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Keywords : fusilli, capellini or just plain old spaghetti, pasta
Spinach, carrot, tomato and other vegetable pasta
Description : PASTA Whether it’s fusilli, capellini or just plain old spaghetti, pasta is perfect for a healthy diet, if you don’t smoother it with unnecessary fat. Here’s a quick low down on how to get the utmost pleasure from your pasta.
To put it simply, pasta is a dough of flour, perhaps with a little olive oil for flavour. Pasta is a generic name, which covers the vast number of shapes of dough. There are almost 600 different varieties of commercial pasta all over the world. Pasta has been a staple part of the diet of Italians for centuries.
Pasta is a power house because it’s packed with carbohydrates, the body’s main source of fuel. Most pasta is enriched, too, making it a good source of thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and iron. But perhaps the best thing about pasta is that it does not have too much of calories, fat, cholestral and sodium.
Spinach, carrot, tomato and other vegetable pasta contain only small amounts of the vegetable, so their nutritional value is about the same as other pastas. |
