Yuanxiao is rich in nutrition, and its main component, glutinous rice flour, contains nutrients such as fat, carbohydrate, calcium, iron, riboflavin and niacin. At the same time, its conventional stuffing is mainly fruit and dried fruit, including sesame, walnut and peanut, plus vegetable oil, the nutritional value will be "higher". Therefore, Chinese medicine has always regarded Yuanxiao as something that can tonify deficiency, regulate blood, strengthen spleen and stimulate appetite, and modern nutritionists also highly admire its health care function.
However, if you eat too much, you will get sick. Wang Yun explained that this is because although glutinous rice can stimulate appetite and tonify deficiency, it is made into cakes, such as Yuanxiao, which are delicate in texture and should not be digested by the stomach. Compendium of Materia Medica has long recorded that glutinous rice is sticky and difficult to melt. "Materia Medica meets the original" also said that if glutinous rice is made into sticky cakes, it is difficult to transport and transform, and patients should not eat. Therefore, Chinese medicine advocates that the elderly, children and those who have recovered from a serious illness should eat less at Yuanxiao.
[calories] Yuanxiao contains a lot of oil and sugar, so it has a high calorie. It is not suitable for patients with overweight or hyperlipidemia, hypertension and diabetes. For gout patients, high-fat food will affect uric acid excretion and increase the possibility of gout.
The calories of four sesame dumplings are equivalent to the calories of a bowl of rice, while about forty dumplings without stuffing are equivalent to the calories of a bowl of rice. Therefore, you can eat dumplings without stuffing to reduce your calorie intake, or you can consume these calories by taking a brisk walk for an hour.
[Skin] No matter whether it is Yuanxiao in the north or Tangyuan in the south, the skin is made of glutinous rice flour. Glutinous rice contains more starch, is highly viscous and difficult to digest. People with poor gastrointestinal function, the elderly and children should pay special attention when eating glutinous rice balls, so as not to cause indigestion or dysphagia.
[Stuffing] There are many kinds of dumplings, including sweet and salty ones.
No matter sweet or salty stuffing, the oil content is very high, so lard is often used for delicious food. In addition, sweet stuffing often makes diabetic patients' blood sugar out of control. Peanut, sesame, bean paste and other high phosphorus content will aggravate the condition of patients with kidney disease, so special attention should be paid.
[Soup] The sweet dumpling itself is sweet, so there is no need to add sugar to the soup to reduce calorie intake. If it is a small dumpling without stuffing, sweet soup can be replaced by longan red date soup or longan ginger soup, which can not only reduce sugar, but also have the effect of tonifying the body and expelling cold.
Salted dumplings can be filled with shrimp and vegetables, with more calcium and fiber supplements. But it should be noted that don't put too much oil or seasoning in the soup.