Every Lantern Festival, that is, on the fifteenth day of the first month, there are all kinds of Yuanxiao, glutinous rice balls and rice cakes. I don’t know what to do. In fact, these Yuanxiao are mainly made of glutinous rice. The common glutinous rice is white and purple, and their nutritional components are basically similar to rice. Every 100 grams of glutinous rice contains about 7 grams of protein, 75 grams of carbohydrates and various vitamins. Yuanxiao and Tangyuan with different flavors are made through processing and ingredients, but their nutritional value is much higher than that of ordinary rice flour.
Yuanxiao is not suitable for breakfast.
The main component of Yuanxiao or Tangyuan is glutinous rice flour, which contains high carbohydrate, while the stuffing is mainly pure sugar and fruit, plus a large proportion of vegetable oil or animal oil, which has high nutrition and calories.
Many people like to eat Yuanxiao as breakfast, which is not desirable. Li Yanling explained that in the morning, people’s gastrointestinal function is the weakest, and the main raw material of Yuanxiao skin is glutinous rice, which is highly viscous and difficult to digest. Once eating too much, it will cause pantothenic acid, heartburn and nausea. In addition, try not to eat Yuanxiao before going to bed, otherwise it will lead to bloating.
When is the best time to eat Yuanxiao and Tangyuan except for breakfast and before going to bed?
Experts suggest that it is best to eat between meals, 4 to 8 at a time. While eating Yuanxiao and Tangyuan, you can’t eat other foods with high sugar content. It should be noted that when eating Yuanxiao and Tangyuan, you should nibble slowly to avoid being scalded or choking your throat or trachea, causing injury. In addition, don’t eat cold Yuanxiao and fried Yuanxiao.
After eating Yuanxiao and Tangyuan, it is best to take a walk, do exercise, facilitate gastrointestinal peristalsis, promote digestion, or eat some food that helps digestion. Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the effects of eliminating stagnation, astringing and stopping dysentery, promoting blood circulation and removing stasis. When eating Yuanxiao with hawthorn, it can help digestion and guide stagnation, which is beneficial to digestion. In addition, you can also eat some Jianwei Xiaoshi tablets and yeast tablets to help digestion.
What is the best match for Yuanxiao?
Yuanxiao is made of sticky glutinous rice, and with compound stuffing, it is not easy to digest, so it’s okay to eat less. It is suggested that Yuanxiao should be accompanied by some digestive foods, such as hawthorn, barley wort, dried tangerine peel, raw radish and so on. Especially, raw radish contains mustard oil and crude fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, eliminate stagnation, relax the stomach, help to discharge waste in the body, and also reduce the absorption of oil.
Also remind: although Yuanxiao is delicious, it should be moderate, not for everyone. Patients with diabetes, kidney disease, chronic pancreatitis and cholecystitis should not eat it, especially Yuanxiao, which is processed with sweeteners. Diabetic patients should also consider the total carbohydrate control.
Yuanxiao’s "Original Soup into Original Food"
After eating dumplings and cooking noodles, people often have a sentence to remind you not to throw away the soup. In fact, from a nutritional point of view, it is more extensive than "original soup to original food". How about eating Yuanxiao?
When eating Yuanxiao, don’t forget to "eat the original soup". Glutinous rice flour contains more water-soluble vitamins, such as vitamin B1 and vitamin B2, which are very important to human health. During the cooking process, some of them are dissolved in the soup. According to the determination, 45%-50% of the vitamin B1 is lost, and most of them are dissolved in the soup.
Vitamin B1 can promote the synthesis of acetylcholine in human body, thus ensuring normal gastrointestinal peristalsis and digestive gland secretion. If lacking, it will directly affect the normal digestion, absorption and utilization of the human body. In addition, people also consciously use vegetable juice and other methods to add more food to the soup. In order to obtain nutrients more effectively, don’t forget to eat Yuanxiao soup.
Who should not eat Yuanxiao?
Diabetic patients: The sugar content of Yuanxiao is high. If patients covet the delicious food, their blood sugar will rise sharply, which will not only aggravate their illness, but also induce ketoacidosis.
Patients with ulcer disease: Eating Yuanxiao can increase gastric acid secretion, aggravate the stimulation to ulcer surface, and even induce gastric bleeding and gastric perforation in severe cases.
Gastrointestinal dysfunction: Yuanxiao is made of glutinous rice flour, which is sticky and difficult to digest. After eating, it can lead to stomach pain, bloating, belching, acid reflux and even diarrhea.
Patients with acute gastroenteritis: The patient’s gastrointestinal tract is in a state of congestion and edema. Patients should eat some digestible foods such as rice soup and lotus root starch. Eating Yuanxiao will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.
Patients with high fever: The gastrointestinal tract of patients is relatively inhibited when they have fever, so they should eat some easily digestible food such as liquid food, otherwise it will aggravate the condition.
Patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and gout: These patients are in danger of aggravating their condition by eating Yuanxiao, so it is advisable to eat less.
Early recovery from a long illness: At this time, although the patient’s appetite has improved, his digestive function is still weak, and excessive consumption of Yuanxiao is not conducive to recovery.
Old and infirm people: these people have decreased digestive function and lost teeth, especially the old people’s swallowing reflex is relatively slow, which may cause the Lantern Festival to get stuck in the throat due to rapid swallowing, leading to breathing difficulties and even suffocation and death.
Infants and young children: Children’s digestive function is weak, and their swallowing reflex has not been fully developed. Therefore, when eating Yuanxiao, they should not eat it whole. They should be divided into 1/4, and then eat the second bite after eating one bite. Be sure to chew slowly in case something goes wrong.
Four tips for cooking Yuanxiao.
Under boiling water: After the water is boiled, put the Yuanxiao into the pot, gently push it away with a spoon, and let it rotate for several weeks without sticking to the pot wall.
Slow fire cooking: after the Lantern Festival floats, quickly switch to slow fire. Otherwise, the Lantern Festival keeps rolling, and it is hard to eat when cooked outside.
Point cold water: during the cooking process, add a small amount of cold water every time the pot is opened, so as to keep the Yuanxiao in the pot in a rolling state. Boil the water for two or three times, then cook for a while, and you can eat it. The dumplings cooked in this way are soft and hard, sweet and sticky.
Cooking in time: the glutinous rice flour with raw Yuanxiao has more water content, which will deteriorate if it is left for a long time, and it is easy to boil when it is frozen. It is best to cook and eat the Lantern Festival now, and don’t leave it for more than 3 days. Once the color of the Lantern Festival is changed, it can’t be eaten. Now buy quick-frozen Yuanxiao should also be eaten in time, it is best not to store it for more than a week.
In addition, when tasting Yuanxiao, whether it is boiled or fried, it should be cooked thoroughly. When frying Yuanxiao, it’s best to stick some holes in it to prevent it from bursting and scalding.
