Eat healthily as the Lantern Festival approaches, so you might as well make some ＂salty dumplings＂.
The Lantern Festival is approaching. According to the traditional custom, Yuanxiao not only enjoys lanterns, but also eats glutinous rice balls, which means reunion. Yu Ting, deputy chief physician of the Department of Gastroenterology, Zhongda Hospital affiliated to Southeast University, reminded the public that although glutinous rice balls are delicious, if they are eaten too much at one time, it will easily lead to some diseases, especially for the elderly and children with weak digestive function.
Yangzi Evening News/Zi Niu News reporter Yang Yan
Eating 4-8 at a time is enough.
As the Lantern Festival is approaching, many people have already prepared glutinous rice balls at home, and they can’t finish one meal. They eat breakfast, extra meals and even supper for many days, and they accidentally overdo it. Deputy Chief Physician Yu Ting pointed out that most of the glutinous rice dumplings currently on the market are glutinous rice products, which are difficult to digest, especially for the elderly with weak digestive function. At the same time, most of the dumplings are filled with sesame seeds and bean paste, and some fillings may contain a lot of oil and sugar, which is easy to cause the increase of blood sugar and blood lipid after eating by the elderly, which is not conducive to health.
Experts remind: You should not eat too much at a time. Eating a small bowl (about 4-8) is enough. For patients with basic gastrointestinal diseases (such as gastroduodenal ulcer, acute and chronic gastrointestinal inflammation, etc.), patients with liver disease and acute and chronic pancreatitis, don’t be greedy, just taste one or two. While eating glutinous rice balls, it is recommended not to eat other foods with high sugar content, especially those with diabetes. In addition, it is necessary to reduce the intake of other staple foods.
Old people and children should pay attention to chewing slowly.
Although the dumplings are delicious, for the elderly and children, they must eat slowly, eat slowly, and never swallow. This is because the elderly are older, and their chewing ability and saliva secretion are reduced; However, children’s swallowing function is not so coordinated, cough reflex is weakened, and foreign bodies in the airway are prone to occur, especially glutinous rice soft food like glutinous rice dumplings, which is very dangerous once it is choked into the airway. Experts remind: Tangyuan is soft, so you should eat it slowly to avoid increasing the burden on your stomach and causing discomfort in your stomach. At the same time, it can also avoid burns.
Tangyuan is rich in sugar and high in calories. Therefore, many people think that eating tangyuan at night is easy to gain weight, and it seems more appropriate to eat it in the morning. Actually, glutinous rice balls are not suitable for breakfast. This is because dumplings are mostly made of glutinous rice, which is not easy to digest. Coupled with the large amount of oil in the dumplings, it adds a burden to the gastrointestinal tract. When people get up early, the gastrointestinal function is the weakest. At this time, eating so many indigestible things at once will definitely make the gastrointestinal tract overwhelmed. It is best to eat glutinous rice balls at noon. At this time, the gastrointestinal function of the human body is the strongest, and there is enough time to digest excessive calories in glutinous rice balls.
Try salty dumplings for the Lantern Festival.
In addition, the traditional dumpling stuffing is sweet, and nutrition experts also suggest that it can also be made salty, and the stuffing can be freely matched, such as celery, shrimp, hairy chestnuts, pine nuts and black sesame seeds. The traditional dumpling skin is glutinous rice. Now we might as well make a mash-up of glutinous rice to make a coarse grain skin, such as pumpkin glutinous rice and purple potato glutinous rice. We can also freely add various vegetable juices, such as spinach juice, celery juice juice and carrot juice, to the glutinous rice, which is rich in nutrition and has a special taste. At the same time, you can also work hard in cooking the soup of Yuanxiao. You may wish to make the soup of Yuanxiao into tomato soup and vegetable seedling soup, which is balanced and nutritious and delicious.