Enjoying late years 丨 How can the elderly eat moon cakes healthy?

Moon cakes are traditional foods in the Mid -Autumn Festival in my country. Many people like to eat. But there are many elderly people, especially diabetic patients who want to eat but dare not eat, worrying about rising blood sugar. So how should the elderly eat moon cakes healthy?

Sugar -free moon cakes are favored

The most important thing for healthy moon cakes is to remove too much sugar in ordinary moon cakes. Sugar or sweeteners can play a role. Sugar -free food is a development direction of modern food. The characteristics of low calories have made it more and more popular in modern life, which meets people's needs for food. Sweethers such as Asba Sweet, Alex, and Lyol, can replace sucrose in moon cakes, which can maintain the sweetness and deliciousness of the sucrose, but also achieve low calories.

However, this does not mean that the elderly can eat more sugar -free moon cakes at will. Moon cakes need to add more animal oils or butter, cream, etc., and bake it at high temperature. This operation greatly increases the heat and fat content of moon cakes. Moon cake fillings include assorted stuffing, five kernel stuffing, double yellow stuffing, etc. These are all foods rich in fat or cholesterol. Even fruit filling moon cakes, the fruits are canned products, and its original vitamins have disappeared after processing. All. Therefore, eating moon cakes must not only consider high sugar, but also the problem of high fat and high calories.

There is a way to eat scientific consumption

Some elderly patients with diabetes are blessed for a while, eating too much sugar -free moon cakes. As a result, the blood sugar increased sharply, the condition worsened, and even keto acid poisoning. The method of eating sugar -free moon cakes is to calculate the calories and fat value in sugar -free moon cakes. When eating moon cakes, you can temporarily reduce some staple food intake; you can use the moon cake as a meal for a meal when enjoying the moon. It is recommended to eat only 35 grams each time. Severe exceeding the standard.

Remind the majority of elderly friends. In the Mid -Autumn Festival night, in addition to paying attention to the moon cakes to produce high calories, they should also pay attention to some fruits, such as durian and litchi, can also produce high calories. In addition, moon -watching snacks such as peanuts, melon seeds, walnuts, etc. are high -fat foods. These inconspicuous "snacks" are also "accomplices" that lead to elevated blood sugar.

Elderly people with cholecystitis and chronic pancreatitis should eat as little moon cakes as much as possible to reduce the risk of inducing diseases. It is hoped that the majority of elderly friends will master scientific knowledge and enjoy deliciousness under the premise of maintaining health.

Source "Elderly Health News"

Author | Chen Wei, chief physician of the clinical nutrition department of Peking Union Hospital

Plan | Wang Juncong Tan Jia

Edit | Chen Xiuchao

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