Low Cholesterol Snacks

Food is a basic human requirement. But people look at food not only as a requirement, but also as a means of enjoying themselves. Because of this simple reason, the food industry has largely developed to tantalize our taste buds. With the development of the food industry and changes in habits of people, came the lifestyle diseases such as hypertension and high levels of cholesterol. With the increase in the number of patients suffering from high cholesterol levels, doctors and dietitians are advising people to stick to low cholesterol diets in order to keep their cholesterol levels in check.

Low cholesterol snacks are foods that are especially designed with minimum or low cholesterol. These snacks can be made at home or can be bought in almost any convenience store all across America. With the population’s increased awareness and demand for low cholesterol snacks, there is a wide range of products to choose from. A few decades ago, if a person wanted low cholesterol snacks, he either had a very poor choice or had to make them at home. But now almost every supermarket and store has a separate section for low cholesterol snacks and other food items.

Many people are under the misconception that low cholesterol snacks are not tasty. A few decades ago this misconception could have been justified, but not anymore. Today low cholesterol snacks are as tasty as your everyday snacks, if not tastier. Gone are the days in which low cholesterol diets consisted only of graham crackers and fruit. Now you can eat ice cream, whipped cream, chocolates cookies, pastries and almost any food made with low cholesterol ingredients. Therefore if you have been avoiding these low cholesterol snacks based on their taste, it is now time to experiment on them.

If you are a person all for home cooked meals and snacks, you need not worry about having to buy snacks low in cholesterol. It is possible to make your own low cholesterol snacks right from home. The first thing to do is to identify the ingredients that you can incorporate in your snack. You need not stick to graham crackers, jelly and celery sticks any more. Now you can find things such as 1% skim milk, low fat foods such as yoghurt, whipped cream, chocolate, mayonnaise, sauces, chips, popcorn, pretzels, and many more items on sale, at low prices. You can add these to your snacks instead of the traditional low cholesterol ingredients.

At present most families have started to make a lifestyle change and snacking on low cholesterol snacks has become a large part of it. This is quite the right thing to do if your family consists only of adults. But if your family consists of infants and children, going exclusively on low cholesterol diets might deprive your young ones of the essential nutrients needed for proper growth and development. Therefore it is best to have low cholesterol snacks under medical advice.