{"id":383,"date":"2014-08-08T22:21:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T02:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2014-08-08T22:21:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T02:21:57","slug":"eat-more-hummus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Eat more hummus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hummus is a healthy food, right? Sure it is. All those health crazy nuts go gaga for the stuff! And yet, from a <a title=\"On losing weight (Part 4 \u2013 Volumetrics)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/?p=334\">volumetrics <\/a>point of view, it&#8217;s not all that great. Let&#8217;s take a look at the nutrition information for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wegmans.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&amp;storeId=10052&amp;catalogId=10002&amp;productId=727008\">Wegmans Food You Feel Good About hummus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>70 calories per 2 Tbsp serving<\/li>\n<li>30g per 2 Tbsp serving<\/li>\n<li>35 calories from fat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s 2.3 calories per gram, and exactly half of those calories are from fat! No, it&#8217;s not horrible, but I decided that I wanted to see if I could do better. Here&#8217;s the result of my experimentation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 cans (15.5 oz each) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wegmans.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&amp;storeId=10052&amp;catalogId=10002&amp;productId=351760\">garbanzo beans<\/a>, drained<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 cup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wegmans.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&amp;storeId=10052&amp;catalogId=10002&amp;productId=357621\">Hidden Valley lite ranch salad dressing<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1 Tbsp <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wegmans.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&amp;storeId=10052&amp;catalogId=10002&amp;productId=374990\">Sriracha hot sauce<\/a>\u00a0(increase\u00a0to 2 Tbsp\u00a0for more kick)<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup water<\/li>\n<li>3 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp garlic powder<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 tsp pepper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Put all those ingredients together in a food processor and blend until smooth. No cooking, no chopping; nice and easy. It makes a lot, so it will last a while. I calculate that&#8217;s about 2400 grams of food, and right around 2000 calories. We&#8217;re looking at a calorie density of 0.8 calories per gram, and only about 400 of those calories, less than a quarter, are from fat.<\/p>\n<p>So my concoction has right around 1\/3\u00a0the calories of the Wegmans hummus, and 1\/6 as much fat, and yet it tastes incredible. Seriously. I love this stuff. It&#8217;s great for dipping. I&#8217;ll bring a container of it to work and eat it with celery sticks or baby carrots.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite is to take some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wegmans.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&amp;storeId=10052&amp;catalogId=10002&amp;productId=380579\">Wegmans whole wheat mini pitas<\/a> and load them up with hummus. It&#8217;s a match made in heaven. Just look at this snack I had before bed tonight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-2014-08-08-21.53.34.jpg.jpeg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"2014-08-08 21.53.34.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-2014-08-08-21.53.34.jpg.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That whole plate has right around 200 calories on it (about 1.3 cal \/ g). It&#8217;s very filling and it tastes great!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; danBhentschel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hummus is a healthy food, right? Sure it is. All those health crazy nuts go gaga for the stuff! And yet, from a volumetrics point of view, it&#8217;s not all that great. Let&#8217;s take a look at the nutrition information for Wegmans Food You Feel Good About hummus: 70 calories per 2 Tbsp serving 30g &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/?p=383\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eat more hummus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}