Mid-Autumn Festival barbecue vegetables and fruits into dishes "sauce" to eat healthily

Many businesses will launch barbecue ingredient combinations during the Mid-Autumn Festival. However, if you order all of them, you may consume too much sodium and calories. Cooking expert Lin Qiuxiang and nutritionist Chen Yiting suggest that people may bring their own fruits and vegetables to cook. Then, only half of the barbecue ingredients will be needed for the number of people ordered, and people will not eat so much high-calorie meat. Barbecue sauce can also be diluted with onions, ginger, and garlic, and paired with pear and applesauce, so that the seasoning uses less oil and salt and the food tastes delicious.

The Department of Health today held an awareness campaign titled "The Calorie Content of Barbeque Ingredients," evaluating the calories in commercially available 5-person barbecue meals and found that each serving contained 15,000 mg of sodium, 330 g of fat, and 1,600 calories in total. The common feature of barbecue meals is that the ingredients are almost all starch and meat, lacking other nutrients.

Cooking expert Lin Qiuxiang pointed out that a large amount of sodium is consumed when grilling, mainly from barbecue sauce. She suggested that you can chop the onion, ginger, and garlic into fine pieces and mix them into the barbecue sauce to help dilute some of the sodium content. In addition, you can also mash pears and apples and mix them into the barbecue sauce to help the meat soften quickly and avoid overcooking.

Chen Yiting, a nutritionist from the Food and Drug Administration of the Department of Health, said that barbecue ingredients generally lack fruits and vegetables. She suggested that people might as well eat their own lettuce salad and some cold mushrooms before grilling. As for the corn that is difficult to grill, you can cook it first and then simply brush it with a little barbecue sauce before grilling. These are all foods that can fill the stomach before grilling, and can also avoid eating too much meat afterwards. Therefore, there is no need to order a barbecue meal for a specific number of people, and you can even reduce the amount by half.

Barbecue often includes processed foods such as sausages. Nutritionist Chen Yiting recommends replacing them with sliced ​​meat. Lean pork slices, fish and chicken are better choices. It is recommended to remove the chicken skin to reduce oil. In addition to saury, it is recommended to use sweetfish, which is currently in season, and sweetfish is delicious without too much seasoning.