Why do they say that one mouthful of mooncake is half a mouthful of oil?

We have many traditional festivals in China, and different festivals have different folk activities and solar terms foods.

We eat rice cakes or dumplings during the Chinese New Year, spring cakes at the beginning of spring, qingtuan balls at the Qingming Festival, rice dumplings at the Dragon Boat Festival, and now that the Mid-Autumn Festival is here, it’s natural to eat a few moon cakes.

But as everyone pays attention to health and nutrition, more and more people realize that these traditional solar terms foods are not so healthy.

Like Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings, made of glutinous rice and lard, they are not easy to digest and are not friendly to blood sugar stability.

Similarly, mooncakes are also called "half a mouthful of oil in one mouthful of mooncake". So today the nutritionist of the Explosive Nutrition Class will talk to you: Why do they say that half a mouthful of mooncake is half a mouthful of oil?

No matter which flavor of mooncakes they are, they are basically high-carbohydrate and high-fat foods. Take five-nut mooncakes as an example: Each 100 grams of five-nut mooncakes provides 424 calories, 64 grams of carbohydrates and 16 grams of fat.

It can be said that the calorie and fat content are higher than many meats.

In terms of the combination of mooncake fillings, the five-nut mooncakes that everyone does not like to eat are actually the healthiest. They are composed of melon seeds, walnut kernels, olive kernels, sesame seeds and almonds. Most of them are healthy nut foods.

Including unsaturated fatty acids, high-quality protein, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, selenium, vitamin E, vitamin B1 and other nutritional elements.

Moreover, these nut foods have relatively high dietary fiber content and are relatively friendly to people with obesity, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes.

Due to the presence of salted egg yolk, egg yolk mooncakes have completely become the "three high foods" with high salt, high calories and high fat.

Duck egg yolk itself has relatively high fat and cholesterol content, and it absorbs a lot of salt after pickling.

It is recommended that patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia should eat less or not at all.

As for the double egg yolk mooncake, it is not recommended to eat even one bite.