The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in the mainland.
Since ancient times, folk have the custom of "the fifteenth day of the first month to make a lantern", and on this day, all parts of the country will hold colorful celebrations. Such as playing with dragon lanterns, playing with lions, stepping on stilts, rowing dry boats, twisting rice songs, playing Taiping drums, etc., on this day people either go out to admire the moon, or light up the lights, or watch the lanterns to guess the riddles, or eat the reunion Lantern Festival.
The fire tree honeysuckle is red, and the sky is open to the spring breeze.
The new joy began to be in the busy, and the old things were reminiscent of the dream.
I hope that if I am temporarily a person, I may wish to stay in the hazy moon.
The one who appreciates the lights is drunk, and may not be here next year.
———— [Song] Zhu Shuzhen's "First Night"
Osmanthus fragrant stuffing wrapped in walnuts, river rice like pearl well water tao.
See said that the Ma family drop powder is good, try the lantern wind to sell lanterns.
———— [Qing] Fu Zeng", "Shangyuan Bamboo Branch Words"
Speaking of eating lanterns, let's first understand the lanterns.
It has always been important to pay attention to the difference between the southern tangyuan and the northern lantern, and the tangyuan and the lantern first understand.
Tangyuan: It is made by wrapping wet powder with water ground. First make the dough, then make a round potion, put a small piece of filling, and then hold the dough tightly. Therefore, the appearance of the rice balls is smooth, the taste is soft and delicate, and it does not need too much oil to stick. There are many kinds of fillings in tangyuan, such as bean paste, sesame seeds, vegetables, meat and other sweet and salty fillings.
Lantern: After placing the filling, use glutinous rice flour to soak the glutinous rice and then grind it with a stone mill. Usually the filling is cut into small cubes, then dipped in some water and rolled back and forth in a basket full of dry powder until all the fillings are wrapped. It is commonly known as "Stacked Lantern". The filling of the Lantern is mainly lard sesame seeds, and the Lantern relies entirely on lard to "roll" the dry flour and filling into a round ball in the production process. Therefore, the filling of the Lantern has a lot of lard, a high content of fat and sugar, and a very high calorie.
Learn here that the ingredients of the Lantern include the skin and filling.
The skin is glutinous rice flour. "Compendium of Materia Medica" pointed out that glutinous rice is tonify the spleen and stomach, the valley of lung qi, it is sweet, warm, after eating can nourish the body's qi and blood, often use glutinous rice to cure the problem of self-sweating, lack of fatigue. The ancients used glutinous rice materials to make tangyuan, in addition to the stickiness of glutinous rice, but also because glutinous rice has the characteristics of cold resistance. In addition, glutinous rice also contains protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, niacin and other rich nutrients, it can be said that glutinous rice dumplings are warm and strong food.
However, glutinous rice flour contains more amylopectin, which is highly viscous and difficult to digest, which will lead to increased gastrointestinal peristalsis after consumption.
Lantern filling, mainly lard, sesame seeds, plus peanuts, walnuts or red bean date puree.
Black sesame medicine and food dual-use, with "tonify the liver and kidneys, nourish the five internal organs, improve sperm blood, moisturize the intestines" and other effects, is regarded as a tonic holy product.
Peanuts moisturize the lungs and stomach, and are beneficial for dry cough, nausea, and less milk in nursing women.
Walnuts moisturize the lungs and stomach, replenish blood and nourish the spirit, can nourish the face, strengthen the brain, black hair, treat kidney qi deficiency, postpartum weakness, chronic cough.
Red bean water dehumidification, blood drainage, detoxification and swelling, can treat edema, athlete's foot, jaundice, diarrhea, carbuncle.
Jujube mud tonifies the spleen and stomach, improves qi and vitality, adjusts the camp guard, and detoxifies the poison, and can cure stomach deficiency and lack of food, weak spleen and loose stool, lack of qi and blood, insufficient jin liquid, discord of camp guards, palpitations, and dirty women.
However, the filling of the Lantern is sweet and greasy, and eating too much can easily make the gastrointestinal burden too heavy, resulting in bloating, hiccups, diarrhea, loss of appetite, etc., which damages the spleen and stomach. In addition, these high-sugar, high-fat fillings can easily lead to excessive calorie intake, increase the burden on the liver, and increase the occurrence of fatty liver.
So what are the specialties of chronic liver disease patients eating Lantern / Tangyuan?
1. Patients with chronic hepatitis
Slow hepatitis B patients with normal appetite should try not to eat Lantern/Tangyuan with high sugar content, such as bean paste filling. You can choose dumplings filled with nuts, sesame seeds, etc. Eat less, if bloating occurs after eating, you can drink more water and increase exercise to help digestion of the gastrointestinal tract.
2. Patients with cirrhosis
Patients with cirrhosis should not eat Lantern / Tangyuan, Lantern / Tangyuan is characterized by one is that it is viscous and difficult to digest, which will cause increased gastric peristalsis; second, it is hot, which is easy to damage the esophageal mucosa and gastric mucosa.
Patients with cirrhosis usually have varying degrees of varicose veins, and if the gastric movement is enhanced, it is easy to induce the rupture of varicose blood vessels and cause major bleeding in the digestive tract.
3. Pay attention to chewing carefully and swallowing slowly
Although the Lantern / Tangyuan is delicious, eating must be slow to avoid increasing the burden on the stomach and causing stomach discomfort. Burns are also avoided.
4. Breakfast should not be eaten
Lantern / Tangyuan contains more sugar, high calories, early rise gastrointestinal function is the weakest, this time to eat Lantern, will make the gastrointestinal tract overwhelmed.
It is best at noon, when the body's gastrointestinal function is the strongest, and there is also enough time to digest the excessive calories in the Lantern / Tangyuan.
5. Reduce other staple foods
Lantern skin is mainly carbohydrates, when eating Lantern / Tangyuan to appropriately reduce other grains, and the filling oil is more, side food is recommended with steamed stewed dishes, such as greens, soy products, etc.;
6. Avoid frying lanterns.
Although the outer crisp and the inner soft fried Lantern is delicious, but the high calorie is also difficult to digest, it is not recommended that friends with liver disease choose, or cook to eat as well, chew slowly, and eat in small bites, especially for the elderly.
7, eat a small amount, do not greedy.
Lantern / Tangyuan is small but high in calories, eating too much at a time can easily increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and liver, and may also cause the risk of complications.
In addition, if fever occurs, the gastrointestinal tract function is weak and should not be consumed;
8. The following patients should not eat.
Patients with diabetes mellitus, due to the high sugar content of the Lantern, can cause a sharp increase in blood sugar, which will not only aggravate the disease, but also induce ketoacidosis.
In patients with ulcers, eating lanterns can promote increased gastric acid secretion, aggravate the stimulation of the ulcer surface, and in severe cases, it can induce gastric bleeding, gastric perforation, etc.
Patients with acute gastroenteritis, the patient's gastrointestinal tract is in a state of congestion and edema, and eating lanterns will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract. Patients should eat some digestible foods such as rice soup and lotus flour.
Combined fatty liver, hyperlipidemia and coronary heart disease patients, the oil, sugar, etc. in the Lantern will increase the viscosity of the blood, slow down the blood flow, increase blood pressure, and aggravate the lack of oxygen and ischemia of the heart, inducing angina.