The dumplings are made of glutinous rice.

The main materials of zongzi are rice, stuffing and Ruo leaves (or Shuusei leaves). Due to the different dietary habits in different places, the zongzi form a north-south flavor.

From the flavor points, the zongzi have salty zongzi and sweet zongzi two categories. The custom of eating rice dumplings, the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year for thousands of years, the Chinese people have to soak glutinous rice, wash rice dumplings, wrapped rice dumplings. Zongzi as China's history and culture of one of the deepest accumulation of traditional food, the spread is also very far.

Folklore has it that eating zongzi is in honor of Qu Yuan, and legend has it that the zongzi were passed down as a tribute to Qu Yuan, who threw himself into the river. There are many kinds of zongzi, from the filling, the north has wrapped small jujube Beijing jujube zongzi; the south has green beans, pork, bean paste, eight treasures, ham, mushrooms, egg yolks and other fillings, which is represented by Guangdong salted meat zongzi, Zhejiang Jiaxing zongzi.

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The dumplings taboo:?

The dumplings should not be eaten cold, must be eaten while hot. The main material of the rice dumplings is glutinous rice, high content of branched-chain starch. After heating the glutinous rice, the branched chain starch will be pasteurized, conducive to be digestive enzymes decomposition, easier to digest; and once cooled, the starch will be aging back to life, the intermolecular coagulation strengthened, is not easy to be digested.

1, when eating dumplings, it is best to drink tea at the same time, to help swallowing and digestion, measured consumption, a little less at a time, you can choose the mini dumplings.?

2, eating dumplings should be accompanied by cold vegetables, fruit salad, relieve gastrointestinal discomfort.?

3, the dumplings should be fully heated, cooked hot and soft before eating.?

4, such as those with stomach problems to eat rice dumplings can choose white rice dumplings, do not dip sugar, do not eat too sweet.?

5, with gallstones, cholecystitis and pancreatitis patients, do not eat meat dumplings, egg yolk dumplings and other fat, protein content is too high in the dumplings.

6, need to be fully heated to soft before eating.

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