Old people should eat some nutritious and healthy snacks, and eat them on the premise of ensuring dinner. Generally, snacks can be properly supplemented from 9: 00 am to 10 am, 3: 00 pm to 4: 00 pm, and 8: 00 pm to 9: 00 pm, which is good for your health.
What snacks should the elderly eat?
It is suggested that the elderly often eat the following four kinds of snacks, which are economical, nutritious and delicious: 1, fresh seasonal fruits.
Fruit is an essential snack for the elderly. In fact, if conditions permit, you should eat a certain amount of fruit every day. It is best to eat more fresh fruits, such as grapes, mangosteen, loquat, watermelon, strawberry and cherry. Like hawthorn bought in fresh market, it is especially suitable for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular patients. Hawthorn slices and cakes made of hawthorn taste good as snacks, and dried hawthorn slices are also a good choice to soak in water.
2, low-calorie snacks
Eating some low-calorie and delicious snacks between meals can not only satisfy the stomach, but also not easily raise blood sugar. Oatmeal cookies, for example, is rich in dietary fiber, which is good for people with high triglycerides and cholesterol. Kumquat cake is good for people with bad voice and indigestion. Fuling cake is very suitable for the elderly with obesity and indigestion caused by spleen deficiency. Soda biscuits and baked steamed bread slices can play a role in satiety and neutralizing stomach acid.
3, no added dried fruit
Nuts such as walnuts, almonds and pine nuts are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, which are good for the heart. Pumpkin seeds contain important nutrients beneficial to gums and alveolar bones, and are also rich in phosphorus, vitamin E and carotene, which can nourish gums and prevent gingival atrophy.
Because the gums of the elderly shrink with age, the teeth are easy to loosen and fall off, and the atrophy of alveolar bone is related to the loss of phosphorus, so eating more pumpkin seeds is beneficial to the dental health of the elderly.
Jujube, rich in dietary fiber and carbohydrates, can be described as an energy gas station. Eating when you are hungry helps to relieve hunger.
Some dried vegetables are packed in small packages, which are nutritious and easy to carry. It is also good for the elderly to take a few bags as snacks when they go out for activities.
In addition, raisins, dried cranberries and dried blueberries are very suitable for the elderly.
4. Dairy products and bean products
Milk can supplement calcium, and drinking it before going to bed can also help you sleep. If you have lactose intolerance, you can choose to drink yogurt, which is conducive to promoting intestinal digestion. Soybean milk is rich in protein, vitamins and natural phytoestrogens, which is very suitable for elderly women to drink. Small bags of dried tofu sold in supermarkets are also very suitable for going out as snacks.
In short, the elderly should choose snacks with low calorie and high nutritional value, and do not eat snacks with high fat, high sugar, smoked preserves, cold drinks and so on. Snacks, as a supplement between two meals, should not be eaten as meals and should not be overdone. It is best to eat some digestible snacks before going to bed, otherwise it will also affect your health.