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What do you eat in summer?

The staple food for heatstroke prevention in summer is:

1, tremella. Tremella fuciformis has the effects of moistening lung and relieving cough, promoting fluid production and nourishing yin, strengthening brain and preventing aging, which is very suitable for northerners to eat in summer. Moreover, tremella can be cooked with rock sugar, washed with black fungus and dipped in mustard soy sauce, which is delicious.

2. pomegranate. Summer is the season to eat pomegranate. Vitamins C and E in pomegranate are higher than those in apples and pears. Pomegranate is warm, sweet and sour, and has the functions of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, killing insects and stopping dysentery. Pomegranate can be eaten directly or drunk by squeezing juice.

3. corn. Summer is the season when corn ripens. Lysine in fresh corn is an essential amino acid for human body, which can only be taken from food, but the content in other foods is very small. Therefore, fresh corn is one of the main sources of lysine.