Mid-Autumn Festival is coming! The 2021 Mid-Autumn Festival, falls on Tuesday, September 21. There are certain taboos that must be avoided when eating mooncakes. The following seven mooncake taboos should be paid more attention to.
Moon cakes should not go with porridge
There are many people in the eating of moon cakes, are willing to eat with porridge, will be sweet not sweet, salty not salty, unique taste. In fact, moon cakes and porridge are rapidly raised blood sugar high glycemic index food, not only for diabetes, adverse to human brain cells, but also reduce fat metabolism.
Moon cakes should be eaten less
Moon cakes contain more fat, sucrose, even if low fat, low sugar still keep flour ingredients, excessive consumption will produce a feeling of greasy, easy to cause stomach full, abdominal distension, cause indigestion, loss of appetite, blood sugar, high calories. The elderly and children should not eat more, otherwise, it will cause abdominal pain, diarrhoea or vomiting.
People with body heat should not eat more moon cakes
People who are hot in the body can not eat more moon cakes, otherwise, it is not easy to digest, but also may let the internal fire rise, acne, constipation, swelling gums and other symptoms.
Female friends can’t eat too many moon cakes
Female friends should also pay attention to their own conditions when eating moon cakes, especially during pregnancy and postpartum because of the special physiological conditions of pregnancy or breastfeeding, there are dietary taboos. First of all, pregnancy should avoid eating fishy smell food, so as not to hurt Yin fluid consumption and affect pregnancy, pregnancy should also avoid eating smelly and greasy, not easy to digest food. For puerpera, the diet should be hungry and full evenly, eat nutritiously, easy to digest food, so eat moon cakes to pay more attention to. In addition, before the menstrual period to eat fewer moon cakes, especially ice cream moon cakes.
Moon cakes should be fresh
Eat fresh, because moon cakes contain more fat, are stored too long, easy to go bad. During the festival, people often buy many mooncakes at a time, and the filling of mooncakes is easy to deteriorate after eating, which is prone to food poisoning. Therefore, moon cakes are best eaten as you buy them. During festivals, most of the moon cakes bought by families can last until after the festival or even longer. In order to prevent the deterioration of moon cakes, the leftover moon cakes should be properly preserved.
Moon cakes should be eaten early
It is best to eat moon cakes in the morning or noon, in the evening should eat less or do not eat, especially the elderly should be so, otherwise, it may become blood coagulation, thrombosis of some factors.
Eat salty before sweet
If there are sweet and salty mooncakes, they should be tested in the order of salty first and then sweet, otherwise, they will not be able to taste.
