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What food do you eat for health in snowy solar terms?

There are many delicious foods that must be eaten in winter, and it is cold in winter, so you should eat more foods that can keep you warm. In cold and dry winter, sweets are the main diet, that is, eat more foods with liver-clearing effect, such as bean sprouts, cauliflower, carrots, celery and so on.

The food suitable for each season is different. Eat as many potatoes, sweet potatoes and taro as possible. No matter what the appearance of these foods is, their nutrition is unmatched by their vegetables. More importantly, its nourishing and slimming effects are unmatched by its food. Although it is not advisable to eat too much raw and cold food in winter, it is also not advisable to eat too much hot and dry food. On the contrary, you should eat more nourishing food, such as black fungus, lotus root, sesame and so on. People with cold constitution can drink more porridge in winter. If you add some red dates to japonica rice porridge, the effect will be better.

Cold in winter often causes gastrointestinal discomfort, especially those with cold stomach. Eating the following three foods in moderation in winter has a good effect on nourishing the stomach.

First, there is okra. There is mucus composed of pectin and sugar between the fruits of okra, which can protect the stomach wall, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and prevent constipation. This is good food for the stomach.

Second, the lotus root, after the lotus root is processed, its taste changes from cool to warm. Although it loses its heat-clearing effect, it is beneficial to the spleen and stomach. Especially stewed lotus root ribs can nourish blood and strengthen the spleen.

The third is yam, which is sweet and can strengthen the spleen and stomach. Suitable for people with chronic spleen deficiency and loss of appetite. Everyone's physique is different, so are dietary taboos.

Beginning of winter drinks chicken soup. The custom in early winter is to drink chicken soup in the south and eat jiaozi in the north. Drinking chicken soup is the best way to start tonic in winter. According to folklore, drinking chicken soup on the solstice in winter can make up for a year. Beginning of winter in the north eats jiaozi, jiaozi and beginning of winter during the solar terms, which is the turn of autumn and winter, so jiaozi can't help eating during sex.

Xiaoxue eats Baba. Ciba is a traditional food in the south. On the day of the light snow solar term, some places in the south have the custom of eating Ciba. Ciba is a kind of food made of steamed and mashed glutinous rice with different shapes. In some places, Ciba is round, symbolizing harvest, celebration and reunion.

Heavy snow bacon. As the saying goes, "Before the Chinese New Year, the eaves became fat first". It is said that during the solar term of heavy snow, people began to pickle meat, and many houses hung pickled meat, sausages, salted fish and other pickles on the doorways and windowsills, forming a very beautiful scenic line. But this meat won't be eaten until the Spring Festival. The foods that can be eaten in the snowy solar terms include eating caramel, drinking sweet potato porridge, eating radish balls and so on.