As the saying goes, "Make up the winter in September, and there will be no disease in the coming year", and we have always had the custom of "making up the winter". When it comes to "mending winter", people will immediately think of big fish and big meat. In fact, eating vegetarian food in winter can also nourish the body.

Tonifying in winter depends on people. Middle-aged and elderly people with weak constitution can be supplemented appropriately. Healthy children and adolescents need to ensure balanced nutrition to avoid overnutrition and overnutrition. Women are generally afraid of cold in winter, so nourishing needs to eat more warm food to resist the cold.

Eating some common vegetarian food in winter to make up for winter can not only strengthen the body, but also cause no burden to the body. So, today we will introduce three kinds of "vegetarian supplements" suitable for winter consumption.

white radish

"Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer does not require a doctor to prescribe", which shows that radish has extremely high medicinal value. Chinese medicine believes that radish is sweet, pungent and cool, and enters the liver, stomach, lungs and intestines; It has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, cooling blood to stop bleeding, lowering qi and regulating middle energizer, resolving food stagnation, stimulating appetite and strengthening spleen, regulating qi and resolving phlegm. For dietotherapy, Compendium of Materia Medica calls it "the most suitable vegetable". Therefore, radish has certain medicinal value in clinic.

Modern research believes that radish contains mustard oil, amylase and crude fiber, which can promote digestion, enhance appetite, accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, relieve cough and resolve phlegm.

Chinese cabbage

"Big chinese cabbage juice, sweet and nontoxic, has the functions of benefiting the stomach, relieving chest pain, quenching thirst, diuresis and relieving cough", and "Winter juice is especially good".

-Compendium of Materia Medica

Cabbage, commonly known as "the king of all kinds of vegetables", is the most commonly eaten vegetable in winter in northern China. Chinese cabbage contains more protein and vitamins than apples and pears, and also contains prominent trace elements, among which zinc content is more than that of ordinary vegetables, meat, eggs and other foods. It is no exaggeration to say that Chinese cabbage is a popular vegetable with extremely rich nutrition and a treasure house of trace elements needed by human body. Moreover, Chinese cabbage is best eaten with meat, which can not only increase the umami taste of meat, but also reduce the production of carcinogens. Therefore, there is also a saying that "a hundred dishes are not as good as cabbage".

(edible) auricularia auricula

Auricularia auricula is a famous edible fungus and medicinal fungus in China since ancient times. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that auricularia auricula is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the effects of clearing away lung-heat, moistening intestines, nourishing yin and blood, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, improving eyesight and nourishing stomach.

Auricularia auricula is known as the king of precious edible fungi and is edible. Auricularia auricula has certain effects of reducing blood lipid, antithrombotic, anti-aging and anti-tumor. It is an ideal health food whether it is eaten directly or used as a food formula.