If you feel guilty every time you eat a tamale, then you can do it without feeling bad, because a specialist revealed that it contains fewer calories than a fruit cocktail.
As you read it. The obesity and nutrition specialist Laura Cristina Badillo Galvan revealed to the Salud180 portal that the corn tamale specifically has 150 kilocalories per 100 grams and is smaller only weighs 100 grams on average, and has less fat.
Badillo explains that a fruit cocktail that has a low glycemic index with honey in a standard 200-milliliter glass with 25 calories.
But, a jumbo cocktail that contains kiwi, watermelon, papaya, apple, strawberries, red fruits, chocolate chips, honey, nuts, and whipped cream contains up to 250 calories, much more than corn tamale.
How many calories does a traditional tamale have
If you want to take advantage on the day of the Candelaria, you can eat corn tamales, and not the traditional ones since the specialist explained that “for every 100 grams of a traditional tamale they are around 150 kilocalories and each one of average size weighs approximately 300 grams for a total of between 500 and 600 calories. ”