The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching. The custom of eating mooncakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival began to flourish in the Tang Dynasty. According to legend, Chinese people all over the world still enjoy the moon with their families on this day, eat mooncakes, grapefruit, drink tea, barbecue and other ways to celebrate the festival. When reuniting with relatives, it is inevitable to eat more high-sugar, high-fat, and high-calorie food for the occasion than usual. In addition to being full of elegance, the tea ceremony also coincides with the mainstream concept of “gifting health as a gift” of modern people. So what is the point of drinking tea when eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival?
Nowadays, mooncakes are exquisite and delicious. Many patients with diseases should not eat more. Experts suggest that you can cut a few pieces and share them with your family to reduce your intake. For the sake of health, try to choose low-sugar, low-salt, and low-fat mooncakes, and at the same time, eat more fruits and vegetables.
As for how to choose mooncakes with low calories, nearly half of a Soviet-style mooncake about 170 grams in size and about the size of a crab shell is filled with oil, and the calories are as high as 500 calories, which must be consumed by walking 20,000 steps.
Choose mooncakes based on the filling. It is advisable to choose mung bean paste and white bean paste with relatively low calories. Wuren, which contains nuts such as walnuts and pine nuts, has the highest calories, higher than jujube paste.
For the three meals on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is recommended to use light cooking methods such as steaming and blanching as much as possible to reduce oil intake.
Stylish Mooncake Drinking Black Tea
Among the varieties of mooncakes, there is another emerging category of mooncakes, which incorporates many fashionable elements, such as chocolate mooncakes, snowy mooncakes, rose mooncakes, etc.
Since it is a fashionable moon cake, the most fashionable tea drink should be used with it. Among many tea drinks, black tea is none other than black tea. For a long time, Britain has been an important place for authentic black tea culture, especially in the era of Queen Victoria, “Victoria Afternoon Tea” became a representative of noble fashion life. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, eating chocolate mooncakes or rose mooncakes with your family can not only feel the strong reunion of relatives, but also experience a unique festive atmosphere. The most important thing is that under the action of black tea, the taste is more comfortable.
Nuts and salty mooncakes with green tea
In the family of Cantonese-style mooncakes, nut mooncakes have maintained a long-lasting sales position and are deeply loved by consumers. Among them, the most famous one is Wuren mooncakes, because the fillings contain almonds, peach kernels, peanut kernels, It is named after sesame seeds and melon seeds.
Nut moon cakes have the characteristics of exquisite ingredients, thin skin and rich filling, strong fragrance and refreshing taste, and not easy to break. You can choose to drink green tea with nut mooncakes. The rich aroma of green tea can reduce the greasiness of the nut mooncakes due to the variety of fillings, making the taste refreshing. In addition, when eating salty mooncakes, drinking green tea is also a good match. Green tea can fully display the delicious taste of salty mooncakes and increase appetite.
Drinking Pu-erh tea on fruit-stuffed mooncakes
Recently, more and more fruits are widely used in moon cakes. Therefore, there are more and more fruit-filled moon cakes in various flavors, such as cantaloupe and dragon fruit.
It is full of fruity aroma, which is a major feature of fruit mooncakes. In order to maintain the characteristics of this moon cake, Pu’er is a good choice when paired with tea. Pu-erh tea has a light taste, mellow and steady, and the soup color is bright red. Mr. Deng Shihai, a well-known tea master in Taiwan, summed up the quality of Pu-erh tea with the eight characters of “fragrance, sweetness, sweetness, bitterness, astringency, jin, qi, and Chen”. The light Pu’er tea refreshes the taste buds. Tasting mooncakes at this time can not only fully taste the fruity aroma of fruit mooncakes, but also remove the greasy feeling in the mouth.
