It is also the Mid-Autumn Festival of the year, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is an important traditional festival for family reunion and friends gathering. People regard mooncakes as a symbol of auspiciousness and reunion. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, when the moon is empty, the family is reunited, enjoying the moon and eating cakes, talking about the heavens and the earth, and enjoying the joy of heaven. However, sugar friends are entangled, for the moon cake is to eat but dare not eat, both want to taste delicious, but also afraid of blood sugar soaring. So, can diabetics eat mooncakes? If you can eat it, how should you eat blood sugar so that it is not high? Can I eat more sugar-free mooncakes? With these questions in mind, I will explain them to you today
With the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching, a large number of mooncakes have been listed, and some merchants have launched sugar-free mooncakes to meet the needs of diabetics. Sugar-free mooncakes are actually replaced with sweeteners such as xylitol and aspartame, but the nuts and flour in the mooncake filling contain fructose and maltose, and the starch and oil in the mooncake can be converted into glucose in the body. Therefore, even if you eat sugar-free mooncakes, it is best to taste it under the premise of controlling your blood sugar.
So what about our sugar friends who want to eat mooncakes? We have no need to tremble and refuse to go far, as long as we do the following points, we can skillfully and correctly eat mooncakes, both to enjoy the food, but also to ensure that blood sugar will not soar.
Ways to eat mooncakes:
1, pay attention to the amount of mooncakes, try to eat mooncakes once a day, the best, it is best to eat only a quarter, it is best to eat in the morning or noon.
2, before eating the moon cake, should reduce the intake of staple food, if you eat a 15 grams of carbohydrate moon cake, then the meal must be reduced by 1/4 bowl of rice; or with calories as a replacement, if you eat the next half of the egg yolk crisp, 140 calories, you must reduce 1/2 bowl of rice to avoid ingesting too much sugar and calories, resulting in increased blood sugar.
3, with low glycemic index food; such as grains, beans, vegetables, fruits, and other low glycemic index food in moderation and balanced intake before eating mooncakes, first eat some light vegetables, choose low-oil cooking, such as the use of hot, cold mix, steaming, boiling and other cooking methods. (Or simply and conveniently eat a cucumber first)
3. Drink a cup of hot black tea after eating mooncakes, which helps digestion and degreasing.
4, moon cake is rich in fat, should not be eaten with cold drinks, otherwise it will cause diarrhea.
5, pay attention to monitor blood sugar, moderate activity after meals, walking and chatting, grasp the rare night of reunion with family, you can also consume a part of the calories.
6. Compare the food labels on the packaging and select mooncakes with lower calories or smaller portions. You can refer to the following example to calculate heat.
How much rice is a piece of mooncake equivalent to?
A 100.gram double yellow lotus mooncake with a calorie of about 438 kcal, about 2.5 bowls of rice;
An 82-gram rose bean paste mooncake with a calorie of about 400.6 kcal and about 2.3 bowls of rice;
A 45-gram chocolate mooncake has a calorie of about 244.4 kcal and about 1.4 bowls of rice;
A 60 g sugar-free five-kernel mooncake with a calorie of about 235.4 kcal and about 1.4 bowls of rice;
A 60 g sugar-free matcha red bean mooncake has a calorie of about 216.1 kcal and about 1.2 bowls of rice;
A 50 g egg yolk shortbread has a calorie of about 210.3 kcal and about 1.2 bowls of rice;
A 45 g mini cream mooncake has a calorie of about 172 kcal and about 1 bowl of rice;
A 35 g purple potato egg yolk mooncake has a calorie of about 158 kcal and about 0.9 bowls of rice.