Low-carb diets avoid:
- grain products
- potatoes, rice and pasta
- sugar and sweet treats that contain sugar
- fresh juice and fruit.
Fazer Food Services adheres to the Finnish National Nutrition Council's nutritional recommendations, which state that carbohydrates should account for about 50 per cent of your daily energy intake. In practice, this means that about 250-350 g of carbohydrates per day, so about 80–120 g for lunch. We don't therefore prepare separate low-carb meals.
If they so wish, our restaurant customers can easily put together their own low-carb meal as follows:
- plenty of salad
- regular main course
- little or no potato, rice or pasta
- no bread
- water to drink.
Product descriptions show the amount of carbohydrate per 100 g of food. They enable customers to choose the option with the least carbohydrate, if they so wish.
A low-carb diet is a very bad choice ecologically, as it leans towards animal products. This is another reason why Amica restaurants don't prepare separate low-carb meals.
If a customer would like to, for example, take two pieces of meat and leave out the potato and bread, this is possible for an extra charge. Meat and potato are differently priced ingredients and cannot therefore be seen as alternatives.
The healthiest option would be to remove bad sources of carbohydrates, such as sugar and white refined wheat. Good sources of carbohydrates are recommended in their place – for example, rye bread, wholegrain products, fruit and berries.
Many studies have shown that, in the long-term, a diet that's very low in fibre-rich grain products is a definite health risk.
Read more about carbohydrates here.