can also make conscious choices during New Year's Eve.

Oliebollen and weight loss

1. Oliebollen and pomace do not seem to go together at first sight. Yet an oliebol as a snack does not even always turn out to be an unwise choice. Especially when one makes conscious choices, an oliebol often turns out to be not even that unhealthy. Not less healthy than is often thought. The chart below shows how many calories are in most New Years treats.

Calories: Oliebollen, apple turnovers and oliebollen with currants

1. The most commonly eaten treats with New Year's Eve are apple turnovers and oliebollen. This table shows how many calories it contains.

Tips for "healthy" oliebollen

1. If you are baking oliebollen yourself and want to keep the oliebol as healthy as possible, it is important that the oliebollen are fried in liquid frying fat. Before you start baking, make sure that the frying fat has a temperature of at least 180 degrees Celsius. This ensures that the oliebol sear quickly during frying and therefore absorbs a minimum of fat.

Apple turnovers

1. If you would like to bake healthier apple turnovers, you can choose to replace the puff pastry with filo pastry. Phyllo dough contains much less fat and calories than puff pastry

Oliebollen compared to other delicacies

1. We often regard an oliebol as a fatty snack and an unhealthy treat. Now an oliebol is certainly not healthy if one would compare these oliebollen with an apple or orange. When one starts comparing an oliebol with, for example, an egg cake, one suddenly comes to a great discovery. An oliebol then suddenly turns out not to be such an unhealthy choice.

2. We often consider an oliebol to be a fatty snack and an unhealthy treat. Now an oliebol is certainly not healthy, if you compare these oliebollen with an apple or orange. When one starts to compare an oliebol with, for example, an egg cake, one suddenly comes to a great discovery. An oliebol then suddenly turns out not to be such an unhealthy choice.