1, Zongzi is delicious, but it is not advisable to eat more.
The main raw material of zongzi is glutinous rice, which is not easy to digest. Eating too much can easily cause bloating. So normal people should eat less every time. While eating zongzi, you can mix it with vegetables and fruits to help gastrointestinal peristalsis and avoid indigestion. But it should not be eaten with watermelon and other cool fruits containing a lot of water to avoid diarrhea or abdominal pain.
It is not advisable to eat zongzi on an empty stomach.
If you eat zongzi on an empty stomach, glutinous rice will stay in your stomach for a long time, stimulating gastric acid secretion, which may lead to the recurrence of patients with chronic gastritis and esophagitis.
The zongzi just taken out of the refrigerator is not edible.
Some people like to put zongzi in the refrigerator and ice it for a while before eating. This kind of zongzi is hard and cold, which is undoubtedly worse for people with stomach problems, so it is best to take it out and heat it fully before eating.
4. It is not advisable to drink cold drinks when eating zongzi.
Don't drink cold drinks when eating zongzi. Drinking cold things will make glutinous rice solidify more easily and make people feel stagflation.
It is best not to eat zongzi two hours before going to bed.
Zongzi has high viscosity, is not easy to digest, lacks fiber, and contains too much fat, salt and sugar. Experts suggest that it is best not to eat zongzi two hours before going to bed.
6. Four groups of people should be careful when eating zongzi.
● Old people and children
Zongzi is mostly made of glutinous rice, which is sticky. Excessive eating by the elderly and children can easily lead to indigestion, which in turn leads to symptoms such as hyperacidity, abdominal distension, abdominal pain and diarrhea.
● Patients with gastrointestinal diseases
When steamed, zongzi will release a gelatinous substance, which will increase the load of digestive enzymes after eating. The glutinous rice of zongzi is warm and stagnant, and eating too much will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract. If people with gastric and duodenal ulcers are greedy for zongzi, it is likely to cause perforation and bleeding of the ulcer and aggravate the condition.
● Diabetic patients
Zongzi often contains red dates and red bean paste with high sugar content. If it is not controlled, it will damage the function of islet, make the patient's blood sugar and urine sugar rise rapidly, aggravate the condition, and even appear coma and poisoning. If the rescue is not timely, it will be life-threatening.
● Patients with cardiovascular diseases
There are many kinds of zongzi, among which meat zongzi, lard and red bean paste zongzi are rich in fat and belong to greasy food. People with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and coronary heart disease eat too much, which will increase blood viscosity, affect blood circulation, increase heart burden and ischemia, and induce angina pectoris and myocardial infarction.
There is a trick to eat zongzi healthily. In fact, you can have both delicious and healthy food.
● Food collocation
Eating zongzi with seasonal vegetables and a portion of fruit after meals is not only balanced in nutrition, but also a relaxed and unburdened Dragon Boat Festival.
● Drink hot black tea to relieve boredom.
Zongzi is greasy because sticky rice is not easy to digest, so eating too much Zongzi will make people feel bored and depressed. Drinking hot black tea while eating zongzi can play a good role in relieving boredom and eliminating stagnation.
● Watching fragrant tea helps digestion.
Wanxiang tea is more like a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, which has the functions of relieving summer heat, clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting digestion, reducing blood fat and reducing fire. Eating zongzi helps digestion.
● Pay attention to high fiber
The glutinous rice used for zongzi takes a long time to digest and the gastrointestinal emptying time is long, which is easy to cause indigestion symptoms such as hyperacidity, abdominal distension or abdominal pain. If the main ingredients can be replaced with some miscellaneous grains such as rice, red beans, coix seed, yam, taro or sweet potato, it can not only increase the fiber content, but also reduce the burden on the stomach and intestines, which is more conducive to health.
Low oil and low heat
Meat zongzi has long been the protagonist of "Zongzi clan", but its defect is its high saturated fat content. If you can switch to lean meat, or even chicken, seafood or fish instead, it will have different flavors besides less oil and calories.
● Read the nutrition label carefully.
The nutrition labeling of packaged zongzi includes the contents of calories, protein, fat, carbohydrates and sodium per serving or per 100g, but consumers often mistakenly think that the data on the nutrition labeling is only the calories and nutrition provided by a zongzi. The correct method should be to use the actual weight of a zongzi to convert the weight of each serving or 100g.
● Eat zongzi with condensed milk
The skin of white zongzi is tasteless. Many people like to dip some honey in it, but it is better to eat it with condensed milk. Dice zongzi and dip it in condensed milk to eat, which is not easy to get bored and can also make a light taste of zongzi.
Be sure to choose white zongzi. If you choose salty zongzi, eating too much sweet and salty will make people feel tired. Moreover, this way of eating zongzi is easy to remind people of western food, and this way of combining Chinese and western food also gives people enjoyment.
● Fried dumplings with egg skin
Make zongzi into a dish and share it with everyone. While tasting delicious zongzi, it is not easy to feel greasy. The making method of this kind of zongzi is very simple, that is, cut the zongzi into pieces, then spread the egg skin in the pot and fry it, put it in, wrap it up and fry it together, so as to achieve the effect of crispy outside and soft inside.
Pay attention to the following five points when buying or eating zongzi:
1, see the production date and shelf life on the label of zongzi, and don't buy deteriorated zongzi;
2. Be careful about the quality of zongzi. Be sure to buy regular zongzi from shopping malls, catering enterprises and supermarkets.
3. Be careful about the outer packaging of zongzi and buy safe and hygienic zongzi;
It is normal that the leaves of zongzi turn black after steaming for a period of time. Don't choose dumplings with bright green or even blue-green skin, because they are probably leaves treated with copper sulfate, and their safety is not guaranteed;
5. Be careful about the taste changes of zongzi. If you taste the stuffing of Zongzi, it is a little sour, a little bitter, and it tastes bad, don't eat it again.