How to eat delicious yuanxiao?

by 60888888 on 2010-02-27 10:58:12

On Lantern Festival, which is the 15th day of the first lunar month, there are all kinds of Lantern Festival rice dumplings, sweet dumplings, and New Year cakes to choose from, leaving people unsure about how to eat them. Today we will introduce what is the best pairing for eating Lantern Festival rice dumplings.

Lantern Festival rice dumplings are made from sticky glutinous rice and contain complex fillings, making them harder to digest. Eating less of them is fine. We suggest that when eating Lantern Festival rice dumplings, pair them with some foods that aid digestion, such as hawthorn, barley malt juice, aged tangerine peel, and raw radish. Especially raw radish contains allyl isothiocyanate and crude fiber, which can promote intestinal peristalsis, eliminate food stagnation, reduce qi stagnation and widen the middle energizer, help in the excretion of waste in the body, and also reduce the absorption of fat.

Another reminder: although Lantern Festival rice dumplings are delicious, they should be eaten in moderation. They are not suitable for everyone. Patients with diabetes, kidney disease, chronic pancreatitis, and cholecystitis should avoid eating them, especially those processed with sweeteners. Diabetic patients also need to consider the total control of carbohydrates.

"Lantern Festival original soup resolves original food"

When people eat dumplings or cook noodles, they often hear the phrase "original soup resolves original food", reminding you not to throw away the soup. In fact, from a nutritional point of view, it has a broader meaning than "original soup resolves original food". So what about eating Lantern Festival rice dumplings?

Don't forget "original soup resolves original food" when eating Lantern Festival rice dumplings. Glutinous rice flour contains a relatively large amount of water-soluble vitamins, such as vitamin B1 and vitamin B2. These vitamins are very important for human health, and during the cooking process, some of them dissolve into the soup. According to measurements, during the cooking process, 45%-50% of vitamin B1 is lost, but most of it dissolves in the soup.

Vitamin B1 promotes the synthesis of acetylcholine in the human body, thereby ensuring normal gastrointestinal peristalsis and digestive gland secretion function. A deficiency can directly affect normal human digestion, absorption, and utilization. Additionally, people consciously use vegetable juice and other methods to add more nutritious food to the soup. To effectively obtain nutritional components, don't forget to eat Lantern Festival rice dumpling soup.