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Don’t Eat These 6 High-Calorie Local Desserts If You’re Trying To Lose Weight

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Don’t Eat These 6 High-Calorie Local Desserts If You’re Trying To Lose Weight

Steer clear of these seemingly innocent local desserts if you want to lose weight

August 14, 2023

Dessert always sounds good, but that moment of indulgence could take a half-hour jog to burn off. And we’re not just talking about that chocolate fudge cake or tiramisu — local desserts count too. Even though dessert portions in Singapore are typically small and gone in a few mouthfuls, they could pack even more fat and calories than a cheeseburger, which clocks in at 298 calories with 12g of fat. 

Some of these culprits may even surprise you. Is your favourite dessert one of them? Check the list below to find out.

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Don't Eat These 6 High-Calorie Local Desserts If You're Trying To Lose Weight
Peanut or walnut paste
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Rich in oils and naturally occurring fats, it’s no wonder these creamy desserts are so flavourful and satisfying. On the upside, they’re full of good minerals like copper, iron, calcium and zinc, but on the downside, they’ll bust your calorie allotment real quick. Peanut paste has 342 calories and 20.4g of fat, while walnut paste has 321.2 calories and 21.9g of fat.

Technically speaking, sesame paste narrowly escapes this list with 11.7g of fat, but it has 349.1 calories per bowl, more than any of its counterparts, so watch out.

Surprisingly, almond paste has just 215 calories per serving, though it has 11.3g of fat, so if you really need your nutty fix, this may be the one to go for.

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Bubur cha cha
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Such a lovely dessert. You can have it warm or cold, and the starchy and chewy bits of sweet potato, yam, and tapioca swimming in a sweet soup of coconut milk is so pleasantly moreish. This yummy combination comes at a price though — it has 358 calories and 23.7g of fat. You may be amazed to know that that’s about the same amount of calories and fat you’ll get with three pieces of fried chicken drumsticks.

Tang yuan with yam, red bean or sesame filling
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Aww, these little glutinous balls floating in soup seem cute, but each filled morsel is about 70 calories or more with around 3–4g of fat! And you’re definitely not helping matters if you get them in peanut soup.

Alternatively, you can make one without artificial colouring and natural flavours. Try our recipe here.

Waffles
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It’s a big serving, so we hope this won’t be dessert for just one. But if you’re considering this for your post-meal sweet treat, know that even the plain version has 352.5 calories and 15.1g of fat, and none of the excitement that a cheeseburger induces.

Add any of the toppings (red bean paste, blueberry jam, peanut butter or kaya) and you’re upping the calories by 40–190 calories and up to 9g of fat (red bean paste is the worst offender both in calorie count and fat content, see a pattern here?)

Cendol with durian or mango topping
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A regular bowl of chendol isn’t the healthiest with 277 calories and 9.4g of fat. But when you add mango or durian toppings, that’s when you’re really splurging. Adding mango bumps up numbers to 333.2 calories and 14.2g fat. If you go for calorie-heavy durian instead, you’re looking at 408.8 calories and 19.2g of fat. You could practically have another meal for that amount.

Wife pastry (Lao po bing)
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It hardly seems fair that this chewy, flat pastry that’s gone in a few bites has 306.9 calories and 15.5g of fat. For that, you could even have a whole bowl of cendol and save yourself some calories — something to think about before picking this up as a mid-day office snack.

Nutritional information from the Health Promotion Board’s Energy & Nutrient Composition of Food website.

Text: Yuen Yi Ying, Shape 

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