Recently, this reporter visited the Xi'an major supermarkets and stores found that almost all manufacturers have moon cakes "sugar-free" moon cakes. Many casual moon cakes also mark a "sugar-free moon cakes", "hypoglycemic moon cakes." It is understood that the market of sugar-free moon cakes on sale, most of them with maltitol or xylitol as a sweetener. Experts, as a low-calorie sugars of maltitol, Bu Xiaohua absorption in the body, do not produce heat, not to increase cholesterol, is a very good functional food ingredients, not only can be used for diabetes, Neurological Hammer cardiovascular disease also can be used, Atherosclerosis and hypertension and obesity patients, such as food.
However, there are some consumers that the moon cake packaging on the market by tagging on the food labels do not understand in the issue. For example, the label of "sugar-free foods," "hypoglycemic food," explained the composition, with only general terms "sweeteners", "composite sweeteners" and "protein sugar" instead of the more specific "sugar" "Xylitol," "maltose" elements, some people can understand.
■ "no sugar" is not equal to "sugar-free"
"No sugar cakes" is equivalent to "sugar-free moon cakes" » Xi'an Central Hospital nutrition director Lu Tai-mei in an interview that now that some sugar-free sugar-free foods, in fact only emphasized that no sucrose, but with starch or sugar, glucose, maltose, fructose, and other sweet foods, and this really Sense of the sugar-free is a different concept.
According to Lu Tai-mei, sugar-free refers to non-sugar (cane sugar and beet sugar) and starch sugar, glucose, maltose, fructose, and other sweet foods, but should contain sugar Neurological Hammer alcohols (including xylitol, sorbitol, maltitol, mannose Alcohol) and other sweet substitutes.
■ Xi'an moon cakes look forward to a "nutritional label"
According to the Ministry of Health on May 1 this year promulgated the "food nutrition labelling regulations", the Guangzhou market from the beginning of the year moon cakes, moon cakes in the package are posted on the "nutrition label", marked nutritional components include tables and nutrients function And so on. From the Mid-Autumn Festival is also available in a month, Guangzhou has more than 70% of the moon cake packaging has been posted nutrients table. However, moon cakes market in Xian, on the packaging can not find this kind of "nutrition labelling."
Reporter had an interview with the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Nutrition, vice president, Xian Jiaotong University School of Medicine Zhou Ling, a professor of public health, she said that such food labelling is marked energy, protein, fat, carbohydrates and other major nutrients. With this nutritional ingredients label, consumers can better with three meals a day, so that a more balanced nutrition and more reasonable. Neurological Hammer She also suggested that the moon cakes in Xi'an market should have such a nutrition labelling.