The calories from the croissant

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A croissant is delicious. These French biscuits are high in calories and so tasty because they contain a lot of fat.

A croissant - the French breakfast pastry
A croissant - the French breakfast pastry © Martina_Taylor / Pixelio

A croissant is not only very tasty and high in calories. The French breakfast pastries can also be very unhealthy. Read here why that is.

A croissant and its calories and nutritional values

  • A croissant usually weighs 60 grams. There are 280 calories in these 60 grams of French breakfast pastries.
  • A croissant like this therefore contains at least 3.5 grams of pure butter.
  • The crescent-shaped biscuits also contain 4.5 grams of carbohydrates.
  • All known vitamins, minerals and trace elements are only present in quantities that can be neglected.
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  • If you now eat the croissant baked with cheese, you can add another 106 calories.

Danish pastries often contain unhealthy calories

  • When you buy a croissant, make sure it is airy Pastries in a bakery whose sales staff can give you information about which Food used by the baker to make French breakfast pastries.
  • With us, the bakers are legally obliged to only use butter in Danish pastries. To make processing easier, the industry offers bakeries drawing fat. This butter is mixed with additives that make it much easier to roll out the butter.
  • Unfortunately, these substances, which turn conventional butter into a drawing fat, are not beneficial for the human organism, but especially for children, and are not beneficial to health. The trans fatty acids produced when processing butter have a negative effect on LDL cholesterol and on the arteries.

Croissants are delicious, but full of calories. So they are neither suitable for a diet nor for a healthy one nourishment to recommend.

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