Okra cannot be eaten with cold foods. Generally, there are no taboos for okra. It is just because okra itself is cold in nature. Eating too much or people with a weak spleen and stomach may easily cause gastrointestinal reactions and cause health problems. It is uncomfortable, so it is best not to eat okra with cold foods, especially not to eat a lot of cold foods:
1. Okra is mostly eaten as a vegetable on the table. Because okra is very cold, it is better to choose some hot foods as staple food. Eating okra with hot staple foods can appropriately adjust the cold nature of okra to avoid causing spleen and stomach deficiency. Cold staple foods: corn (millet), wheat, barley, buckwheat, coix kernels, mung beans;
2. Do not eat them with cold meat. Cool meats: buffalo meat, duck meat, rabbit meat, mare's milk, frog meat (frog), fish, abalone. Cold meats: duck eggs (slightly cold in nature), horse meat, otter meat, crabs, sea crabs, clams (sand clams, sea clams, clams), oyster meat, snails, earthworms, field snails (big cold), snails, mussel meat , clam meat (river clam), mullet, octopus;
3. Do not eat it with cold fruits. After eating okra, the stomach is often in a state of deficiency and coldness. It is not suitable to eat cold and cooling fruits at this time, which may easily lead to indigestion and diarrhea. Cool fruits: apples (slightly cool in nature), pears, tangerines, oranges, strawberries (slightly cool in nature), mangoes, loquats, Luo Han Guo, water chestnuts, lotus seeds, and lilies. Cold fruits: persimmon, persimmon, grapefruit, banana, mulberry, peach, fig, kiwi, sugar cane, watermelon, melon (cantaloupe);
4. When eating okra, you should also pay attention to avoid some of the following It is not advisable to consume other cold or cooling foods, especially cold or cooling tea after eating. Cooling foods: green tea, honey, royal jelly, hops, Sophora japonica (Sophora japonica), chrysanthemum, mint, Pedropodia striata, white peony root, Adenophora adenophora, American ginseng, Cassia seed. Cold foods: soy sauce, noodle sauce, salt, honeysuckle, bitter melon tea, kuding tea, thatch root, reed root, and alum.
Extended information:
Two types of people should not eat okra:
1. Patients with kidney stones and hyperuricemia are the best people with this disease. do not eat. Because okra contains calcium oxalate, which is one of the important causes of gout;
2. People with weak spleen and stomach. This is mainly because okra is cold in nature. People with weak spleen and stomach and prone to diarrhea are best to eat less, otherwise it will easily aggravate diarrhea.
In addition, the mucus protein in okra and the villi on the skin are allergens, so it is recommended that people with allergies must pay attention to whether they will have allergic reactions to these substances.
Reference materials: Baidu Encyclopedia-Coffee Okra
Chinese Food Network-Okra Competing Food