Remember these 6 things when eating moon cakes to avoid getting sick
Every full moon festival, moon cakes become an indispensable food for many people. However, unbalanced nutrition, lacking vitamins and low in fiber make them potentially harmful to health.
1. Do not eat instead of breakfast
Many people like to eat moon cakes so they can eat them at any time, even replacing breakfast or any other meal of the day. This is really a mistake because it causes nutritional imbalance for the body.
Moon cakes contain high sugar content and if eaten in the morning, blood sugar levels will increase, making you feel tired, affecting not only your health but also your mood.
2. Don't eat fast or eat a lot at once.
Eating fast will cause food, especially foods with high sugar content such as moon cakes, to accumulate sugar in the blood faster than normal, especially in the elderly and children, whose digestive systems are still weak. The faster the blood sugar level increases, the harder it is for the body to burn energy, leading to the accumulation of fat in the body, causing weight gain and obesity.
3. Drink tea while eating
Eating moon cakes should be accompanied by a cup of tea. Moon cakes are basically made up of a lot of flour, sugar, oil, and animal fat, while tea contains acetic acid that can help digestion and prevent fat accumulation in the body, so a cup of tea will help the body metabolize more easily. The best are green tea, jasmine tea, and chrysanthemum tea.
Avoid carbonated drinks because combining them with moon cakes will cause the body to take in a large amount of calories and sugar.
4. Don't eat moon cakes all day
The amount of sugar consumed by the body each day of a normal person should not exceed 10g, but each cake contains up to 13g. Snacking on moon cakes all day long makes it difficult to control your weight while gaining weight this way is completely harmful to your health due to nutritional imbalance.
5. Do not eat expired moon cakes.
Do not force yourself to eat mooncakes that have expired even by 1 day. Because many bacteria can grow, not to mention the poor preservation process can promote the cake to spoil faster than the prescribed time. In addition, the preservatives in expired cakes will become toxic to the body.
In addition, each time you eat, you must calculate not to cut too much cake, avoid the situation of leaving leftover cake, having to store it in the refrigerator will make the cake lose its freshness.
6. Who should not eat
People with diseases such as cholecystitis, gallstones, gastritis, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease... should not eat moon cakes, even cakes that are too sweet or contain peanuts or nuts. Eating too much will increase the burden on blood circulation, tire the heart and even cause myocardial infarction.
People with gastric ulcers and duodenal ulcers should not eat moon cakes because it will increase acid secretion, making the disease worse. People with chronic hepatitis should also not eat moon cakes. In addition, patients with tooth decay, obesity, arteriosclerosis, etc. should also consider when eating moon cakes.
