1 mutton
Many places in the north have the custom of eating dog meat and mutton on the winter solstice. Chinese medicine believes that mutton and dog meat have the effect of aphrodisiac and complement. In fact, in the south of the Yangtze River, Suzhou people began to make up for it from the winter solstice, and what they ate was the well-known Wuzhong mutton.
2. Black rice
Black rice is not as refined as white rice, but is mostly eaten directly in the form of brown rice after hulling. This kind of thick black rice is suitable for cooking porridge. Soak the porridge before cooking to fully absorb the water. The water used for soaking rice should be boiled with rice to preserve the nutrients in it. It can also be made into snacks, dumplings, zongzi, bread, etc.
3. Pork
Compared with mutton and beef, pork has lower protein content and higher fat content. Pork can provide essential fatty acids for human body. Pork tastes sweet, nourishes yin and moistens dryness, can provide heme and cysteine to promote iron absorption, and can improve iron deficiency anemia.
4. Ginger
Another folk food on the winter solstice is preserved ginger rice, and ginger is naturally an indispensable role. This plant takes the thick and pungent underground rhizome as the material, and there are more than ten kinds of ginger, turmeric, black ginger, sand ginger, etc. The common ginger is mostly turmeric with moderate spicy taste.
5. Pears
Pear is the first choice of winter fruits, which contains malic acid, citric acid, glucose, fructose, calcium, phosphorus, iron and various vitamins. Pear has the functions of moistening throat, promoting salivation, moistening lung, relieving cough and nourishing stomach and intestines.
6. Nuts
Chinese medicine believes that nuts are warm in flavor, and it is easy to get angry when eaten in other seasons, while the cold winter is a "timely help". In addition, most nuts can tonify the kidney, which just echoes the corresponding organ "kidney" in winter. Eating nuts in moderation can be called the trick of keeping healthy on the winter solstice.
The above contents refer to People's Daily Online-What do you eat for winter solstice health? Six kinds of food are the most cold-proof.