The Mid Autumn Festival is coming, all kinds of moon cakes have become the protagonist on the table. Moon cakes are delicious, but if you don't pay attention to them, you can have a relapse!
According to Changsha Evening News, a healthy young man was carried to Hunan Provincial People's Hospital by his family on a stretcher after eating a moon cake, and he was even unable to communicate with doctors. It turned out that the young man had chronic gallstones. After more than two hours of operation, the inflamed and swollen gallbladder was removed, and the young man was saved.
Similar things are not uncommon. Professor Ni Haixiang, director of Endocrinology Department of Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of traditional Chinese medicine, still remembers a patient who was in his 50s last year. After the Mid Autumn Festival, he came to see a doctor because of blurred vision, general fatigue, polyuria and other symptoms. A check, fasting blood glucose to more than 20, is three or four times the normal value. I'm afraid of wasting moon cakes every day.
So, ah, is it true that you can eat as many mooncakes as you want, or who wants to eat them!

Five kinds of people try to eat less moon cakes

There is a folk saying that "one mouthful of moon cake contains half a jin of oil". Although it is exaggerated, it is an indisputable fact that moon cake is high in oil and sugar. Xi'an nutrition society once conducted an experiment, the experimental measurement results show that 50 g egg yolk moon cake contains 14 g of oil, and the general oil spoon at home is about 5 g, that is to say, eating one moon cake is equal to drinking three spoons of oil. Moon cake oil is so high, five kinds of people should be particularly careful.
Hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease and obesity
Should eat moon cake less, lest increase blood viscosity, aggravate the disease. For patients with hypertension, try not to eat salty moon cakes, such as pickled mustard and fresh meat moon cakes. For those with high cholesterol, try not to eat egg yolk moon cake. Obese or overweight people should eat less sweet moon cakes such as bean paste and jujube paste.

diabetic
It's best to avoid eating moon cakes. Sugar free moon cakes on the market are not equal to sugar free, including vegetarian moon cakes filled with fruits and vegetables. As long as the skin contains starch, these carbohydrates may be converted into glucose, leading to increased blood glucose. Diabetic patients should be extra careful.
Suffering from gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer
If you eat too much will make a lot of gastric acid secretion, further damage has been damaged mucosa, may cause gastrointestinal bleeding;
Patients with cholecystitis and cholelithiasis
Eating too much moon cake can easily cause gallbladder contraction, obstruction of bile discharge, and severe pain in the right upper abdomen. Patients with gallstones who eat too much may cause acute pancreatitis. The symptoms of this disease are severe abdominal pain, which may be life-threatening if they do not see a doctor in time.
Patients who have recovered from a long illness
The body is in the stage of recovery, and the digestive function is still weak. When eating moon cakes, we should mainly taste and avoid overeating.
Choose fillings according to age and sex
Children can eat egg yolk stuffing, because the vitamin B group and rich lecithin in egg yolk are essential nutrients for children's brain and body development;
Women can choose jujube paste stuffing, as the saying goes, "eat three jujubes a day, women are not afraid of old.";
The five kernels are almonds, walnuts, peanuts, sesame seeds and melon seeds. Men usually eat less snacks, so they should add more nuts;
Middle aged and old friends can choose black sesame stuffing. Black sesame is rich in vitamin E, which can nourish liver and kidney and delay aging.
Tea with moon cake, easy to digest
Moon cake or sweet or greasy, the best partner with moon cake is tea soup, which can play a good role in relieving greasy and stagnation. Here is a table of soup and tea, we take advantage of the Mid Autumn Festival is not yet, go to prepare materials~
Sweet moon cake: jujube paste, bean paste, lotus seed paste
Recommendation: mint tea, green tea
Sweet moon cake to drink tea to help digestion. Light green tea and mint tea can improve glucose metabolism, not to let too much sugar stay in the body. The coolness of mint can also sweep away the sweetness and greasiness in the mouth.
Oil moon cake: egg yolk, meat, five kernel
Recommendation: Pu'er tea, chrysanthemum tea, hawthorn tea
Greasy moon cake is suitable for heavy taste tea to remove the greasy taste. Pu'er tea is the best choice, because it is sweet and cold, and has good fat removing effect. Eating egg yolk moon cake is easy to catch fire, chrysanthemum tea can reduce fire. Hawthorn tea can promote gastric acid secretion, help digestion.
Light moon cake: Matcha, yam, yogurt
Recommendation: rose tea, Matcha
Light moon cake can be matched with slightly flavored tea, which can taste light sweetness. Rose tea can regulate blood circulation and is good for women. Catechin of mocha has anti-aging effect. Both of them are suitable for health preserving regimen.

Don't trust all kinds of gimmicks

Sugar free mooncakes, they don't exist
In addition to flour, starch, sugar and so on, there are many kinds of food. Moon cakes are mainly made of dough and various fillings, even if you don't add sugar which is very sweet to eat, and sugar which is not sweet to eat.
Therefore, for diabetics, it's better to eat two mouthfuls of moon cake less than to choose the high price "sugar free moon cake" to save money, relieve cravings and not raise blood sugar.
Health moon cake, not health
Some businesses claim that they use bird's nest, shark's fin, abalone and other delicacies in their moon cakes, which have health functions, but these moon cakes are no more nutritious than ordinary food.
The nutrition of these foods is undeniable, but the ingredients added to moon cakes are usually very few. So, if you want to keep healthy, it's more direct to eat the real food~
Hidden dangers of wanghong handmade moon cakes
With the rise of wechat business, self-made net red moon cakes are popular in the circle of friends. In fact, these mooncakes are not necessarily made by Professional Pastry makers. Many producers are only part-time or baking enthusiasts. The self-made moon cake claims "no addition" is just a gimmick.
Moreover, without the supervision of the food department, there may be many hidden dangers, such as excessive bacteria and unqualified raw materials.