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Long summer, diet pays attention to what is best to eat in long summer.

Foods suitable for the long summer are as follows:

1, long summer egg. Eating eggs in the long summer can not only withstand the test of "summer heat", but also prevent summer symptoms such as loss of appetite, fatigue and emaciation. Eggs in long summer are flat in nature, tonifying qi deficiency, calming the nerves and nourishing the heart, which means happiness.

2. Long summer tea. On the day of long summer, women will gather seven kinds of tea to cook and drink together, saying that they drank seven kinds of tea in long summer, so that they will not feel sleepy all summer. This also increases the harmony between neighbors.

3, long summer soup. Eating dumplings made of glutinous rice flour mixed with rat wort in long summer is called "long summer soup", which is one of the traditional foods in long summer and can relieve the symptoms of summer fatigue.

4, wheat silkworm. In the long summer, farmers make strips of flour and sugar several inches long, which is called wheat silkworm. When people eat them, it is said that they can avoid "summer". The tender grass heads and rice noodles in long summer are fried into cakes, which are called "spreading cakes". Sugar plum, fermented grains and salted eggs are also seasonal foods, which are called seasonal and "three new" for tasting.

5, long summer rice. Five-color rice is a mixture of five-color beans such as red beans, soybeans, black beans, mung beans and mung beans with white rice, which is called long summer rice. There is another recipe: broad beans, soybeans, bamboo shoots, mustard greens, and pickles or bacon, which are called five kinds of rice.