1. Choose high-calorie foods among staple foods.
Refers to the staple food in addition to rice and miscellaneous grains, adding beans, peanuts and other high-calorie foods.
2. Ensure sufficient high-quality protein.
Refers to milk, eggs, fish, poultry, pigs, cattle, sheep and lean meat.
3. Ensure adequate vitamins.
Vegetables and fruits have high vitamin content, such as tomatoes and green peppers, which contain more vitamin C, and are important substances to enhance physical fitness and resist diseases.
In autumn, people's mouth, nose, skin and other parts often appear different degrees of dryness, so we should eat some food that tonifies the body and nourishes the yin, and eat less spicy and fried food. Suitable foods for autumn are:
Lily: It has the functions of nourishing lung and moistening lung, clearing away heart fire and calming nerves, eliminating fatigue, moistening dryness and relieving cough.
Yam: it is characterized by tonic without stagnation, neither hot nor dry, and is suitable for men, women and children.
White lentils: Cooking porridge or soup with white lentils can relieve summer heat and dampness, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and increase appetite.
Lotus root: raw lotus root can clear away heat and promote fluid production to quench thirst, while cooked lotus root can strengthen the spleen to stimulate appetite and benefit blood. Therefore, there is a saying that "lotus root is born in summer and ripe in autumn, raw food is fresh and tender, and cooked food is old and strong".
Monopterus albus: Eating Monopterus albus in autumn not only nourishes the body, but also has a certain regulating effect on human blood sugar. You can cut into pieces, stew, shred and cook porridge.
Chestnut: It has the functions of strengthening spleen and stomach, tonifying kidney and strengthening bones.
Walnut: It can tonify kidney, solidify essence, warm lung and relieve asthma, invigorate qi and nourish blood, moisten dryness and intestines.
Peanut: When the peanuts are ripe in late autumn, they should be cooked with fresh flowers or ground into soup or decocted in water, and should not be fried.
Jujube: Eating jujube in autumn is a tonic food for nourishing yin and moistening dryness, benefiting lung and invigorating qi. If it can be stewed with tremella, lily and yam, the effect will be better.
In addition, pears, water chestnuts, carrots, shepherd's purse, Pleurotus ostreatus, kelp, tomatoes and rabbit meat are also suitable for autumn consumption, while astragalus, ginseng, Adenophora adenophora, Lycium barbarum and Polygonum multiflorum are suitable for tonic.