Chocolate lightning, Paris-Brest, apple-grown … Here is the lightest greed that you will find in pastry.
In pastry, not all pleasures are created from a nutritional point of view. Some cling to, others evaporate quickly, at the cost of a moderate effort. Zava, a medical platform specializing in health and weight loss, reviewed the most emblematic French desserts to measure the physical activity time necessary for their elimination. The study, carried out from the average weight of the adult population in France, has some surprises in store. A dessert, well known to bakery lovers, stands out by displaying a surprisingly low number of calories.
In the family of desserts sold in stores, madeleines, macaroons and croissants dominate the most calorie classification. A madeleine is an average of 112 calories for a single room. Multiply by two or three and you arrive quickly at 300 or 400 calories. For an average person, it would then be necessary to run almost an hour or dance during Zumba for almost 55 minutes to compensate. Not exactly a balanced pleasure-effect relationship. In comparison, the least calorie desserts require much less physical sacrifices: 20 minutes of running or 30 minutes of bike are enough to restore balance.
Fenja Nolte, nutrition expert in the Zava platform, specifies: “The goal is not to” burn “what we eat. Food is not a punishment, and movement is not a sanction. But understanding how meals and physical activity are linked can help us reconnect to our body in a more conscious way. It is not a question of restriction, but awareness.” She insists: everything can be integrated into a balanced lifestyle, as long as we remain curious and understand the real impact of what we eat. Through this comparative tool, the objective is above all to put pleasure in the center, without cutting yourself off from reality.
The dessert in question, the one that increases the caloric addition less than the others is the pastry flan. Count 220 calories per 100 grams, about 297 calories for a part. With a moderate race session barely twenty minutes, the case is settled. By bike, just 25 minutes. In Pilates, 1h02. Even in quiet yoga mode, it is eliminated in 1h16.
In summary: this is the most “profitable” pastry dessert on the energy side. And as it is also one of the simplest to find, it checks a lot of boxes for those who like to finish a meal on a sweet touch without exploding the counter.
