If you have a cold, you should eat something light and easy to digest, and avoid eating fatty or nutritious indigestible food.
The most suitable dishes are white radish, perilla, onion, ginger and garlic, light soup and porridge, lean meat or steamed chicken or fish.
Most fruits can still be eaten after a cold, such as apples, bananas, pears, grapes and mangoes. Pears, etc. And you can boil water to drink. Pear has the effect of clearing away heat and reducing fire. For patients with fever-type cold, drinking pear water has the effect of reducing fire. But it is not recommended that you eat more oranges, because eating too many oranges will lead to excessive internal heat, which is not conducive to the temperature drop of fever-type colds.
What can't you eat with a cold:
First of all, during a cold, whether it is a cold or a wind-heat cold, we should avoid eating all nourishing, greasy and sour foods. Such as pork, duck, chicken, mutton, glutinous rice, astragalus root, Ophiopogon japonicus, ginseng, placenta, donkey-hide gelatin, various marine fish, shrimp, crab, longan, pomegranate, dark plum and various sticky dessert foods.
Secondly, people with colds should also avoid eating raw and cold food. Such as persimmon, bean curd, mung bean sprouts, snail, mussel meat, raw radish, raw lotus root, raw sweet potato, raw melon, raw pear, cold water chestnut, Siraitia grosvenorii, Leng Cha, chrysanthemum brain, mint, honeysuckle, white chrysanthemum, boat-fruited Sterculia, etc.