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Chinese restaurants have spread around the world offering typical food from the east, therefore, at the request of one of our readers (olguitaaaa), conducted a nutritional analysis of Chinese food.

First, we clarify that the food quality and nutritional properties of Chinese preparations, changes depending on each of the dishes, however, try to analyze in general, Chinese food.

In eastern food, vegetables predominate, as well as healthy fats and lean proteins. Also, the proportions of each food are carefully calculated for each plate, which contributes to eat what we need in perspective.

Furthermore, the type of cooking tends to favor health, because it dominated the steam cooking, water and even takes care of them point to preserve nutrients, flavor and qualities of foods, for example, plants at are generally crisp.

Condiments and sauces are other distinctive features Chinese food, most notably the scallions, ginger and soy sauce, all digestive properties and beneficial for the body, although the latter can be very high in sodium.

So far we seem to be at a very healthy and nutritious food, however, Chinese food are also a variety of fried, and they do not always play the same way out east, where is this healthy food source.

Therefore, we conclude that the original Chinese food is very nutritious, balanced, but not always the same that we get in restaurants, we all know that what we eat out, always lower quality and more caloric than that home.

So when we go to eat Chinese food, take into account this and try to choose dishes with more vegetables, not fried and ask for sauces that are not incorporated into the preparation, but to be served separately, so as to control the amount of these to consume.

Everything can be healthy in for good measure, depending on many factors, we only know this and choose the most healthy and nutritious choices, not forgetting the taste and our desire to eat something delicious.