1. Will eating zongzi make you fat?
Eating more zongzi is really easy to get fat. Zongzi is mostly made of glutinous rice, which has high viscosity and is not easy to digest, and lacks fiber and contains too much fat, salt and sugar. An ordinary bacon zongzi contains about one bowl of rice and about 400 to 500 calories. Zongzi is a fattening food, and its calories are mostly on the high side. However, if you eat it in a small amount, you won't gain weight. However, if you eat too much, you will definitely gain weight, and friends who lose weight would better eat less or not.
Zongzi main ingredient heat meter
Rice calorie: 348.00 kcal
Glutinous rice calorie: 346.00 calories
Rice carbohydrate: 78.30g.
Glutinous rice carbohydrate: 77.90g.
Rice fat:1.00g.
Glutinous rice fat: 0.80g.
Rice protein: 7.30g.
Glutinous rice protein: 7.40g.
Rice cellulose: 0.80g.
Glutinous rice cellulose: 0.70g.
Through comparison, we know that glutinous rice, the main ingredient of zongzi, is not much higher than rice, and there should be another reason why eating zongzi is easy to get fat. The reasons why eating zongzi is easy are as follows:
Eating zongzi delayed satiety.
Zongzi has a characteristic, which is "delayed satiety". Most foods are full immediately after eating, and the feeling of fullness just after eating is the strongest. The glutinous rice food does not feel full after eating, and it will not reach the peak of satiety until about 30 minutes after the meal. If you put the glutinous rice needed by two zongzi and the japonica rice needed by a bowl of rice together, you will find that zongzi uses more rice; But when eating, two zongzi were eaten in a few bites, and they didn't feel good at that time; A bowl of rice is not so easy to eat, and it feels full after eating.
2. How to eat zongzi without getting fat
1, choose zongzi with low calorie.
There are too many kinds of zongzi. Different zongzi have different tastes and different calories and nutrients. The reason why people eat zongzi is easy to get fat is not only because the glutinous rice in zongzi is not easy to digest, but also because the calories of some zongzi are too high.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, if you don't want to get fat because of eating zongzi, then you should choose zongzi with lower calories. Among the many seed varieties, the bean paste zongzi has the highest calorie, so if you are afraid of eating fat, you must avoid the bean paste zongzi when choosing it during the Dragon Boat Festival. Relatively speaking, the calories of pure glutinous rice dumplings and pure salty dumplings are the lowest, so it is less likely to get fat when choosing to eat these two kinds of dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival.
2, fat should learn to exercise restraint.
Zongzi is a kind of food that is quite difficult to digest. If you eat too much Zongzi, it will easily lead to obesity and a series of gastrointestinal diseases. During the Dragon Boat Festival, you must eat zongzi in moderation, not too much. The most suitable number of zongzi is two or three per day, two is the best, and three is ok, but never more than three, otherwise it will easily get fat.
3. Don't choose the night if you want to get fat after eating zongzi.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, many people will choose to taste the delicious rice dumplings at night. In fact, after nine o'clock in the evening is the period of fat accumulation. If the food eaten at night cannot be fully digested before nine o'clock, it will easily cause obesity.
Therefore, for the indigestible food such as zongzi, you must not choose to eat it at night. The best time to eat zongzi should be in the morning, and you can eat some at noon. You must not eat zongzi at night.
4. Pack zongzi to minimize the heat of zongzi.
When making zongzi, it's best to use materials that meet the requirements of "three less and one more" (less oil, less salt, less sugar and more fiber), with less seasoning, or try to replace pork belly with leg meat or _ _ _ _, replace egg yolk with "chestnut", add carrots for color matching, and increase the fiber quality of zongzi, or mix glutinous rice with "five grains of rice" to increase the fiber quality of zongzi; In addition, when making red bean paste dumplings, it is suggested to replace lard with vegetable oil, which can reduce the heat of dumplings.
5. Pay attention to collocation when eating zongzi without getting fat.
For example, eat zongzi with white radish White radish has the function of refreshing, regulating qi and promoting diuresis. When eating zongzi, it can promote digestion. Also, you can drink tea at the same time when eating zongzi, which helps digestion. Super sweet zongzi, such as jujube paste, bean paste, etc., can be mixed with mint tea or green tea, which can improve glucose metabolism, clear away heat and get tired; Zongzi with special oil, such as fresh meat, ham and sausage, can be served with Pu 'er tea, chrysanthemum tea and hawthorn tea.
6. Learn to choose meat dumplings correctly
Meat zongzi has long been the leading role in the "Zongzi clan", but its defect is its high saturated fat content. If you can switch to lean meat, or even replace it with chicken and seafood, you will achieve less oil and low calories. This way, you can kill two birds with one stone without worrying about gaining weight.
7. How many zongzi should I eat a day?
Experts suggest that under normal circumstances, it is best not to eat more than three dumplings a day for women and five for men, and it should be reduced moderately during weight loss. Eating less zongzi can avoid indigestion in the intestines and stomach caused by eating zongzi and obesity caused by eating too much. Besides, it is best not to eat zongzi two hours before going to bed.