The main raw material of zongzi is glutinous rice, which is made by wrapping glutinous rice with reed leaves or lotus leaves.
Glutinous rice is mainly composed of carbohydrates and contains a certain amount of B vitamins. From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, glutinous rice is warm and sweet, and it has the effect of nourishing the middle warmer, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production. Can relieve spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, loss of appetite, abdominal distension and diarrhea. Therefore, Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica that glutinous rice can "warm the spleen and stomach, stop diarrhea due to deficiency and cold, reduce defecation, stop spontaneous sweating and stop acne".
The fragrance of zongzi comes from reed leaves and lotus leaves, which is cool and sweet and has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Therefore, eating zongzi in summer can get the effect of cooling off the heat.
The varieties of zongzi used to be very monotonous. For example, in the northeast, red dates are added to glutinous rice at most, which is far less than that in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. At present, there are more and more varieties of Zongzi in China, and there are many varieties with bacon, ham, abalone, sea cucumber, peanut kernel, lotus seed, chestnut and other ingredients in the northeast market. A wide variety of zongzi tastes delicious, which makes consumers more fond of it.
However, no matter what stuffing it is, the main nutritional component of Zongzi is still the carbohydrate that provides heat for people in glutinous rice.
Zongzi is a kind of leisure food, and the proper way to eat it is as an occasional food or snack, generally about 50 grams at a time.
If it replaces some or all staple foods such as rice and steamed bread, you should be wary of eating too much. Even for healthy adults, if zongzi is the main food for dinner, it can't exceed 200 grams a day. The elderly and people with weak spleen and stomach should generally be within100g.
For gluttonous children, special attention should be paid to controlling his or her mouth, and children should not be allowed to eat more at will.
Therefore, the elderly, children and people suffering from stomach diseases, gallstones, cholecystitis, pancreatitis and diabetes should pay special attention not to eat too much at a time. If it is used to replace staple food, it is usually best not to exceed 1/5- 1/3 of the total staple food, or even not to taste it.
Among some varieties of zongzi, there are millet, adzuki bean, mung bean, coix seed, yam, taro and so on. When added to glutinous rice, it not only increases the dietary fiber content of zongzi, but also reduces the burden on the stomach and intestines, which is easy to digest and helps to maintain the nutritional balance. Therefore, from the health point of view, it is better to choose this kind of zongzi than to eat zongzi made of glutinous rice only.
If you eat zongzi as a staple food, it is best to arrange it for breakfast and lunch.
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In addition, cold glutinous rice is hard, and cold food is not only bad in taste, but also difficult to digest. Therefore, zongzi should be eaten hot, and cold zongzi should be steamed thoroughly in a steamer or heated thoroughly in a microwave oven.
Moreover, you should chew slowly. You should not eat on an empty stomach.
Here, I give you a suggestion: If there are many kinds of zongzi at home, you can cut all kinds of zongzi into small pieces and give them to many people. In this way, people can taste all kinds of delicious food and avoid eating more.
Nowadays, fewer and fewer people eat their own jiaozi. Many people go to the supermarket to buy commercial jiaozi, especially young people, who hardly buy jiaozi.
First, try to go to big shopping malls to buy zongzi processed by mobile vendors in the open air. The quality of well-known brand products of big manufacturers is generally good;
Second, buy products with outer packaging and pay attention to whether the packaging is complete. Try not to buy zongzi in bulk, with broken leaves and rice stuffing exposed.
Third, pay attention to the taste of the product when buying. If you smell or taste the sour, bitter or peculiar smell of zongzi, it will show deterioration and you can't buy it.
Fourthly, properly preserved jiaozi can be kept for one week if it is kept in the refrigerator. Frozen and vacuum-packed products can be preserved for a long time. If you buy too much on the Dragon Boat Festival and don't finish it, you will freeze it. Frozen storage below-18, the shelf life can reach 3 months. 1-5 Zongzi stored in cold storage can be stored for 7 days, but after steaming, the taste is far worse than that of frozen Zongzi. Frozen zongzi is eaten after steaming, and its taste is similar to that of fresh zongzi, but its taste has not changed much.
Now China people's diet is more abundant than ever before. Zongzi, as a unique traditional food in China, is not limited to the Dragon Boat Festival. It is delicious and attractive, suitable for storage and convenient to eat, and can be eaten all year round. It is not just the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet who cares about his country and people.
(the picture is taken from the network. Written by Yan Quan; Review: Liu Zheng)
Chief physician Liu Zheng. /kloc-studied in Japan in the 1980s, and was an early modern nutritionist in China. He used to be the chief nutritionist of Dalian Nutrition Meal Working Committee, won 3 provincial and municipal scientific research awards and published 9 monographs. Sincerely wish the whole world happiness and well-being!
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