Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history. Like other traditional festivals, it develops slowly. The ancient emperors had a system of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. As early as in Zhou Li, the word "Mid-Autumn Festival" was recorded. Later, aristocratic scholars followed suit. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, they watch and worship the bright and round moon in the sky to express their feelings. This custom spread to the people and formed a traditional activity. Until the Tang Dynasty, people paid more attention to this custom of offering sacrifices to the moon, and the Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed festival. Emperor Taizong recorded the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, which was very popular in the Song Dynasty. ?

Zhu Yeshan, deputy director of the Department of Spleen and Stomach Diseases of Tangshan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, said: The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming. Eating moon cakes on holidays is a traditional custom, which symbolizes family reunion, happiness and peace. However, although moon cakes are delicious, their main raw materials are flour, cooking oil, sugar, eggs and various fillings, and the nutritional components of moon cakes will vary with the different raw materials of moon cakes. Generally speaking, the nutritional characteristics of moon cakes are high energy, high sugar and high fat. Although moon cakes are delicious, don't be greedy. Because moon cakes contain more oil, sucrose and ingredients, they are high in calories. If you eat too much, it will have a bad effect on your health. For patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes, we must limit the intake of moon cakes. Also, after eating too many sweet moon cakes, gastric acid secretion increases, which is easy to cause peptic ulcer. For the elderly and children, the spleen and stomach function is poor, and excessive consumption will lead to indigestion. Even for healthy people, eating too many moon cakes will increase the burden on the spleen and stomach, causing symptoms such as loss of appetite and diarrhea. Therefore, moon cakes should not be eaten as meals, so don't overdo it.

Because moon cakes are high-sugar foods with high glycemic index, if they are eaten together with porridge with high glycemic index, they are not only uncomfortable for patients with abnormal blood sugar or diabetes, but also harmful to brain cells for healthy people, and will also affect fat metabolism and cause fat accumulation. Can be paired with sour fruits rich in vitamin C, such as kiwi fruit, guava, orange, watermelon, banana, etc., which is helpful for fat absorption and metabolism. It is also suitable to match some hot tea or warm boiled water. First, it quenches thirst; second, it removes odor, relieves greasy taste and promotes digestion. Pu 'er tea, green tea, jasmine tea and chrysanthemum tea are all good choices. Never drink cold drinks to avoid indigestion or diarrhea.

Many people like to eat fruit moon cakes, thinking that containing fruit ingredients will be more nutritious and can replace fruit. Actually, it is not. Most fruit moon cakes on the market can only be called fruity moon cakes, and the real pulp composition is relatively low. Because of the need of preservation, even if it contains pulp, they rarely use fresh fruits, but choose dried fruits, which contain very limited vitamins and cannot replace fruits.

Even the "sugar-free" moon cakes should not be eaten by diabetics. Because "sugar-free" moon cakes and other "sugar-free foods" not only contain sucrose, but also contain other sugars, and moon cakes are high in calories, one of the key points in controlling diabetes is to control calories. Therefore, diabetic patients should pay attention to the existing food composition list and the contents of protein, fat, sugar, starch and cholesterol.