The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon. It is a traditional Chinese custom to enjoy the bright moon and taste mooncakes. Mooncakes are a must-have food during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which symbolize family reunion and family happiness. However, mooncakes are rich in fat and sucrose and are high-calorie foods. They should not be consumed in excess. Excessive consumption may cause gastrointestinal discomfort. Especially the elderly, children, and those with gastrointestinal discomfort should pay more attention to the appropriate amount. Experts remind you to pay attention to the following points when enjoying mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival:

Earlier rather than later. Mooncakes are high-sugar and high-fat foods. Eating them in the morning or at noon can replenish energy and prevent you from gaining weight. However, you should eat less or no mooncakes at night, especially the elderly with cardiovascular disease, otherwise the risk of blood clots may increase.

Better fresh than stale. Most mooncakes contain a lot of fat. Once stored for too long, they are prone to deterioration and are not good for health.

Prefer less, not more. Mooncakes contain a lot of fat and sucrose. Excessive consumption may cause stomach fullness, bloating, indigestion, loss of appetite, elevated blood sugar and other reactions. The elderly and children should not eat more. It should be noted that the fat contained in sugar-free mooncakes is not less than that of ordinary mooncakes, and the calories are still higher, which can cause the blood sugar of diabetics to rise. People with high blood fat and high cholesterol should eat less mooncakes stuffed with meat and egg yolk.

It should be paired with tea. Mooncakes will feel greasy if you eat them too much, so you should drink more green tea when tasting them. Tea can relieve tiredness. Add a little scented tea to green tea to make it sweet and delicious, and the effect will be better.

In addition, it is best to drink more functional tea after eating moon cakes, such as appetizing tea (sour plum soup, etc.), stagnation tea (such as brewed with hawthorn, polygonum multiflorum, cassia seed and other Chinese medicinal materials, which are very effective in clearing the stomach and intestines) ; You can also take some protease tablets to help digestion.

It is worth reminding that mooncakes contain a lot of sucrose. Diabetics of any type must insist on not eating mooncakes (except for sugar-free mooncakes). . For people with gastric ulcers and duodenal ulcers, eating moon cakes can increase gastric acid secretion, which is extremely detrimental to gastrointestinal healing, so it is better not to eat moon cakes.

After people eat moon cakes, it will cause cavities to deepen, and it will also cause pulpitis and worsen the pain. People should eat less moon cakes as much as possible, or brush their teeth immediately after eating moon cakes. Secondly, people with obesity, hyperlipidemia, and arteriosclerosis. People with sclerosis, hypertension and coronary heart disease should also try their best to "bear the pain" and eat less or no mooncakes.

This is because after these people eat mooncakes, the cholesterol and triglycerides in their blood will decrease. The content will increase and the blood will become thicker. In addition, eating moon cakes can easily cause patients with chronic cholecystitis and chronic pancreatitis to relapse, causing severe biliary colic and upper abdominal pain.