What are the rules for eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Who should eat less mooncakes?

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and mooncakes are indispensable for family reunions. There are more and more types of mooncakes. Although mooncakes are delicious, there are some particular ways to eat them. As we pay more and more attention to health, we still need to understand some precautions. Let's take a look!

First of all, it is an indisputable fact that most mooncakes are high in oil and sugar.

What are the main ingredients of mooncakes?

That's sugar, cooking oil, and flour.

These three things combined together are the basic ingredients of mooncakes. In order to make the taste better, some mooncakes also add a lot of lard, butter and margarine, and the mooncake fillings often contain a lot of sugar and oil.

A mooncake weighing 1 liang contains 14g of fat. The average oil spoon at home contains about 5g, which is equivalent to eating three spoons of oil!

There is also a category of so-called "sugar-free" mooncakes. The sugar-free here actually refers to mooncakes without added sucrose, but it does not mean that there is no sugar in the mooncakes.

However, the flour used to make the mooncake crust will be converted into glucose, leading to an increase in blood sugar. Therefore, diabetic patients should still be cautious when eating "sugar-free" mooncakes. Instead of choosing expensive "sugar-free mooncakes", it is better to eat fewer mooncakes.

Fat content: Suzhou style > Cantonese style > snow skin;

Sugar content: Cantonese style > snowy skin > Suzhou style;

Calorie: Cantonese and Suzhou mooncakes have similar calories, but snowy mooncakes have relatively lower calories.

The mooncakes with the highest calorie content are ice cream and meat-filled mooncakes, followed by mooncakes with five nuts and egg yolks. Mooncakes with red bean paste and fruit have relatively low calorie content.

How to eat mooncakes in a healthy way?

1. Choose the right mooncake

Check the ingredient list carefully and choose mooncakes that do not contain too much sugar and fat.

2. Avoid overdose

A normal adult should consume no more than 1/2 mooncake a day, and no more than 1 salted egg yolk mooncake. The elderly should reduce the amount by half, no more than 1/4 mooncake a day.

3. Avoid eating on an empty stomach

4. Do not eat mooncakes that have been opened for too long.

5. Eat with vegetables and fruits

6. It is also very suitable to drink some tea or warm boiled water, which can quench thirst, relieve greasiness and promote digestion.

Pu'er tea, green tea, and chrysanthemum tea are all good choices. Never drink cold drinks to avoid indigestion or diarrhea.

In addition to diabetics, which groups of people should eat less mooncakes?

People with hypertension, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia, and obese people.

People with kidney disease.

The elderly, children, and people with poor gastrointestinal function should also reduce the dosage as appropriate.

The following groups of people should be especially careful when eating:

Such as patients with chronic cholecystitis, gallstones, chronic pancreatitis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer,

Patients with chronic diarrhea, acute enteritis, etc.