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How high is the heat of a zongzi? Will eating zongzi make you fat?

Dragon Boat Festival is coming. You should pay attention to zongzi. A zongzi is equivalent to a meal, and its heat is equal to jogging 8 kilometers. Therefore, if you eat Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival, you should be careful, or you will become a little fat one by mistake.

Heat of a zongzi

Heat of zongzi with red bean stuffing: asymp; 240 calories / 100g

The heat of zongzi varies according to its size and content

"The heat of meat zongzi" contains about 450 to 600 calories each, 385 to 671 calories for table type zongzi, with an average of 495 calories, while 400 to 520 calories for Huzhou zongzi, with an average of 459 calories. Of course, the contents of meat zongzi also directly affect its heat, such as the use of streaky pork and red meat as ingredients, which naturally contain different heat.

How to reduce the heat of zongzi?

When making zongzi, it's better to choose materials that meet the requirements of "three less and one more" (less oil, less salt, less sugar and more fiber) with less seasoning, or try to replace pork with leg meat or konjaku, replace egg yolk with chestnut, add red radish color matching, increase the fiber quality of zongzi, or mix glutinous rice with grain rice to increase the fiber of zongzi; in addition, it's recommended to replace lard with vegetable oil when making Dousha zongzi, It can reduce the heat of zongzi.

Take a zongzi as an example. If it is filled with pork, mushrooms, raisins, shrimp, egg yolks, peanuts and other fillings, the heat is about 500-650 kcal; if it is a small zongzi, the heat is 120 kcal; the people often like to eat zongzi, the heat is about 200-250 kcal, so the heat of eating a zongzi is often much higher than that of a bowl of rice; and the main difference in the heat of zongzi is whether the filling and the rice use oil Fried, afraid of fat friends, should pay attention to adjustment.

How to eat Zongzi healthy?

If you really want to eat zongzi, you should not only pay attention to the quantity control, but also use the method of wrapping healthy zongzi, that is, adjust the materials of zongzi, and replace it with some grains and rice, so as to increase the fiber quality, vitamins and minerals; in addition, if you are worried about too much cholesterol intake, you should reduce the use of egg yolk, not to use oil fried, especially those with high fiber, low oil and low cholesterol Zongzi is healthier.

In addition, many people will suffer from gastrointestinal discomfort due to eating too much zongzi, which is mainly due to neglecting the intake of vegetables and fruits, resulting in the lack of fiber, plus too much zongzi oil, resulting in indigestion, abdominal distention and other phenomena. If you can add some cold vegetables, salads, vegetable sausage, and fruit with zongzi, you can reduce the incidence of these discomfort.