Healthy salad dressings are helpful in the most possible way. Not only it will help you in making your salad tastier and more appetizing, it will also make your serving healthier. For example, when you use oil-based salad dressing, this would make the fat-soluble nutrients that are on the ingredients more accessible to your body.
The trouble is, there are some salad dressings that can be found in stores that have few pitfalls. And these pitfalls of healthy salad dressing should be known so that you would be able to know when enough is enough.
One pitfall of healthy salad dressings is the size of the serving. Most people would ignore or tend to not notice how much they are putting in. Thus, this results to rounding errors. To prevent this, you should know that it only takes a little amount of an oil-based dressing for a bowl of salad. So put a small amount of a dressing into the salad and toss it in.
Sugar content on salad dressings must be also checked on the labels. What we do not know is that most "sugar-free" dressings are the ones with much higher carbohydrate content, so do not be fooled. Get the ones that has zero or one gram of carbohydrate per servings amounting to two tablespoons. Also avoid sugary ingredients included, which includes balsamic vinegar.
Oils used need to be checked as well. The best oils for salad dressings are the ones with high amounts of monounsaturated fats and a low dose of omega-6 fats. Omega-6 is not actually bad, however, you would be able to get a load of this from other meals pf the day. Olive oil, so far, is the best one to use followed by Canola Oil.
When it comes to food with a long set of additives, some people steer clear from those. That is because they want to eat food that are close to its natural state or that they don't want to eat something that has ingredients they cannot spell. There are some brands of "healthy" salad dressing in the market which has a lot of additives added to it; don't patronize those.
