There is a blacklist for souvenirs! Fruit is my favorite

The New Year is approaching, and everyone loves to give gifts to express friendship. However, are your gifts thoughtful enough? According to an online survey conducted by Health Magazine, among more than 3,000 respondents, 33% chose "cakes and snacks" as their first choice for gifts to friends, followed by "local specialties" and "wine, coffee, tea and other beverages". However, nutritionists remind us that pastry snacks are mostly made of flour, sugar and oil, which are essentially "starch + oil". They are "empty calories" with low nutritional value and can easily make people fat. It is recommended to give fruits as souvenirs instead, which is both thoughtful and healthy.

The New Year is approaching, and everyone loves to give gifts to express friendship. Nutritionists suggest that you can use fruits as souvenirs instead, which is both thoughtful and healthy.

Liu Qinyu, assistant professor of the Department of Nutrition at Fu Jen Catholic University, pointed out that giving gifts during the New Year is natural, but whether the gift goes to the heart or fills the stomach is up to you to decide. Pastry snacks are mostly made of flour, sugar and oil, but since you can’t see the sugar or feel the oil on the outside, consumers tend to overlook the potential health risks.

Some cookies, brown rice rolls or corn cobs that contain added oats, whole wheat or red yeast rice are "disguised as good students" and make people think they are healthy so they eat more of them, but they are also health killers. Because eating one more piece of cake may mean eating one less bowl of rice; if you really want to eat, you can share cakes, candies and other snacks with your relatives and friends. Giving each person a little can reduce the health risks of eating alone. Of course, you should also do more exercise to burn calories, otherwise the excess calories will be converted into fat, and your waistline will increase by a circle of fat at the end of the New Year holiday.

It is worth noting that when the questionnaire asked "What New Year's gift do you most want to receive?", only 10.9% of netizens wanted to receive cakes and snacks as gifts. The majority of people (22.1%) actually wanted to receive "fruits", followed by "local specialties" (18.1%) and "wine, coffee, and tea drinks" (15.9%). Therefore, it is recommended that before giving a gift, it is best to think about what kind of gift you want to receive and then decide what to buy as a gift.

Liu Qinyu also reminded people to be careful when giving health foods as souvenirs. For example, health foods such as chicken essence, ginseng, and ganoderma lucidum contain a lot of potassium, sodium, and purine, and are not suitable for elders with chronic diseases such as kidney disease, stomach disease, high blood pressure, and gout. Coffee is also less suitable for people with gastritis.

Apples, pears, persimmons, and citrus fruits that are in season around the Lunar New Year are all beautifully colored fruits with auspicious pronunciations, but it is still recommended not to consume too much sweet fruit. Unflavored coffee, on the other hand, is low in calories and contains natural antioxidants, which can reduce the damage of free radicals to the body. Tea contains catechins and multiple vitamins, which are both healthy souvenirs.