What should I do if I eat too many snack hawthorn slices?

This article was first published in Health Times.

Reason for concern: When children don't like eating, some parents will buy hawthorn slices as snacks for their children, thinking that this will stimulate appetite and help digestion. In fact, its role in helping digestion is very limited. Eating hawthorn slices often may also lead to malnutrition and dental caries in children.

Fresh hawthorn is rich in vitamin C, pectin, minerals, organic acids and flavonoids. Among them, the content of pectin in hawthorn is 3%~6%, which is higher than that of strawberry, cherry and apple. Can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, help food digestion and defecation. The organic acids such as citric acid, malic acid and tartaric acid in fresh hawthorn can not only stimulate appetite, but also promote food digestion.

Hawthorn slices are made of hawthorn as the main material, the pedicels are removed, washed, boiled for 30-40 minutes, pulped according to the ratio of 100 kg of hawthorn sauce and 70 kg of water, and then impurities such as pedicels, skins, stones, etc. are screened by fine-hole steel wire, and then mixed with jam according to the ratio of 100 kg of sugar and 5 g of food pigment.

It is not difficult to find out from the production process of hawthorn slices that hawthorn actually accounts for a small proportion of raw materials, which directly determines that the digestive aid effect of hawthorn slices is not as obvious as that of fresh hawthorn. In addition, although fresh hawthorn can promote the secretion of digestive enzymes, after high-temperature processes such as boiling and drying, a lot of nutrients in hawthorn are lost, and some easily damaged nutrients are lost more seriously, which greatly reduces the role of helping digestion.

Hawthorn chips on the market have a high sugar content. Eating too much sugar will make people fat, affect their diet, and be bad for the health of teeth and bones. Tip: According to research experiments, hawthorn can really help digestion, but this is more for fresh hawthorn or hawthorn extract. If you want to help digestion, you'd better choose fresh hawthorn instead of hawthorn slices!

Author: Zhao Wu Chumin

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