There are dishes that do not seem absolutely healthy: their preparation based on certain ingredients makes us mistrust or directly imposes bad press on these without too much checking.
This is the case of meatballs, whose recommendation many doubt due to the fact that it is a food with certain processing and that also includes fat minced meat and other ingredients that cannot be easily controlled when they are bought ready-made.
Although make some good meatballs like the gardener It’s easy and you just have to follow some basic guidelinesit is very tempting to buy them prepared and already on a tray at the supermarket butcher shop.
get minced meat
Actually, to get good meatballs, it is enough to buy a good piece of whole meat and ask the butcher shop to chop it up for us, as well as use seasonings that provide unmasked taste that of meat, which is the main one.
To finish this recipe, all that remains is to add juiciness and tenderness to the dough. with bread and use a homemade sauceMade with care and fresh product.
But for those who are reluctant to prepare them at home, especially in times of high temperatures when you want to be more on the beach than in the kitchen, a nutritionist has expressed his opinion on the matter, and makes it very clear what what is and what is not healthy in this homely preparation.
In a video on Tik Tok, the nutritionist @pedrigmznutri, who shares eating tips with his followers, challenges Internet users to position about whether this preparation is healthy or not.
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“Many people believe that they are very bad,” says the expert, holding a tray of these from one of Mercadona’s meat refrigerators. And he counters this view by stating that they have 90% chicken meatand that “the fat they have is part of the chicken.”
In addition, it highlights that they have 18 grams of proteina not inconsiderable amount for a balanced diet.
Likewise, the tiktoker highlights the fact that it costs 7.90 euros per kilo (online they are available 6.30 euro), “the truth is quite cheap”, so he concludes: “Don’t touch my balls”.
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The labeling of this product confirms this presence of 90% chicken meat, apart from other ingredients such as water, vegetable fiber, starch, salt, spices, preservative, antioxidants and dyes.
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