Both methods are good. After soaking in water, Lycium barbarum L. has a better effect and is absorbed more fully, and the effect is better than that of eating directly. According to your hobbies, you can eat directly without soaking in water.
The value of Lycium barbarum. Lycium barbarum can tonify qi (qi), enrich blood (blood), strengthen yang (yang), nourish yin (nourishing yin), reduce fire (reducing fire) and expel wind (treating rheumatism), and the effect is perfect.
Sexual taste, sweetness, and fairness. Meridian, liver, kidney and lung.
Functions and indications. Indications: deficiency of liver and kidney, dizziness, soreness of waist and knees, impotence and nocturnal emission, fatigue and cough, and thirst-quenching drink. Has the effects of invigorating qi, nourishing essence, nourishing liver and kidney, resisting aging, warming body, resisting tumor, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipid and blood sugar, preventing atherosclerosis, protecting liver, resisting fatty liver and promoting hepatocyte regeneration.
The main function of Lycium barbarum lies in nourishing yin, nourishing liver and improving eyesight. Chinese wolfberry soaked in water is also effective, but it is better to eat it dry. It is found that the eye protection function of Lycium barbarum depends on zeaxanthin, but zeaxanthin is insoluble in water and cannot be completely released by soaking in water or cooking soup. Therefore, it is the best and simplest way to give full play to the eye protection function of Lycium barbarum. ..
Although Lycium barbarum is good, people who have a cold, fever, inflammation and diarrhea should stop eating Lycium barbarum.
Lycium barbarum, is "nutrition" really high?
Lycium barbarum is not much different from ordinary plant foods (types and quantities of nutrients), and it also contains "basic nutrients" such as vitamins, mineral elements and dietary fiber. Of course, in addition to these ordinary substances, Lycium barbarum also contains some "special nutrients".
Lycium barbarum polysaccharide is the main active substance in Lycium barbarum. Modern medical research has confirmed that Lycium barbarum polysaccharide has many health-preserving functions such as antioxidation, immunomodulation, lowering blood sugar and so on.
Similar to Lycium barbarum polysaccharide, Lycium barbarum acid is also a "unique symbolic component" in Lycium barbarum. Some animal experiments have studied Lycium barbarum acid, which proves that it has whitening, anti-aging and antioxidant effects.
In addition, Lycium barbarum is also rich in zeaxanthin dipalmitate, which is a plant pigment (carotenoid) and can also show strong antioxidant effect.
Of course, please make it clear that although these "bioactive substances" have outstanding "functions" in animal experiments, the amount of effective substances is not equal to the amount we eat in our daily life; Regardless of the dosage of nutrients, eating Lycium barbarum does have a variety of health-preserving effects, but it is not easy to really settle down in real life and want to eat an "effective dose". We need to face up to this problem and not treat it blindly.
Is Lycium barbarum eaten dry or soaked in water?
This question is simple. Dry eating and soaking in water will not affect the variety and quantity of nutrients in Lycium barbarum. There is no difference between them. You can choose how to eat according to your personal preference.
Eat Lycium barbarum healthily, some suggestions:
There are many flavors of Lycium barbarum. People always like to soak it in water, cook porridge or soup. The method is good, but I suggest you take it out and eat it. Dumping is a waste.
Chewing and eating Lycium barbarum can help the body ingest more beneficial substances, which is not much in itself, so it is better not to waste them.
This is true of any food, and proper tasting is perfect. For a healthy adult, taking 20 grams of Lycium barbarum every day is a relatively healthy amount and will not add trouble to the body.
Eating medlar is good, but you can't be superstitious; Whether you drink Lycium barbarum water or chew dried Lycium barbarum, please "eat rationally" and don't hurt your health because of blind health preservation.
Don't be either one or the other, they are compatible. Make tea with hot water first, and then eat Lycium barbarum soaked in tea, so that all the nutrients of Lycium barbarum can be eaten in the stomach.
Chewing dried Lycium barbarum, people with unhealthy teeth are prone to toothache!
The function of Lycium barbarum itself is to nourish yin, so it must be chewed dry, because we will secrete a lot of saliva in the process of dry chewing. These saliva are our precious body fluids. The more body fluids we produce, the more we can nourish our bodies. There is a good saying, and it makes sense to think about it carefully.
In addition, although medlar is good, people who are hot and humid should not eat it!
Is it better to eat medlar dry or soaked in water? As we all know, Lycium barbarum is very rich in nutrients. In recent years, adding Lycium barbarum into thermos cups has become a trend of health preservation. Lycium barbarum is rich in various nutrients, such as vitamin C/ vitamin E/ vitamin A/ carotene, calcium/iron/potassium/magnesium and other vitamins and minerals, and also contains betaine, Lycium barbarum polysaccharide, Lycium barbarum pigment and other unique nutrients in Lycium barbarum. These nutrients make Lycium barbarum have high health care functions, such as anti-fatigue/anti-aging/enhancing immunity/protecting liver/preventing and inhibiting tumors and atherosclerosis. , but also has a certain antihypertensive effect, which is one of the reasons why Lycium barbarum is highly respected in recent years.
There are many ways to eat Chinese wolfberry. Many manufacturers make medlar into dried fruit. Many people eat this kind of medlar as dried fruit. Some people like to add some special ingredients when making tea, especially medlar with chrysanthemum tea, which has the effect of clearing liver and improving eyesight. Many people will add some medlar when cooking soup, one is seasoning, and the other is increasing nutrition. However, no matter how you eat, the most important thing is to eat. If you just soak in water, then
Many foods, most of which need us to eat the food itself to get better nutrition, are very limited if they are simply soaked in water. Take soybean milk as an example. Many people drink soybean milk and filter it into bean dregs. In fact, the nutrition in bean dregs is also very rich. If we abandon bean dregs, we will lose a lot of nutrients, such as the most abundant dietary fiber in bean dregs, which can relax the bowels/resist aging and so on. The same is true for medlar.
Just take a few dry pills, not too much every day. Soaking in water is not good!
Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history of keeping Chinese wolfberry healthy. Many people like to soak Chinese wolfberry in water, eat it dry or make soup in their daily lives.
Because Lycium barbarum contains a variety of vitamins and active substances, soaking in hot water or cooking soup will make some nutrients lose. However, the taste of dry food is unacceptable to many people, so you can choose to soak it in warm water. When cooking soup, you can wait until the soup is cooked before putting it in. In this way, there is little difference between soaking in water and eating dry. At this time, you can decide the method of taking according to your own preferences.
Either way, it is recommended not to take too much, which is easy to get angry. You can also drink it with chrysanthemum at ordinary times, which can relieve the warmth of qi stagnation.