In terms of nutritional components, the content of organic acids in sour plum is very rich, such as citric acid and malic acid. Among them, there is a special citric acid, which can effectively inhibit lactic acid and drive away harmful substances that age blood vessels. Excessive lactic acid content in the body is an important cause of fatigue. Therefore, when you stay up late to work or feel mentally tired, drinking a cup of sour plum soup can play a good refreshing role and rejuvenate muscles and blood vessels. Besides, so many acids
Sexual substances can also promote the secretion of salivary glands and gastric glands, not only to quench thirst, but also to avoid carsickness when going out to play, or to sober up after drinking too much.
Sour plum contains many vitamins, especially vitamin B2, which is hundreds of times as high as other fruits. Although it tastes sour, it belongs to alkaline food. Eating too many acidic foods such as meat, drinking sour plum soup is more conducive to the balance of blood pH in the body.
From the perspective of Chinese medicine, it is more appropriate for people with a strong liver to eat more sour plums. It can not only calm down the liver fire, but also help the spleen and stomach digest and nourish the liver. In addition, sour plum is a natural throat lozenge, which can gently moisten the inflamed parts of the throat and relieve pain.
In daily life, you can make sour plum soup with different flavors at home according to different tastes. For example, using 20 grams of sour plum, licorice 10, red dates 10, adding appropriate amount of sugar, and cooking red dates and sour plum soup can quench thirst and strengthen the spleen. Or use mung bean100g, sour plum 50g, and add sugar to make mung bean sour plum soup, which can clear away heat, relieve summer heat, promote fluid production and relieve cough.
However, children had better eat less sour plum food. Because their gastric mucosa structure is weak, they can't resist the continuous erosion of acidic substances, and it is easy to cause gastric and duodenal ulcers for a long time.
It's best to drink it within 2 days, which is easy to deteriorate in summer.