What to eat in the summer? On the summer day, all places must eat delicious food 1, ducks. The traditional dietary custom of Nanjing people is to eat ducks in the summer. Ducks, especially Ma ducks in the cooked area of Jiangning Lake, Nanjing, are the most sought after. It is reported that the ducks there are sweet and cool, and fat and thin. If there is no time, the old Nanjing people will go to the deli to buy half a duck to go home; People who are free will stew "radish old duck pot" or make "braised duck pieces" at home and give them to their neighbors. This is what the saying goes, sending ducks in the summer will save everyone. 2. Longan. When the "summer heat" arrives, the "summer heat" will be over. Old Fuzhou no longer drinks herbal tea after the summer heat, but eats more things of "invigorating qi" and "enriching blood". Old Fuzhou is used to eating longan, which is soaked in porridge after peeling. 3, white balls. In addition, another food that old Fuzhou eats in the summer is white meatballs. White meatballs are actually glutinous rice balls. The method is very simple. Knead glutinous rice flour into a small grain, cook soup, add some sugar, and taste sweet, which can not only supplement carbohydrates, but also solve the greasy mouth in summer. 4. Herbal tea. The custom of decocting medicinal tea in summer has been popular since the Tang Dynasty. During the summer, every household has the habit of frying herbal tea. First, they go to the pharmacy to prepare prescriptions, and then they fry tea for drinking at home, which means that they should eat something "bitter" in autumn, which is quite beneficial in clearing away heat, removing fire, promoting digestion and removing lung heat. 5. Sour plum soup. In the sixties and seventies of last century, there were tea stalls selling sour plum soup in the streets of Wenzhou city, so there was a proverb that "the sour plum soup in the summer was completely extinguished". Making sour plum soup is very simple. At night, soak dried plums in boiling water and add rock sugar. After cooking and cooling, put it into a wooden ice bucket with a cover to reduce its temperature. It tastes sour and sweet, sweet and slightly salty, and tastes good. Health food for summer: 1, tremella fuciformis: It can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, promote fluid production and nourish yin, and also has the functions of eliminating muscle fatigue, strengthening the brain and preventing aging. Recommended eating method: first wash the tremella and put it in a casserole until it is thick and soft, then wash the tomatoes, peel them and mash them, put them in tremella soup and boil them, and add rock sugar to taste; You can also wash tremella and auricularia together and dip it in mustard soy sauce. It tastes delicious. 2, pomegranate: summer is the season to eat pomegranate. Vitamin C and vitamin E in pomegranate are higher than those in apple and pear. Pomegranate with red powder skin contains high vitamin C, and pomegranate with green skin contains high vitamin E.. Pomegranate is warm, sweet and sour, and has the functions of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, killing insects and stopping dysentery. Pomegranate can be eaten directly or can be drunk by squeezing juice. Acid pomegranate is very effective in preventing and treating diarrhea, and sweet pomegranate can prevent and treat throat dryness and thirst. 3. Corn: Summer is the season when corn matures. Lysine in fresh corn is an essential amino acid for human body and can only be ingested from food, while the content in other foods is very small. Therefore, fresh corn is one of the main sources of lysine. The nutritional value of special corn is higher than that of ordinary corn. For example, the content of protein, vegetable oil and vitamins in sweet corn is1-2 times higher than that in ordinary corn, and the content of selenium as a "life element" is 8-10 times higher. 4, yam: can clear the heart and soothe the nerves, tonify the middle energizer, help the five internal organs, strengthen the bones and muscles, maintain the elasticity of blood vessels and prevent arteriosclerosis. Recommended eating method: mash the washed yam, add sugar to make stuffing, and make dumplings with glutinous rice flour to eat; It can also be used as a yam; Or peel it, wash it with light salt water, cut it into small pieces, and add appropriate amount of sweet osmanthus sauce as a cold dish. 5, American ginseng: anti-fatigue, anti-hypoxia, people will experience yin deficiency and lack of qi, dry mouth and thirst, and fatigue. Putting some American ginseng in porridge or stew can not only calm and prevent autumn dryness, but also gently nourish. Recommended way to eat: you can brew it with American ginseng slices, which is very simple. Even when eating hot pot, putting American ginseng in it can effectively supplement it.