Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. How to eat this bowl of Lantern Festival nutrition and health?

Original title: How can this bowl of Lantern Festival be nutritious and healthy?

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, admire the moon, light lanterns, set off flames, guess lantern riddles, eat Lantern Festival.

Why eat Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month?

On the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the whole family sits at a table and tastes the freshly cooked Lantern Festival and Tangyuan is the most ceremonial moment.

What is the difference between Yuanxiao and Tangyuan?

Roll the Lantern Festival in the north, and make dumplings in the south.

What are the flavors of Yuanxiao?

The traditional Lantern Festival is mostly filled with sugar, roses, sesame, bean paste, cinnamon, walnut kernel, five kernels, jujube puree, etc.

How to choose Yuanxiao food?

Facing the dazzling array of Lantern Festival products on the market, how should consumers choose and eat them scientifically? The Chinese Society of Food Science and Technology has made the following consumption tips.

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Consumers should buy Lantern Festival at regular food sales places or channels such as supermarkets, and need to carefully check whether the contents of the food label on the package are complete.

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In accordance with the requirements of the relevant national food safety standards, any substances (including food additives) used in the manufacture or processing of food and present in the product must be declared one by one in the food ingredient list.

If the ingredients contain foods and their products that may cause allergies, such as grains and their products containing gluten, peanuts and their products, etc.

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The production date and shelf life on the product label should be checked.

In accordance with regulatory requirements, storage conditions are indicated on the labels of prepackaged foods.

In addition, usually on the Lantern Festival packaging label, manufacturers will generally give reasonable cooking suggestions, consumers can refer to to obtain the best taste.

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According to relevant national standards, nutrition labels will also be provided on the Lantern Festival label.

How to eat delicious Yuanxiao healthy?

Mou Ying, a medical doctor and nutritionist at the 302 Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army, reminded everyone that Lantern Festival is a high-calorie, high-sugar food, and also contains fat.
Therefore, eating Lantern Festival must reduce the number of staple foods accordingly.
If you eat too much, it is easy to increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, causing discomfort such as abdominal distension and heartburn.
At the same time, avoid deep-fried eating.
Deep-fried will increase the calories of the Lantern Festival.
When eating Lantern Festival, you can match some foods that help digestion, such as: celery, hawthorn, barley sprout, tangerine peel, raw radish, etc.
Raw radish contains crude fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and reduce the absorption of fat.

Eat a lot of Lantern Festival.
To sum it up, eating Lantern Festival healthily should follow several principles: breakfast is not suitable; one or two per meal is enough; drink some original soup to promote digestion; do not eat hot; do not eat with big mouthfuls; do not deep-fry Eat it; it can be eaten with hawthorn, tangerine peel, and raw radish; try to eat it all at once, and keep the rest frozen, and the storage time should not be too long.

Who should not eat Yuanxiao?

The elderly and children should eat under supervision.
Lantern Festival is made of glutinous rice.
Making glutinous rice into porridge is very suitable for the elderly to eat, but making Yuanxiao, glutinous rice balls, and rice cakes is not easy to digest.
The elderly generally do not exceed 1 tael (4-5 capsules) per meal.
Children's Lantern Festival should be small as much as possible, do not swallow it in one bite, so as not to burn the esophagus or choke.
The hot glutinous rice balls have just come out of the pot and the temperature is very high, especially if there are high-fat fillings in them.
Swallowing them in one bite can easily cause scalding of the esophagus.
Do not talk or distract them when eating Yuanxiao, so as not to swallow the Yuanxiao into the airway by mistake.
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People with gastrointestinal and digestive system diseases should eat in moderation.
Under normal circumstances, normal adults eat Yuanxiao per meal, 2 taels (8-10 capsules) is appropriate.
But for people with gastrointestinal diseases or weak digestion, it is necessary to eat less Lantern Festival.
Glutinous rice contains a lot of amylopectin, which is sticky and difficult to digest, which will increase gastric motility.
Therefore, patients with gastrointestinal diseases should be cautious in eating.
If you want to eat, you need to cook the Lantern Festival for a while to make it as cooked and soft as possible.

People with diabetes should not eat.
Patients with diabetes should avoid eating items containing sugar as much as possible in their diet.
Needless to say, sweet Lantern Festival, and salty Lantern Festival should be avoided as much as possible.
The Lantern Festival skin is made of glutinous rice flour.
The glutinous rice contains a lot of starch, which is a polysaccharide.
Although the filling is salty, it contains oil.
Therefore, to be on the safe side, it is recommended that people with diabetes should not eat Yuanxiao.
If you want to feel the festive atmosphere, you should eat it with meals as much as possible.
Eating Yuanxiao on an empty stomach will stimulate insulin secretion and cause instability of blood sugar in the body; eating after meals will cause total calories to exceed the standard.
Eating Yuanxiao with meals can avoid these two situations.
When eating Lantern Festival, you can appropriately reduce the amount of rice intake.
Generally speaking, the glutinous rice flour used for 3 Lantern Festival is equivalent to about 1 tael (half a bowl) of rice.
Therefore, if you eat 3 Lantern Festival, you can halve the bowl of rice.

People with asthma should not consume five-ren fillings.
Peanuts are inevitably used as one of the main ingredients in the Lantern Festival with five-nut stuffing.
Some patients with allergic asthma may be allergic to peanuts, which is easy to induce asthma.
Therefore, you must pay special attention before buying and eating.

People with liver cirrhosis should eat with caution.
Because most people with liver cirrhosis will have varying degrees of varicose veins, Lantern Festival is not easy to digest, especially fried Lantern Festival, it is more likely to cause rupture of the varicose blood vessels and cause gastrointestinal bleeding, leading to life-threatening, so patients with liver cirrhosis should not eat Lantern Festival.

Making lanterns and guessing riddles are more fun

The Lantern Festival is also known as the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival of Lights, and the Lantern Festival.
The 15th of the first lunar month is the first full moon night of the year.
In addition to eating Lantern Festival, there are folk customs such as hanging lanterns, lighting lanterns, and watching lanterns.

Guessing Lantern Riddles is a word game derived from Lantern Festival, also called Lantern Tiger.
Sticking the puzzle face on the lantern for people to guess, forming a unique folk culture.
This year, People's Daily Online has specially prepared popular science riddles for everyone.
While sending joy to everyone, it also sends health blessings.

(Source: People's Daily, China Consumer Network, Beijing Daily)

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