The zongzi must be hot and eat again
Author: Wang Yue
Dragon Boat Festival to eat rice dumplings is the traditional custom of Chinese people, every year on the Dragon Boat Festival, people start to prepare rice dumplings early. What do we need to pay attention to in the preservation and consumption of rice dumplings? We invited 3 experts to help you in this issue.
must be stored in the refrigerator. The main ingredient of zongzi is glutinous rice, with red dates, bean paste or meat, so it is easy to deteriorate in hot summer weather. Jujube dumplings and bean paste dumplings can be stored in refrigerator for 3 to 5 days. If it's meat stuffing, it's better to finish eating in 3 days.
Ma Liping, deputy director of the Guangxi nutrition society, told the life times reporter that at present, the dumplings in the market are roughly divided into 3 categories according to their packaging and preservation: fresh, frozen, and vacuum packed. Fresh dumplings are best eaten on the same day after buying home, otherwise they should be kept in the refrigerator in time. Frozen and vacuum packed zongzi can be stored for a long time, and can be eaten within the shelf life of their labels. But pay attention to putting its classified bags into the refrigerator. If you make dumplings in your home, it's the best and the safest. But be careful not to refrigerate for more than 3 days, and freeze for no more than 7 days. When you eat it, steam it again, but it is best not to repeat it.
zongzi should be hot and hot. Xu Yun, director of the Chinese Nutrition Society, points out that zongzi is best not to eat cold and thoroughly heated before eating. First, glutinous rice and zongzi stuffing is easy to deteriorate food, heating is not sufficient, it is easy to produce food poisoning; two is because the cold rice dumplings over oil, too sticky, more easily cause indigestion.
another thing to note is that if the zongzi is peeled off, if it has sticky silk, it means that the dumplings may not be fresh for a long time, so it is best not to eat them.
eat only half a day or one. Zongzi is mostly made of glutinous rice, lacking fiber, high viscosity and hard to digest. Cao Shufen, a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine clinic in Xicheng District, Beijing, suggested that when eating zongzi, it is best to drink tea at the same time to help swallow and digest. Sweet zongzi, such as jujube mud and bean paste stuffing, with mint tea, green tea, salted zongzi, such as salt and pepper and egg yolk, can be lined with salty sweet taste and more refreshing; the meat dumplings are rich in oil, such as fresh meat and ham, and Pu'er tea, chrysanthemum tea and hawthorn tea, can help digestion, remove greasy and deoiling. In addition, with some fruits and vegetables and rice dumplings together to eat, more nutritious.
eat Zongzi every day not more than 50 grams, that is half or 1. Especially gastrointestinal diseases and diabetes patients had better eat less or not. The elderly should not be greedy and greedy. Some businesses sell Mini dumplings, which is a good choice.