CookSmart (17th Issue) Page3

Autumn leaves, autumn words…

It's still stifling hot in the autumn months in Hong Kong. In this weather, a lot of health-conscious people choose salad as their meals, with a dual purpose of boosting fruit and veggies intake as well as controlling body weight. As most commercial salad dishes are made with fresh fruit and veggies and relatively lack in meat and starch, just having these might result in an unbalanced diet. Furthermore, many salad dishes contain unhealthy ingredients like ham, bacon, deep-fried breadcrumbs and high-fat high-sugar salad dressing, which lead to significant calories and sodium intake.

How should we create salad dishes with fulfilling the principles of healthy eating? What ingredients can replace those unhealthy ones? Dietitians will answer all these questions in this issue of CookSmart. Also, beware of drooling at our recommended healthy salad recipes. This issue is full of fun; don't miss it!