The heat is overwhelming! It takes 85 minutes to consume a mooncake to avoid "getting fat during the Mid-Autumn Festival" and eat these 3 types of mooncakes instead
The Mid-Autumn Festival when the whole family reunites is coming soon. Many people will buy mooncakes to enjoy with their families or give them as souvenirs to relatives and friends. However, mooncakes are quite high in fat, sugar and calories. Excessive consumption can easily cause a burden on the body. One piece is about The 185-gram double-yolk Cantonese mooncake has 800 calories, which is equivalent to the calories of a braised chicken drumstick bento. It requires 85 minutes of jogging to consume it all. If you eat one pill every day for a week during the Mid-Autumn Festival, you will gain 0.7 kilograms of weight.
Are you afraid that your belly will become round when you are reunited with the full moon? Choose low-calorie mooncakes so you won’t be afraid of eating them all
In order to allow relatives and friends to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in a healthy way, the National Health Department recommends that people pay attention to the following three points when buying mooncakes:
Pick out trans fats: The American Heart Association (AHA) points out that trans fat is often found in baked foods (such as pastries, donuts, cakes), fried foods (such as French fries, fried chicken, chicken nuggets) made with ghee and margarine, and Among snacks (such as popcorn and biscuits), it is recommended that people avoid buying mooncakes that contain trans fat when purchasing mooncakes.
Choose low calories: Generally, mooncakes have high calories, and eating too much can easily increase the burden on the body. Therefore, it is recommended that people give priority to buying mooncakes with lower calories. For example, use Cantonese-style mooncakes without egg yolks instead of Cantonese-style mooncakes that contain egg yolks or even double egg yolks. Even for mooncakes of the same style, you can choose mooncakes with lower calories depending on the fillings.
Choose lower cholesterol: Egg yolk cakes and Cantonese-style mooncakes often contain salted egg yolks in their fillings, Taiwanese mooncakes contain braised pork, and bean paste fillings often contain lard to add flavor. They contain high cholesterol. Excessive intake may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. It is recommended that the public also pay attention to this. Choose low-cholesterol mooncakes.
Eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival is enough to stop eating. Chronic disease patients need to pay attention to their cholesterol intake.
The National Health Department also recommends that the public should pay attention to the principle of “taste lightly” when eating mooncakes, especially those with chronic diseases should pay more attention to:
Patients with high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease are advised to choose mooncakes with zero trans fat, low cholesterol and low sodium content. They should avoid mooncakes with salted egg yolk or braised pork fillings.
Diabetics are advised to avoid mooncakes with high sugar content such as bean paste and date paste, and include mooncakes in their diet plan as a replacement for regular meals. Diabetics are also at high risk of cardiovascular disease and are recommended to choose mooncakes with zero trans fat, low cholesterol and low sodium content.
Chronic kidney disease patients. Most chronic kidney diseases are complications of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. You need to pay attention to the intake of sugar, trans fat, cholesterol and sodium.
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“Three Picks”: Healthy Purchasing of Mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival
