What does the first frost eat?

The traditional foods eaten in the first frost are persimmon, duck, beef and mutton, rabbit meat and radish.

1, persimmon

In most parts of China, red persimmons must be eaten in the first frost. There is an old saying: eating persimmon diced in the first frost will not cause a runny nose. Persimmons generally mature completely before and after the first frost. At this time, persimmon skin is thin and delicious, and its nutritional value is high.

2. Duck

There is a proverb in southern Fujian that "it is better to make up the first frost every year". On the first frost day, people in southern Fujian and Taiwan Province Province will choose to eat ducks to make up for it. Therefore, every time the first frost comes, the ducks in Fujian and Taiwan will sell very well, and sometimes they will be out of stock, which is in short supply.

3. Beef and mutton

Many places have the custom of eating beef in the first frost, such as Yulin, Guangxi. Residents here are used to eating fried beef and radish for breakfast and beef for lunch or dinner in the first frost. Besides beef, mutton is also a good choice, but the cooking should be light, such as stewed mutton and stewed radish with mutton.

4. Rabbit meat

The ancients generally ate both beef and rabbit meat in autumn, especially during the first frost, there were both domestic rabbit meat and rabbit meat, also called vegetable rabbit meat. The rabbit meat in this period is tender, nutritious and delicious.

5, white radish

Shandong agricultural proverbs: summer sorghum, white deer valley, first frost radish, autumn ginseng. Early frost, Shandong people, this day must eat radish to prevent diseases, raw, cold, made into hot dishes, soup, porridge, staple food, and even made into medicinal diet. No matter which way you eat it, it makes people happy.