Can I eat mooncakes while breastfeeding?

Women who have just given birth know that during the confinement period, they need to pay special attention to all aspects. Especially in daily diet, there are many foods that are taboo. Improper diet will not only affect the recovery of the body, but also affect breastfeeding for the baby. So, can you eat mooncakes during the confinement period?

First of all, during the confinement period, women with good gastrointestinal function can eat some Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes appropriately. Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes do not belong to the cold food category of raw and cold food. Therefore, eating moon cakes has no obvious adverse effects on postpartum breastfeeding and physical recovery. There is one thing you need to note, if a woman has a bad spleen and stomach after giving birth, it is not recommended to take it.

Generally speaking, the gastrointestinal function of most women will be reduced to a certain extent after giving birth. Therefore, it is generally not recommended to eat foods that are not easy to digest and absorb in the early stage of confinement after giving birth, and moon cakes belong to foods that are not easy to digest and absorb. This is mainly because the food used to make moon cakes contains a lot of fat and sugar. If not eaten properly, it may easily cause indigestion in women who have just given birth.

During the confinement period, women should focus on foods that clear away dampness and heat as much as possible. For example, they should drink more old hen soup, bone soup, pig's trotter soup, red dates and lotus seed soup, etc. This kind of food is rich in nourishing soup and protein. This can not only increase the secretion of milk after childbirth, but also have a good effect on helping the body recover after childbirth.

Methods and approaches that require attention:

First, it is best to have a cup of tea and a bowl of porridge: light tea can digest and absorb plant fats and eliminate indigestion. When eating sweet mooncakes, it is best to drink herbal tea, which is both sweet and delicious; when eating salty mooncakes, it is appropriate to drink oolong or green tea leaves, which have a fragrant and delicious feeling; and small green tangerines are helpful for the body to dissolve cholesterol and make it a digestive aid. In addition, you can add the peeled edges and corners of the crab to rice to make porridge. After eating the sweet but not greasy Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes and drinking a bowl of edge and corner porridge, the greasy feeling in the stomach will be immediately removed. Strong tea and coffee contain high levels of caffeine, and carbonated drinks or fruit juices contain a lot of sugar. Eating them with mooncakes is not good for your health and will always make you feel greasy!

Second, you can add some fresh fruits, especially those high in vitamins.

Third, don’t eat too much. If everyone shares one, there won’t be any big problems, and everyone will be happy. How great!

The "nutritional content" of Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes is very overcapacity

The calorie content of moon cakes is also very alarming due to the high content of sugar, fat and cholesterol in their ingredients. Taking the popular double-yolk lotus seed paste Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake as an example, each one has 870 calories (of which 2 egg yolks have 220 calories), while the average person only consumes more than 2,000 calories per day.

From this perspective, a Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake is equivalent to a meal. In addition, this Mid-Autumn Festival moon cake not only contains no dietary fiber, but also contains about 44 grams of fat, 525 mg of cholesterol, 16.4 grams of protein, and 66 grams of salt. Experts suggest that each person's fat intake should be less than 50 grams per 13 days, and cholesterol intake should not exceed 300 mg. From this point of view, the "nutrition" in moon cakes is quite excessive.