How to choose moon cakes? 1. Look at the colors and images.
1. Normal mooncake skins are golden yellow and even in color.
2. Moon cakes all contain edible oil, and the skin of high-quality moon cakes will have a glossy effect, and the cake body is translucent and shiny.
3. The moon cake skin is hard but not exposed and deformed.
4. The patterns and handwriting on the surface of moon cakes should be clear and legible.
Second, smell its taste and smell its fragrance.
High-quality moon cakes will give off a hint of sweetness. If there is an odor or rancid smell of oil, it may be an aged and expired moon cake.
Third, taste and taste
1. The filling tastes delicate, the entrance is smooth, and there is no impurity.
2. Mooncake dough is soft and thin.
3. The stuffing is rich and prominent.
Fourth, the feeling of holding hands.
Of course, most stores don't allow you to choose moon cakes, so more often, you should choose a more reliable brand. Generally speaking, local time-honored brands and national brands are trustworthy. When buying, you must pay attention to the date of production, and you can also check the quality of moon cakes by pinching. Generally speaking, high-quality moon cakes are hard to pinch but elastic.
So who shouldn't eat moon cakes?
According to reports, due to the high sugar content of moon cakes, patients with diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and coronary heart disease should not eat more. Moon cakes may make blood sugar rise sharply, aggravate the degree of cardiac ischemia, and even induce myocardial infarction. In addition, the elderly and infants should not eat more because of poor digestion and absorption ability or insufficient development. Because moon cakes can secrete a lot of stomach acid, patients with duodenitis or gastritis should not eat more.
How to choose moon cakes Part 2 1: Investigation of moon cakes.
1, health moon cake: it is difficult to have a health care effect at a low content.
In addition to traditional fillings such as jujube paste, bean paste, five kernels, egg yolk and lotus seed paste, spirulina, a frequent visitor in health food, can also be eaten in moon cakes. I found that in supermarkets and online stores, many of them are selling spirulina moon cakes. The mooncake gift box contains mooncakes with various fillings, one of which is spirulina mooncakes. But according to the ingredient list, the content of spirulina in this box of moon cakes is only 3%.
In addition to spirulina, expensive ingredients such as abalone and shark's fin have also joined the moon cake camp. I also saw imitation moon cakes containing abalone. In addition, I also saw moon cakes with the flavor of five kernels and abalone.
In view of the moon cakes containing spirulina and other health foods on the market at present, and the moon cakes with expensive ingredients, experts pointed out that because of their limited content, the health care effect is definitely limited. It is better to eat health care products directly, and you can't rely on this kind of moon cakes for health care. Moreover, this kind of moon cake is not necessarily healthier than those with other fillings, and spirulina, a health care ingredient, is also difficult to offset the adverse effects of this "three high" food on the body.
In fact, eating moon cakes is healthy, and the most important thing is to eat less. After eating moon cakes, more exercise and more consumption.
2, fruit moon cakes: mostly melon sauce+essence blending.
In this year's moon cake market, fruit moon cakes have sprung up everywhere. However, the reporter found that fruit moon cakes are not necessarily made of fresh fruit. I found in the market survey these days that the fillings of fruit moon cakes are getting richer and richer. In addition to traditional pineapple moon cakes, moon cakes filled with fruits such as strawberry moon cakes, blueberry moon cakes and banana moon cakes are becoming more and more common.
However, during the investigation, I found that not all mooncakes with fruit stuffing are genuine. In one of the supermarkets, you can see the festive moon cake counter as soon as you enter the door. I saw strawberry and taro moon cakes in the individually packaged moon cakes, but I didn't find strawberry or taro in the ingredient list on the package, but I saw wax gourd, spices and food coloring in the ingredient list.
Of course, not all moon cakes do not contain real fruit. At the counter selling fruit moon cakes, I saw coconut and grapefruit pie in the boxed moon cakes. Look carefully at the ingredient list at the back of the package. Although wax gourd was added, the proportion of coconut and grapefruit granules was clearly marked. In addition, I saw a brand of iced moon cakes with green tea and pineapple flavors, but only white gourd and its corresponding flavors were in the ingredient list. Among them, the ingredients list of pineapple-flavored moon cakes is marked with pineapple essence. Among them, the reporter of pineapple-flavored moon cake also saw pineapple essence and wax gourd sauce in his ingredient list.
According to China's requirements for food fillings, moon cakes with fresh fruit content of more than 25% can be called fruit moon cakes. If it is lower than this standard, it should be called vegetable moon cake.
However, I found that except for a few fruit moon cakes sold in the market, most fruit moon cakes were not clearly marked with the content of fruit ingredients. Many brands of fruit moon cakes are made of wax gourd and edible essence, but their packaging is clearly marked with fruit moon cakes, so it is difficult for consumers to distinguish between true and false.
3, sugar-free moon cakes: sucrose-free will also raise blood sugar.
Because of the three high hats of "high sugar, high fat and high calorie", moon cakes make many diabetics stay away from them. Sugar-free moon cakes on the market seem to bring good news.
But my investigation found that the price of sugar-free moon cakes is surprisingly high. In the supermarket, the staff recommended "sugar alcohol moon cake" to me. In the ingredient list of this moon cake, maltitol is used to replace white sugar or soft sugar in ordinary moon cakes. However, the price of this kind of moon cake is also higher than that of ordinary moon cakes.
In addition, experts reminded that sugar-free moon cakes should not be eaten more. Because this kind of moon cake only adds sweeteners and other substitutes when making dough and stuffing, it is also a high-calorie and high-fat food.
The moon cake itself contains a lot of starch, and the flour in the moon cake skin also contains starch, which will be decomposed into glucose after entering the body. Moreover, sugar alcohol sweeteners such as xylitol and maltitol in sugar-free moon cakes may increase intestinal peristalsis and lead to diarrhea if eaten too much. Therefore, no matter for healthy people or diabetics, sugar-free moon cakes can't be eaten without restriction.
Second, how to choose healthy moon cakes
Mooncakes are baked products. Good quality moon cakes have uniform thickness, golden skin and fresh fillings. From the point of view of color, fragrance and shape, they are all done very carefully. According to the sensory requirements, the moon cake with rongsha stuffing is delicate and smooth, not sticky, moderate in hardness, shiny in cut section, not sticky to eat, fragrant, and without lotus seeds or bean skins with a diameter greater than 2mm; Mooncakes with fruit stuffing (flavor) have filamentous or granular fibers, moderate hardness, natural and uniform color, pure fruity taste and no impurities; Water-sand moon cakes are filled with sand, which evenly retains the original color of starch raw materials, and has a refreshing taste, a coarse sand feeling and a strong flavor of stuffing raw materials; Mooncakes filled with nuts are evenly distributed, easy to agglomerate, and have the fragrance and taste of corresponding varieties.
Try to choose products with famous brands and time-honored brands. Look at trademarks and buy products with standardized production marks. Pay special attention to check whether there is the word "moon cake" in the eye-catching position of the box. Look at the production date and shelf life, and check whether the packaging is complete. See if there is obvious greasy feeling on the surface of the moon cake, whether the shape of the moon cake is standardized, whether the color is uniform, whether the pattern is clear, whether it is burnt or moldy. The newly-made moon cakes are bright in color, shiny in appearance and soft in taste. Especially this year, moon cake enterprises generally work hard on appearance and color. The old inferior moon cakes are dull, dull and dry. In addition, some moon cakes look dark because the oil used is not good, and it may be inferior oil. It's important to know whether the moon cakes taste greasy or not.
Third, skillfully matching moon cakes can also transform into a healthy breakfast.
Every Mid-Autumn Festival, moon cakes become "food for the occasion" and appear in large numbers. As more and more moon cakes are given as gifts, many people have to "hoard" a lot of moon cakes around the Mid-Autumn Festival, and some even eat them for a month. At this time, moon cakes have become a daily diet: eat moon cakes for breakfast, two moon cakes for afternoon tea, and some moon cakes as desserts. So how to eat moon cakes to eat delicious and healthy? Experts point out that you can actually turn moon cakes into delicious breakfast with your skillful hands.
1, moon cake+light soybean milk = healthy breakfast
Experts suggest that a moon cake can be used as the staple food for breakfast, with a bowl of low-fat milk or light soybean milk and a portion of fruit. This combination can basically solve the problem of high fat in moon cakes, and at the same time, it can supplement protein and dietary fiber, which is not only convenient and fast to eat, but also more resistant to hunger than eating bread. This trick is suitable for moon cakes with carbohydrates such as bean paste, lotus seed paste and jujube paste as fillings.
Eat moon cakes for breakfast, or make sandwiches. You can slice the moon cake and sandwich it between two pieces of semi-whole wheat bread, then add low-fat milk and a portion of fruit. Generally, half a moon cake can be served with 1-2 slices of bread. Fragrant and delicious moon cakes will add flavor to the bland staple bread. This trick is suitable for moon cakes filled with five kernels, chocolate, egg yolk or bacon.
2. Moon cakes and soybean milk are sweet and delicious.
Experts suggest that you can also make moon cakes into soybean milk to drink. Cut the moon cake into cubes and put it in the soymilk machine when beating soymilk. Be careful not to put nuts such as peanuts, walnuts and pine nuts, because there is enough oil in the moon cake. Mooncake soybean milk smells sweet and tastes good. This trick is suitable for moon cakes with bean paste, lotus seed paste, jujube paste, five kernels and fruit as the main fillings.
In addition, you can also make moon cake eight-treasure porridge: cut the moon cake into squares and put it on cooked eight-treasure porridge or purple rice porridge, just like cooked sesame seeds, and eat it with porridge, which tastes endless. Suitable for dinner, with cold dishes. This trick is suitable for moon cakes with five kernels, red bean paste, jujube paste, lotus seed paste and fruit as fillings.
It should be emphasized that moon cakes can't be stored at room temperature, so they should be packed and stored in the refrigerator. The fresh-keeping layer can be kept for about 2 weeks, and the frozen layer can be kept for a longer time.
However, experts also reminded that moon cakes are rich in oil and sugar and have low nutritional content. After a period of time, nutrients, especially minerals and other micronutrients, will be further lost. If the moon cake stuffing is used for "secondary development", the nutritional value of the moon cake stuffing is very low except for heat.
Therefore, unless you prefer the taste of mooncakes, you are not encouraged to "redevelop" mooncakes.
Fourth, how to eat healthy moon cakes
No matter what kind of moon cakes you eat, just taste them, and it's best to eat only a quarter at a time. At the same time, after eating moon cakes, the amount of meals and meals on the day should also be reduced to avoid excessive intake of calories and oil. However, people who love mooncakes should not think that mooncakes can replace normal meals, but choose to eat mooncakes instead of meals; You know, although moon cakes contain high fat, sugar and cholesterol, they lack nutrients, fiber and vitamins contained in rice, vegetables, fish and meat, so they cannot be used as meal substitutes.
It is worth mentioning that most people often feel full after eating moon cakes because of their high sugar and fat. Therefore, you can drink more tea after eating moon cakes to dispel the greasy feeling of moon cakes and help digestion. At the same time, because of its low calorie, China tea is certainly more suitable than soft drinks such as soda and coffee.
5. Diabetic patients are particular about eating moon cakes.
As long as diabetics have proper proper limit, they can also eat moon cakes to their heart's content. However, sugar-free moon cakes can't be eaten casually. It's not that diabetics can't eat moon cakes at all. For patients whose blood sugar has been well controlled, it is ok to eat some moon cakes properly, but the following principles should be followed.
1, choose moon cakes appropriately.
There are many kinds of moon cakes, so you must see the ingredients clearly when you buy them. Don't choose the one with high sugar content and oil content.
Step 2 eat in moderation
Diabetic patients should focus on controlling their illness, try to eat less moon cakes and taste them properly. Eating too much will inevitably lead to uncontrolled blood sugar.
3. Pay attention to a balanced diet
While eating moon cakes, we must reduce the intake of rice and oil, and eat less rice like eating moon cakes. If you accidentally eat too much, you can take remedial measures: reduce the amount of food you eat on the same day or in the next few days, increase the amount of hypoglycemic drugs or insulin, and increase exercise to consume too many calories.
For diabetics, sugar-free moon cakes should not be eaten too much. Although sucrose is not added to this kind of moon cake, the fat content in the moon cake is still very high, and the fat contains much more calories than carbohydrates. One of the key points to control diabetes is to control calories. Mooncakes are made of flour, and the carbohydrates in them can be converted into glucose, which leads to an increase in blood sugar.