How healthy is the Vissot curry?
This depends greatly on how you use it and what you eat with it. We have provided a variety of recipes. In developing these recipes we have aimed to get the balance right between enjoying food but also maintaining good health. The most important issues are how natural the foods is and the level of sugar, salt and fats.
Is the Vissot curry natural?
Vissot uses fresh ingredients to produce the paste and there are no added preservative or artificial colours or flavours.
Salt
The paste is very concentrated so the salt content per 100g is high, however, once the paste is dissolved in food the salt level is usually reduced to healthy levels, depending on how it is used. The recommended adult intake of sodium is 2300mg (reference). The peanut satay sauce is high in salt, however, since it is a sauce only small amounts are eaten to flavour food. The salt content of the peanut satay sauce in the suggested peanut satay noodles recipe is less than 500mg and there is no added salt in the recipe. That means you could easily eat 3 meals of peanut satay noodles in a day and not go over your daily limit of salt intake.
Curry traditionally is high in salt. Curry that you buy at a restaurant can have up to 6g of salt (3000mg of sodium) or more which would put you above your daily limit with one serve. By comparison, the Vissot curry is quite low in salt. The paste in one serve of Vissot curry paste contains about 958mg of salt with very little extra salt in the other ingredients. This is well within an average adult's daily limit but it should not be eaten every meal! As long as you are eating a balanced diet overall, you could eat a meal of Vissot Cambodian curry every day and stay within your daily limits.
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Fat
The Vissot curry paste is very low in fat, however, many of the recipes call for coconut cream. So how do these recipes fair in regards to fat content? The recommended daily saturated fat intake for an average adult is 24 g. The peanut satay noodles recipe uses one cup of coconut cream or coconut milk. The total saturated fat content of peanut satay noodles per serve using coconut cream is about 9 g. If you want to reduce the fat content, use coconut milk instead.
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Sugar
Is the Vissot curry natural?
Vissot uses fresh ingredients to produce the paste and there are no added preservative or artificial colours or flavours.
Salt
The paste is very concentrated so the salt content per 100g is high, however, once the paste is dissolved in food the salt level is usually reduced to healthy levels, depending on how it is used. The recommended adult intake of sodium is 2300mg (reference). The peanut satay sauce is high in salt, however, since it is a sauce only small amounts are eaten to flavour food. The salt content of the peanut satay sauce in the suggested peanut satay noodles recipe is less than 500mg and there is no added salt in the recipe. That means you could easily eat 3 meals of peanut satay noodles in a day and not go over your daily limit of salt intake.
Curry traditionally is high in salt. Curry that you buy at a restaurant can have up to 6g of salt (3000mg of sodium) or more which would put you above your daily limit with one serve. By comparison, the Vissot curry is quite low in salt. The paste in one serve of Vissot curry paste contains about 958mg of salt with very little extra salt in the other ingredients. This is well within an average adult's daily limit but it should not be eaten every meal! As long as you are eating a balanced diet overall, you could eat a meal of Vissot Cambodian curry every day and stay within your daily limits.
Select one more recipe low in salt as another example...
Fat
The Vissot curry paste is very low in fat, however, many of the recipes call for coconut cream. So how do these recipes fair in regards to fat content? The recommended daily saturated fat intake for an average adult is 24 g. The peanut satay noodles recipe uses one cup of coconut cream or coconut milk. The total saturated fat content of peanut satay noodles per serve using coconut cream is about 9 g. If you want to reduce the fat content, use coconut milk instead.
Samlor curry recipe...
Other low fat recipes...
Sugar
