Lidong customs have a custom of eating dumplings, and in the lidong some places to eat dumplings, what is the reason? What are the precautions that need to be taken to eat dumplings? Next follow this issue of Diet Culture to take a look at it!
Why eat dumplings
Eating dumplings in winter can help protect us from the cold.
Sticky glutinous rice dumplings with a rounded appearance and filled or solid inside are called Yuanxiao in the north and Tangyuan in the south. Lantern soup dumplings can have many patterns. Especially with filling the most varieties. Sweet fillings generally have bean paste, sugar sesame, osmanthus assorted, date paste, nuts, hemp paste, almonds, white fruit, hawthorn, etc.; salty fillings generally have fresh diced meat, shrimp and so on. There are also vegetable-filled Lantern with mustard, green onion, garlic, chives, ginger composition, called "five flavors Lantern", meaning hard work, long, upward.
The traditional production method, the South do dumplings, is the first water and glutinous rice flour into a skin, and then the filling wrapped; the North to do the Lantern, the first filling pinched into a uniform small ball, placed in a dry glutinous rice flour in the basket constantly shaking, and from time to time to add water so that more and more glutinous rice flour sticky filling until the size of the right.
Winter eating dumplings have many benefits, winter is the beginning of winter, winter temperatures are cold, yin and yang decline, the heat is more adequate dumplings can ensure that the body's adequate energy supply. Southern lard meat rounds, northern sugar Lantern, which is full of carbohydrates and energy, eat a mouthful of warm half a day.
Glutinous rice is also a winter seasonal good food, nutritionists have also proved the benefits of glutinous rice in the fall and winter to eat more, glutinous rice contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B2 and other nutrients, is that we are nourishing and good health nice ingredients. The Compendium of Materia Medica pointed out that glutinous rice is to supplement the spleen and stomach, beneficial to the grain of the lung gas. Glutinous rice is sweet, warm, eaten to nourish the human body qi and blood, nourishing the spleen and stomach.
The materials commonly used to make dumplings, such as glutinous rice, sesame seeds, red beans, etc., are also warm flavor, and have a good effect on the spleen. The spleen and stomach and healthy, dietary nutrients will be absorbed and utilized by the body to improve the body's ability to resist cold and prevent disease, the most suitable for consumption in winter.
In fact, the winter tonic, to follow the "weak complement, cold warm" principle. It is not advisable to eat too hot and dry things. Eat some nourishing yin submerged yang food, such as beef and mutton, chicken, cinnamon, jujube, yam, pig's blood, glutinous rice and other warm food, to ward off the cold, nourishing yin submerged yang.
Precautions for eating soup dumplings
Soup dumplings should not be eaten in the morning. In the morning, the gastrointestinal function is the weakest, and most of the soup dumplings outer skin made of glutinous rice, is not easy to be digested, breakfast to eat easy indigestion. When eating soup dumplings, don't eat other sugary foods, while reducing other staple food intake. Generally speaking, eating 3 dumplings is equivalent to 1 two staple food.
When eating dumplings, you should chew slowly. And each can not be too much, to 4-5 more appropriate, not to eat meals continuously. After eating the dumplings, it is best to move around a bit, not immediately lying down. In addition, the dumplings should be eaten while hot, cold dumplings more difficult to digest, but also be careful not to eat too hot dumplings, to prevent mouth and tongue burns.
Boiled soup dumplings smooth and not greasy, better taste. And eat dumplings when you can drink a small amount of dumpling soup, there is a "soup of the original food", so that some of the loss of nutrients in the soup will not be wasted. In contrast, the fried type of dumplings may smell more fragrant, but it will also lead to grease, excessive intake of calories, is not conducive to health.
For special populations such as infants and young children, the elderly, the digestive power of the sick and people with gastrointestinal diseases, it is recommended to avoid eating dumplings, diabetic patients should eat less or not eat glutinous rice dumplings. It is recommended that healthy adults eat dumplings should be moderate, about 50 grams a day is appropriate, do not eat more. In addition, overweight or hyperlipidemia, hypertension patients, should not eat too much soup dumplings containing a lot of fat and sugar high.