How many calories in sour cream?

Sour cream is a perfect dressing for many dishes,The basis for creams and the ingredient for baking. However, due to the large amount of fat in it, many believe that sour cream is a very high-calorie product.

Let's see how many calories in sour cream.

Below is the caloric content of sour cream, depending on its fat content.

• Calorie content of 15% sour cream is 160 kcal per 100 ml.
• Caloric content of 20% sour cream is 200 kcal per 100 ml.
• Calorie content of 25% sour cream is 250 kcal per 100 ml.

And now let's understand. If you add sour cream to baking, then, as a rule, 100 ml does not do, usually it takes somewhere 200-250 ml, so adding sour cream, you raise the caloric content of your pie by about 500 kcal. This, of course, is significant.

And what if you use sour cream, as, for example,dressing for salad? In one tablespoon of sour cream about 30 kcal. Of course, if you dressed a salad with vegetable oil, it would be less calories. However, if you are replacing mayonnaise with sour cream, you, on the contrary, reduce the calorie content of the dish, because in a tablespoon of mayonnaise, about 140 kcal! In addition, sour cream is much more useful than mayonnaise.

Read also the article What to cook from sour cream.