The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, but in recent years, people have become more and more cautious about moon cakes.
At present, many businesses have introduced various [healthy moon cakes, such as “sugar-free moon cakes] [healthy moon cakes], etc. Are these moon cakes really healthier?
Sugar-free moon cakes are not [sugar-free]
[Sugar-free Moon Cake] It is a blessing for diabetics to claim that there is no sugar and it will not raise blood sugar. Is this true?
Sugar is actually the common name of carbohydrate. Carbohydrate includes not only sucrose and white granulated sugar that we usually eat, but also starch and flour.
China’s nutrition labeling standard stipulates that if a food is to claim to be [sugar-free], it is required to meet the requirement that the sugar content per 100g or 100ml of solid or liquid food is not more than 0.5 g (referring to carbohydrates).
[Sugar-free Moon Cake] Only no additional sucrose is added, and the main raw materials also contain a lot of sugar.
Moon cakes are mainly made of flour. Even if sucrose is not added to them and sweeteners such as xylitol are used instead, their main components are carbohydrates such as starch, which also belong to sugar and are difficult to meet the national standard of [sugar-free food].
This shows that [sugar-free moon cakes] are not [sugar-free] in the true sense.
Lotus seed paste, bean paste, sugar in preserved fruits and flour in the skin of moon cakes can all be converted into glucose, which will also rapidly increase blood sugar. Be careful.
Sugar-free moon cakes still contain more oil, which is a high-fat and high-energy food and cannot be eaten in large quantities.
Health moon cakes are not [health]
There are also many merchants who claim to use bird’s nest, shark’s fin, abalone and other delicacies in their moon cakes, claiming to have a health-care effect.
But these mooncakes may have these problems:
1. Not more nutritious
Although abalone, shark’s fin and bird’s nest are delicious and expensive foods, they are no more nutritious than other common foods. Their so-called health functions do not have sufficient scientific evidence, and most of them are just marketing methods.
What’s more, among moon cakes, abalone, shark’s fin, bird’s nest and so on are only added in a small amount, and their role is really limited. Even if there is a so-called health care effect, how many moon cakes do you have to eat to play a role?
2. Risk of pollution
If abalone, shark’s fin and bird’s nest are not properly handled and moon cakes are not properly preserved, there will be relatively large safety risks. In addition, moon cakes added with animal raw materials such as abalone and shark’s fin will be more likely to breed bacteria and increase safety risks.
3. Salt exceeding the standard
In order to match the flavor of the ingredients, these salty moon cakes may be added with salt. For patients with hypertension and other diseases, excessive consumption of these [health care] moon cakes can easily lead to excessive salt intake.
Five-kernel moon cakes are a good choice.
Five-kernel moon cakes (according to regulations) are moon cakes made of five kinds of nut kernels, mainly walnut kernels, almonds, olive kernels, melon seeds and sesame kernels.
Online noisy [black] for a while five-kernel moon cakes, said five-kernel moon cakes taste bad, many people don’t like it. However, in fact, for middle-aged and elderly friends and friends with chronic diseases, five-kernel moon cakes are relatively healthy choices.
The nuts in the five-kernel moon cake contain high-quality unsaturated fatty acids, and these nuts can also reduce the postprandial blood sugar reaction of the moon cake.
It is good to eat in moderation.
Healthy eating methods suitable for different people
The biggest problem with moon cakes lies in their high sugar and fat content and high calories. However, if you only eat moon cakes once a year, you should not eat moon cakes as food and eat them properly.
1. To control blood sugar and calories, eat in small pieces.
You might as well cut the moon cake into one-fourth or even one-eighth small pieces and eat one small piece at a time.
Try to buy smaller ones, such as mini moon cakes weighing 50g or less.
In this way, you can taste a variety of flavors without worrying too much about the rapid rise of blood sugar.
2. Hypertension, high uric acid, do not eat salty moon cakes
Moon cakes containing seafood and aquatic products, although the amount of raw materials added is not clear, but the taste is salty and the salt content is not low. Friends with gout, high uric acid and high blood pressure should eat as little or no as possible.
Such as ham moon cakes, egg yolk moon cakes, pickled mustard tuber meat moon cakes, beef moon cakes, etc., should be careful.
3. Reduce the staple food of the main meal and increase the activities.
If you have already eaten or plan to eat more moon cakes, reduce staple food and balance calories during dinner. Take advantage of the arrival of the holiday and have more activities.