Chicory: How much should you drink to lose weight

Is it true that chicory helps to lose weight? Yes, if it's a real chicory, not a cheap substitute for grains of barley or wheat. Our guest today, a journalist Yegor Iodkovsky, tell you how to choose the right drink, and explain how many cups a day to drink.

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A journalist is interested in extreme sports, healthy lifestyle and cooking.

Nutritionists recommend replacing coffee chicory. However, experts agree that overclocking metabolism and, consequently, weight loss is necessary to use from 2 to 20 cups a day.

Chicory helps reduce weight

In medicine, chicory root is most appreciated for its high content in it a high polysaccharide inulin. It inulin improves metabolism and digestion. All of these properties in a complex play a positive role in the prevention and treatment of diabetes, as well as in the fight against obesity.

It should be clearly understood that the miracle did not happen, and without changing anything in your diet and physical activity, to solve the problem of excess weight only due to chicory (or any other product) is not possible.

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Lyudmila Denisenko, dietician

Calorie chicory quite low: 72 kcal per 100 gram dry product, i.e. 3 calories per teaspoon.

In this case, thanks to beneficial substances - inulin, pectin and intibin - chicory improves metabolism, helps in the absorption of fast carbohydrates, has a diuretic effect.

The other two popular hot drinks, tea and coffee, chicory differs in that it lacks caffeine, which means that it can be given to children and drink at night. Together, these advantages help to reduce the weight of chicory.

Chicory has beneficial effects on overall health:

• rehabilitation helps the liver, kidney and pancreas;
• It improves the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, the cardiovascular and nervous systems;
• It removes harmful substances from the body and normalizes metabolism;
• lowers blood sugar levels.

Beware of counterfeit

Miracle drink, is not it? That's just to take advantage of its benefits, it is necessary to know exactly what is in front of you is not fake. The substance responsible for most of the useful properties of chicory inulin is called. That is its percentage in the product is an important indicator of what before you drink.

If you believe expertise NP "Roskontrol", found on the shelves of a real chicory is not easy. Experts "Roskontrolya" sent to the laboratory samples of nine brands of instant chicory: only two of them contain the required amount of inulin, the remaining rate has been lowered significantly.

For a noticeable positive effect adult should get about 2.5 grams of inulin per day.

This is about two cups of a beverage prepared from powder containing 30% inulin. The exact figure depends on the number of spoons of powder that you add during cooking.

Accordingly, if you eat chicory, which is less than 5% of inulin, is to cover the daily requirement you have to drink 15-20 cups, which is hardly possible. Of course, the harm from chicory inulin with a low content does not, and if you just like the taste of the drink, you can continue to use it.

Another question: if you want to benefit from it? If so, try to choose those options beverage, inulin is not less than 20-30%.