Healthy seasonal fruits and vegetables in summer
Summer seasonal vegetables: sword beans.
There is a passage about green beans in Su Wen lue in Qing Dynasty: "Sword bean, a kind of green bean. Pick tender pods, remove the hard silk on both sides, cut them off and fry them in soy sauce. Or boiled in water with soy sauce and sesame oil. It is also beautiful if stewed with tofu. Kidney beans and lentils are taken care of. " However, the sword bean mentioned here is another kind of bean. Now green beans are actually "sword beans". Bean pods are richer and more tender than sword beans, which can be fried or accompanied with meat, and the latter is more used as medicine.
Tomatoes: seasonal vegetables in summer.
Tomatoes were introduced to China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and they were named "tomatoes" because they came from the west. Lycopene is one of the unique ingredients in tomato and one of the strongest antioxidants in nature at present, and its anti-cancer, anti-radiation and anti-aging effects are particularly obvious. However, this ingredient is more conducive to absorption only after it is dissolved in oil, so cooked tomatoes can play a more nutritional role than raw or cold. In hot summer, the sun protection function of tomatoes is also first-class, and a bowl of tomato eggs or tomato brisket is a good choice.
Seasonal ingredients in summer: mung beans
Mung beans have been cultivated in China for more than 2,000 years, and Jilin, Liaoning and Guangxi are all major provinces producing mung beans. People in China mainly eat porridge, soup and cakes, which are light in taste and pay more attention to health preservation. Chen Zaimin's book "Guo Shou Li" is comprehensive enough: "Mung beans are sweet and cold in nature, relieve summer heat, relieve all kinds of toxins, moisten the skin, grind the five internal organs into powder, relieve all kinds of heat and benefit qi, so making cakes, cooking porridge or drinking soup is extremely beneficial."
Watermelon: seasonal fruit in summer.
It is not uncommon to eat watermelon in cold winter, but when it comes to this fruit, it is more a memory related to midsummer. Watermelon originated in Africa and spread widely in China since it was introduced to China in Han Dynasty. Scholars also seem to like it. There are many poems about watermelons in the past dynasties, and a poem "Red Melon" by Qu You in the Ming Dynasty also left it with the reputation of "Jasper House". Watermelon pulp contains sugar and high water content. Among many fruits in summer, it is the best fruit for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Ben Jingyuan soon regarded it as "natural white tiger soup" and had the reputation of "enlightening the mind and sprinkling dew on the heart". In addition, watermelon peel and watermelon seeds are also edible and have certain therapeutic effects.
Summer seasonal vegetables: lentils
The tender pods and beans of lentils are edible and can be fried, boiled, pickled or dried in the sun. There are black and white seeds. White lentils are mainly used as medicine, and their beans are boiled with sugar, which is comparable to lotus seeds. "Compendium of Materia Medica" also explains this: "Hard-shelled white lentils, their offspring are full, white and yellowish, fishy, warm in nature, nearly neutral, and also the valley of the spleen. Its soft shell and black magpie color are slightly cool, but it is edible and also regulates the spleen and stomach. " In addition, there are reddish-brown lentils, the so-called "red snow beans" in Guangxi, which also have the therapeutic effect of clearing liver and improving eyesight. But like many beans, some chemicals contained in raw lentils are toxic to human body and must be cooked before eating.
Cowpea, a seasonal vegetable in summer.
There are many varieties of cowpea used as vegetables, which are generally divided into white skin, green skin, flower skin and red skin according to skin color. The southern region is also called Mi Dou and Long Bean. There are many ways to eat. Although they are vegetables in summer, they often eat sour beans or dried jiangdou barbecue in winter, which is not inferior to fresh cowpeas. No wonder Li Shizhen praised "fruits and vegetables, grains, leisure is the best, the crown of beans." In Yuan Mei's "Suiyuan Food List", there is a more exquisite way to eat: "Cowpea is fried with meat, and the meat is removed when serving. And remove the tendons from the tender ones. " Meat has become a supporting role of cowpea, and its taste is delicious.
Xiaoshu health care diet therapy
Summer healthy diet 1, watermelon tomato juice
Ingredients: half a watermelon and three tomatoes of moderate size.
Practice: Watermelon is peeled and seeded, tomatoes are scalded with boiling water, and peeled and seeded. Juice at the same time, mix the two liquids and drink in moderation.
Efficacy: clearing away heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. It is especially suitable for people with cold, thirst, irritability, loss of appetite, dyspepsia and red urine fever in summer.
Summer healthy diet 2, stir-fried mung bean sprouts
Ingredients: 500g fresh mung bean sprouts, a little pepper, vegetable oil, white vinegar, salt and monosodium glutamate.
Practice: Wash and drain the bean sprouts, heat the oil pan, put the pepper into the pot and cook the fragrance. Stir-fry the bean sprouts a few times, pour in the white vinegar and continue to stir-fry for a few minutes. Add salt and monosodium glutamate when cooking, and you can eat it.
This prescription has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and can treat many diseases such as sores and ulcers.
Xiaoshu health diet 3, salt radish soup
Ingredients: 250g carrot, 3g salt.
Practice: add salt to carrots, boil, remove residues and take juice, three times a day, for two days.
Note: One party can simply make soup with carrots and water.
Indications: indigestion and malnutrition in children.
Summer health diet 4, jujube sorghum powder
With shake: 50 grams of red sorghum, jujube 10.
Practice: Jujube is peeled and fried, sorghum is fried and ground into fine powder. Take 10g for 2-year-old children and 10g for 3-5-year-old children twice a day.
Indications: indigestion in children.
Xiaoxia health diet 5, millet yam paste
Materials: 20g millet, 0 g yam/kloc-0.
Practice: the above two herbs are ground into fine powder, decocted in water into paste, and seasoned with 1 sugar.
Indications: indigestion in children.
Summer health diet 6, lotus seeds and lilies simmered pork
Ingredients: 50 grams of lotus seed, 50 grams of lily and 200 grams of pork.
Practice: Cut the pork into small pieces, put the lotus seeds and lilies into the pot, add water, add seasonings, bring to a boil with strong fire, and simmer 1 hour. Eat lotus seeds, lilies, pork and soup.
This prescription is effective in clearing heart and benefiting lung and treating heart failure.
Dietary customs in summer
1, what to eat in summer: eat three treasures.
"Small summer heat, steaming and cooking", the arrival of small summer heat means that it is about to enter the dog days. At this time, the weather is hot, the human body sweats a lot and consumes a lot. Health care must pay attention to supplement physical strength, reduce fever and prevent heatstroke. At this time of year, people have the custom of eating three treasures-Monopterus albus, honey lotus root and mung bean sprouts.
2. What is the custom of eating in summer: eating new (spicy)
In the past, there was a folk custom of "eating new things in summer", that is, after the summer heat, farmers tasted new rice, ground the newly cut rice into rice, and prepared to worship the food of the five grain gods and ancestors, and then everyone tasted new wine. It is said that "eating new things" means "eating new things", which is the first new day after the summer festival. Cities generally buy a small amount of new rice for cooking in old rice, plus newly listed vegetables.
3. What is the custom of eating in summer: cucumber+boiled eggs.
Some places in Shandong eat raw cucumbers and boiled eggs to cure the bitter summer, and eat eggs in the morning without eating other foods.
4. What to eat in summer: jiaozi.
There are folk proverbs in Futian, such as "buckwheat can grow on radish head and buckwheat can grow on buckwheat feet" and "buckwheat can grow on jiaozi head and eggs can be spread on pancake feet". Eating jiaozi on the head is a traditional custom. Fukui people have poor appetite and are often thinner than usual, which is called bitter summer. In traditional customs, jiaozi is a food to stimulate appetite.
5. What do you eat in summer? Eat noodles.
The custom of eating noodles in Fukui began at least in the Three Kingdoms period. Wei Chunqiu: "Fu Ri, wipe your sweat with a towel, look charming." The soup cake here is hot soup noodles. "Chronicle of Jingchu's Age" said: "The soup cake turns pale in June, which is called evil." May is an evil month, and June also touches the edge of the evil month, so it should also be "evil". You can also eat water and stir-fry noodles in dog days. The so-called fried noodles, is to fry the flour in a pot, and then add water and sugar to eat. This way of eating was common in the Han Dynasty since the Tang and Song Dynasties, but at that time, wheat was fried first, and then pasta was ground. Su Gong, a medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, said that fried noodles can clear away heat, stop diarrhea and strengthen the intestines.
6. What do you eat in summer? Eat mutton.
People in Xuzhou eat mutton when crouching, which is called "eating sheep". This custom can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period. There is a folk saying that "a bowl of soup in Pengcheng squats sheep without a doctor's prescription". People in Xuzhou love Fuyang, which is nothing more than a local folk song "Pick up girls on June 6th and make new wheat cake mutton soup".
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