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Seven kinds of foods that are often eaten in the first frost season.

Seven kinds of foods that are often eaten in the first frost season.

The first frost is the last solar term in autumn. As the temperature drops, the yang of our body converges inward. Therefore, at this time, it is better to eat ginseng bird's nest than to eat seven kinds of foods that are often eaten in the first frost.

Seven kinds of food 1 1, duck meat often eaten in the first frost season.

I finally saw a piece of meat. It is no exaggeration to say that duck meat is really the best meat food for autumn health. Autumn is crisp, duck meat is plump, and it is the right time to eat duck meat. Blessed are cheese lovers who love ducks (Duck Jun, I'm sorry! )。

Why does Qiubu eat duck? This is because it is nutritious and can supplement protein, vitamins and minerals necessary for human body. At the same time, duck meat is cold, especially suitable for people with excessive body heat. Therefore, ducks are the first choice for diet therapy in autumn.

Specifically, duck meat is rich in protein, which is digestible and easily absorbed by the human body; Its fat is moderate and won't make people consume too many calories; It is also rich in nicotinic acid, which has a protective effect on patients with heart diseases such as myocardial infarction; Wait a minute. There are countless benefits, whether it is soup or light frying, you can eat it.

2.persimmons

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is sweet, cold and slightly astringent, and belongs to lung, spleen and stomach. It has many functions, such as moistening lung and resolving phlegm, clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, astringing intestine to stop dysentery, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, promoting fluid production and moistening intestine, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Eating more persimmons for manual workers can improve blood circulation and promote the rehabilitation of tendon inflammation and trauma.

Persimmon has a high nutritional value, and its vitamin and sugar content is about 2 times higher than that of common fruits1-. If a person eats/kloc-0 persimmon a day, the intake of vitamin C can basically meet half of the daily requirement.

In addition, persimmon is rich in pectin, which is a kind of water-soluble dietary fiber. It has a good laxative effect and has a good effect on correcting constipation and maintaining the normal growth of intestinal flora.

It should be noted that persimmon should not be eaten on an empty stomach, because its tannic acid and pectin will form lumps of different sizes under the action of gastric acid, which will stay in the stomach to form stomach persimmon stones, leading to severe abdominal pain and even hematemesis. In addition, persimmon is cold and not suitable for people with cold stomach.

3, red dates

Autumn is the harvest season of jujube. Jujube looks good in autumn. Fresh jujube is not only delicious, but also nutritious, with the highest content of vitamin C, which is 243 mg per100g, much higher than other fruit foods!

As the saying goes, "three dates a day, healthy to old age", especially for women, can strengthen the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and nourish blood, nourish blood and soothe the nerves, which is a good product for aftercare.

Cooking soup with red dates instead of tea can relax the mind, increase appetite and help sleep at night; If cooked with lotus leaves, it can help to cool off the heat; Add ginger and brown sugar and cook together, which can drive away cold and warm the stomach.

4. Sweet potato

Sweet potato, known as "longevity food", can not only provide various nutrients for our body, but also have health care effects such as cancer prevention and disease prevention. Chinese medicine believes that sweet potato is sweet and flat in nature, belonging to spleen and kidney meridian, which has the effects of tonifying deficiency and benefiting qi, strengthening spleen and stomach and strengthening kidney yin, making people "live longer and have fewer diseases".

Count the benefits of sweet potato and five reasons why you love it.

First, it is rich in potassium, which can help people stabilize blood pressure;

Secondly, its dietary fiber content is high, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and keep the regularity of digestive system;

Third, sweet potatoes contain a variety of vitamins, among which β-carotene, vitamin E and vitamin C are particularly rich, which can enhance immunity;

Fourth, sweet potato is rich in mucin, which is good for maintaining joints.

Fifth, sweet potatoes are low in fat and low in heat, rich in starch and full of satiety. Eat one or two and you'll be full. If it is a staple food, you can reduce your food intake and maybe lose weight.

However, although sweet potato is good, you can't eat too much, because eating too much will stimulate the secretion of gastric acid, making people feel heartburn, bloating, burping and farting. If you are a staple food, please remember to match it with vegetables and protein foods, so as to achieve a balanced nutrition.

5, white radish

White radish has the reputation of "folk ginseng", and there are folk proverbs that "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer without a doctor's prescription" and "eat radish in autumn for ginseng", which shows that eating radish in the first frost season is perfect. In winter, the yang is in the stomach and the stomach is hot. Eating white radish can clear away accumulated heat.

"Rich people, it is better to eat a radish." White radish not only has a strong antitussive and expectorant effect, but also has a good effect on stimulating appetite, promoting digestion and guiding stagnation. This is because its sugar-containing enzyme can decompose starch, fat and other ingredients in food. Mustard oil can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, increase appetite, help digestion and promote the absorption of nutrients.

In addition, boiled radish or its seeds can dilate blood vessels and lower blood pressure. Drinking freshly squeezed white radish juice for a long time also has a certain effect on treating serum cholesterol and preventing coronary heart disease.

However, radish is cold, beneficial to the intestines, and those who have diarrhea due to spleen deficiency should eat carefully or eat less.

6. Autumn lotus root

Lotus root is a low-fat food with high nutritional value, which can be eaten raw, steamed, fried and made into soup. There is a folk saying that "Lotus is the treasure, and Hà Thu is the most nourishing". After precipitation in spring and summer, the lotus root is the most plump at this time. It is not only a good vegetable, but also a good tonic, and it is called "spiritual root" in Compendium of Materia Medica.

Chinese medicine believes that lotus root enters the heart, spleen and lung meridians, tastes sweet and cold, and has the effects of removing blood stasis, clearing heat, quenching thirst, stopping bleeding and strengthening stomach. Cooked lotus root has the functions of nourishing the heart, promoting blood production, strengthening the spleen, stimulating appetite and nourishing the body, and is especially suitable for people with spleen and stomach weakness and deficiency of qi and blood. Drinking water and cooking soup can induce diuresis, clear away heat and moisten the lungs.

Modern research also found that the lotus root contains a lot of starch, protein, vitamin B, vitamin C, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals. The meat is fresh and tender, and the taste is sweet and crisp. Raw food is comparable to pears, suitable for all ages.

Eating (chi) lotus root (ou) won't make you ugly (chou), but it has the effect of beauty beauty. Come on, let's "watch" together.

7.chestnuts

Chestnut is sweet and cold, and has the functions of nourishing the stomach, strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidney and strengthening the tendons. Sun Simiao in the Tang Dynasty said: "Chestnuts are the fruit of kidney, and kidney disease should be eaten." Compendium of Materia Medica points out: "Chestnuts can cure kidney deficiency, weakness of waist and legs, tonify kidney and strengthen stomach."

Chestnut is rich in carbohydrates, which can provide more calories and fill the stomach; The unsaturated fatty acids and cellulose contained in it can strengthen the intestine and keep the normal operation of the excretory system; Potassium helps to maintain normal heartbeat regularity and has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis. Rich riboflavin helps to prevent oral ulcers; Wait a minute.

There are many ways to treat diseases by nourishing chestnut in China. For example, if eaten raw, middle-aged and elderly people can eat air-dried raw chestnuts every day to prevent kidney deficiency, backache and leg pain. For example, boiled chestnut rice porridge is a good diet for the elderly with indigestion and qi deficiency and fatigue.

Seven kinds of food commonly eaten in the first frost season: 2 1 and corn.

Among all staple foods including white flour and rice, corn has the highest nutritional value. Especially, the vitamin content of corn is amazing, which is 5- 10 times that of rice and wheat. Corn also contains seven "anti-aging agents": calcium, glutathione, vitamin A, magnesium, selenium, vitamin E and fatty acids. Among them, vitamin E has the functions of promoting cell division, delaying aging, preventing skin lesions, and effectively relieving arteriosclerosis and brain function decline.

Corn is rich in dietary fiber, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and greatly reduce the body's absorption of toxins. Among them, magnesium, calcium, carotene and other nutrients are also higher than ordinary grains, which has the functions of preventing and treating hypertension and scavenging free radicals, and is of great benefit to delaying aging. Corn can regulate the spleen, induce diuresis and reduce swelling, which is the best choice for autumn diet.

2. Royal jelly

The biggest climate feature in autumn is dryness, and royal jelly can moisten dryness, which is very suitable for drinking in autumn. It is best to drink royal jelly in the morning, because drinking royal jelly in the morning can quickly replenish physical strength and make the day full of energy.

Royal jelly is a pure natural biological product, which contains rich bioactive components. Experiments show that royal jelly can stimulate the production of antibodies, play an immunomodulatory role, and make the body's immune function in the best dynamic balance state, thus enhancing physical fitness, improving adaptability to unfavorable factors and harsh environment, and achieving the purpose of enhancing the body's ability to prevent and treat diseases from the source. Royal jelly has the function of "immune regulation", which can improve the disease resistance of human body by regulating the immune system.

People who pay attention to spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not drink it immediately after getting up. They should eat something before drinking, such as drinking royal jelly water for breakfast, or eating royal jelly on steamed bread or bread. Don't drink royal jelly on an empty stomach, otherwise it is easy to have diarrhea.

3. chestnuts

Chestnut, commonly known as chestnut, is a specialty of our country, known as the "king of dried fruits" and also known as "ginseng fruit" abroad.

I'm afraid it's hard to imagine that fresh chestnuts contain more vitamin C than tomatoes, which is ten times that of apples! Chestnuts also contain comprehensive minerals, such as potassium, magnesium, iron, zinc and manganese. Although the content is not as high as hazelnut and melon seeds, it is still much higher than that of ordinary fruits such as apples and pears, especially the potassium content is outstanding, which is four times higher than that of apples said to be rich in potassium.

4. Duck

Eating duck can dispel autumn dryness. Ducks and chickens are birds, but their functions are quite different. Chicken is especially suitable for winter tonic. There is a folk saying that "every 9/kloc-0 chicken will make you healthy in the coming year". Ducks belong to waterfowl. Hu Sihui, an imperial doctor in Yuan Dynasty, said in Drinking Goodness that duck meat is sweet in taste, cold in nature, non-toxic, nourishing internal deficiency, disinfecting and clearing heat, and benefiting waterways. Can be used for treating headache, insomnia due to yin deficiency, cough due to lung heat, nephritis edema, dysuria, low fever, etc.

Regular consumption of duck meat is most beneficial to those with physical deficiency and yin deficiency, edema, loss of appetite, dry stool and low fever. Therefore, the hot and dry season in summer and autumn is most suitable for eating ducks. In contrast, other meats such as pigs, cattle and sheep are slightly inferior.

Although duck meat is good, it also tastes exquisite. First of all, people who have a cold should not eat duck meat, otherwise it may aggravate their illness. Drink chicken soup when you have a cold; Secondly, people with chronic enteritis should eat less, and duck meat is sweet and salty, which may aggravate enteritis; People with abdominal pain, diarrhea, low back pain, dysmenorrhea and other symptoms should also eat less duck.

5. Hawthorn

Hawthorn is a kind of fruit which can be used as medicine and food. Has the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, reducing blood lipid and weight, promoting digestion and invigorating stomach. The lipid-lowering effect of hawthorn is to remove lipids, which is beneficial to liver glucose metabolism, and it is suitable for obese people and patients with hyperlipidemia and fatty liver to eat regularly. Hawthorn can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases, and has the functions of dilating blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow, improving heart activity, exciting the central nervous system, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, softening blood vessels, diuresis and sedation.

Hawthorn can lower blood pressure, reduce heart load, improve myocardial blood supply and oxygen supply, and has certain curative effect on chest tightness and palpitation. Hawthorn can promote digestion because it can increase the secretion of enzymes and has the effects of strengthening stomach, strengthening spleen and moistening lung. Hawthorn contains flavonoids, vitamin C, carotene and other substances, which can block and reduce the production of free radicals and enhance the body's immunity.

6. Little carrots

As the saying goes, "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, and the doctor won't prescribe medicine for a year." Radish, known as "small ginseng" in our country, can be said to be one of the best products in autumn and winter. Eating raw can not only help digestion, increase appetite, but also get rid of greasy and help digestion. If cooked with other food partners, it also has different effects.

Radish has a unique spicy taste. Eating raw can help digestion, strengthen stomach and digestion, and increase appetite. After eating greasy food such as meat, eating raw radish can relieve boredom and make the stomach comfortable. Sweet potato is full of stomach acid, and when heartburn symptoms appear, eating raw radish or chewing salted radish is helpful for digestion. At the same time, raw radish can also promote bile secretion and help digest fat.