This way to eat rice dumplings, not fat but also to maintain health

The Dragon Boat Festival, the fragrance of rice dumpling leaves. The sweet taste of grains is deeply engraved in the memory of everyone’s taste buds. Talking about rice dumplings, does it tickle the “craving” in your stomach?

From the point of view of health care, rice dumplings are a kind of medicinal food. The leaves that wrap the dumplings are mostly bamboo leaves or dumpling leaves, which have good medicinal functions. The “Compendium of Materia Medica” says: “glutinous rice, warming the spleen and stomach, stopping the deficiency of cold dysentery, reducing the size of the stool, collecting spontaneous sweating, pox.” The main ingredient of dumplings is glutinous rice, which is a mild tonic, with the function of tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, replenishing the deficiency and stopping the deficiency sweat, and can be eaten properly by the general healthy people.

However, not everyone is suitable to eat rice dumplings. Chinese medicine believes that after the Dragon Boat Festival will enter the hottest months of summer, due to the bitter summer being difficult to endure, the phenomenon of heatstroke is prone to occur, and at this time eating rice dumplings can play the effect heatstroke. But rice dumplings is also a high-fat, high-calorie food, eating more is easy to cause indigestion. Who is not suitable to eat rice dumplings? How can we eat rice dumplings without gaining weight and maintaining health? The three hospitals of clinical nutrition, deputy director of physician Liu Jia to give you “zong” point.

These three types of people need to eat rice dumplings with caution

Diabetic patients

The dumplings often contain high sugar content of red dates, bean paste, etc., and usually, people eat them with sugar. If left unchecked, they can damage the function of the pancreatic islets, causing a rapid rise in blood sugar and urine sugar and aggravating the condition of the patient.

Patients with gastrointestinal diseases

The main ingredient of dumplings is glutinous rice, which is not easy to digest. When steamed, it releases a gelatinous substance that stays in the stomach for a long time. It stimulates the secretion of gastric acid, which can easily lead to the recurrence of old diseases in patients with chronic gastritis and esophagitis. People suffering from gastric and duodenal ulcers are likely to suffer from ulcer perforation, bleeding, and aggravation of their condition if they eat dumplings greedily.

Patients with cardiovascular disease

Meat dumplings and lard bean paste dumplings contain a lot of fat and are greasy foods. People suffering from high blood pressure, high blood fat, and coronary heart disease eat more, which can increase blood viscosity. This will affect blood circulation, increase the burden on the heart, and the degree of ischemia, inducing angina and myocardial infarction.

How to choose the “health” dumplings?

1. The choice of raw materials

Choose low GI ingredients, such as oats, rice, mung beans, red beans, kidney beans, etc. to replace some white glutinous rice, not only can make the taste level of dumplings richer, and higher nutritional value, the main thing not so high glycemic index. As for the filling, you can choose lean meat with less fat and healthier, and you can also add some vegetables with high dietary fiber such as carrots and dried bamboo shoots.

2. Choose the right time to eat

First of all, eat dumplings must eat hot, not afraid of the stomach is not good for digestion, followed by want to eat dumplings, it is best to put on the noon meal as the main meal, we all know that the main dumplings are glutinous rice, glutinous rice is the most difficult to digest. Digesting a dumpling takes a long time, even several hours. There is enough time to digest the dumplings if you ingest them at noon.

3. Rich collocation

Eat some vegetables before eating rice dumplings, or drink some milk, soy milk, etc., very helpful to ease the rate of rise of blood sugar after meals, after eating oil and salt rice dumplings, it is not recommended to drink soup, and do not drink sweet drinks, this time should drink some tea or lemon water to reconcile, to reduce the accumulation of heat and fat.

Recommended tea after dumplings

① Hawthorn de-stagnation tea

Ingredients: hawthorn 15 grams, fried malt 10 grams, Sand 10 grams, Chen Pi 5 grams

Directions: Put the above four medicines into a teapot and steep in boiling water to take as a tea. You can also add 500 ml of water and decoct it to 300 ml, and take it after consuming dumplings. For those with heavy spleen deficiency and dampness, add 10 grams of patchouli, and for those with intestinal dampness and fire, add 15 grams of buchu leaves.

② Buddha’s hand eliminates food tea

Ingredients: 5 grams of Buddha’s Hand, 5 grams of Hawthorn, 3 grams of Chen Pi, and the right amount of Pu’er tea

Directions: Just brew with boiling water

③ Ume plum soup

Ingredients: Ume plum 30g, hawthorn 25g, licorice 10g, peel 5g, Luo Shen Hua 5, rock sugar 60g, osmanthus a little

Method: Wash the above ingredients and put them into a pot, add 1500ml of water, soak for 2~3 hours, boil on high heat, and then turn to low heat and cook for half an hour, then drink.

4. Select in moderation

The main ingredient of dumplings is glutinous rice, and it is only natural to eat it as a staple food. In addition, to make it more delicious, also added a lot of extra sugar and fat, a fattening ability bar. So, when eating dumplings medium size one can, do not eat them as a snack.