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What does the snow eat in the twenty-four solar terms?

Eat in heavy snow in 24 solar terms: Chinese cabbage, jiaozi, eight-treasure porridge, glutinous rice balls and radish.

1. Chinese cabbage

Chinese cabbage is a seasonal vegetable in winter, and it tastes better in winter. Chinese cabbage is rich in water and crude fiber. Eating Chinese cabbage in winter, preferably vertical cutting, can not only reduce water loss, but also cook it more easily, and lose less nutrients such as vitamins and crude fiber.

2. jiaozi

There is a custom of eating jiaozi in the snowy solar term, and jiaozi is a delicious food with noodles, vegetables and meat. It is most suitable to use vegetables in season to make jiaozi. Radish vegetables are rich in vitamins and dietary fiber, and have a unique fragrance. It is full of flavor when used to make dumplings.

3. Eight-treasure porridge

It's cold in the snowy season, and a bowl of hot eight-treasure porridge made of eight kinds of whole grains can resist the cold.

4. Tangyuan

Winter is a good season to eat Tangyuan, and glutinous rice is rich in nutrition. Tangyuan made of glutinous rice is most suitable for eating in winter.

5. Radish

There is a folk saying: "Radish is better than ginseng in winter." White radish has high nutritional value. It is sweet and delicious when cooked on a plate of radish with meat in heavy snow, and it is very suitable for the elderly and children at home.