Deep fried falafel are fine, we claim, and we have figures to ‘prove’ it …
At the weekend we had a stall at a
health fair in Hammersmith where we were set to embarrass the organisers by offering deep fried food while advisers in our neighbouring stalls would be telling the punters to lay off chips etc. Our hosts very moderately asked us to come up with some nutritional information to support our belief that falafel wraps are quite good for you -- certainly better than most fast food. We haven't commissioned an analysis of our wraps, though we will do so before too long; we did though look up the calorie contents, total fats and saturated fats for our ingredients to get some feel for how fattening our wraps are. The figures show that if you have one of our very large large wraps with hummus you might want to stick to something light for your other main meal. However we're strikingly low in saturated fats and reasonable for total fats. Here are our figures:
The UK Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Safety recommend men eat a maximum of 2,500 calories a day, women 2,000 and children aged 5-10 1,800.
Our small wrap has 480 calories, or 530 with hummus. The large wrap is 670 calories, or 730 with hummus.
It's recommended that not more than 35% of energy should come from fat (maximum 11% saturated fat).
The proportions in our wraps are small wrap 21% (4% saturated), with hummus 25% (4.25%); large wrap 30% (4.7%), with hummus 32% (4.8%)
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