How many calories does a bolillo contain?

The bolillo is, first and foremost, a pinnacle bread in Mexican cuisine. Just like conchas, empanadas, and bolas dulce are in terms of sweetened bread. The bolillo, on the other hand, is sugar-free; it's made with wheat flour, yeast, water, and salt. According to the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mexican Gastronomy , it's a Mexican adaptation of the French baguette .

The bolillo has its roots in the interculturality of European expansion following the 16th century. There are records that the Egyptian civilization already made a similar kind of bread more than ten thousand years BC; The Greeks also did this, who used to ferment cereals and then cook them in ovens.

Although it is a food, in popular culture certain healing properties are often attributed to the bolillo, such as: “Eat a bolillo for scares.”

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Which is not unreasonable, since according to an article published in the journal SciELO: “ Chewing and eating a bolillo does help stabilize glucose levels, in addition to mitigating the feeling of emptiness in the stomach after a fright, since carbohydrates and fats inhibit the production of gastric acid.”

How many calories can a bolillo have?

Does a bolillo make you gain weight? According to the Mexican System of Equivalent Foods, A 60-gram piece of bolillo contains 183 calories and the following nutrients:

• 5.7 grams of protein.
• 39 grams of carbohydrates.
• 341.4 mg of sodium.

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Considering the above data, a person would have to eat at least 40 bolillos to resent it and be able to say, "Now I really overdid it." If a person consumes a whole piece of bolillo, It would be the equivalent of eating 3 corn tortillas or up to 7 and a half cups of popcorn, Let's be clear: completely natural.

So, if we're talking about a person who isn't very inclined to exercise, but has a strong affinity for food, and who also believes that climbing the stairs burns enough calories, we have to contradict them because they should run or jog for about 12 minutes, or cycle for 20 minutes, to stay healthy.

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