Wuren moon cakes are usually refrigerated whether they are refrigerated or frozen, but you'd better eat them in a few days. If you can't guarantee eating, it is recommended to freeze!
Preserve for more than ten days and freeze. Professor Ma said that moon cakes are too greasy, which will stimulate the gallbladder to secrete too much bile after eating, which will easily lead to acute pancreatitis and cholecystitis, especially for patients with gallstones. Hu Wen, a professor of dietary nutrition at Huaxi Hospital, said, "The richer the protein and water, the easier it is for moon cakes to rot; The lower the water content, the higher the sugar content, the stronger the ability to inhibit microorganisms, and the longer the moon cake will be preserved. " Hu Wen said. If you want to preserve it for a long time, consumers can choose moon cakes with high sugar content, such as jujube paste stuffing and bean paste stuffing.
If moon cakes can be eaten in two or three days, they can be kept at room temperature. Low-sugar moon cakes and soft moon cakes are usually frozen in the refrigerator for one week, and then frozen after 10.
Who shouldn't eat moon cakes? Moon cakes contain a lot of sucrose, so no matter what type of diabetic patients, they should insist on not eating them.
People with gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer will increase gastric acid secretion after eating moon cakes, which is extremely unfavorable for gastrointestinal healing. It is wise not to eat them. People with dental caries should try to eat less moon cakes or brush their teeth immediately after eating. People suffering from obesity, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, hypertension and coronary heart disease should also try to "reluctantly give up what one favours". Eating moon cakes is also easy to make patients with chronic cholecystitis and chronic pancreatitis relapse again, causing severe biliary colic and epigastric pain. After eating moon cakes, patients with gallstones will stimulate bile and easily cause disease attacks, especially young patients with gallstones who eat moon cakes, which can cause acute pancreatitis, manifested as severe abdominal pain and even life-threatening.
How to preserve Wuren moon cakes The preservation of moon cakes should be put in the refrigerator together with the packaging box.
Mooncakes are generally divided into soft stuffing and hard stuffing. Soft fillers contain a lot of water, which can only be stored for about 7 to 10 days, while hard fillers can be stored for about 1 month. Because moon cakes contain a lot of fat, they should also be stored away from light to prevent oil oxidation.
Moon cakes should be handled with care, especially Soviet-style moon cakes, because the skin is crisp and the most easily broken. If the skin falls off, it will not only affect the appearance, but also affect the taste quality, which is easy to deteriorate due to moisture.
Moon cakes are rich in oil and sugar, and are easy to mildew and deteriorate when heated and wet. They must be stored in a cool and ventilated place at low temperature.
Generally speaking, moon cakes are soft, moist and easy to deteriorate. It is best to put it in the refrigerator and take it out one hour before eating to ensure the taste.
At 25℃, almond and passion fruit moon cakes can be stored for about 15 days, while bean paste, lotus seed paste and jujube paste moon cakes should not be stored for more than 10 days.
When storing moon cakes, it is not appropriate to put them together with other foods and sundries, so as to avoid cross-talk and lose their proper taste and characteristics. In order to ensure the fresh quality of moon cakes, when buying boxed moon cakes or bulk moon cakes, it is necessary to see the production date or factory date clearly so as to grasp the shelf life.
Besides, don't put leftover moon cakes in the refrigerator. Mooncakes are made from flour, oil, sugar and nuts. The starch in the raw materials of moon cakes is cooked and softened after baking. At low temperature, cooked starch will precipitate water and age (that is, "retrogradation"), which will make moon cakes hard and taste worse. Mooncakes with less oil and water, such as Zilaihong and Zilaihai in old Beijing, are harder. If it is placed in a low-temperature and humid environment in the refrigerator, it will not only harden quickly, but also become moldy. But for Cantonese moon cakes, the oil content is high, the flour is low, and the taste change will be relatively small.
Baked food, such as baked cakes, should not be stored in the refrigerator.
Misunderstanding of mooncakes: Eat mooncakes as breakfast. Although the raw materials of moon cakes are healthy foods such as lotus seeds, mung beans, taro and almonds. A lot of sugar and oil were added to the stuffing, which became a "three high" food with high oil, high sugar and high fat. Its traditional fillings, such as lotus seed paste and salted egg yolk, are fatty and easy to stagnate. Many people eat more than two pieces, and then they start to feel bloated. Of course, they can't eat moon cakes for breakfast.
The correct way: after a night, the body's basic metabolism has long been exhausted, and it is urgent to supplement energy and various nutrients for breakfast, such as soy milk, milk, eggs and other foods, instead of eating moon cakes for breakfast.
Eating moon cakes on an empty stomach is best to eat moon cakes after meals. Don't eat them on an empty stomach, otherwise the stomach will secrete a lot of stomach acid due to the high concentration of sugar and fat, which will induce gastrointestinal discomfort.
The correct way: recommend a healthy way to eat moon cakes, such as using some scented tea, green tea and oolong tea to taste them; Or eat with some fruits with high dietary fiber, such as Shatian pomelo, orange and crystal pear.
Eating moon cakes many times a day, every100g of moon cakes has 300-400 kilocalories, which is a high-energy and low-nutrition food. You can't eat too much and you can't eat every meal.
The correct way: only occasionally eat moon cakes as snacks.