Another year the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival as China's traditional festivals, the customs are plenty of money, dragon boat racing, eating dumplings, drinking realgar wine Sachet and the like, and everywhere there are also some local flavor, this year's Dragon Boat Festival also was included in the national holidays, illustrates the importance of the Dragon Boat Festival. Which is essential for the Dragon Boat Festival to eat dumplings, dumplings here, just as we talk about things, about the historical legend of Qu Yuan and dumplings really only about it? What types of dumplings and nutrition it? What food safety hazards exist dumplings in it?
[Legend] History
It is well known as the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings food in China has a long history, and most of that and Qu Yuan, in fact, in addition to commemorate Qu Yuan legend addition, there are other claims. Eating dumplings Dragon Boat Festival on historical legends, mainly in a statement: to commemorate Qu Yuan, a river after Qu Yuan, people miss him very, fifth day of May each year, it is loaded with bamboo on food, to invest in the water ritual. To the Eastern Han Dynasty Jianwu years, Qu Yuan was broad daylight saw apparitions, when it comes to worship dragon food is stolen, and told him later to vote, to be wrapped Polygonum leaves, then wrap colored lines, these things, dragon afraid, they will not have eaten. Villagers hear it told by Qu Yuan elaborate dumplings, the custom has been followed so far, but the dumplings into the river, an argument is to eat Qu Yuan, another way is to feed the dragon, "vote for this river to feed dragon ", or to feed the fish, so as not to hurt their Qu Yuan's body.
Note also the Eastern Jin Fan "Temple" system, said: "Midsummer recommended angle jade millet", indicating that there is an angle millet solstice worship ancestral spirits customs. Angle millet, namely triangular dumplings. Horns shaped dumplings representatives, representatives of the sacrifice dumplings evil Hannaford, pray for peace means.
Another way of saying the origins of dumplings, Shanxi on folklore and ancient flood story about three Jinxian Min, is to commemorate Taiwan tired, tired as a rule when the station floods, rushing south, grooming fenshui, lead all the way to the water Lingshi hills was blocked, Taiwan tired to lead the people began fighting in the hills, but the daily dietary sources became a problem, in order to ensure timely delivery of food to the site, do not delay and affect people's diet to protect people with a bamboo bucket and Lu Ye wrapped food, multiplying to raft down the river, the food to the flood of people now Shanxi folk, May 5, Fen memorial altar tired, there are offerings in the dumplings.
[] Type and taste
Category dumplings very much, mainly determined by the raw material for the production of dumplings can also be the basis of geographical points, such as the northern dumplings are generally sweet, southern dumplings sweet stuffing, stuffing too salty, even spicy Sichuan dumplings stuffing. Dumplings south and according to different regions can be subdivided into Guangdong dumplings, dumplings Chaozhou, Guangxi, dumplings and so on. Here are some representatives of various local dumplings taste.
Northern dumplings: general and other sweet filling or without filling, add red dates, dried fruit, There is also a large yellow rice dumplings of glutinous rice dumplings instead.
Guangdong dumplings: dumplings salty ham, bacon, egg yolk, chicken, pork, duck, chestnuts, mushrooms, shrimp, sweet stuffing lotus seed paste, green bean, red bean, Li Rong, jujube, walnut, also Ding chicken, duck Ding, pork meat, mushrooms, green beans and other formulations for the filling of assorted dumplings.
Guangxi dumplings: There are also meat alkali lye dumplings made from flour, there is also a head shape pillow dumplings dumplings.
Sichuan dumplings: sweet and spicy Sichuan dumplings points, spicy dumplings in addition to conventional fillings, also put the pepper, bacon, and therefore unique.
Suzhou dumplings: fresh meat, date paste, red bean paste, sand and lard and other varieties, with ingredients stress, production of fine and other features.
Jiaxing dumplings: fresh meat, bean paste, Eight, chicken meat and other varieties.
Ningbo dumplings: There are alkaline dumplings, red bean dumplings, dumplings and other varieties of dates.
Huzhou dumplings: dumplings with sweet red bean paste for the filling oil, rice dumplings with soy sauce marinated pork stuffing, there are eight treasures rice dumplings, chicken meat, red bean dumplings, fresh meat and so on.
Taiwanese dumplings: Taiwanese dumplings main akumaki, meat and bean dumplings, such as burning meat, Xiamen, Quanzhou, alkaline dumplings famous at home and abroad.
Hainan dumplings: the banana leaf packs, mainly salted egg yolk, pork meat, bacon, braised chicken wings.
[Dumplings] Nutrition
Dumplings nutrition mainly based on raw materials decision, in addition to the main material of glutinous rice dumplings will use different types of ingredients as fillings, such as meat, beans, nuts, mushrooms, eggs, seafood and so on, so the dumplings the feed its production of different nutrients vary. The following are the main production dumplings nutritional value of raw material use.
Glutinous rice is very high nutritional value of cereals, in addition to containing protein, fat, carbohydrates, but also rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, B2 and so on. Chinese medicine believes that warm and sweet glutinous rice into the spleen and lung, with Qi and spleen, Sheng Jin antiperspirant effect.
Meat: stuffing dumplings made mainly of fresh pork, ham, bacon, chicken, duck and so on. Pork contains more protein, but also rich in iron and essential amino acids, and vitamins B1, chicken, pork and duck meat protein content is basically the same, but the relatively low level of saturated fatty acids.
Nuts: is the use of a small amount of nuts such as walnuts make stuffing, walnuts are rich in fat, protein, carbohydrates, phosphorus, calcium, iron, potassium, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin E, niacin, riboflavin, Nick acid, thiamine, wherein the protein and its digestibility net protein ratio but higher quality protein, amino acid content in addition also rich in glutamic acid, arginine, aspartic acid and leucine majority, walnuts not only rich in nutrition, more Bunao brain effects, walnut fat phospholipids are particularly beneficial to the brain, Chinese medicine, walnut sweet and warm, can lungs, kidney, blood.
Jujube: jujube sweet sweet, unique flavor, not only rich in nutrients, but also rich in medicinal substances, fresh dates sugar, protein, fat, crude fiber, phosphorus, calcium, carotene, thiamine, nuclear flavin, vitamin C, etc. In addition jujube also special nutrients cyclic adenosine monophosphate, rutin, polysaccharide containing dates. Dried red dates in terms of vitamin C less than the number of fresh dates.
Lotus seed paste: lotus is the main raw material of lotus seed paste filling, nutrients, mainly contains protein, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamins. Bu Zhong Yi Qi, nourishing the heart and kidney, sedative, spleen and stomach and other effects.
Eggs: The main use is salted egg yolk, salted egg yolk is rich in fat, particularly rich in unsaturated fatty acids, in addition also contain a certain amount of protein, amino acid, carotene, calcium, iron and other substances.
Chestnut: Chestnut burning meat will be used chestnut, chestnut mainly containing protein, starch, sugar, pectin and iron, zinc, magnesium and other ingredients.
Grains: purple, Eight, green bean, red bean and other legumes is one of the traditional foods of our country, there is the ancient "grain for the support should, loss of beans is bad" argument, is that grain is nutritious but if the case is the lack of beans nutritional imbalance. Legumes are rich in nutrients, mainly protein, fat, minerals, vitamins, carbohydrates and so on. Further purple contains more protein, fat, vitamins, minerals, amino acids and the like.
Fungi: dumplings stuffing used mainly mushrooms, mushroom, etc., mushrooms rich in 18 kinds of essential amino acids, lentinan can significantly enhance the body's immunity against tumors, mushroom polysaccharide protein and ribose acid treatment AIDS, hepatitis and leukemia have a certain role of adjuvant therapy, antihypertensive cancer, nourish the skin, the role of prevention of influenza. The shiitake mushroom is the best. Shiitake mushrooms also contain sperm, Japan Gui alcohol, cinnamaldehyde Japan and so on.
Seafood: Some will choose shrimp dumplings, fish fillings, fish rich in vitamin C, vitamin B, vitamin A, vitamin D and mineral nutrients calcium, phosphorus, zinc, iodine and potassium. Fish protein and essential amino acids in the ratio of the structure and composition similar to human tissue protein ratio requirement and child close for a long body and brain development, while also easy to digest. Shrimp is a very rich in protein, high nutritional value of foods, including vitamin A, Hu Russell and mineral content is relatively high, and not only low in fat, and mostly unsaturated fatty acids.
Other materials glutinous rice dumplings mainly by the added meat, bean paste, jujube, etc. made of glutinous rice and a relatively high viscosity, not easy to be digested in the stomach, so much time to eat, it may appear indigestion, bloating, heartburn, pantothenic acid, even constipation and other symptoms. Further dumplings generally high sugar content, if the meat is then also contains some fat, it is not suitable for high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, gastrointestinal disease patients eat, try not to eat, eat something to eat, the other children are not appropriate eat.
[] Food Safety risks
In the annual Dragon Boat Festival, dumplings festival food is essential, but once exposed dumplings security incidents make people taste the dumplings while clogging heart can not help themselves eaten dumplings going to be okay? Well dumplings which may have security risks exist? Dumplings food safety hazards that exist mainly in the following aspects.
1. Acid Value
Meat and nuts fillings dumplings, because greasy, acid value may be exceeded. Excessive acid value, then the body due to lack of essential fatty acids and fat-soluble vitamins caused by poisoning and riboflavin deficiency phenomenon.
2. The peroxide value
Meat and nuts fillings dumplings, also because there may be oil-containing peroxide value exceeded. Peroxide value is exceeded, then may induce cancer, atherosclerosis, cellular aging and other diseases.
3. Lead
Lead is a very important indicator of the quality of the dumplings. Human intake of excessive levels of lead can cause headaches, dizziness, tremors, impatience, irritability, mental disorders, body aches, fatigue and other symptoms.
4. Arsenic
Arsenic is a very important indicator of quality testing dumplings. Excessive intake of foods containing arsenic can cause skin pigmentation, horny.
5. Aflatoxin B1
Improper food storage easy moldy, aflatoxin easy to secrete aflatoxin, which is a common aflatoxin B1, aflatoxin B1 is a recognized carcinogen, can lead to liver cancer and other cancers.
6. Salmonella
Salmonella is a pathogen detection is a very important indicator of the quality of the dumplings. Human infection with salmonella will make people nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, diarrhea, arthritis, osteomyelitis, meningitis, nephritis.
7. Shigella
Shigella is a bacteria, is a very important indicator to detect dumplings quality. Human consumption is contaminated with Shigella dumplings easily lead to diarrhea, dysentery.
8. Staphylococcus aureus
Staphylococcus aureus is a pathogen detection is a very important indicator of the quality of the dumplings. Staphylococcus aureus exceeded dumplings make people vomit.
9. The total number of colonies
The total number of colonies is determined that an important indicator of the degree of bacterial contamination dumplings, freshness and quality of health. The total number of colonies exceeded human consumption dumplings easily diarrhea, vomiting.
10. E. coli
There may dumplings production, storage and transportation process by E. coli contamination caused by excessive. E. coli exceeded, then easily lead to gastroenteritis, dysentery, cholera, typhoid fever.
11. reviving dumplings
In order to make a good package out of the dumplings surface, the presence of illegal use of copper sulfate and copper chloride soaked bamboo leaves act, with this package of chemicals soak bamboo leaves turning green dumplings out of the dumplings known, this can be a long bamboo leaves turning green dumplings time remains green, but the cooking process, the bamboo leaves in copper is eluted into dumplings. Human intake of copper can cause excessive hemolysis, diarrhea, vomiting, hematuria.
12. Borax
Dumplings have also been reports of illegal adding borax, borax can make dumplings add more chewiness and refreshing, more elastic. But borax has strong toxicity, adult consumption of 1-3g can lead to poisoning, lethal dose for children is about 5g, adult about 20g. Borax dumplings containing excessive intake of other foods may lead to extremely coma, erythema, vomiting, diarrhea, kidney damage.
In dumplings described above in the presence of food safety risks, the peroxide value, lead, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella, total bacteria, such as E. coli is detected in the dumplings will check the quality of health indicators, but there are also other items may exceed the standard and, like borax, although not within the national standard detection range, but there may be illegal to add, and turning green dumplings may bring excessive copper also need to pay attention to and strengthen detection.
The entire contents of a user on Baidu know daily newspaper published a third party is strictly prohibited reproduced. Any third party to use the content, you must contact Baidu know daily zhidaoribao@baidu.com, obtain written authorization to use the content and in the manner prescribed.
Article Source: Baidu know daily (http://zhidao.baidu.com/daily)
Original link: http: //zhidao.baidu.com/daily/view id = 221?