In summer, the weather is hot, the humidity is heavy, and people's appetite is not good, so it is easy to get sick. Health experts believe that if you pay more attention to your diet, you can prevent illness in summer and spend the summer healthily. So what should we eat in summer? Experts recommend the following ten kinds of foods: 1. Mung beans: Mung beans have the functions of relieving dryness and heat, lowering blood pressure, and have a good effect on fatigue, swelling and poor urination. Mung bean skin can improve eyesight, and mung bean sprouts can also relieve alcoholism. Drinking mung bean soup often in summer can not only increase nutrition, but also have certain curative effect on diabetes, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, gastroenteritis, pharyngitis and vision loss. However, because mung beans are cold, people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more; It is advisable for people with low blood pressure and women not to eat during physiological period. 2. Coix seed: Coix seed is a plant with homology of medicine and food, with high nutritional value. Conducive to swelling, spleen and dampness, muscle relaxation and arthralgia, heat clearing and pus discharge. Suitable for eating in summer. It can also make skin smooth, reduce wrinkles and eliminate pigment spots; The protein decomposing enzyme contained in it can soften the cutin of the skin, and has obvious curative effect on facial acne and rough skin. In addition, it also has the ability to absorb ultraviolet rays, which is helpful for sun protection and ultraviolet protection when eaten in summer. Coix seed is boiled in water and made into porridge, which is more conducive to the absorption of the stomach. 3, bitter gourd: bitter gourd tastes bitter, but it has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, clearing the heart and improving eyesight, which is very suitable for summer consumption. Bitter gourd can be made into cold bitter gourd dish, or it can be made into bitter melon porridge with japonica rice. 4, lentils: lentils have the effect of relieving summer heat, infiltrating dampness, strengthening the spleen and detoxifying. Young pods and beans are suitable for summer consumption. Note that lentils should be braised in brown sauce, and must be heated and cooked thoroughly. Don't make them into cold dishes to avoid poisoning. 5, chrysanthemum: Chrysanthemum has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, refreshing and refreshing, and should be eaten in summer. Chrysanthemum can be made into chrysanthemum porridge with japonica rice, or soaked in chrysanthemum tea for drinking. 6. adzuki bean: adzuki bean is also called adzuki bean and red bean. Sweet, sour and flat, it is beneficial to water dehumidification, blood pus discharge, swelling and detoxification, and it is better to eat in summer. Adzuki bean can be used for making bean paste buns or cooking adzuki bean porridge. 7. Lily: Lily can quench thirst and moisten dryness, especially in summer. Lily mainly contains many alkaloids and nutrients, such as colchicine, which has good nutritional and nourishing effects, especially after illness, such as weakness and neurasthenia. Lily can significantly inhibit the mutagenic effect of aflatoxin, and is often used in the adjuvant treatment of leukemia, lung cancer, nasopharyngeal carcinoma and other diseases in clinic. Eating lily regularly has the effect of moistening lung, clearing heart and regulating middle energizer, which can relieve cough, stop bleeding, stimulate appetite, soothe the nerves and help to strengthen physical fitness. Lily can be made into celery and lily dishes or cooked into lily porridge. 8, wax gourd: wax gourd can clear away heat and diarrhea, diuresis and dampness, lose weight, clear away heat and relieve summer heat and eliminate heat rash, especially suitable for summer consumption. Pregnant women often eat wax gourd, and it also has the effect of detoxifying the fetus. Middle-aged and elderly people and patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease, hepatitis, diabetes, nephritis, obesity and cerebrovascular disease should also eat it, but those who have been ill for a long time are not suitable. Winter melon can be made into winter melon soup or roasted winter melon with a little coriander. 9. Luffa: Luffa contains a variety of amino acids, vitamins, minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron needed by the human body, and also contains active ingredients such as saponins and cucurbitacins for disease prevention and health care. It has the effects of clearing away summer heat, cooling blood, detoxifying and relaxing bowels, expelling wind, resolving phlegm, moistening muscles and beautifying, dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation, lowering blood pressure and promoting lactation. Luffa seed has the functions of clearing away heat, resolving phlegm, moistening dryness and detoxifying. Loofah sponge is a commonly used Chinese medicine, which has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting blood circulation, dredging collaterals, diuresis and detumescence, and is excellent to eat in summer. Loofah can be made into fried loofah or loofah soup, and tender loofah can be cold. 1. Lotus leaf: Lotus leaf can clear away heat, dispel fire, induce diuresis, nourish stomach and lower blood pressure, and should be eaten in summer. Lotus leaf can be made into lotus leaf porridge with japonica rice. Take a fresh lotus leaf, wash it, decoct it to get juice, add 1 grams of japonica rice to cook porridge, add less rock sugar and mix well. Reminder: It is not advisable to eat too much sweet food in summer. This is because summer is wet and heavy, and sweetness will help wet, and too sweet will hurt the spleen and stomach. Don't eat too much cold food in summer, which will cause cold in the abdomen, damage the spleen and stomach, and lead to gastrointestinal dysfunction and abdominal pain and diarrhea. It is not suitable to eat meat in summer, so as not to get angry and increase the burden on the stomach. It is advisable to eat bitter food in summer to get rid of fire; It is also advisable to eat sour food in order to promote fluid production and quench thirst, and to stop sweating; Appropriate salty food is also essential, so as to supplement the salt brought by sweating; You can also eat some spicy food properly in summer, so as to dispel dampness and stimulate appetite and better absorb and replenish nutrients.