Zongzi is an indispensable holiday delicacy during the Dragon Boat Festival. But I don’t know when, every household will prepare a large number of zongzi every Dragon Boat Festival, either as snacks or breakfast. How and how much you eat depends on your mood. As a result, if you are not careful, you will get sick, such as high blood sugar, hypoglycemia, indigestion, and hyperacidity... A good holiday will eventually become a burden on the body.

Therefore, Hong Jing'an, director of the Clinical Nutrition Department of the First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, said that only by correctly understanding the ingredients and eating precautions of zongzi and making reasonable arrangements can we have a comfortable and happy Dragon Boat Festival.

Hong Jing’an, deputy chief physician of the Clinical Nutrition Department of the First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province

Consultation time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday morning

The main raw material of zongzi is glutinous rice, also called glutinous rice. Generally speaking, it is called glutinous rice in the south and glutinous rice in the north. It is a common food eaten at home. one. Because of its fragrant, glutinous and sticky texture, it is often used to make snacks and is loved by everyone. Zongzi usually uses round glutinous rice as the main ingredient. Like other cereals, its main ingredient is carbohydrates.

Therefore, people should treat zongzi as a staple food. One zongzi is equivalent to a small bowl of rice. If you eat three meals normally and then eat rice dumplings as a snack, you will easily consume too many carbohydrates and cause a burden on your body.

In addition to controlling the intake, just like eating rice with various dishes, when eating rice dumplings, you should also combine various types of vegetables or meat according to the type of rice dumplings.

If you eat too many rice dumplings, both hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia may occur

Since the starch structure of rice dumplings has a much higher amylopectin ratio than rice (japonica rice), and usually Amylopectin is more likely to gelatinize when exposed to heat and is digested more efficiently than amylose. Therefore, while glutinous rice is easily digested, it is also more likely to raise blood sugar.

However, after the blood sugar level rises rapidly, as soon as the pancreas detects this situation, it will release a large amount of insulin at one time to lower blood sugar, but this will often cause the blood sugar to drop rapidly, and even lead to hypotension. The occurrence of blood sugar, so both hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia may occur after eating more rice dumplings.

Zongzi should be eaten while they are hot, as the stomach does not like cold zongzi

Blood sugar studies at home and abroad have proven that hot glutinous rice food has a very high blood sugar response after a meal. In other words, its Digestion and absorption are very fast. Glutinous rice is digested significantly faster than rice.

Moreover, experiments also found that hot glutinous food is digested faster, including if it is cold and then heated, the digestion speed is as fast as freshly cooked, or even faster. Some low-quality glutinous rice will harden after being cooled, and the starch aging and retrogradation phenomenon of whole grain rice dumplings will be more obvious after being cooled. Therefore, if the rice dumplings are not freshly cooked, it is best to reheat them and steam them before eating them. This will avoid the problem of bacteria exceeding the standard and is also easier for digestion.

Patients with chronic diseases should follow the doctor’s advice and eat with caution!

For patients with diabetes and hyperlipidemia, blood sugar rises too fast after eating rice dumplings, even faster than white sugar, so it is not good for stabilizing the condition. People with diabetes should eat less rice dumplings made from refined white glutinous rice, especially rhubarb rice dumplings, which have the highest blood sugar response among various whole grains. Even the rice dumplings without jujube or bean paste are exactly the same.

For those with hyperacidity, rice dumplings will aggravate gastric acid secretion. Sticky glutinous rice promotes gastric acid secretion, so people with hyperacidity and gastroesophageal reflux may experience discomfort and heartburn when eating sweet rice dumplings. Therefore, people with hyperacidity, gastroesophageal reflux and gastric ulcers should eat less glutinous rice foods such as zongzi. If you must eat a small amount of rice dumplings, you should also eat more vegetables, fruits and protein-rich foods first, and then combine with a small amount of rice dumplings, which can provide certain relief.

In addition, meat (pork belly, ham), nuts (peanuts, sesame), egg yolks, preserved fruits, etc. are often added to Zongzi, making Zongzi a high-calorie, high-fat, high-sugar and high-salt food. . For people with chronic diseases such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, and kidney disease, it will aggravate the condition and induce the risk of acute complications.

The elderly and children have weak digestive functions, just taste it!

Although hot rice dumplings are easy to digest, for people with degraded or incomplete gastrointestinal function, such as the elderly and children, eating a large amount of rice dumplings is more likely to damage the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, even healthy elderly people With children, rice dumplings should also be used in moderation, and they should be tasted to suit the season.

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