A mooncake has about 421 calories per hundred grams.
The calorie content of mooncakes varies depending on the ingredients used to make them and the type of filling, but in general, a mooncake contains about 421 calories. For example, an ordinary lotus seed paste mooncake contains calories equivalent to eating five fried chicken thighs in one sitting. A double-yolked lotus seed paste mooncake has about 800 calories, which is the equivalent of 1 plate of corn and meat rice plus 1 bowl of borscht.
The main ingredients of mooncakes are starch, sugar and fat, which are high-energy foods in themselves. In order to cater to people's diverse tastes, businesses also add a lot of sugar and high-calorie fats in the production process of mooncakes. Therefore, mooncakes are relatively high in calories and should be consumed in moderation, especially during festivals. If you are on a diet, your intake of staple foods should be appropriately reduced after eating mooncakes.
How to choose mooncakes?
Consumers in the purchase of moon cakes, to choose the regular super and market, do not feel free to buy in the unlicensed food stalls, mobile vendors, and beware of purchasing no name, no address, no date of production and the source of the moon cake is unknown. When choosing to check whether the packaging logo mark standardized, complete, whether the production date is within the validity period, try to choose a formal website or the official website of well-known brand manufacturers.
There are more types of mooncakes on the market today, but there is a big difference in the retention period labeled for mooncakes. The country did not specify a unified retention period, moon cakes can be kept for how long, mostly enterprises in accordance with their own process to develop standards, Su-style moon cakes have a longer shelf life, Hong Kong-style moon cakes have a shorter shelf life, in the processing technology and ingredients under the same conditions, you can prioritize the relatively shorter shelf life of the goods.
Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Mooncakes for the above