"The moon is born on the sea, and the end of the world is at this time", the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar every year, is the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival.
On this night, people celebrate the reunion of people with the full moon, looking forward to being reunited with their families. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the "Reunion Festival".
At this time, it is the middle of autumn, which is also the dividing point of climate change. While we enjoy being reunited with our families, what aspects should we pay attention to health care?
(Source: National Geographic Chinese Network)
Mid-Autumn Moon Cake, avoid these misunderstandings
Mid-Autumn Festival, often during the white dew and autumn equinox, the morning and evening wind chill is very easy to hit the lungs; the lungs control the qi of the person, if the lung qi is weak, people will feel weak, easy to fatigue, and loose skin.
At this time, the seed kernels of the plant, such as almonds and lotus seeds, are processed into a fine powder and eaten, mixed with pure honey, which is the best way to supplement the lungs. This is the filling of traditional mooncakes, and the health significance of eating mooncakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival lies in this.
Eat mooncakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the customs are passed on to people's hearts. But now the mooncake in the processing, its nutritional value has undergone a qualitative change, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, want the mooncake to eat healthy, before choosing the mooncake, we must first find out these misunderstandings!
01 | For the sake of atmosphere, regardless of the crowd, feel free to buy
The production of mooncakes is inseparable: sugar, cooking oil and flour, plus various fillings such as lotus paste, bean paste, egg yolk, milk yolk and other fillings in the bread, not only high in calories, but also in oil and sugar.
Excessive consumption of mooncakes will lead to increased blood sugar and blood lipids; at the same time, it will cause gastrointestinal discomfort, affect the spleen and stomach transport, lead to sputum heat turbidity, endogenous heat, and then produce various lesions.
Especially people with: stomach ulcer, duodenal ulcer, obesity, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, hypertension and coronary heart disease, should try to eat as little or no moon cake as possible.
In addition, people with weak spleen and stomach and obesity should also avoid excessive consumption.
And choose when eating:
Diabetics, people with poor blood sugar control: choose mooncakes with low calories and low sugar content, such as vegetarian mooncakes, or sugar-free mooncakes, half a day is enough;
Patients with high blood pressure: avoid choosing salty ham mooncakes, squeezed vegetables and fresh meat mooncakes, etc.;
High cholesterol: egg yolk mooncakes are high in oil and high in cholesterol, and such people should try to eat less;
People with poor gastrointestinal function: It is recommended to choose some soft, hot mooncakes to reduce gastrointestinal irritation.
Recommendation: Healthy people can eat 1 ordinary size mooncake per day, and the elderly, children, and patients with three highs should be reduced as appropriate. After eating the moon cake, it is necessary to reduce some of the staple foods in the three meals accordingly, and reduce some stir-fry oil when cooking.
02 | Blind pursuit of health care mooncakes, sugar-free mooncakes
With the popularization of the concept of health care, some "health care mooncakes" with ginseng, bird's nest, spirulina and other ingredients have also entered our field of vision.
However, we must pay attention to the fact that the content of health care ingredients added to a small piece of mooncake is "very little and very little", and its effect is very limited; moreover, even if it can produce health care effects, but after matching with high-sugar, high-fat, high-calorie mooncakes, its health value will be greatly offset.
In addition to "health care mooncakes", some people may also blindly promote "sugar-free mooncakes".
In fact, the "sugar-free mooncake" only does not contain sucrose, and the oil content in the sugar-free mooncake has not decreased, and the calories are also very high, so you can't eat more casually.
Especially diabetics, before eating, you must observe the food ingredient list, after understanding the various contents of calories, fat and other content before deciding to eat.
03 | Eat mooncakes on an empty stomach, and mooncakes for breakfast
As mentioned above, mooncakes are high in oil, high in sugar, high in calories, and it is easy to cause blood sugar to soar when eating in large quantities, even if it is a sugar-free mooncake made of xylitol, you cannot eat more, otherwise blood sugar will definitely have problems.
Moreover, when eating mooncakes on an empty stomach, the stomach and intestines will be too concentrated due to sugar and fat, and a large amount of gastric acid is secreted, which is easy to cause gastrointestinal discomfort such as indigestion. Especially for people who suffer from gastrointestinal diseases themselves, the condition is likely to be aggravated, making treatment more difficult.
In addition, the nutrition provided by the moon cake is far less comprehensive and balanced than that of the meal, and eating it as a meal can easily lead to malnutrition and other problems.
The combination of eating mooncakes is also very important, you can choose to match the seasonal fruits or tea, both to relieve grease, but also to achieve lipid reduction, digestion, blood vessel protection and other effects.
Mid-Autumn Festival, crab is indispensable
As the saying goes: autumn perilla is crab incense. Crab meat is tender, delicious and nutritious, and is an indispensable product for mid-autumn reunions.
When cooking crab, add 2-3 pieces of perilla leaves, which can detoxify and stop diarrhea, remove fishy cold, reduce cholesterol; of course, adding yellow wine and ginger can also reduce the cold.
Crab is delicious, but not for everyone.
Crab cold: people with lack of cold and spleen and stomach should eat less;
Crab blood: during menstruation, pregnancy, blood loss should not be eaten;
Crab is a hair product: people with skin allergies, raw sores, dandruff, and excessive oil secretion on the face should not be eaten.
Eat crab six taboos: avoid eating raw crabs, dead crabs, long-term cooked crabs, avoid eating too much, do not mix with persimmons, eat crabs and avoid drinking tea within 1 hour after eating crabs.
Although crab is cold and cold, it can supplement kidney yin, nourish stomach yin, nourish liver yin, as long as you eat correctly, crabs can also eat very healthy. In the Mid-Autumn Festival, we can pair crabs and winter melons together to cook a "crab soup" for the family to maintain health in autumn.
Send crab soup
Ingredients: 1/2 kg of small crab, 1/2 kg of winter melon, 30-60 g of raw land, ginger, rice wine, 1 small piece of fatty meat
method:
1. Change the crab several times to spit out the dirt and soak it in vinegar for half an hour; wash the crab to remove the gills and internal organs.
2. Soak raw ground in water for 1 hour, then simmer for half an hour with the fat.
3. Add crab, winter melon, ginger and rice wine and cook for half an hour.
Effect: Crab is very yin, winter melon is hot to water, raw land is nourishing yin, these three together, is a soup that nourishes yin and healthy kidneys, couples who want children, autumn can drink more of this soup to supplement their bodies.
Source: "Eating The Law Determines the Law of Life" by Chen Yunbin
Mid-Autumn Festival wine, not as good as osmanthus porridge
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people are more likely to have symptoms of weak spleen and stomach and poor digestion.
At this time, we should put down the wine in the cup, less greasy and heavy meals, and eat more porridge that is easy to absorb and has a nourishing effect.
Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the osmanthus flowers first bloom, people will also taste some various foods made of osmanthus flowers when admiring the moon, such as osmanthus cake, osmanthus duck and so on.
Chinese medicine believes that osmanthus flowers are warm and spicy, with the effect of warming the cold, warming the stomach and relieving pain, dissolving phlegm and stasis, at this time, we may as well come to a bowl of "osmanthus porridge" to give our stomach a holiday.
Osmanthus porridge
Ingredients: Rice, osmanthus nectar, sugar
Directions: After washing the rice, put it in a pot with an appropriate amount of water, first boil over high heat and then switch to low heat to cook until porridge, pour in osmanthus sauce and stir well.
Osmanthus chestnut porridge
Ingredients: 250 g chestnuts, 50 g glutinous rice, sugar, osmanthus flowers
Directions: Chestnuts boiled in water, shelled and pressed into puree, glutinous rice boiled into porridge, add chestnut puree, sugar, slightly cooked, sprinkled with sugar osmanthus flowers and eaten.
Effect: Warm in the cold, warm stomach and relieve pain, tonify the spleen and kidneys.
Osmanthus has a strong aroma, mellow and delicious taste, with black tea, can promote appetite, help digestion, warm stomach, for people with weak spleen and stomach but want to drink tea, it is very ideal.
Method: Each brewing of the amount of osmanthus flowers can not be too much, the water temperature should not be too high, generally around 85 degrees Celsius, you can first pour a little less warm water, so that the flowers and tea are fully moisturized, and finally fill the water, soak for 2-3 minutes to drink.
In autumn, many people feel that their skin is dry, or their voice is hoarse due to fire, and often drinking osmanthus green tea or osmanthus oolong tea can also play a relieving effect.
In addition, after eating mooncakes and large meals, a cup of osmanthus tea can also be a good solution
Mid-Autumn Fruit, Grapefruit is in season
Chinese medicine believes that in the autumn, it is necessary to eat more sour foods, because Jin Kemu, that is, too much lung qi can damage the function of the liver, eat more sour vegetables and fruits to increase the function of the liver and resist the invasion of excess lung qi.
Grapefruit just belongs to the sour food, but also one of the fruits of the Mid-Autumn Festival, especially usually easy to dry mouth, bitter mouth, bad breath, yellow urine, dry stool, red tongue moss yellow people, after eating moon cakes, full of food, these sweet and fatty foods are more likely to aggravate the situation of depression in the body, this time it is very suitable for grapefruit to eat.
Grapefruit taste sweet, sour, cold, with stomach, gasification phlegm, moisturizing lungs and intestines, blood and spleen and other effects, can promote appetite, has a good effect on indigestion.
After eating the grapefruit meat, leaving the grapefruit peel to make a dish, not only can use the warmth of the peel to reconcile the coolness of the flesh, reduce the damage to the spleen and stomach, but also play a very good role in the spleen and spleen of the grapefruit, moisturizing and nourishing the liver.
Or the yuzu meat and grapefruit peel are concocted together, such as the homemade "honey grapefruit tea", which is very suitable for everyone to cultivate in this weather.
Honey grapefruit tea
Ingredients: 1 yuzu, 500g honey, 100g rock sugar, salt, water.
1. Wash the grapefruit with salt, scrape the grapefruit peel as thinly as possible with a knife, cut the scraped grapefruit peel into thin wires, soak in salt water for 1 hour and then put in water, cook for 10 minutes on medium heat to remove the bitter taste;
2. Peel off the grapefruit meat, tear it into small pieces, and crush it with a blender;
3. Put the treated grapefruit peel and pulp into the pot, add 1-2 bowls of water and rock sugar, simmer for 1 hour on medium-low heat, simmer until viscous, the grapefruit skin is golden and translucent. Stir frequently during the boiling process to avoid sticking to the pan;
4. Let cool, add honey, stir well and you can do it;
5. Put into a sealed jar, store in a refrigerator and brew with warm water when drinking.
At the same time, at this time, remember to eat less spicy onions, ginger, leeks, garlic, peppers and other spicy products to prevent the lungs from being too strong.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, disease prevention is the focus
Entering the Mid-Autumn Festival, the summer weather drops from the peak, enters the "morning and evening cool, noon hot", the temperature difference between day and night changes greatly, and the summer gradually recedes.
But the autumn tiger will also make a final struggle, when it is threatening, the weather is hot and stuffy, this kind of cold and uncertain weather, the most prone to cold. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to adding clothes and quilts in the morning and evening, not to expose the chest and back, and not to sleep and be cold.
Here is a bowl of tea recommended for everyone, after the autumn can often prepare "Ginger Su Tea" at home to prevent colds and strengthen the body.
Ginger Su tea
Ingredients: Ginger, 3 g of su leaf
Directions: Cut ginger into strips, wash the leaves, and brew in boiling water for 10 minutes as a substitute for tea.
Efficacy: It has the function of wind and cold, rational qi and stomach, and is suitable for cold and cold, headache and fever, or nausea and vomiting, stomach pain and bloating and other gastrointestinal discomfort type colds.
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In addition, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, dry and evil attack the lungs, and the diet should be based on healthy spleen and dryness.
Appropriately replenish more water, eat some white fungus, sesame, almonds, honey, rock sugar, pears and other foods to nourish the yin and dryness, nourish the lungs and intestines.
In a thousand-year-old heritage
The Mid-Autumn Festival has long been
Symbols and symbols containing "Chinese flavor"
The moon is full of flowers, and the affection is deep
Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival
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Good family full moon people for a long time
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a reunion