Guide to the correct consumption of moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival! Four ways to avoid indigestion

It’s the annual Mid-Autumn Festival again. What programs have you arranged for yourself? Of course, we should eat moon cakes on holidays!

Watching the full moon and eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival is a custom that Chinese people have always followed. However, from the perspective of health care, many moon cakes are typical "three highs"-high-calorie, high-fat and high-sugar foods, which should not be eaten more, especially for some people with poor digestive function.

Moon cakes are indigestible foods.

high-sugar

one

Traditional moon cakes generally contain a lot of indigestible ingredients such as starch and sugar, so it will be difficult to digest.

2

High oil content

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Cantonese-style moon cakes that we often eat are commonly known as oil-skinned moon cakes. The crust is generally blended with edible oil, and too much oil is one of the reasons for indigestion.

high fat

three

Judging from the moon cake fillings, there are meat and egg yolk in the south, while bean paste and lotus seed paste are the majority in the north. No matter which one is high in fat and sugar, it will inevitably increase the burden on the digestive tract.

Who should not eat moon cakes?

Those who are in the inflammatory stage of stomach diseases should not eat moon cakes. Because the moon cake contains a lot of sugar and oil, if eaten too much, it will produce excessive gastric acid, which is easy to cause bloating, stomachache, nausea, vomiting and indigestion. Eating too much will hurt the gastric mucosa, aggravate the gastric disease, be extremely unfavorable to the healing of gastric ulcer, and even further damage the damaged gastric mucosa due to the strong stimulation of gastric acid, resulting in gastric bleeding. Therefore, it is suggested that patients with gastric ulcer should shut up and not eat or taste less.

In addition, people with diabetes, gallstones, chronic diarrhea, acute hepatitis and convalescent hepatitis should avoid eating moon cakes.

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If you accidentally eat too much moon cakes, which induces discomfort such as bloating, you can first eat a small amount of hawthorn to promote digestion, and then massage the following three acupoints to relieve discomfort.

Press Neiguan

Acupoint selection: Neiguan point is located in the middle of the wrist, about three fingers away from the wrist transverse stripes (the width of three fingers together), and the point is selected between the two tendons.

Rubbing with the thumb, positioning and circling for 36 times, alternating with both hands, can increase to 200 times when the pain occurs.

According to Zusanli

Acupoint selection: Zusanli point is located three inches below the knee margin (equivalent to the width of four fingers together), between tibia and fibula.

Press Zusanli point with the thumb ends of both hands, usually 36 times, and when it hurts, it can be rubbed for about 200 times, and the technique can be slightly heavier.

Press the wan point

Hands crossed, male right hand above, left hand below; Female left hand on top, right hand on the bottom. Taking Xiawan point as the center, gently massage the abdomen to draw a Taiji diagram, 36 times clockwise and 36 times counterclockwise; This method can relieve pain and bloating and stimulate appetite.

People with severe stomachache after eating moon cakes

If you eat more moon cakes and the symptoms of stomach pain persist for a long time, even those who are serious suggest going to the hospital.

The symptoms of overeating may be flatulence, "nausea", and there may be local pain. In the process of overeating, there may be gastric perforation, which is likely to be confused with the above symptoms, so it is easy to delay the illness. Therefore, when we find that the symptoms of flatulence have not been alleviated, or even aggravated, and other methods to promote digestion are ineffective, we suggest hospital treatment.

How to eat moon cakes to avoid indigestion

Paired with foods that promote digestion.

When eating moon cakes, you will feel very dry and greasy, and your digestion will be slow, so you can eat some foods that promote digestion and avoid indigestion when eating moon cakes, such as eating some foods rich in vitamin C, hawthorn or grapefruit. Also, it is good to drink tea when eating moon cakes. Whether it is black tea, green tea or Pu ‘er tea, it can relieve boredom, moisten intestines and prevent indigestion.

Just eat less.

If you only eat a little, you won’t get indigestion. It’s best to eat only a quarter of a moon cake. Will someone say that you can only eat so much? Yes, because you can’t imagine the calorie, fat and sugar content of a moon cake, even a moon cake with low sugar and low fat can’t be eaten more.

It is not advisable to eat on an empty stomach for breakfast.

Many people like to eat moon cakes for breakfast. In fact, this way of eating is not in line with the principle of balanced diet and nutrition, and it is not conducive to the health of the gastrointestinal tract, let alone people with bad stomachs. Because moon cakes contain high fat and sugar, but little protein and cellulose, eating them for a long time will cause malnutrition. Moreover, eating sweet and greasy moon cakes on an empty stomach in the early morning will cause gastric acid secretion and pantothenic acid, which may further damage the mucosa of patients with gastritis and gastric ulcer and cause gastrointestinal discomfort. Even healthy people should cut and eat moon cakes after meals or on a semi-empty stomach, so as not to add burden to the stomach.

Not suitable for cold diet

Eating moon cakes should not be accompanied by cold diet, such as beer, drinks, ice cream, melons and fruits. Because moon cakes are sweet and greasy, they "melt" (digest) when they are hot, and "coagulate" (accumulate stagnation) when they are cold, which easily leads to gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, anorexia, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Drink boiled water or hot tea after eating moon cakes to help digestion.

In a word, although moon cakes are delicious, friends with bad stomachs should not be greedy. Finally, I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival, happy eating moon cakes and a beautiful holiday ~

Source: Nanchang Fengyi Anorectal Hospital

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