In general, low cholesterol recipes seldom taste just like the original high fat, high sugar, high cholesterol recipe.
What a low cholesterol recipe does, is provide you with a similiar tasting, more nutritious, more healthy alternative, which hopefully you will find to be just as appealing or more so.
The taste of a low cholesterol recipe will often be noticably a little or a lot different. One reason for this, is that low cholesterol recipes frequently use wholemeal flour in a 50/50 relationship with white flour, this is because wholemeal flour can significantly lower cholesterol and help against pre-diabetes.
Sometimes wholemeal flour has little impact on the outcome of the low cholesterol recipe, but other times the wholemeal in the low cholesterol recipe will add a different taste and texture.
As well as using low cholesterol recipes to help your cholesterol, there are numerous safe, natural, alternative cholesterol supplements that can help too: Lipi-rite is one such natural cholesterol supplement. It uses several natural ingredients to help out with the blood cholesterol and triglycerides.
For the most part though, as long as you can accept that the low cholesterol recipe is going to be a bit different, you may well find, as I did, that the low cholesterol recipe, after a while, seems to taste better than the high cholesterol recipe version.
I know my body seems to crave for the healthy alternatives, now that it's been wheened off the high cholesterol, high fat, high sugar rubbish that would have killed me.
We are all accustomed to eating sweets and these are normally part of most of our meals, yet, unless you have some low cholesterol dessert recipes, one has little way of satisfying this built in expectation with meals. We all love our sweet things in life. True?
Another part of low cholesterol recipes, is the use of artificial sweetener and or fruits, to get that sweet taste. People on low cholesterol diets normally have to keep their sugar and calorie intake much lower than they are accustomed to, because being overweight is one of the main causes of high cholesterol. When a low cholesterol recipe requires an artificial sweetener, there are several considerations.
First, if the low cholesterol recipe calls for the sweetener to be cooked in the recipe, you need to buy a sweetener that is very heat tolerant, such as Splenda or Liquid Sugarine. Just check the product and make sure it states "suitable for cooking" or some such.
Second, when cooking is not involved in the low cholesterol recipe, you can use any artifical sweetener you like, but not all artifical sweeteners taste the same. Some, I find taste horrible, but the one I like is Nutrasweet.
Third, be aware that although great effort has been made in these low cholesterol recipes to get the nutritional analysis of calories, cholesterol and saturated fat correct, these low cholesterol recipes can become deadly, as the concentrations within ingredients can change from one manufacturer to the next. For example, some cocoa powder has 0% saturated fat, while other manufactures turn it out with 7% and even 10% saturated fat. One really needs to be alert to the food analysis given on food items by the manufacturer and buy accordingly when preparing these low cholesterol recipes.
Also, low cholesterol recipes will frequently replace high cholesterol egg yolk with low cholesterol egg white. Generally this alters the taste only a little, if at all.
So, as far as this web site is concerned, a low cholesterol recipe is also one that should be low fat, low sugar, low calorie and, of course, low cholesterol. That is the ideal low cholesterol recipe.
This low cholesterol recipe, which appears below, was deliberately chosen for this page to demonstrate that a low cholesterol recipe of just about any recipe can be made. Let's face it, who would have thought there would be a low cholesterol recipe for cream!
If you know the name of the person who invented this recipe, I would love to include their name here.
Serves: 8 person(s)Please note that all low cholesterol diet recipes have generally been modified at www.cholesterolcholestrol.com to be even lower in cholesterol, saturated fat, fat and calories! Please be aware that food composition tables have inherent limitations and should be used as a guide only - please always check the cholesterol, saturated fat, calories and so on of the foods you are using by their food labels.