Experts interviewed: Director of Health Management Center of Zhongda Hospital Affiliated to Southeast University, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
When it comes to hot-spring health foods, many people first think of watermelon, bitter gourd or mung bean, and there is a group of foods that are often overlooked. They are the 'four treasures' that grow in the water - white peony, lotus root, Chinese wolfberry, water chestnut. Their nutritional value. How is it good for summer health?
Chinese medicine believes that whiteness is sweet, cold, spleen, stomach, liver, gallbladder, there is heat and fluid, diuretic and dehumidification effect. Therefore summer is particularly suitable for eating wolfberry white, help cool summer heat. High, in addition to being rich in vitamins and minerals, its dietary fiber content is not low. Dietary fiber can speed up the emptying of food residues, shorten the time for toxic substances to stay in the intestine, promote their excretion, and prevent colorectal cancer. It is extremely effective. However, it contains a lot of oxalic acid. It's best to squeak it before cooking to remove oxalic acid. There are many ways to cook white rice. Cut into silk, flakes, dices, cubes, for salad, stir-fry, and stir-fry. Steamed stewed and boiled soup, boiled oysters, or oysters or vegetarian, made all kinds of dishes.
Lotus roots. Many people have heard of "Lotus Lotus Poems, the best supplement for the autumn cricket." Little-known is that summer is also particularly suitable for eating quail. 藕 is called the "Ling Root" in the "Compendium of Materia Medica," Eat crisp and sweet bream, not only appetizing and refreshing, but also the role of clear fire and moistening. Lotus root is rich in vitamin B1, helps relieve fatigue, promote metabolism and digestion, it also contains vitamin C, calcium, iron and other inorganic Salt, polyphenolic substances with antioxidant effects. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, oysters are cold and have the effect of removing heat and irritating the body. After cooking, it becomes cold and warm, it can nourish the stomach, nourish the spleen, nourish the qi, and nourish the blood. Especially suitable for old and young women, high fever patients, hypertensive patients eat.
In fact, it is a dry and mature seed of Nymphaeaceae. It is also known as 'chicken rice' and 'chicken'. It is common in the south. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is sweet, astringent, flat, and it's good for the spleen. , Can spleen and dampness, Gushen diarrhea, and have "make up but not Jun" 'anti-dry is not greasy' advantage. Gorgon has good digestion, spleen and stomach effect, very suitable for easy summer appetite loss. Fresh quail or dried quail soaked in water can be directly chewed, but also porridge, soup or with lotus seeds, yam, white lentils and other foods.
Water chestnut. Water chestnut is rich in starch, protein, sweet taste. It's sweet, cool, and has spleen-and-stomach effect. People with poor appetite can eat a little water chestnut. When raw, choose the skin bright red, shiny, and tender. , It can clear away heat and heat; black-colored water chestnuts can be steamed or eaten with porridge, which can serve as food, but also make up the spleen and stomach, the elderly eat well, but pay attention to eating too much easily bloating. Need to be reminded that the water chestnut starch content Higher, if you eat large amounts of these vegetables without reducing the main food, you will increase calorie intake, which will easily lead to obesity. ▲
