"Small summer, big summer, on the steam down to cook", small summer eat right this eight kinds of dishes, detoxification and heat with half the effort

"Monthly order seventy-two Hou Jiejie": "June Festival ...... summer, hot also." Small summer is to reflect the degree of summer heat of the air, the arrival of small summer, means that the weather is about to enter the summer. At this time of year, people sweat a lot, yin qi is abundant, thus at this time of year, there will be the custom of eating three treasures: eel, lotus root and mung bean sprouts, to replenish energy, relieve heat and prevent heatstroke.

The nutritional benefits of eel can be found in a number of texts, especially in the summer it is easy to get indigestion, compared to beef and lamb and other meat, eel and other fish and shrimp can provide the body with more easily absorbed protein.

Lotus root therapeutic ancient times, folk and "new dishes lotus root wins too doctor" said. In the eyes of Chinese medicine, lotus root is a treasure, eaten raw to clear the heat, cooked to eat spleen and stomach.

The mung bean sprouts are one of the very best health food, mung beans soaked and sent out of the shoots, sweet taste and coolness, with the same mung beans to clear the heat to solve the problem.

Folk proverb "big summer, small summer, on the steam down to cook", small summer festival, the earth in the early months of accumulation of heat, began to spread out, between heaven and earth into a steam room, the human body as if every day in the steam, pores are open, which is the body of the best time to detoxification, in addition to the above three treasures. There are also several ingredients that are conducive to help us detoxify and clear the heat.

Ancient people believe that amaranth can pass nine orifices, amaranth is rich in dietary fiber, which can open the intestines and promote intestinal digestion.

Fishweed, also known as Houttuynia cordata and folded ear root, has antibacterial. Improve the effectiveness of the body's immunity, many people know that fishweed has medicinal value, but because of the fishy flavor is too big to avoid, in fact, fishweed boiled tea or take garlic pickle, fishy flavor is not so heavy.

Food tomatoes can be said to be one of the best food for the skin, rich in VC, VA and lycopene. And cooked tomatoes can fully utilize the antioxidant effect. Sage fruit is also one of the best fruits to supplement these nutrients.

Bitter gourd is a common summer vegetable that tastes bitter but has a really high nutritional value. As the saying goes, "Eat bitter melon in summer. Drugs do not have to catch". Eat raw to clear the summer fire, cooked food stomach moist body.

Cucumber sweet taste flat, is the most common summer vegetables, but also many people beauty "magic weapon". Cucumber can promote the body's metabolism, but also reduce the body's cholesterol content.