Summer health food 1: mung bean mung bean, also known as green adzuki bean, is a mature seed of leguminous herb Phaseolus vulgaris, which is planted all over China. Because of its rich nutrition, it can be used as mung bean porridge, mung bean rice, or cake, or germinated as a dish. It is a traditional bean food of our people, so it has the reputation of "the best food in the food, the food for the world". In the hot summer, mung bean soup is the favorite summer drink of ordinary people. Precautions: People with mung bean cold, deficiency of spleen and stomach, and deficiency of kidney qi should not eat more, or they need to be reasonably matched with other foods before they can be taken as meals frequently. Because mung beans have the effect of detoxification, people who are taking traditional Chinese medicine should not drink more mung bean soup. Summer health food 2: Red beans Red beans are flat and sweet. Because red beans are good at going down and benefiting waterways, the ancients have the saying that "eating more makes people thin". Red beans are low in calories and rich in vitamin E, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, selenium and other active ingredients. They are typical high-potassium foods. They have many functions, such as clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating spleen and stomach, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, ventilating and relieving annoyance, enriching blood and producing milk, and have good effects in treating enteritis, dysentery, diarrhea and sores and furuncles. Every hot summer, the human body is prone to edema, and drinking red bean soup is the best way to reduce swelling. Edema patients urinate less. If red beans are used as a drink at the beginning, the swelling will decrease the next day, and it may completely dissipate after taking it for six or seven days. The elderly have edema in their legs and feet in summer, so they can eat red bean porridge to inhibit the recurrence of the disease. In addition to preventing and treating all kinds of edema, red beans can also relieve symptoms such as irritability, thirst and irritability caused by rising temperature. Summer Health Biology III: Coix seed is like rice and more like benevolence, so there are many places to call it Coix seed. Nowadays, more people like to eat coix seed, because the unique living environment of coix seed makes it less harmful, and it likes to grow in humid areas. In many places, coix seed is planted in mountains or rivers. Coix seed is slightly cold, so it is not suitable for cooking porridge or eating alone. It is very suitable to cook soup with some foods that can warm up. You can stew chicken legs, tomatoes and barley together, which is not only easy to digest, but also has a very good nourishing effect. Coix seed is not easy to digest, so try not to eat more, especially for the elderly, children and people with stomach cold and gastritis. When eating Coix seed, you must eat it in moderation and don't eat too much. Summer health food 4: Xiaomi Xiaomi, also known as millet, is hot and yellow, which is the most nourishing for the spleen and stomach. It is good to eat in the morning. At the same time, rice is cool, especially suitable for eating in the evening, so you can eat more. The noodles are hot and most nourishing. They are planted in winter and harvested in summer, and are best eaten in summer. In northern China, after giving birth, many women use millet and brown sugar to recuperate their health. Millet porridge is rich in nutrition and has the reputation of "substituting ginseng soup" High-quality millet grains are uniform in size and color, milky white, yellow or golden yellow, shiny, with little broken rice, no insects and no impurities. To sum up, the above four kinds of summer health foods can help people solve their diet in summer, and mung beans also have the effect of relieving summer heat. Millet can also nourish the stomach.