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What are the characteristics of iced moon cakes?

Frozen moon cakes are traditional Mid-Autumn Festival foods in China. Because traditional moon cakes are made of syrup, the color is golden yellow, and the name of the mooncake with ice skin is Shantou. In fact, some raw materials are glutinous rice. The moon cakes made of glutinous rice are white in appearance and put in the freezer. When they are sold, they are put in the freezer.

Its manufacturing features are no baking, simple process and energy saving. The taste is soft and smooth, slightly elastic and white as snow. It is also a mild tonic, which has the functions of tonifying deficiency and blood, strengthening spleen and warming stomach, and stopping sweating. It is suitable for nausea, anorexia and diarrhea caused by spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, sweating, shortness of breath and abdominal distension during pregnancy caused by qi deficiency. It also contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B, starch and so on. It is a warm and strong product. The starch contained in it is amylopectin, so it is difficult to digest and hydrolyze in the gastrointestinal tract.