1. Can pregnant women eat celery?
Maternal women can eat celery. Celery is rich in nutrition and contains all kinds of nutrients necessary for human body. For expectant mothers who are weak and in urgent need of recovery after delivery, eating celery can improve immunity and accelerate recovery. Celery is also rich in crude fiber, which is beneficial to digestion and excretion and can prevent maternal constipation. Celery has a high iron content and can supplement women's menstrual blood loss. It is a good vegetable for patients with iron deficiency anemia. Eating celery can avoid pale, dry and dull skin, and make eyes bright and hair black. For postpartum women who have experienced blood loss, eating celery is helpful for enriching blood, but because celery is sweet, bitter, cold and nontoxic, it belongs to lung, stomach and liver meridians, so it is not suitable for women to overeat.
Second, precautions for pregnant women to eat celery
1. Celery can lower blood pressure, and women with low blood pressure should use it with caution.
2. Celery is cool and slippery, and pregnant women with spleen and stomach deficiency and diarrhea should not eat more.
People who are allergic to celery should not eat it. Celery may also become an allergen. If you are allergic to celery, it may cause allergic symptoms such as redness, frequent diarrhea, indigestion, headache, sore throat and asthma. Therefore, such people should also avoid eating celery.
4. Celery leaves can also be eaten. Many people eat celery roots. In fact, leaves are rich in nutrition. You can use them to make soup, stir-fry and so on. Stir-frying is the main cooking method, which can absorb more nutrients from celery and prevent pregnant women from eating too much seasoning.
5. Healthy cooking methods. Postpartum diet should not be overweight. Pregnant women eating celery should try to avoid the way of high oil and high temperature for too long to avoid getting angry and indigestion. In addition, before eating celery, pregnant women are advised to soak in cold water for a while, and then put it in a pot and blanch it with boiling water. Because celery may use some pesticides during its growth, scalding it with boiling water before eating can remove harmful substances.
6. Celery tastes sweet, bitter and cold. It is suggested that pregnant women in the second month should not eat too much to prevent maternal discomfort.
Third, what are the benefits of pregnant women eating celery?
1, prevent anemia
Because of the excessive blood loss during childbirth, the parturient should make up as much as possible after childbirth, so the maternal demand for iron is great. If the supply is insufficient, it will easily lead to iron deficiency anemia, which will have a very negative impact on the parturient. Celery contains iron that can be directly absorbed and utilized by the human body, so it can effectively prevent iron deficiency anemia in pregnant women.
Wake up and cheer up
Celery is sweet, cool and non-toxic, and has the functions of invigorating spleen and nourishing stomach, moistening lung and relieving cough, consolidating kidney and stopping bleeding, clearing bowel and relaxing bowels, refreshing brain, dissipating heat and expelling wind.
3. Increase appetite
Celery is rich in nutrition and contains volatile aromatic oil, so it has a special fragrance, which can stimulate the appetite of lying-in women.
4, whitening skin care
Celery is a high-fiber food, which produces lignin or intestinal fat through intestinal digestion and is an antioxidant. Eating celery for pregnant women can effectively help the skin resist aging and achieve the effect of whitening and skin care.
Step 5 be quiet
An alkaline component separated from celery seed has sedative effect on animals and human body. Eating celery for pregnant women is conducive to calming emotions, eliminating irritability and preventing postpartum depression.
6. Anti-cancer
Celery is a kind of high-fiber food, which has the function of preventing cancer. It produces a lignin or intestinal fatty substance through intestinal digestion, which is an antioxidant and can inhibit carcinogens produced at high concentration in enteric bacteria. It can also speed up the running time of feces in the intestine, reduce the contact between carcinogens and colon mucosa, and achieve the purpose of preventing colon cancer.
7, diuretic swelling
Celery contains diuretic active ingredients, which can eliminate sodium retention in the body, diuretic and detumescence. Maternal consumption of celery can effectively alleviate postpartum edema and other symptoms.
8, Runchang laxative
Celery is rich in nutrition and crude fiber, which is beneficial to digestion and excretion, and can prevent constipation when eaten by pregnant women.