What is the Jewish holiday with the unhealthiest food? - The Jerusalem Post

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The holidays of Israel, besides for their religious importance, are also blessed with traditional foods. Passover has matzot and gefilte fish, Rosh Hashana has honey and apples, Hanukkah has sufganiyot and Purim has hamantaschen. On every holiday, it is practice to discuss how many calories your food has and how we get rid of it all after it's all over, but which holiday is the unhealthiest in terms of its food? Dr. Maya Rosman answered just that on her program on 103FM.

"The Purim holiday is the most unhealthy holiday out of all the holidays," warned the nutritionist. "It's true that the sufganiyot of Hanukkah are fried in low quality oil in which harmful materials are formed during the heating, but, in my opinion, Purim takes first place."

"It's not enough that the hamantaschen that are bought usually contain margarine, sugar, white flour and a ton of calories, so the mishloach manot add another too large variety of unhealthy sweets and snacks, with huge amounts of sugars, salt, unhealthy fats, and again the issue of calories. When there are several packages of mishloach manot on the kitchen counter, there are those who will have a hard time resisting the temptation and put all the unhealthy sweets and snacks into their bodies, in an amount that will cause weight gain and a risk of diabetes, blood pressure and heart disease."

"I ask myself since when were mishloach manot defined as a pile of all the most unhealthy things there is? Why not make it a tray of freshly cut fruit with some nuts? And let's focus for a moment also on the traditional three-sided hamantaschen cookie: it can be upgraded in place of the purchased hamantaschen, which are high in white flour, white sugar, margarine, and a filling that has nothing healthy in it," she suggested. "The dough we make at home, can be thinner, so it will be possible to focus on a healthy filling that will give all the nutritional value. You can make the dough from wholemeal flour, and cold-pressed butter or coconut oil, and not even put sugar in it. An even better health value will be in almond flour dough, which is also probably tastier."

"The preferred fillings are from sugar-free halva, or tahini, cocoa and sesame that are mixed. It is advisable to combine with a filling of walnuts or other nuts that you like, and it is also possible to combine chopped dried fruit," she added. "In addition, it is also possible to use a cheese filling with raisins and cinnamon. In that case, it is a cookie with a not bad health value."

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What is the Jewish holiday with the unhealthiest food? - The Jerusalem Post

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