It has been a tradition since ancient times to eat moon cakes on the Mid Autumn Festival. Is it a very pleasant thing for a family to eat moon cakes and enjoy the moon together? But moon cakes are high calorie foods, so when eating moon cakes, it is more healthy to drink them with tea. What kind of tea is better than eating moon cakes?
Why drink tea when eating moon cake
When eating moon cakes, drinking tea has many advantages. There are numerous physiological effects of tea, which can refresh the mind, reduce blood fat and pressure, protect the liver and eyesight, etc. First of all, drinking tea after eating moon cakes can improve the taste and make the taste of moon cakes better; second, eating more moon cakes will affect the digestive function of the spleen and stomach, such as dyspepsia, aggravation of induced peptic ulcer, etc. Tea can not only promote digestion, but also absorb the oil in the moon cake, thus reducing the intake of human fat.
It should be noted that the tea should not be too strong when eating moon cakes, because the strong tea generally contains high caffeine, which will not only affect the taste of moon cakes, but also be harmful to health.
On the Mid Autumn Festival, we should pay attention to eating moon cakes and drinking tea
Low sugar moon cake with Luohan fruit tea
In the mooncake family, there is a kind of mooncake launched for a special consumer group, which is low sugar mooncake.
Low sugar mooncakes are the best food for the mid autumn festival for diabetics. You can choose Luohan fruit tea for tea with low sugar moon cake. Modern medical research has found that Siraitia grosvenorii is rich in glucoside, which is 300 times sweeter than sucrose, has hypoglycemic effect and can be used to assist the treatment of diabetes. Luohan fruit tea improves the taste of low sugar moon cake and achieves the goal of health.
Fashionable moon cake drinking black tea
Among the varieties of moon cakes, there is another kind of new moon cakes, which integrates many fashionable elements, such as chocolate moon cakes, ice skin moon cakes, rose moon cakes, etc.
Since it's a fashionable moon cake, the tea you eat with it should be the most fashionable. Among many tea drinks, black tea is the only one. For a long time, Britain has been an important place of authentic black tea culture, especially in the era of Queen Victoria, "Victoria afternoon tea" has become the representative of aristocratic fashion life. On the night of Mid Autumn Festival, eating chocolate moon cake or rose moon cake with your family can not only feel the deep feeling of family reunion, but also experience the unique festival atmosphere. Most importantly, under the influence of black tea, it makes the taste more comfortable.
Moon cake with nuts and salty taste and green tea
In the Cantonese style moon cake family, the kernel moon cake has always maintained the position of enduring sales volume, and is deeply loved by consumers. Among them, the most famous five kernel moon cake is named for its filling of almonds, peaches, peanut kernels, sesame kernels and melon kernels.
The moon cake with nuts has the characteristics of exquisite ingredients, thin skin and filling, strong fragrance and refreshing, not easy to break. You can choose to drink green tea with the moon cake. The rich aroma of green tea can reduce the greasy feeling brought by the variety of stuffing to the appetite of the moon cake, and make the taste harvest a fresh one. In addition, when eating salty moon cakes, drinking green tea is also a good match. Green tea can make salty moon cakes fully show their delicious taste and increase appetite.
Drinking Pu'er tea with fruit filled moon cake
Recently, more and more fruits are widely used in moon cakes. Therefore, there are more and more kinds of fruit filled moon cakes, such as Hami melon, dragon fruit and so on.
Full of fruit flavor is a major feature of fruit moon cakes. In order to maintain the characteristics of this kind of moon cake, Pu'er is a good choice for tea. Pu'er tea tastes light, mellow and steady, and the soup is red and bright. Mr. Deng Shihai, a famous tea man in Taiwan, summed up the quality of Pu'er tea with the words "fragrant, sweet, sweet, bitter, astringent, Tianjin, Qi and Chen". The light Pu'er tea makes the taste buds more fresh. At this time, tasting the moon cake can not only fully taste the fruit flavor of the fruit moon cake, but also remove the greasy feeling in the mouth.
Lotus moon cake vs Dahongpao tea
Lotus moon cake is a traditional high sugar moon cake with sweet taste. It can be used with Dahongpao tea to increase the taste. Dahongpao tea is mellow and pleasant. Tea entrance, fragrant, long lasting. With the 'sweet' Lotus moon cake, the fragrance of the moon cake can be better set off.
Selection of flower tea from rongsha moon cake
Rongsha moon cake is a kind of moon cake with light taste. It is suitable to choose flower tea, such as chrysanthemum tea, rose tea, etc.
Flower tea is a combination of tea flavor and flower fragrance. Tea leads to flower fragrance, and flower enhances tea flavor, complementing each other. It not only keeps the strong and refreshing tea flavor, but also has the fresh and fragrant flower fragrance. Chew a light paste moon cake, and then drink a cup of flower tea, the taste buds will feel very good. When making flower tea, the water temperature should not be too high, so as not to damage the vitamin C, and pour out the tea after it is soaked.
Salty and sweet moon cake with oolong tea
The moon cake with salty and sweet taste is fresh and elegant. Drinking oolong tea is a good choice. Because oolong tea is a kind of semi fermented tea, which has no astringent taste and can reflect the salty and sweet taste of moon cake. And tannin, the main component of Oolong tea, has the function of dissolving fat.
Sugar free moon cake with Biluochun
The taste of sugar free moon cake is light, and Biluochun tastes fragrant and smooth, and the throat is very comfortable after drinking. With the healthy sugar free moon cake, it tastes sweet and won't be 'noisy', just right.
Experts remind that people with diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and coronary heart disease should not eat more moon cakes, because the sugar and oil in moon cakes can increase blood consistency, aggravate the degree of heart ischemia, and easily induce myocardial infarction.