1, what food can you eat in winter to keep healthy?
1, 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. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6.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.
2. What are the winter health recipes?
1, Chili pork tripe soup
Ingredients: a piece of fresh pork belly, white pepper 15g.
Practice: break the pepper, put it in the washed pork belly, tie the incision of the pork belly tightly with thread, put it in a casserole and cook it until soft and rotten, add a little coriander to the soup to taste, pick up the pork belly, discard the pepper in the belly, eat meat and drink soup.
Efficacy: Chili is a good product for strengthening and warming the stomach. This soup can regulate the symptoms of stomach cold, and has the functions of invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite, expelling wind and dispelling cold, warming middle warmer and relieving pain.
2. Stewed chestnuts with black-bone chicken
Ingredients: fresh chestnuts 10, black-bone chicken 1, ginger 1, and proper amount of refined salt.
Practice: fresh chestnuts are shelled and chestnut kernels are taken for use; Hair removal, viscera removal, cleaning and air drying of black-bone chicken; Put black-bone chicken and chestnut kernels into a casserole, add clear water to avoid chicken and chestnut, add ginger into the water, cover it, and simmer for 2 hours. Add a small amount of refined salt to the pot and serve.
Efficacy: black-bone chicken tastes sweet, enters the lungs and kidneys, nourishes yin and benefits qi, and can double the lungs and kidneys. Chestnut tonifies kidney and strengthens tendons. When the two foods are used together, they can replenish lung in autumn and prepare for tonifying kidney in winter.
3. stewed beef with radish
Ingredients: 450g of white radish, 2g of beef100g, 5g of onion10g of ginger10g of cooking wine10g of soy sauce, 4g of salt, 2g of monosodium glutamate, 3g of star anise and 40g of peanut oil.
Practice: Wash the radish beef, cut it into pieces, blanch it in boiling water, heat the oil in the pot, add onion ginger, star anise, fresh soup, cooking wine and beef pieces, add white radish when the beef is boiled, boil it, skim off the floating foam, and add the remaining seasoning after the radish is boiled.
Efficacy: White radish is rich in vitamins, and beef is rich in protein and amino acids, which can enhance human immunity.