It has been a custom since ancient times to eat moon cakes on the Mid Autumn Festival, so it has become a custom to eat moon cakes before and after the Mid Autumn Festival. How much is better to eat moon cakes at one time? Because of the high content of sugar, fat and cholesterol in the materials, moon cakes also produce amazing heat. Mooncakes are easy to cause digestive tract diseases, so it's best to eat some in moderation!
Take the double yellow lotus moon cake as an example. It has 870 calories per calorie (220 calories for two yolks), while the normal person only needs 2000 calories per 13. From this point of view, a mooncake is equivalent to a meal. In addition, the moon cake contains not only no dietary fiber, but also about 44g fat, 525mg cholesterol, 16.4g protein and 66g sugar. Experts suggest that the amount of fat consumed per person per 13 should be less than 50g, and the amount of cholesterol consumed should not be more than 300mg. From this point of view, the 'nutrition' in moon cakes is very surplus.
Eat at most half a piece per meal: mooncakes are high in calories, fat and sugar content are not low, and they must be eaten in an appropriate amount. It's better for the elderly to eat only one quarter of a meal, no more than half of a meal.
It can be a kind of high salt, high sugar and high fat food to eat only one small piece of moon cake at a time.
What's more, the energy density of mooncakes is higher after compression. The most obvious performance is that mooncakes of the same size are heavier than other foods, which can easily deceive your eyes: it seems that you only eat a small piece of mooncakes, but actually you have taken a lot of hot calories. For people with poor heart function or weak spleen and stomach function, if they eat too much carelessly, it will increase the burden of digestive system and may induce the original basic diseases.
How much is the right amount to eat? According to Hu Wentao, a small moon cake with a diameter of 8 cm can be cut into three equal parts, and each person only eats one at a time. At the same time, it can match with vegetables and fruits, supplement dietary fiber and vitamins, make nutrition more balanced, and promote intestinal peristalsis.
How to eat more moon cakes? They generally have high sugar content, add more fat to keep the taste, and the processing procedures are fried and baked. They are high sugar, high heat and high fat "three high" foods. However, the gastrointestinal organs of children are delicate, and excessive consumption of moon cakes will increase the burden of gastrointestinal tract, causing abdominal distention, slight diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, and even loss of appetite, dizziness and other symptoms.
Moon cake belongs to high sugar, high fat food, some of the following patients should be careful. Patients eat more moon cakes will cause the rise of blood lipid and blood sugar. People who suffer from and over eat moon cakes will cause gallbladder contraction and bile retention, which is easy to cause acute attack or aggravation of the disease. Patients with hyperlipidemia, such as full moon cake, will increase blood viscosity, slow down blood flow, which is not conducive to the rehabilitation of cerebrovascular disease. The occurrence and development of seborrheic dermatitis and other skin diseases are related to the excessive intake of sugar and fat. Excessive consumption of moon cakes may increase the secretion of sebaceous glands and aggravate the condition of these patients. For the patients with gastric and duodenal ulcer, eating too much moon cake will promote the secretion of gastric acid, which will aggravate the stimulation of ulcer surface and be harmful to the healing of ulcer.