The egg cake has been a very popular snack in the Netherlands since 2007. The egg cake is also very popular when people want to lose weight. However, the question remains whether an egg cake as a snack is really that healthy. Because diet guru Sonja Bakker introduced the egg cake as a healthy snack, people are under the impression that they are opting for a healthy snack. Is the egg cake as a snack a healthy choice? Research has shown that egg cake contains quite a lot of calories compared to other snacks. As a result, the question is regularly asked: “How healthy is egg cake really?”

The egg cake and Sonja Bakker

People have been concerned with their body weight for years and were very happy with the recommendation to have an egg cake as a snack from weight consultant Sonja Bakker.

Sonja Bakker

Weight consultant Sonja Bakker became widely known by publishing her first book. The book has the ideal title: “Reach your ideal weight!”. The book, published in 2005, filled with strict weekly menus that, according to the author, should be the key to weight loss, sold more than 400,000 copies. The book was continuously in the top 10 of the most sold books in the Netherlands from the second week of 2006 to March 2007. In 2007 and 2008, Sonja Bakker’s diet was the most popular diet in the Netherlands. In her book: “Summer Slim with Sonja”, the diet guru introduced the egg cake as a very healthy snack. The result was an increase in demand for egg cakes. Due to the many followers of Sonja Bakker’s diet, supermarkets were unable to purchase enough egg cakes at that time. Often, after the compartments were filled, the shelves were only for sale in the morning hours. The replenished egg cakes generally appeared to have been sold after a few hours.

Criticism.

After a number of years of immense popularity, Sonja Bakker’s popularity began to decline sharply at the end of 2008. As a result, sales of her books also fell sharply in 2008. According to the booksellers, by 80%. In September 2009, Sonja Bakker announced that she would stop most of her activities as of January 1, 2010. The decline in her popularity is mainly due to the doubts that nutritionists and other diet gurus had about Sonja Bakker’s recommended diets. For example, in 2008 the University of Wageningen published a study in which Sonja Bakker’s diet came out as the lowest. Sonja Bakker’s successor, Dr. Frank did not hide his doubts about Sonja Bakker’s diet. Dr. Frank quickly managed to conquer the Dutch diet market with his new insights.

Dr. Frank and the egg cake

Due to the new insights and research results, Sonja Bakker’s diet was increasingly viewed critically. As a result, Sonja Bakker’s beloved egg cake is increasingly being scrutinized and criticized as a snack. So Dr. Frank knew in December 2011, in his weekly column in the Telegraaf, that an oliebol would be even healthier than an egg cake. (also read the article: The oliebol is healthier than an egg cake). The egg cake was a very popular snack product in Sonja Bakker’s diet. This is because the egg cake has a very low fat content. However, not only a low fat content is important for health. When considering whether a product is healthy or not, the sugar content of a food product must also be taken into account. And also with the number of carbohydrates. It is precisely the hidden sugars that a product contains that often causes people to gain weight. While people often think that they are dieting and eating healthily. It has been found that an egg cake also contains many hidden sugars. It turns out that an egg cake, converted into sugar cubes, contains approximately 4 sugar cubes. The sugars contained in an egg cake are converted very quickly into energy. The body cannot process this energy as quickly in a resting state and the body will therefore store the consumed sugars as reserve fat. This reserve fat is the fat that makes people fat.

Nutritional values egg cake

It is important to know the nutritional values when eating products and to know what the consequences of eating certain products can be for the body.The nutritional values are shown per egg cake.

Healthy snacks to replace an egg cake

According to experts, an occasional egg cake won’t do any harm. However, as with so many other snack products, eat an egg cake in moderation. With the scientific insights of 2012, the question is whether an egg cake should be eaten as a regular snack.

Some alternative snacks to replace an egg cake are:

• Rice waffle
• Rusk with cheese 20+
• Tomatoes
• Slice of gingerbread
• Apple
• Bowl of low-fat yogurt

Low-carb diet

It should be noted that the choice of the best snack is highly dependent on the diet chosen by the person concerned. So when opting for a low-carb diet, it is, for example, very advisable to opt for a snack without carbohydrates.

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