How to eat Lycium barbarum best?
1, put a handful when cooking and porridge.
Lycium barbarum is rich in trace elements and vitamins, which can nourish yin and enhance immunity, but it has medicinal value only if it is eaten persistently, and it is ineffective once or twice occasionally.
It is the most common thing for Lycium barbarum to soak in water, which is beneficial to the health, but most of the vitamins contained in Lycium barbarum are water-soluble and are easily destroyed by heating.
It is recommended to soak the medlar dry a little. When cooking rice, making porridge, steaming steamed bread, or cooking jiaozi, just put a little medlar as an ingredient.
Step 2 eat like ordinary food
Lycium barbarum is good for eyes, because it is rich in carotene, vitamins, calcium, iron and other nutrients, commonly known as "eyesight." Chinese wolfberry is often used by doctors in past dynasties to treat blurred vision and night blindness caused by liver blood deficiency and kidney yin deficiency.
A better way to eat Lycium barbarum is to eat it in porridge, rice, soup and vegetables like ordinary food, which is not only nourishing, but also won't get angry. However, Lycium barbarum is not for everyone. Those with weak constitution and poor resistance can eat more.
3. Put some when you beat soybean milk.
Lycium barbarum is a good thing. Recently, the British have also discovered the effect of Lycium barbarum on delaying aging. Many people drink Lycium barbarum water, but generally they don't. Because it's just simple soaking, vitamins, carotene and so on. Protein in Lycium barbarum is difficult to be completely absorbed.
Generally, when using a soymilk machine to make soymilk, put a handful of Lycium barbarum, which can make full use of various nutrients and trace elements contained in Lycium barbarum.
4. It is better to chew and eat directly.
When using Lycium barbarum to soak in water or make soup, its efficacy cannot be fully exerted. Due to the influence of water temperature, soaking time and other factors, only some medicinal components in Lycium barbarum can be released into water or soup.
Chewing directly with your mouth will fully absorb the nutrients in Lycium barbarum, which is more conducive to the health care of Lycium barbarum. However, when you chew Lycium barbarum, you should pay attention to halving the amount you eat, otherwise it will be easy to be overnourished.
Nutritional value of Lycium barbarum.
1, betaine in Lycium barbarum has liver protection effect.
2. The calorie of Lycium barbarum per 100g is 258.00 kcal (1078 kJ).
3. Lycium barbarum is rich in carotene, vitamin A, B 1, B2, C, calcium, iron and other essential nutrients for eye health care.
4. Lycium barbarum pigment is the general name of all kinds of coloring substances existing in Lycium barbarum berries, and it is an important physiological active component of Lycium barbarum. It mainly includes β-carotene, a small amount of lutein and other colored substances.