What materials do you need to make moon cakes?

The materials needed to make moon cakes are flour, eggs, sugar, food additives, various fillings and additives.

The making of moon cakes includes making cakes, stuffing, stuffing, shaping and baking. Among them, the higher the gluten content, the easier it is to increase the toughness and elasticity of the dough, increase the difficulty of operation, affect the shape of the product to a certain extent, make the product shrink and deform, and the crust is not smooth, even wrinkled, and the oil return is slow.

However, the low gluten content of moon cakes will make the water absorption of flour too low, which will make the dough sticky and lack toughness and elasticity. During the baking of moon cakes, sugar begins to dehydrate at high temperature, resulting in caramelization reaction. At the same time, the Maillard reaction between reducing sugar and protein makes the surface of moon cakes attractive.

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Precautions for eating moon cakes:

1, people with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease and obesity should not eat more moon cakes, so as not to increase blood viscosity and aggravate the condition.

2, people with high cholesterol, try not to eat egg yolk moon cakes. Obese or overweight people should eat less sweet moon cakes such as red bean paste and jujube paste.

3. If you eat too many moon cakes, gastric acid will be secreted in large quantities, further damaging the damaged mucosa, which may lead to gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with gastric ulcer.

4, the body is in the recovery stage, and the digestive function is still weak. When eating moon cakes, we should give priority to tasting and avoid overeating.

5, eating too many moon cakes, it is easy to cause gallbladder contraction, so that bile discharge occurs obstacles, there is severe pain in the right upper abdomen, and patients with gallstones may cause acute pancreatitis if they eat too much.

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