CALORIES: 1 Mooncake = 2 Double Cheese Burger
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• Mooncakes are sneaky calorie bombs.
• Whilst often made of cheap ingredients, they can be very pricey, and generally more unhealthy than fast food.
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So, the Mid-Autumn Festival is upon us and you will be gorging yourself silly with mooncakes because it's a tradition for corporations to send boxes of these stuff all over offices as a goodwill gesture and you cannot help but put some in your mouth. Feasting on mooncakes may be a yearly affair, but you should still keep your servings in check. Mooncakes are notoriously high in sugar and fat. Before you dig in, have a look at how much calories, carbs and fat a slice of mooncake packs.
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And each time an entire mooncake lets slip down your oesophagus, you will fulfill half of your daily calorie intake, which is about 2,500 for men and 2,000 for women.
As comparison: Eating a lotus seed paste mooncake with two salted egg yolks is the same as eating 45 teaspoons of sugar. Its total fat content of 55g is equivalent to 11 teaspoons of oil. (All figures derived from Health Promotion Board).
So, instead of us pointlessly scaring all of you silly with these sort of calorie-counting, why not check out this chart comparing moocakes to other potent food:
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Crazy right? Turning down the next a-yi (阿姨) handing you an ornate box of these guys is gonna be real tough this time.
Source: https://mothership.sg/2016/09/how-fat-is-a-mooncake-as-fat-as-yo-mama-ok-joking-about-1000-calories/
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