How to save the rice dumplings sent by mail

People will give rice dumplings as gifts during the Dragon Boat Festival, which is a very traditional holiday wish. However, when sending rice dumplings, many people are worried that the rice dumplings cannot be preserved well. In fact, for a delicacy like rice dumplings, they should be vacuum packed or stored in the refrigerator. If they are stored at room temperature, the ingredients in the rice dumplings will easily deteriorate and eventually become inedible.

Food taboos

1. It is best to drink tea while eating zongzi to help swallowing and digestion. Eat in moderation and eat a little at a time. You can choose mini zongzi.

2. Eat zongzi with cold vegetables and fruit salad to relieve gastrointestinal discomfort

3. The rice dumplings must be fully heated and cooked until they become soft before eating;

4. If you have stomach problems, you can choose white rice dumplings. Don't dip them in sugar. Don't eat them too sweet.

5. Patients with gallstones, cholecystitis and pancreatitis should not eat meat dumplings, egg yolk dumplings and other dumplings with high fat and protein content.

6. Heat thoroughly until soft before eating.

Note:

An ordinary salty pork rice dumpling contains about one bowl of rice and has about 400 to 500 calories. Therefore, experts recommend that women should not eat more than 3 rice dumplings a day, and men should not eat more than 5.

Eating rice dumplings with vegetables and fruits can help the intestines and stomach move, and avoid intestinal and gastric indigestion caused by eating rice dumplings.

In addition, it is best not to eat rice dumplings two hours before going to bed, and do not touch cold fruits and vegetables that contain a lot of water, such as watermelon, so as not to cause diarrhea or abdominal pain.

Zongzi should be eaten while hot. Zongzi that has been added with fat, meat or egg yolk should not be eaten cold. This is especially important for people with poor digestion. Some poor quality glutinous rice will become hard after cooling down, and the regeneration phenomenon of grain-containing rice dumplings will be more obvious after cooling down.

Zongzi is a staple food and can be eaten for any of the three meals, and is even more suitable for breakfast. Because people usually have poor appetite for breakfast and eat less food, the fragrant and warm rice dumplings are convenient to eat.

The calories in vegetarian rice dumplings are not as high as the legend says, but they are grains after all. After eating rice dumplings, you should reduce the intake of staple foods such as rice, steamed buns, and noodles accordingly. Otherwise, too much starch will cause weight gain, and you may also become too full and cause indigestion. Generally speaking, one large rice dumpling is enough for one small bowl of rice.