What traditional food is suitable for the winter solstice?

Traditional foods eaten in winter include mutton, pork, black rice, ginger, pears and nuts.

1, mutton

Many places in the north have the custom of eating dog meat and mutton from winter solstice. Chinese medicine believes that mutton and dog meat have the function of strengthening yang and tonifying deficiency. In fact, in the south of the Yangtze River, Suzhou people began to make up for it from the solstice in winter, and they ate the well-known Wuzhong mutton.

2. Black rice

Black rice is not as refined as white rice, and it is often eaten directly in the form of brown rice after hulling. This thick black rice is suitable for cooking porridge. Soak the porridge before cooking, so that the water can be fully absorbed. The water used for soaking rice should be boiled with rice to retain its nutrients. It can also be made into snacks, jiaozi, zongzi, bread, etc.

3. Pork

Compared with mutton and beef, pork has lower protein content and higher fat content. Pork can provide essential fatty acids for human body. Pork tastes sweet, nourishes yin and moistens dryness, can provide heme and cysteine to promote iron absorption, and can improve iron deficiency anemia.

4. energy

Another folk food from winter to the sun is ginger breast rice, and ginger is naturally an indispensable role. This kind of plant is made of thick and spicy underground rhizome, and there are more than ten kinds of ginger, turmeric, black ginger and galangal. The common ginger is turmeric, with moderate spicy taste.

5.pierce

Pear is the first choice for winter fruits, which contains malic acid, citric acid, glucose, fructose, calcium, phosphorus, iron and various vitamins. Pear has the functions of moistening throat and promoting fluid production, moistening lung and relieving cough, and nourishing stomach and intestines.

6.nuts

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that nuts are warm and easy to get angry when eaten in other seasons, while cold winter is a "gift in the snow." In addition, most nuts can tonify the kidney, which just echoes the corresponding organ "kidney" in winter. On the solstice of winter, eating nuts in moderation can be called the secret of keeping healthy.

For the above content, please refer to People's Daily Online-What to eat in winter solstice? Six kinds of food are the most cold-proof.