1. Pasta

After autumn, it is the season of wheat harvest. In dog days, the metabolism of the human body will be accelerated, the body will sweat a lot, a large number of protein amino acids will be lost, and a large number of B vitamins and minerals such as potassium and sodium will also be lost, so the demand for energy will increase. Pasta represented by jiaozi, noodles and pancakes contains sugar, B vitamins and a variety of substances.

jiaozi on the head: Eating jiaozi on the head is not only appetizing, but also because jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, and "Fu" is homophonic, so jiaozi on the head is called "Yuanbao", which is people's longing for a better life. Almost all kinds of vegetables and meat can be stuffed into jiaozi.

middling noodles: noodles are usually eaten at this time in the northern region. This season is the time to harvest new wheat. The new wheat is ground into flour to make hot soup noodles. A bowl often makes you sweat. You can also eat cold noodles with water. After the noodles are out of the pot, cook them in cold water for several times.

Pancakes in dog days: Pancakes are a common food in the north. They choose to eat pancakes and eggs in dog days because the weather turns cold after beginning of autumn, and it is easy to sweat and catch a cold after eating hot noodle soup. In addition, eggs and cakes are round, which means that the whole summer will be complete. Besides the nutrition in noodles, egg pancakes can reach the standard of diversified diet and balanced nutrition.

2. The best way to eat mutton

is to get rid of dampness. You have to eat mutton in dog days. As the saying goes, "You don't need a prescription for a bowl of soup for a sheep", which is enough to show the effectiveness of mutton in summer. Especially in some areas of Jiangsu and Shanghai, you like to eat sheep in dog days. Xuzhou people specially set up a "Lying Sheep Festival" to eat sheep in summer.

There are certain things about eating mutton: mutton is hot, and you should eat it in winter, such as hot pot; Goat mutton is warm and can be eaten in summer, such as stewed mutton. The mutton in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is mainly goat mutton.

You can add carrots to mutton to remove fishy smell and supplement vitamins to make the soup sweeter. Rice wine can also be added. Rice wine also helps to cool and replenish deficiency, quench thirst and relieve summer heat, and sesame oil and walnuts can also be added to remove fishy smell.

3. Eating chicken

Eating chicken is basically inseparable in the dog days in the south. The summer climate in the south is hot and humid. The ancients believed that roosters have the function of eliminating dampness, forming a folk custom of eating chicken in summer, in which the first rooster is the most solemn.

There is a saying in Hangzhou: "Ham first, then chicken"; Hunan is adjacent to Jiangxi, and the first place is eating chicken.

many people like to cook soup with chicken. Guangdong people who love health put a whole chicken in a pig's belly, then put it in cold water and cook it with Lycium barbarum, Polygonatum odoratum and Codonopsis pilosula. Coconut chicken soup is the "best" among many chicken soups, and it is especially popular in Guangdong.