5 Auspicious Foods To Eat During The Spring Festival

Taiwanese must seek auspiciousness for Chinese New Year, but be careful that there may be hidden dangers in the auspicious food that must be eaten during the New Year. The nutritionist reminded that the fruit that symbolizes good luck must eat: oranges, people who have headaches must share with others.

To seek auspiciousness during the Chinese New Year, oranges, cakes, dumplings, mustard greens, and melon seeds are five must-eat foods. However, Zhao Sizi, a nutrition consultant at Hexin Hospital Health Medical Center, reminded that during the Chinese New Year, relatives and friends spend more time sitting and chatting, but they can't stop talking and often eat too much. In addition, there are small problems with the food that must be eaten during each festival, and some people need to pay attention to the amount of food they eat.

Great auspicious tangerines are potentially at risk of causing headaches

Zhao Sizi said that the Spring Festival happens to be the season for tangerines. Oranges have enough acidity, but the sweetness is high and the taste is not too sour. During the Chinese New Year, there are plenty of fish and meat. Oranges are a good fruit to relieve greasy, and they contain high doses of vitamin C to help with antioxidants. They are very suitable and healthy fruits.

But citrus contains Citrus medica, one of the 5Cs that triggers headaches. The 5C foods include cheese, chocolate, red wine, coffee and citric acid. People with a history of habitual headaches will be reminded by doctors that citrus is one of the foods to avoid. Therefore, it is recommended that people with headaches must share food with others and eat in small amounts. People who have a cold and cough should also pay attention, eating oranges is easy to produce phlegm, and it is advisable to mix more water.

Fat cakes, a symbol of fortune, eat more carefully. Gastroesophageal reflux

Eating "fa cakes" symbolizes that you will make a fortune all the way this year, and is a must-have food on the New Year's table.. Zhao Sizi reminded that the hair cake is added with baking powder, and it is easy to produce carbon dioxide when eating it, causing flatulence. The hair cake is made of glutinous rice flour, which is indigestible starch, and it is easy to indigestion if you eat too much. The sugar in the hair cake can easily stimulate gastric acid. Not only those with gastroesophageal reflux are prone to acid reflux, but the hair cake made of refined starch is easy to make blood sugar go up and down. Eat at dinner time, be careful the more you eat, the more hungry you become.

Zhao Sizi suggested to avoid this problem. It is best to eat the hair cake at the time of the main meal. A hair cake can replace a 7-point full meal. With the vegetable fiber that will be eaten at the dinner, it can reduce the problem of the hair cake irritating stomach acid and causing flatulence. . Replacing rice is also less likely to cause elevated blood sugar.

Dumpling fillings full of ingots are a source of high cholesterol

Eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year was the custom of the northerners in the past. Dumplings are complete and symbolize the meaning of gold ingots. Now more and more people love them during the Spring Festival. Eat dumplings. Zhao Sizi reminded that in the past New Year's Eating dumplings, everyone made their own, with some washed coins in them, and eating dumplings with coins symbolized good luck. But now they all buy takeaways. Dumplings for takeout are oily and delicious, with high fat content. Therefore, dumplings, lion heads, meatballs and other foods are listed as foods that cause Taiwanese hypercholesterolemia.

Remind to eat dumplings with a little more green vegetables, use the fiber of green vegetables to remove excess fat, do not eat more than 10 dumplings per meal, and do not eat them every day.

Longevity and longevity "longevity vegetable" The mustard greens are first blanched and simmered

In order to prolong the life of the elders, the "longevity vegetable" is a symbol of longevity: Mustard greens are also essential. Zhao Sizi said that mustard is a cruciferous family. Like broccoli, it contains sulfides. It is a vegetable with strong antioxidant capacity and anti-cancer properties, and its phytogenic antioxidant effect is also very helpful to the human body. However, it should be noted that eating long-lived vegetables "cannot be bitten". If you chew it in one bite, the elders may have the risk of choking the throat with foreign objects.

The choice of mustard greens can be bought fresh, some people prefer to use dried ones. Zhao Sizi reminded that the characteristics of sun-dried mustard are that the fiber is relatively tough and not easy to rot, but whether it is fresh or sun-dried, it contains bitterness and high potassium. He suggested scalding with water first to remove some of the bitterness and potassium. Many elderly people with poor kidney function and arrhythmias should not eat high-potassium foods.

After blanching, use a small fire to simmer the mustard greens with broth, so that the old man eats it in one bite, it is easy to chew it, and he is not afraid of too much potassium ions causing the heart to beat!

Eating Sunflower Seeds with Money Beware of High Calories and Allergies to Sauce

Eating Sunflower Seeds during Chinese New Year, apart from "nothing to do when you are idle", eating sunflower seeds also symbolizes money. Zhao Sizi said that most black melon seeds are soaked in sauce for good taste. His friend recently ate a bag of melon seeds and his mouth was red and swollen. Apart from being too salty, the sauce also contains ingredients that can easily irritate the mucous membranes. She reminded people with kidney function problems and high blood pressure to be careful not to eat too much melon seed husk sauce.

He usually recommends choosing sunflower seeds that are relatively free of additives. Sunflower seeds are usually less seasoned, retain the original flavor, and are light in weight and durable. Eat the same amount of blackCompared with melon seeds and sunflower seeds, the calories are about 1/3 to half less.

However, no matter what kind of melon seeds or pistachios you eat, you must pay attention to the high calorie content, with 5 to 600 calories per 100 grams. And nuts such as melon seeds and pistachios are oils. Zhao Sizi said that nuts are high-quality fat and protein foods. If they can be used for breakfast, instead of eating after a full meal, they will be healthier. He recommends eating nuts such as melon seeds and peanuts, which should be controlled within 150 calories at a time, which is about equal to the calories of half a bowl of rice. This amount is about 50 grams of peeled melon seeds and pistachios, which is equivalent to 1 serving of about 45 calories of oil. , Do not overtake 3 servings a day. And nuts are high in phosphorus, and people with kidney disease can only taste a few of them, so don't eat too much.

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