A nutritionist reveals the bakery’s three lowest-calorie desserts.
While it is not easy to completely eliminate sugar from your diet, it is well known that certain cakes such as brownies, macarons, millefeuilles, tiramisu or even Paris-Brest are calorie bombs that should be banned. But it is sometimes smarter to get the dessert that catches your eye at the bakery rather than heading for a gourmet coffee made with these small industrially produced delicacies full of additives that turn out to be much more caloric. These three desserts that we find in traditional pastry shops are actually the least fatty.
Nutritionist Raphael Gruman introduces us to them in a video posted on Tiktok. Delicious in appearance and well-known in the French culinary landscape, these three pastries are actually the least fattening due to their low calorie intake. First of all, the éclair, made with choux pastry and pastry cream that are “not that sweet”, it allows you to indulge in moderation.
Count about 200 calories for a chocolate éclair. Then, the nutritionist surprisingly announces the flan pâtissier, a dessert “that contains a lot of eggs, a little bit of sugar, it’s true”, but which “is not going to be too fatty”. Indeed, the flan contains only 130 calories per 100 grams, relatively few compared to other desserts. This relative lightness is mainly linked to its ingredients since the flan is mainly made from milk and eggs, much less rich in lipids than butter, the basis of many other desserts. Milk and eggs also provide a valuable source of protein and calcium.
The must, according to the nutrition expert, “obviously remains fruit tarts”, especially raspberry tarts, which contain “very, very few calories as fruit” and “a lot of fiber”. As for “the pastry that we will have underneath, it is less caloric and less sweet”. The apple tart, very popular with the French, has a little more than 200 calories.
To treat yourself without feeling guilty, turn to these three desserts acclaimed by the nutritionist and be wary of appearances! And don’t forget that “homemade” in a lower sugar version will always be more suited to your diet.