Today is the Lantern Festival,
Is your rice dumpling ready?
The soft crust is wrapped in a sweet filling.
Just thinking about it makes people feel excited!
However, the dumplings are not suitable for everyone.
Some special people are also prone to "crack" the dumplings.
How is the rice dumpling healthy before it is eaten?
See what the nutrition experts say.
Yuyuan Yi at breakfast
And tea time
Yan Feng, director of the Nutrition Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, said that the dumplings usually consist of three main types of ingredients: skin, stuffing and soup.
The fillings are sweet and salty. The sweet fillings usually include peanuts, sesame seeds, walnuts, almonds, bean paste, jujube, sesame, mashed potatoes, jams, sugar, etc.; salty fillings usually include pork, beef, ham, bacon, and shrimp. Scallops and so on. The soup base can also be sweet and salty, but it can be succulent. The common sweet soup base has distiller's grains, red bean paste, almond dew, black sesame paste, etc. The salted dumplings can also be solid glutinous rice balls with various vegetables, mushrooms and fungus. The soy dumplings made.
According to Yan Feng, most of the dumplings are “three high foods†with high energy, high saturated fat and high sugar. Therefore, eat the dumplings must be appropriate. “Women and the elderly can eat up to a small bowl. Men who are particularly good or have good digestion can increase it appropriately. But it is not recommended to eat.â€
Yan Feng reminded that it is best to eat rice balls at breakfast, tea time or overnight. “If it is breakfast, you can make a staple snack. According to the principle of balanced diet, you can mix some protein-rich foods, vegetables or fruits,†she said, but if it is eaten in afternoon tea and night, the rice balls are equivalent to sugar. Do not eat too much snacks like this.
Eat a dumpling, but also pay attention to a "slow" word. "Don't talk, don't laugh, don't laugh, take a small bite and eat slowly, especially the old man and the child." She explained that the shape of the dumpling is round and sticky, easy to lick and break into the trachea, causing it Cough, difficulty breathing, and heavy suffocation.
Five people should eat the dumplings carefully
The following five groups of people should be especially careful when eating dumplings:
1. Diabetic patients should not eat sweet dumplings. For dumplings made with sweeteners or sugary dumplings, you should also try it. Because most rice balls are high-energy, high-saturated fat foods, and glutinous rice is rich in starch, it is a food with high glycemic index and high blood sugar load. Rapid digestion and absorption have a large negative impact on postprandial blood glucose.
2. For allergic people who are allergic to peanuts, shrimps, etc., be careful not to eat dumplings that contain ingredients that can cause allergies.
3. Patients with gastroesophageal reflux and diabetic gastroparesis should avoid eating rice balls 2 hours before bedtime to avoid aggravating reflux symptoms.
4. Eat distiller's grains and do not drive.
5. For safety reasons, children should eat with the guardian, and the elderly can cut into small pieces and eat small pieces. It is best not to eat for young children whose swallowing function is not perfect or for those who have swallowing function.