Moon cake is the food of the Mid Autumn Festival. Every family will eat moon cake before and after the Mid Autumn Festival. So for those who pursue a healthy diet, they should always look at the heat of moon cake. Is the heat of moon cake high? Will you get fat? Let's get to know each other.
Will eating moon cakes make you fat
Mid Autumn Festival is coming, all kinds of delicious moon cakes are indispensable. But the moon cake will grow fat after eating. The CDC issued a health warning. The moon cake is usually baked with flour, sugar, grease and other ingredients with high heat. It's useless to eat more than one moon cake a day.
According to disease control experts, an egg yolk moon cake weighing about 200g has 800 calories, which is equivalent to three bowls of rice; a medium-sized moon cake contains more than two bowls of rice, and its fat content is equivalent to six cups of whole milk.
As the moon cake is rich in sugar and fat, patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, cirrhosis, cholecystitis (gallstones), gastric and duodenal ulcer and obese people should try to eat less. The digestive system of infants is not sound enough to bear a lot of high sugar and fat food. The old people's ability of digestion and absorption is poor, and eating more will cause dyspepsia, diarrhea and other diseases.
Disease control experts suggest that people should not eat too much mooncakes, and should not eat more than one mooncake a day. Even if you love eating, you should not use moon cakes instead of dinner. Try not to use moon cakes as dessert.
The popular mooncakes can be divided into two categories: one is Shuanghuang and Lianrong mooncakes with high fat and sugar content, the other is Wuren and Dousha mooncakes with low cholesterol but high sugar content. No matter what kind of moon cake, it has high heat.
For healthy people, eating more moon cakes will increase the burden on the spleen and stomach, causing indigestion, loss of appetite and other symptoms. Before and after the mid autumn festival every year, the outpatients often suffer from various diseases caused by eating moon cakes. Most of these patients have the symptoms of abdominal distension, nausea, diarrhea, constipation and other dyspepsia. In addition, after eating the sweet moon cake, the gastric acid secretion is too much, but also easy to cause peptic ulcer. So eat moon cakes in moderation.
What's the harm of eating more mooncakes
Moon cake belongs to high fat and high calorie food. A medium-sized moon cake contains more than two bowls of rice, and its fat can be equivalent to six cups of whole fat. Therefore, Chinese people should never eat more moon cakes. People with gallbladder, pancreas and gastrointestinal diseases should be cautious about eating moon cakes.
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. Moon cakes are generally high in sugar, with more fat added to maintain the taste, and the processing procedures are often fried and baked. They are high in sugar, heat and fat. The gastrointestinal organs of children are delicate. Eating too much mooncake will increase the gastrointestinal burden, causing abdominal distension, mild diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, even loss of appetite, dizziness and other symptoms.