People who should not eat banh troi are vegetarian

Banh troi, vegetarian, is a dish often prepared by many Vietnamese families during the Korean New Year. According to doctors, some people should not or limit using this dish to ensure their health.

Banh troi and banh vegetarian are two types of traditional cakes of Vietnamese people, most often eaten on the occasion of the Korean Lunar New Year on the 3rd day of the third lunar month every year, with the meaning of remembering the deceased, looking towards the roots, ancestors, this day is also called 'the day of banh troi and vegetarian cake'.

This type of cake is mainly composed of rice flour (sticky rice and regular rice), rock sugar, ginger, tapioca starch, and for vegetarian cakes, green beans and white sugar are added.

The rice flour used to make the cake crust is often mixed with a ratio of glutinous rice: regular rice of 9:1 or 8:2, so the main ingredient of the cake crust is still sticky rice. The filling for the floating cake is a chopped rock sugar cube, the vegetarian filling is green beans that have been crushed, cooked and stir-fried with white sugar.

With floating cake, you can enjoy it directly after cooking with a little sesame and grated coconut sprinkled on top, while vegetarian cake can be eaten with sugar water cooked with tapioca starch and ginger. This dish is soft, flexible, fragrant with ginger, rich with sesame, sweet with sugar and green beans, so it is loved by people.

Both types of cakes contain a lot of starch and sugar and do not provide much nutrition, so even if you don't eat too much, you can still eat too many calories and increase your blood sugar index. In 100g of floating cake, vegetarian cake has about 300-400 calories depending on the way the baker prepares it.

Floating cake and vegetarian cake are indispensable dishes during the Korean New Year.

Besides, the starch in the cake is mainly glutinous rice flour, causing increased blood sugar and rapid fat accumulation. Sticky rice also causes bloating, indigestion, heartburn, and discomfort if eaten too much. .

Some people may have to limit this dish.

People with digestive diseases : Starch in sticky rice is branched starch, more difficult to digest than starch in regular rice, so the stomach often has to contract and secrete more gastric juice to digest. This can worsen symptoms of reflux, bloating, belching, heartburn, ulcers, etc. in people with gastrointestinal diseases.

Overweight and obese people: These two types of cakes contain a lot of calories and are mainly composed of starch and sugar. They are not suitable for people who are overweight, obese or want to lose weight.

People with diabetes, blood fat, and heart disease : Consuming a lot of floating cakes and vegetarian cakes can cause the body to take in too much starch and sugar, causing blood sugar to suddenly increase, which is not good for people with diabetes and high blood fat. tall or people with cardiovascular disease.

Pregnant women : Gestational diabetes is a big danger for pregnant women due to its negative effects on the fetus, so if you are pregnant, you should not eat too many of these sweet and starchy cakes.

No matter how healthy you are and how much you love this delicious cake, you should only eat a small portion, about 100-200 g at a time depending on your needs and condition, and should not eat it too often.