Lantern Festival soup! What is the difference between soup and Lantern Festival? Nutritionist tells you the difference in nutrition and structure of glutinous rice products

2/5 is the Lantern Festival. Every year, in the Lantern Festival, in addition to the Lantern Festival, which makes people look forward to, the Lantern Festival lights, the lanterns, and the guessing lights, don’t forget to eat Lantern Festival and soup. It has a round and full appearance, symbolizing a group and happiness, and bringing peace and harmony to the family.

Where is the soup lantern? Is Lantern Festival the same as the soup? Let’s take a look at the difference between the nutritionist.

They are actually different. The raw materials of the outer skin of Lantern Festival and Soup are all glutinous rice flour, but due to the different preparation and food, the taste is slightly different~

‧Lantern Festival: Put solid food (usually vegetarian sweets) on the screen, and make the glutinous rice flour evenly adhere to the surface by rolling, and repeat the water and rolling powder several times.

‧Stool: Traditionally, red and white soup circles are made of glutinous rice flour and water, and then cut into small pieces and rub them into rounds; the wrapping soup circle is made of wrapping the crust (both sweet and sausages) into the glutinous rice flour group, and then rub them into rounds.

Because the rinds have the same raw materials, they all taste a little sticky, but the soup looks like a rolled ball, which tastes more solid; while the Lantern Festival has a relatively unstandard appearance, the rind tastes more relaxed, and the boiled soup will also be more greasy.

Soup and Lantern Festival and other glutinous rice products are easy to stick to teeth and difficult to digest. Why? Glutinous rice products such as soup, Lantern Festival, mochi, rice cake or rice dumplings all give people the impression that they are prone to teeth and difficult to digest. If people with poor stomach function and sensitive accidentally eat too much, they may cause stomach pain, gastrointestinal aches, stomach inappropriate symptoms due to indigestion. This is because the "singling flour" in glutinous rice is different from the rice that is usually eaten.

Generally, more than 70% of white rice is powder, and the powder can be divided into straight-link powder and braised powder. The following are the characteristics of rice composition and rice appearance and the appearance of rice, and the rice can be divided into roughly:

1. Japonica rice - commonly known as ponchi rice, the appearance of raw rice is translucent and round short, of which about 15~20% is straight-link powder, and more than 80% is braised powder; the taste is silly, suitable for direct consumption, making sausage, etc.

2. Indica rice - commonly known as incoming rice, the raw rice has translucent and long appearance, of which about 20~30% are straight-linked powder, and more than 70% are branched-linked powder; the taste is hard, the grains are distinct, and the viscosity is low, and it is suitable for direct consumption or making rice noodles, bowl cakes, etc.

3. Glutinous rice (Glutinous rice) - that is, glutinous rice, divided into two categories: round short stem glutinous (round glutinous) and fine glutinous (long glutinous). The raw rice has an opaque white appearance, with very little straight-linked powder, and more than 90% is a branched-linked powder; the taste is soft and not very easy to eat directly, and is suitable for making soup, mochi, rice cake, rice dumplings and other foods.

Therefore, the reason why food made from glutinous rice is particularly sticky and prone to indigestion is that it contains a higher proportion of the chain powder. As for what is the relationship between the high content of chain powder and indigestion? Let’s take a look at the difference between straight chain and branch chain powder first!

The structure difference between straight chain powder and branched chain powder is a macromolecular polysaccharide composed of multiple glucose. The glucose in the molecule is mainly connected to the long chain by α-1,4 keys, and branches are formed through α-1,6 keys.

Most of the Amylose is α -1,4 keys, so that the Amylose forms a thin, rolled line, containing about 3,000 to 5,000 glucose in the structure; and every 20 to 30 in the Amylopectin There will be a α-1,6 keys for glucose, making its branches extend like branches and have multiple ends. It is possible to contain thousands to millions of glucose in the structure, and these differences in structures involve the digestion rate and completeness of the powder in the body~

Digestion of Powder in Humans The main enzyme of digesting Powder in Humans is α-amylase, which is secreted by the mouth and pancreas, and can decompose α-1,4 key points but cannot decompose α-1,6 key points.

1. Straight-linked powder: Since most of it is α-1,4 keys, the digestion is more complete and there are fewer indigestion.

2. Brassicle powder: Because it has multiple ends and has a larger contact surface, the digestion speed in the early stage is faster. However, in the later stage of digestion, the keys in the branches cannot be digested by α-amylase, which is easier to retain the stool containing branched keys, which may cause indigestion..

In addition to α-amylase, enzymes such as α‐Glucosidase, maltase, α‐dextrinase, sucrase and other enzymes can help decompose sugar into small molecules!

After reading the article, I believe everyone has discovered that because glutinous rice products such as Lantern Festival and Soup contain more chain powder, eating too much can easily lead to indigestion and causing inappropriate stomach. It is not advisable to eat too much!

Finally, I would like to remind you that glutinous rice products contain a lot of powder, and the heat is actually quite large. Take the soup circle as an example. The weight of a pack of sesame soup circle is about 21g, and the heat is 74 calories, which is equivalent to 1/4 bowl of white rice, while the weight of 10 pieces of red and white soup circle is about 19g. The hot amount is about 48 calories, so when you are happy to eat soup, you should also pay attention to the heat control and reduce the staple food in the main meal at the right time. If you really like eating and are very concerned about it, you can also consider matching related health foods to help physical control. I wish everyone a happy meal and a happy Lantern Festival!

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