Reporter Yang Zhendong
Eating mooncakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival is a custom for thousands of years, how to eat mooncakes is scientific? The reporter interviewed Chen Hui, the attending TCM physician of the TCM Expert Outpatient of the Second People's Hospital of Henan Province.
Mooncakes are carefully matched
Pair with tea
The combination of different mooncakes and different teas can not only increase the enjoyment of mooncakes, but also achieve the effect of quenching thirst and eliminating greasy.
For example, the long-lasting aroma of Longjing in green tea and the combination of mellow taste and mooncakes with high sweetness can reduce the sticky feeling of sugar in the mouth. The lipid-lowering effect of Pu'er tea in black tea can be paired with mooncakes with higher oil content, which helps to relieve greasy and promote the decomposition of fat.
The oolong tea in green tea has the ability to nourish and eliminate food and greasy, and when combined with salty mooncakes, it is beneficial to reduce the saltiness and dissipation effect in the mouth. Patients who do not sleep well can pair it with flower teas such as lily tea. However, mooncakes should be avoided with carbonated drinks or drinks with high sugar content to avoid excessive calorie intake.
Tea is the "golden partner" of mooncakes. "A sip of mooncakes and a sip of tea" helps digestion and adds Yaxing. Tea can promote the digestive tract to break down the oil in mooncakes and reduce "food accumulation".
Pair with fruit
Mainly with seasonal fruits, healthy people can choose fruits with low sugar content and more water content to pair with mooncakes.
Diabetics should choose fruits with low glycemic index such as plums, peaches, apricots, apples, pears, grapes, etc., which are conducive to easing sugar absorption. Avoid pairing with fruits with high glycemic index such as kiwifruit, bananas, mangoes, seedless grapes, pineapples, watermelons, etc., which is not conducive to blood sugar control.
Grapefruit tastes sweet, sour, cold, into the stomach and lungs. It has the effect of quenching thirst, appetizing, dissolving phlegm and relieving cough. Fresh grapefruit has insulin-like ingredients that reduce blood sugar. It is rich in vitamin C, carotene, flavonoids, and has antioxidant effects.
The pectin component contained in it can help the body excrete lipids and cholesterol as soon as possible, and reduce the absorption of exogenous cholesterol, which has the effect of lowering lipids.
Pair with fruit vinegar drinks
The pectin in apple cider vinegar can delay the absorption of sugar and fat in the intestine, which is conducive to the control of blood sugar and promotes the excretion of fat and steroids. The organic acids in apple cider vinegar can promote sugar metabolism and digestion, but people with excessive stomach acid should pay attention.
Pair with wine
The combination of mooncakes and wine mainly chooses wines with sweetness, but because of the higher calorie content of dessert wine, people who like to drink should control the amount of alcohol when pairing, and must not excessively.
There are many ways to eat mooncakes
If you can't finish eating mooncakes for a while, you can also eat them in a different pattern. For example-
- Mooncake Finely diced with ham and sauce and mixed with chopped green onion, MSG, etc., the mooncake becomes a refreshing side dish.
- Stir-fried mooncakes Cut the hard-stuffed mooncakes with ham and duck into small strips, add chopped green onion, ginger and MSG, and stir-fry them in oil. Stir-fried mooncakes can be used as a staple food or as a side dish.
- Fried mooncakes Cut ham and duck mooncakes flat into 2~3mm thick pancakes for later use. Fry the eggs into omelettes on a pan, then place the sliced mooncakes in the center of the egg pancakes, wrap, seal and fry for a while. This mooncake is fluffy and fragrant, rich in nutrients.
"Central Plains Top Ten Mooncakes" Ten mooncakes and ten flavors
In order to standardize the mooncake sales market, enhance the brand awareness and reputation of mooncakes, enhance the trust of consumers, launch delicious and healthy new products, and expand the market influence of leading enterprises in Henan's baking industry, Henan Food Industry Association, together with Top News, Henan Business News, Dahe Health News and other media, recently jointly held the "Central Plains Top Ten Mooncakes" selection, publicity and recommendation activities.
Based on the principle of fairness, openness and justice, the selection of the top ten mooncakes of Zhongyuan was selected through online voting and expert review. Among them, the online voting conducted on the top news platform received a total of 6.5 million votes, and the first place in the top ten mooncakes in the Central Plains received a good result of 634368 votes.
At the Central Plains Top Ten Mooncake Brand Strategy Summit Forum held on August 10, the freshly baked Central Plains Top Ten Mooncake Brands showed their true faces, in the words of Niu Jinghong, Secretary-General of Henan Food Industry Association: "This time the Central Plains Top Ten Mooncake Brands can be described as expected by everyone, which can represent the strength and quality of Henan baking industry." ”
In order to meet the market demand, a few days ago, the "Top Ten Mooncake Gathering" gift box was grandly launched on the sweet market! The "Top Ten Mooncakes Collection" gift box integrates the ten most distinctive mooncakes of the top ten mooncake brands in the Central Plains:
Central Plains Top Ten Mooncake "Koi Fang" Brand——
Henan Koifufang Food Co., Ltd. produced meat floss egg yolk crisp:
31 processes, all handmade. The salty meat is loosely wrapped in salted egg yolk with sand aroma and oil, and the appearance is slightly covered with layers of crispy and crispy crust, and it is a light bite, leaving a fragrance on the lips and teeth, bringing a happy experience to the palate!
Central Plains Top Ten Mooncake "Xiangxueer" brand——
Zhengzhou Xiangxueer Food Co., Ltd.'s rattan pepper beef mooncake:
Choose authentic rattan pepper beef filling, the crust is soft and sticky, the filling is rich in salty aroma, the skin is thin and filling, and the fresh and spicy aroma is full.
Central Plains Top Ten Mooncake "Moulin Rouge" Brand——
Henan Red Rouge Food Co., Ltd. produced fine five-ren fat mooncake:
Su-style mooncakes, the crust is soft layer by layer, the filling is made of a variety of nuts (walnuts, pumpkin seeds, peanuts, almonds, white sesame seeds, etc.), a variety of preserved fruits (kumquat cakes, plums, etc.), carefully baked and concocted, sweet and delicious.
Central Plains Top Ten Mooncake "Mai Shang" brand——
Old-fashioned mooncakes produced by Zhengzhou Maishang Food Co., Ltd.:
The traditional taste of old-fashioned mooncakes is pure, and the filling is mostly nuts (walnut kernels, peanut kernels, watermelon seed kernels, sesame seeds), green and red silk and rock sugar, and the ratio of skin and filling is about 2:3, which also makes old-fashioned mooncakes rich in the sweetness of a variety of nuts and not so greasy.
Central Plains Top Ten Mooncake "Master Lu" brand——
Chocolate cranberry coconut mooncake produced by Henan Master Lu Food Co., Ltd.:
The brown crust and milky yellow filling, the strong visual impact, deeply triggered our taste buds, the mellow aroma of cocoa, the sweetness of shredded coconut, the sourness of cranberry, the reasonable combination of three different flavors, achieving an overflowing taste feast.
Central Plains Top Ten Mooncake "Kagino" Brand——
Cantonese coconut queen fruit paste mooncake produced by Henan Kagino Food Co., Ltd.:
Preferably imported Philippine high-fat coconut paste, the taste is delicate and the coconut aroma is rich.
Central Plains Top Ten Mooncake "Andrea" brand——
Imperial Crisp Mooncake produced by Henan Andrea Food Co., Ltd.:
Imperial pastry 10 processes 1 pastry, oil skin wrapped in puff pastry, multi-layer rolling, loose puff pastry, gently rolling, wrapping filling with almond slices, brushing egg yolk liquid, laying pumpkin seeds, each step is carefully scrupulous, 10 processes, layer by layer crispy. Imperial crispy milk fragrant, selected red adzuki beans with full particles and easy to sand, fresh fragrant meat floss, fluffy and crispy mellow and delicious, is the representative business card of Luoyang regional cultural specialties.
Central Plains Top Ten Mooncake "Famous Generation" Brand——
Shangqiu Mingdai Food Co., Ltd. produced soft Wuren golden egg yolk mooncake:
Fluffy crust, melts in the mouth; Soft and silky, sweet but not greasy, salted duck eggs with selected sweet flowing oil, with a rustling taste and a sweet aftertaste.
Central Plains Top Ten Mooncake "Sanwei Qi" Brand——
Cranberry milk coconut mooncake produced by Henan Sanweiqi Food Co., Ltd.:
The cranberry milk coconut mooncake is golden and translucent, and after cutting, you will find that the dried cranberries are set in it like rubies, and there is a faint coconut aroma, and eating a bite is like enjoying the sweetness of coconut fruit on the seashore of Hainan.
Central Plains Top Ten Mooncake "Barmi" brand——
Lucky bag cake produced by Jiaozuo Hui Likang Food Co., Ltd.:
Low-sweet mulberry yam double health, delicious and visible.
According to reports, the 2023 "Top Ten Mooncake Gathering" gathering gift box has two packaging specifications, ordinary gift box packaging 198 yuan / box, boutique gift box packaging 298 yuan / box. In order to facilitate the purchase and tasting, the form of pickup coupons is adopted, with which you can pick up goods at 20 designated stores throughout Zhengzhou City.
Central Plains Top Ten Mooncakes, Ten Representative Enterprises in Different Places in Henan, Ten Representative Mooncakes with Different Flavors, One Gift Box "One Box Catch"!
Such a box of "perfect" mooncakes is truly complete, and it will definitely bring relatives and friends a different Mid-Autumn Festival experience, a different reunion meaning and sweet taste.
Please call 19203818555 for more information.