Dill is one of the most frequent guests in the kitchen of all seasonings. Possessing an irreplaceable aroma, it has become a favorite seasoning for housewives and honored professional chefs. In the article, we will consider how to correctly take into account calories in organizing a healthy diet, as well as useful properties and methods of using dill.

Calorie dill per 100 grams

In cooking, dill is used, seasoning the dish with fresh fragrant herbs, or in dried, frozen form: any of these options will improve the taste of the dish. If you, for example, are on a diet and count calories, knowing the calorie content of dill and maintaining a balance of proteins, fats and carbohydrates (KBJU) is simply necessary.

During heat treatment, part of the nutrients (chemical elements necessary for a person) is lost, so you need to add spice to food after removing the dish from the fire.Dill can be attributed to products with a negative calorie content, because when processing this seasoning, the body spends more energy than it received.

Important! When cutting dill, it is not recommended to use wooden boards, since when in contact with a tree, useful substances are destroyed.

Below is the nutritional value of dill, depending on the method of preservation (fresh, dry, frozen). Averaged information is given per 100 g of the finished food product. Depending on the place of cultivation and method of processing, the values ​​may vary.

Fresh

The largest amount of valuable substances is in a fresh plant. Dill must be used immediately after collection, since over time, part of the nutrients is lost.100 g of fresh herbs have an energy value of 40 kcal and contain:

• protein - 2.5 g;
• fat - 0.5 g (linoleic, oleic, palmitic, petrozelinic fatty acids);
• carbohydrates - 6.3 g, including sucrose, maltose, xylose, starch.

The rest of the composition is water, ash, dietary fiber.

The calorie content of fresh greens is so small that, even following a diet, it can be easily seasoned with any dishes to improve the taste and without damage to the figure. Eating a bunch of 15 g, you get only 6 kcal.

Did you know? Wreaths of greenery of the Umbrella family in Ancient Rome were awarded prize-winners of erudite contests.

Dried

The simplest and most affordable method of preserving dill is drying. At the same time, dried herbs retain the spicy aroma of fresh grass, and due to the evaporation of moisture, the amount of nutrients increases. Spice is stored in this form for several months without loss of quality.The energy and nutritional value of dill changes during drying as follows - 100 g of dried herbs have an energy value of 78 kcal and contain:

• proteins - 19.96 g;
• fats - 4.36 g;
• carbohydrates - 55.82 g.

In addition to greens, dill seeds are also dried, which have a stronger spicy aroma. The caloric content of seeds and the composition of BZHU is higher in comparison with greens.

100 g of seeds have an energy value of 305 kcal and contain:

• protein - 16 g;
• fats - 15 g;
• carbohydrates - 55 g.

Frozen

The best way to preserve dill is to freeze. Fresh spicy greens during deep freezing do not lose their aroma and at the same time preserves useful substances in full. 100 g of frozen greens have an energy value of 40 kcal and contain:

• protein - 16 g;
• fats - 15 g;
• carbohydrates - 55 g.

Important! The calorie content of greens does not change during conservation — 40 kcal, and, for example, chips with dill will increase calories to 517 kcal.

Chemical composition and energy value

Having a minimal calorie content, dill nevertheless has in its chemical composition a huge amount of rare elements and vitamins, so necessary for the life of the body.

Below is the composition and energy value of dill in accordance with the reference book on the chemical composition of food products (author I. M. Skurikhin).

Energy (nutritional) value:

• calorie content - 40 kcal;
• proteins - 2.5 g;
• fats - 0.5 g;
• carbohydrates - 6.3 g;
• dietary fiber - 2.8 g;
• organic acids - 0.1 g;
• water - 85.5 g;
• unsaturated fatty acids - 0.1 g;
• mono- and disaccharides - 6.2 g;
• starch - 0.1 g;
• ash - 2.3 g;
• saturated fatty acids - 0.1 g.

Macronutrients:

• calcium Ca - 223 mg;
• magnesium Mg - 70 mg;
• sodium Na - 43 mg;
• potassium K - 335 mg;
• phosphorus R - 93 mg.

Trace elements:

• Iron Fe - 1.6 mg;
• Zinc Zn - 0.91 mg;
• Copper Cu - 146 mcg;
• Manganese Mn - 1.264 mg.

Vitamins:

• PP - 0.6 mg;
• beta-carotene - 4.5 mg;
• A (P3) - 750 mcg;
• B1 (thiamine) - 0.03 mg;
• B2 (riboflavin) - 0.1 mg;
• B5 (pantothenic acid) - 0.3 mg;
• B6 (pyridoxine) - 0.2 mg;
• B9 - 27 mcg;
• C - 100 mg;
• E (T3) - 1.7 mg;
• PP (niacin equivalent) - 14 mg.

Seasoning salad or soup with young herbs, you will replenish your body with the necessary trace elements and vitamins, and the active substances of the plant in question will have a disinfecting, soothing and analgesic effect.

Did you know? In terms of calcium content (223 mg), spicy greens are superior to milk (120 mg), and in seeds the calcium content (1516 mg) is higher than in beans and peas (150 mg). The content of vitamin C (100 mg) dill ahead of oranges (60 mg).

The benefits and harms of plants

Most people begin to get acquainted with dill even in infancy, because pediatricians prescribe dill water from bloating and colic in the stomach from the first month of life.

Due to the chemical composition, healing abilities and minimal calorie content, this unpretentious plant fights many ailments:

1. Blood cholesterol - dietary fiber and vitamin PP regulate the level of "good" and "bad" cholesterol.
2. Fighting seasickness - in this case, an infusion of crushed seeds (2 teaspoons per 1 cup of boiling water) will help. Take it 2 times a day.
3. Acne, or acne - you should wipe the problem areas of the body with infusion of chamomile and dill seeds (1 teaspoon per 1 cup of boiling water) two to three times a day.
4. Cleanses the intestines and relieves bloating - you can chew spicy seeds with a crust of gray bread.
5. To maintain visual acuity - you need to apply compresses from a decoction of seeds, and beta-carotene, which is part of the seeds, will relieve eye fatigue.
6. Wound healing properties - rubbed young herbs will relieve skin inflammation, help heal wounds.
7. Stimulates lactation in women during lactation.
8. Prevention of relapse of cystitis - urologists advise drinking a decoction of the plant.
9. Colds - the plant has an expectorant effect, thinning sputum, effective when coughing.
10. Diabetes - reduces blood glucose and contributes to weight loss.
11. As a diuretic and choleretic, it removes excess fluid from the body, reduces edema and prevents the deposition of salts.

A universal contraindication for the use of the plant is the individual food intolerance to the product.

Using dill as a medicinal plant, you should pay attention to the limitations of use and, for some health problems, consume grass and its preparations carefully:

• lowers blood pressure due to the vasodilator effect, which is a warning for hypotonics;
• causes allergic reactions - for preparations containing dill, you should pay attention to allergies, since dermatitis is possible - such cases were observed when working on large crops;
• tones the intestines and uterus, which should be considered for diarrhea and during pregnancy;
• reduces the density of blood - with a tendency to bleeding, grass should be used with extreme caution;
• use in the winter will avoid vitamin deficiency.

Application features

In addition to traditional and traditional medicine, dill is used in a wide variety of areas:

1. Cosmetology. Justifying its name, odorous dill in the form of an essential oil with a sweetish-spicy smell is used in the form of fragrances for soaps, creams, toothpastes, colognes. Such products can relieve irritation after shaving, eliminate allergic itching and lighten age spots and freckles.
2. Food and canning industry. Uses all parts of the plant except the roots. Dried herbs are used in various mixtures of spices for cooking. Flowers and seeds are used for preserving vegetables, preparing fragrant vinegar, pickling herring, for flavoring cottage cheese and cream cheese. In small quantities, seeds are added to apple desserts.
3. Distillery industry. It uses seeds to produce aperitifs and give alcoholic beverages tonic properties and a spicy aroma.
4. Aromatherapy. It uses essential oil with increased irritability to strengthen the nervous system, improve mood and restore sleep.

Caring for proper nutrition, you should eat more dill, because it has wonderful taste.

Did you know? If you place a bulb cut in half in a package with herbs, then the green mass will remain longer. Every week you need to change the bulb for fresh.

In addition, the plant can be used as a medicine, because it has many useful and medicinal properties with a minimum of calories.