What about the theory that a simple bowl of soup can make you bloated? The answer with nutritionist Corinne Chicheportiche-Ayache.
Because you have made good food resolutions or simply because you like it, you may be swallowing liters of soup right now. And if so, you have surely read or heard that this beverage – of which every Frenchman consumes nearly 13 liters a year – has the ability to make you swell considerably. Enough, anyway, for you to notice. Well, don’t worry, and stop imagining yourself in a balloon: according to Corinne Chicheportiche-Ayache, this is a “False belief, as there are many in nutrition. Soup has no reason to make you fat or bloated.” Fine, but why?
It all depends on the composition of the soup
According to the expert, the very existence of the rumor would be based on a lexical misunderstanding: “It all depends on the meaning that we put behind the verb “inflate”. If we speak of swelling in the sense of Water retention, then no, it is not. Soup is basically water and vegetables. And the latter have properties quite diuretics and laxativesdue to their high content fiber and minerals. And it does not promote water retention. Unless you put a kilo of salt in your soup.”
So the problem comes from elsewhere. And it is perhaps necessary to seek it on the side of the consequences entailed by the absorption of soups containing onions, artichokes or cabbage : “These are vegetables which will ferment and which have so-called insoluble and irritating fibers, even if they are mixed. They can therefore sometimes lead to increased abdominal sensitivity and a reaction in the colon, which becomes slightly painful. There, yes, the belly can therefore swell a little. But it’s not water, it’s not extra weight. It’s just a slightly reactive colon. It’s very different.”
Morality? Nothing prevents you from preparing a good soup tonight. But not necessarily onion.