Can pregnant women eat Gorgon fruit cake? Be careful not to eat too much

Pregnant women can eat Gorgon fruit cake. Gorgon fruit cake contains many nutrients that are beneficial to pregnant women, but don’t eat too much. After all, it contains a lot of sugar, which is not good for you.

Can pregnant women eat Gorgon fruit cake?

In theory, as long as pregnant women do not have symptoms of constipation, red urine, cold and fever, they can eat it, because the Euryale ferox cake has the effect of strengthening the spleen and kidney. However, Euryale ferox has a certain astringent effect, and the sugar and calories in Euryale ferox cake are high. Eating too much will also have a certain impact on the body of pregnant women. Therefore, it is recommended that pregnant women eat less.

Benefits of Gorgon Cake for Pregnant Women

1. Benefits for expectant mothers: Gorgon fruit has a high starch content, so pregnant women can eat it in moderation to increase their physical strength. It can be eaten with yam porridge, which has the effects of appetizing, calming the mind, and soothing the nerves. It can also relieve symptoms such as dreaminess, memory loss, and yellow face during pregnancy. However, Gorgon fruit has astringent properties, so people with constipation and red urine should avoid eating it.

2. Benefits to the fetus: Gorgon fruit is rich in phosphorus. If the expectant mother takes it in moderation, it will help the fetus's bone development and prevent rickets after birth. The rich niacin can help the fetus have good skin and is beneficial to the health of the fetus's skin.

Steps to make Gorgon Cake

Step 1

Soak the water chestnuts in water for two days, cook them, dry them in the sun (it’s winter now, so I put them on the heater and they dried in one day), and grind them into powder in a food processor.

Step 2

Mix the gorgon fruit powder, glutinous rice flour and fine sugar and use.

Step 3

Add water, pour it into a container and compact it as compact as possible so that the Euryale Glutinosa cake will be firm enough.

Step 4

Steam in a steamer over high heat for 15 minutes. Spread a layer of powdered sugar (or cooked glutinous rice flour) on the chopping board and cut into pieces.

Step 5

After it cools down, sprinkle with powdered sugar and enjoy.

Where is the specialty of Gorgon Cake?

Gorgon fruit cake is a specialty of the ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River. The long millennium has washed away the town's glitz and glamour, leaving only these few spots. There is also a local specialty that has never changed its taste. There is the distant and familiar taste of Gorgon fruit cake, and that taste is very long-lasting.

The texture of the gorgon fruit cake is soft and crispy, glutinous but not sticky, sweet but not greasy, glutinous but not sticky, with a faint sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance and a sweet glutinous rice taste. This is a taste that has been passed down for thousands of years, the taste of a small town, the taste of home, and the taste of Xitang. There are many repeat customers for the gorgon fruit cake, and it is a super delicious Jiangnan pastry. The gorgon fruit cake is chewy, with a fresh sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance, and the pollen honey gorgon fruit cake has a very unique fragrance. The workmanship is very sophisticated, the taste is delicate, and the taste is unique. This kind of gorgon fruit cake can be found in the ancient water towns.