On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the sweetness of the rice balls and the Lantern Festival fills the lantern night. Everyone knows that Tangyuan and Lantern Festival are Chinese famous snacks, and they are very similar in form and workmanship. They are made of glutinous rice flour as the main raw material, and are made into round food with filling and filling by the method of filling and rolling. Except for slightly different practices, the nutritional ingredients are basically the same.

　　I just said that no matter the Lantern Festival Or the glutinous rice balls are snacks, what is a snack? That is to say, this kind of food is generally not used as a food in the dinner, and occasionally eaten in small amounts. In fact, it is scientifically reasonable to say that they can only make snacks. Everyone knows that both dumplings and Lantern Festival are generally sweeter, especially the filling contains a lot of sugar and fat, because this way you can ensure that the sweet and smooth filling is enough to fill your mouth and make you full. taste. Many people have this kind of experience, because after eating occasionally glutinous rice balls or the Lantern Festival, they feel uncomfortable with their stomachs. Sometimes they feel heartburning, and even pantothenic acid and hiccups. That feeling is really uncomfortable. Why does this happen? We have to start from the beginning.

No matter which method is used for glutinous rice balls and Lantern Festival, it is actually the same after eating it. Their main raw material is glutinous rice flour, whether it is water milled or dry milled, only the taste effect is not the same . Glutinous rice is a food for strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, and has the effect of promoting gastric acid secretion and helping food digestion. It is often heard that glutinous rice is difficult to digest because it is very sticky. In fact, after experimental research, hot glutinous rice food digests quickly, but only cold glutinous rice food digests slowly.

　　 For people with high blood sugar, it is not suitable to eat glutinous rice balls and Lantern Festival. If it is really for the holiday season, you can choose a small pearl glutinous rice ball without filling, only as big as peanuts, without sugar and oil, And should eat less every time as well. The food we eat often has a high sugar index if it is digested fast, and on the contrary it is low if it is digested slowly. Glutinous rice is very sticky because of its high content of amylopectin. Just said that the hot dumplings or Lantern Festival is easier to digest, but although the digestion of cold dumplings or Lantern Festival is slow, the glycemic index has not decreased because of this. This is a Very strange case.

　　Tangyuan and Yuanxiao are foods with a very high glycemic index and calories. Adding too much fat in the filling will increase the secretion of stomach acid, so it is often easy to heartburn and acid reflux when eating more on an empty stomach. , Affecting digestive function. What''s more, some friends still like fried dumplings. They like its attractive outer crispy and tender taste. That''s called a sweet one! But, do you know? The dumplings are not only high in calories and high in fat, After you fry it like this, it absorbs a lot of extraneous fat, which not only increases its calories substantially, but also makes you feel greasy and easy to heartburn after eating.

　　 I just mentioned that Tangyuan and Yuanxiao are not suitable for people with high blood sugar because the glycemic index is relatively high, especially those with diabetes should pay more attention. In addition, some friends with high blood fat also need to eat these foods selectively. Because there is no stuffing in the Lantern Festival, only one of the glutinous rice balls called pearl glutinous rice balls is solid and non-stuffed. This kind of glutinous rice balls is relatively suitable for high blood fat friends, but it can''t be eaten too much at a time. Just taste it. Because whether it is rice balls or Lantern Festival, its high-calorie, high-fat stuffing is very detrimental to friends with high blood fat. Moreover, in order to pursue the sweetness of the filling, some businesses also use animal fats with high saturated fatty acid content, and some even add vegetable cream with high trans fatty acid content and various bright colors. These factors are very unfavorable to the diet and health of friends with high blood sugar and high blood fat.

　　Normal people eat glutinous rice balls or Lantern Festival is best not to eat too much at a time, it reminds me a lot of Lai Tangyuan in Sichuan restaurants, there are only three or two tiny rice balls in a small bowl, which is very Okay! You may not know that four rice balls are the calories of a bowl of rice. If you eat ten or eight at a time, it will not only affect other foods, but also make the intestines peristaltic because of the lack of dietary fiber in the rice balls. The slow burden not only makes you uncomfortable, but also not conducive to weight control.

　　Traditional Lantern Festival practices:

　　Wu Ren Stuffing Lantern Festival:

　　 Ingredients: Fried peanuts (undressed), roasted walnut kernels, A total of 200 grams of pine nuts, sesame seeds, and almonds, 30 grams of fresh orange peel, 10 grams of sugar, 30 grams of lard, and 300 grams of glutinous rice flour.

　　Practice:

　　 1. Chop the orange peel into fine pieces, chop the roasted five kernels together, add sugar and mix well, add oil and stir.

　　 2. Press the well-stuffed five-nut filling into a cake, cut into 1.5 cm dices, rub into a ball, and put it in the refrigerator to freeze for 20 minutes. Prepare a clean stainless steel pot covered with a layer of glutinous rice flour.

　　 3. Take out 10 fillings at a time, stick a little bit of water, put it in a stainless steel basin, rotate at a constant speed until it is evenly covered with glutinous rice flour, then take it out, then add a layer of water to continue to put in the basin Roll in the glutinous rice flour, and so on until the Lantern Festival is made to your size.

　　4. Don''t rush out of the pot when the Lantern Festival is done, you need to place it for a while to let the moisture in it fully moisturize, otherwise the taste of the Lantern Festival will not be good.

　　5. When cooking, boil over medium heat, boil on low heat until the Lantern Festival swells and floats, then you can fish out immediately.

　　Nutrition review: The traditional Lantern Festival is sweet and delicious, and the taste is relatively thick, which is widely loved by everyone, but the fat content is too high and the sugar is too much, so it is better to make it at home. The amount of fat and sugar can be minimized. The Wuren filling in this method has a lot less calories than the traditional Lantern Festival.

　　If you want the Lantern Festival to be more suitable for your health, you can not put sugar or replace the lard with olive oil, so that although the taste is slightly less effective, it is more healthy.

　　Sweet and oil-free Lantern Festival and dumpling DIY:

　　Red bean and sesame stuffed Lantern Festival:

　　Raw material: water milled glutinous rice flour half a catty , Homemade red bean paste half a catty, water hair raisins 50 grams (not used by diabetic patients), dry fried sesame seeds 50 grams, appropriate amount of water.

　　Practice:

　　1. Red beans are steamed into red bean paste after soaking for one day, do not put sugar and alkali, so as not to increase calories and damage vitamins.

　　 2. Use a household blender to pulverize sesame, then add red bean paste to crush into red bean paste, take it out and place it in a tray to compact it, and put it in the refrigerator to freeze for half an hour.

　　 3. Remove the slightly frozen red bean paste from the dish, cut it into small cubes of 1.5 cm square with a knife, sprinkle with a layer of glutinous rice flour, and form a uniform round ball with your hands.

　　 4. Prepare a clean stainless steel small pot, covered with a layer of glutinous rice flour.

　　 5. Take out about 10 pieces of bean paste balls each time, stick a little bit of clean water, put it in a stainless steel basin, rotate at a constant speed, until evenly covered with glutinous rice flour, then take it out, then add a layer of clean water to continue to put in Roll the glutinous rice noodles in the pot, and so on until the Lantern Festival is made to the size you like.

　　 6. Don''t rush to the pot when the Lantern Festival is done, you need to put it for a while to let the moisture in it fully moisturize, otherwise the taste of the Lantern Festival will not be good.

　　7. When cooking, boil over medium heat, boil on low heat until the Lantern Festival expands and floats, then immediately remove.

　　Sugar-free and fat-free glutinous rice balls:

　　Materials: banana, navel orange 300 grams, frozen powder 10 grams (agar), water milled glutinous rice flour Or rice dumplings half a catty.

　　Practice:

　　 1. First mix the glutinous rice flour with warm water to form a soft and hard dough. Tender the hair for 20 minutes, not too soft.

　　 2. Peel the bananas and navel oranges and make a puree with a household blender.

　　3. Use half a glass of hot water to stir the frozen powder and stir it into a viscous shape, pour it into the puree while stirring, stir evenly, put it in the refrigerator and freeze for 20 minutes.

　　 4. Pull the glutinous rice noodles made into the size of dumpling agent and roll them into a thick dumpling skin.

　　 5. Take out the frozen puree, stick a little glutinous rice flour, and form a ball.

　　 6. Put the glutinous rice dumplings on the left-hand tiger''s mouth, put in the stuffing and slowly gather the dough, and finally evenly form the glutinous rice balls.

　　DIY Yuanxiao and Tangyuan nutritional comments: The problem of high sugar and fat in Tangyuan and Lantern Festival has always been criticized by many nutrition experts, but it cannot be completely avoided as a holiday diet. If you make appropriate adjustments, you may be able to enjoy delicious food without affecting your health.

　　Traditional Lantern Festival stuffing with a large amount of animal fat or rich dried fruits can satisfy your appetite, but it does bring a lot of health problems. This red bean stuffed Lantern Festival, not only does not need to put sugar, let alone lard, and its old fragrance, never greasy. The most important thing is that it improves the complementarity of amino acids in plant proteins and increases the biological value of the protein.

　　Fruit stuffed rice balls is not my original creation, but the fruit stuffing of many manufacturers is not necessarily the fruit stuffing you imagine. What we make at home is a clear fruit filling that can be seen, touched, and eaten. The stuffing of the rice balls requires a smooth taste. What if you don’t add a lot of sugar and fat? We can use sweet bananas and agar after heating to have this effect, and the aroma of the navel orange is more intense after a little heating. This fruit dumpling not only solves the problem of high calories, but also solves the confusion of eating cold fruits in winter. But friends with high blood sugar still need to pay attention, whether bananas or glutinous rice noodles are foods with high sugar index, it is best not to eat or to taste in a small amount.

　　Boiled glutinous rice balls with mash:

　　 Ingredients: sweet wine stuffed, eggs, fruit rice balls, wolfberry.

　　Practice: Stir the liqueur with goji berries, add water, boil it into a poached egg, put it in a rice ball and boil.

　　Nutrition reviews: protein, carbohydrates, minerals, dietary fiber, vitamins are complete, can be used as a beautiful snack for holiday breakfast.

　　Red bean Lantern Festival millet porridge:

　　 Ingredients: millet, red bean Lantern Festival.

　　Method: After boiled millet porridge, add red bean lanterns and cook until the Lantern Festival is cooked.

　　Nutrition review: As a breakfast, you can add more dietary fiber and vitamins to increase satiety, just need to remember: Lantern Festival can not eat too much at once.