The Mid-Autumn Festival is full of people's reunion, and a dazzling array of moon cakes is a must-have snack for the Mid-Autumn Festival. However, moon cakes are high in calories, but they lack satiety, and they will overeat if they are not careful. Nutritionists remind us that to eat moon cakes wisely, we should master the three low principles: low sugar, low salt and low oil. If you eat moon cakes on the same day, try to reduce the staple food. It is recommended to match vegetables and increase the intake of fiber. Besides, we can also make low-calorie moon cakes at home.

Take the Cantonese moon cakes on the market as an example. Flour and sugar are mixed to make oil skin. 150g Cantonese-style moon cakes have a calorie of up to 500 calories. (Photo/Yang Bokang) Shi Shanling, a nutritionist at Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, pointed out that traditional moon cakes are made of flour, cream, lard, Massereene, white oil (hydrogenated oil), sugar, ham, pineapple, lotus seed paste, eggs, salted egg yolk and red bean paste, which are high in calories, sugar and fat.

Cantonese moon cake 150g is equal to the heat of 2 bowls of rice.

Take the Cantonese moon cakes on the market as an example. Flour and sugar are mixed to make oil skin. The fillings are mainly lotus seed paste, jujube paste and milk yellow. 150g Cantonese mooncake has a calorie of up to 500 calories, about 2 bowls of rice. Table-top moon cakes, such as mung bean and egg yolk crisp mixed ghee, have 300 calories in 60 grams, which is about the heat of a bowl of rice.

Shi Shanling, a nutritionist, added that in addition to the calorie problem that most people should pay attention to, patients with chronic diseases should also carefully choose moon cakes. For example, patients with hypertension should eat less crisp moon cakes such as souffle; People with high blood cholesterol should avoid eating moon cakes with egg yolk or fat in them; Gout patients should eat less moon cakes with fat or nuts.