Who should limit eating moon cake?

On the occasion of Full Moon in August, moon cake is an indispensable food for every family. However, this traditional cake is not suitable for everyone.

On these days, moon cakes have started to flood the market. However, the quality of each product is not the same. If consumers buy poor quality cakes, fail to ensure food safety and hygiene when eating, it is very dangerous to health such as food poisoning, digestive disorders .

According to Dr. Thu Hoai, former Thanh Nhan nutritionist, said baked goods and soft cakes are indispensable food during the Mid-Autumn Festival but nutrition is not nutritious. Some people who are suffering from the following diseases should consider whether or not to eat this type of cake.

Mooncakes are high in protein.

Old people and young children

Mooncakes contain many protein ingredients. While young children with digestive system are poor and incomplete, if eating moon cakes will increase the burden on the stomach, leading to indigestion will lead to digestive disorders. Even the old people are similar. So, the elderly and young children should pay attention not to eat too much moon cake in a day, which can lead to pancreatitis, abdominal pain and other serious symptoms, even life-threatening.

People with allergies acne

Because it is a high sweet cake, people with atopic dermatitis, acne and other skin diseases that eat too much moon cake can increase the secretion of the sebaceous glands.

Pregnant women

For pregnant women, if eating too much moon cake with too much sugar in the cake, it will adversely affect hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular, diabetes . and may affect the fetus. Therefore, to ensure the health of the mothers, they need to eat the cake with utmost care.

People with diabetes

People who are overweight, increase in blood fat, high blood pressure, coronary disease should be limited or it is best to avoid moon cakes.

Eating too many moon cakes at the same time can make atherosclerosis worse, causing a stroke or heart attack.

People with stomach, heart, kidney disease

People with diseases such as cholecystitis, gallstones, gastritis, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, cardiovascular patients . should not eat moon cakes, even with cakes that are too sweet or have peanuts, the nuts when eaten too much will increase the burden on the function of blood circulation, causing heart fatigue even causing heart attack.

For patients with gastric and duodenal ulcers, eating moon cakes can promote gastric acid secretion, which makes the disease more severe, making treatment more difficult. Salty cakes are not suitable for those who have kidney problems because of high salt levels.

People want to lose weight and obesity

The main ingredient of moon cake is flour, sugar, butter, lard. Shells of all kinds of traditional moon cakes as well as types of beans, lotus seeds . are marinated with lots of fat and sugar.

Therefore, moon cakes are very high in fat and sweet. Therefore, if you want to lose weight, you should limit or avoid this cake as much as possible. Just as obese people do not eat these cakes to avoid an increase in weight that makes obesity worse.

Mooncakes are very high in fat and sweet.

Note when choosing to buy moon cakes

According to food hygiene and safety experts, this is the time when all kinds of moon cakes are sold quite rich and diverse. However, buyers of moon cakes need to be careful to choose cakes that ensure quality food hygiene and safety.

In order to choose delicious cakes, consumers should look for products at wholesale and retail points of the direct management system of trusted brands, register quality standards with a health agency or have a certificate. receive quality food safety and hygiene.

Absolutely not choose, buy floating products, no origin, expired goods, torn packaging, deformed products, contraband goods.

For fresh moon cakes, traditional cakes usually have no preservatives, so when you buy them or get loved by your relatives, you can eat them immediately within the shelf life, written on the quality assurance package.

A consumer characteristic to keep in mind if in the process of eating the cake or cutting off the cake it smells good, the ragged or other smelling flavor we should not eat because it may be moldy, or impregnated with the substance additives do not guarantee health.