Can I eat jelly during confinement?

Jelly is a snack that we often buy in our daily lives. It has a smooth taste and is especially loved by children. However, jelly is not easy to digest and may even clog the throat and put people’s lives in danger if they are not careful. Therefore, jelly is not suitable for all people. During the confinement period, the right food choices have a very significant effect on the rapid recovery of the body. So can you eat jelly during the confinement period?

You can eat jelly during confinement, but although jelly tastes good, it has no nutrition and contains high levels of food additives, so don’t eat it often. Jelly, also known as jelly, is a jelly food made from water, sugar and thickeners (sodium alginate, agar, edible gelatin, etc.) as raw materials. It often also contains various sweeteners, flavors, colorants and other food additives.

Dietary principles

The Chinese Dietary Guidelines for Lactating Women put forward the following dietary principles for confinement meals:

1. Increase the intake of fish, poultry, eggs, lean meat and seafood.

2. Drink more milk and soup.

3. Eat a variety of foods but not too much during the postpartum period.

4. Avoid smoking, drinking, and strong tea and coffee.

5. Maintain a healthy weight through scientific activities and exercise.

6. Pay attention to the combination of dry and liquid foods, meat and vegetables, avoid picky eating, and eat light, appropriate and easy to digest.

Recommended recipes

You can choose to eat it as long as it does not violate the dietary principles of confinement meals.

1. Nutritional recipes: broccoli fried with dried shrimps, cabbage stewed with kelp and meat, spinach fried with eggs and black fungus, dried loofah with diced meat, homemade crucian carp (small yellow croaker), osmanthus shrimp, celery fried with shredded chicken and bean curd, fried fish fillets, braised wild rice stem, tomato and beef stewed with potatoes, stir-fried liver tips, stir-fried zucchini with tomatoes, and meat and egg custard.

2. Nutritious soups: crucian carp and tofu soup, seafood and vegetable soup, peanut chicken feet soup, assorted mushroom chicken soup, pigeon and green vegetable soup, silver carp and loofah soup, dried shrimp and seaweed soup, cabbage and pork ribs soup, and assorted fruit soup.

3. Nutritious porridges include millet and jujube porridge, rice, donkey-hide gelatin and jujube porridge, black sesame porridge, yam and lotus seed fragrant rice porridge, bone soup peanut porridge, beef (chicken) porridge, three fresh meat porridge, corn residue and sweet potato porridge, eight-treasure porridge, black rice, peach kernel and red date porridge, carrot porridge, and carp juice porridge.