Spleen-strengthening effect of yellow food
Yellow is earth in the five elements. Therefore, after yellow food is ingested, its nutrients are mainly concentrated in the spleen and stomach. Such as pumpkin and corn. Eating often can be of great benefit to the spleen and stomach.
1. Yellow food is rich in vitamins A and D. Vitamin A can protect intestinal mucosa and respiratory mucosa and reduce the occurrence of gastritis and other diseases. Vitamin D can promote the absorption of calcium and phosphorus and strengthen bones and muscles.
2. It can provide high-quality protein, fat, vitamins and trace elements. And eating it often is good for the spleen and stomach.
The representative of yellow food
First, corn
Corn is a good health care product in coarse grains, with high fiber content, which can stimulate intestinal peristalsis and accelerate fecal excretion. It is the best food for reducing blood fat, treating constipation, caring skin and preventing intestinal cancer. Corn has diuretic and antihypertensive effects. Carrots are rich in vitamin A, which can promote the normal growth and reproduction of the body, prevent respiratory tract infection, protect eyesight and prevent cancer.
Recipe recommendation: Lycium barbarum and corn colorful soup
Exercise:
1. Wash and soak Lycium barbarum, peel pineapple and carrot, dice, and wash corn kernels and peas.
2. Add a proper amount of water to the pot, add corn kernels and sweet peas and cook.
3. Add oatmeal and bring to a boil. After taking out the pan, add pineapple granules.
Second, pumpkins
Pumpkin is a master of invigorating stomach and promoting digestion, and its pectin can protect gastrointestinal mucosa from the stimulation of coarse grains, which is suitable for patients with gastric diseases. Moreover, pumpkin contains ingredients that can help food digestion.
Recipe recommendation: pumpkin, millet and red bean porridge
Practice: Wash the old pumpkin and cut it into pieces. Wash rice and millet and cook porridge. When boiling, add pumpkin until the porridge is cooked.
Efficacy: porridge is the first health care product in the world, which is easy to digest and absorb. This porridge moistens the five internal organs and nourishes qi and blood, which is especially suitable for the elderly with weak spleen and stomach. You can add some warm red beans to the porridge to warm your stomach.
Third, sweet potato.
Sweet potato has the functions of invigorating spleen and stomach, benefiting qi and widening stomach. Suitable for spleen and stomach weakness, emaciation and weakness, diarrhea. Eating too much can easily lead to acid reflux, heartburn and flatulence in gastrointestinal tract.
Recommended recipe: shredded sweet potato
Ingredients: 500g sweet potato.
Seasoning: sugar 150g, water 100g, sesame oil 30g, peanut oil 1000mg.
Exercise:
1. Wash and peel the sweet potato and cut it into hob blocks.
2. When peanut oil is added to the spoon and burned to 90℃, put the sweet potato pieces in the oil and fry until the color is golden, and take out the oil control.
3. Brush the spoon with clear water and sugar, and cook the sugar with slow fire, from big bubble to small bubble; When the big bubbles of sugar turn into small bubbles of sugar until it becomes sticky and discolored, pour the fried sweet potato into the spoon and spoon to make the sugar liquid completely stick to the sweet potato.
4. Pour it into a dish stained with sesame oil, and hold a bowl of white water when serving, so as not to touch your teeth.
Fourth, potatoes
Potatoes are sweet and flat. Has the functions of benefiting qi and strengthening spleen. Suitable for spleen deficiency, weakness, loss of appetite and indigestion. The sprouted potato buds and skins are poisonous and unfit for eating.
Recommended recipe: potato pumpkin soup
Ingredients: potatoes, pumpkins
Ingredients: preserved apricots, red dates, medlar, salt and mushroom essence.
Exercise:
1. Cut potatoes and pumpkins into small pieces, cut preserved apricots and red dates into small pieces, and soak Chinese wolfberry in water.
2. Put a little oil in the pot, pour the cut potatoes and pumpkins into the pot and stir fry a few times, add water, add a little salt and mushroom essence.
3. Pour 2 into the pressure cooker, add the cut preserved apricots, red dates and soaked Lycium barbarum, and stew for 5-8 minutes (or simmer in the stew until the potatoes and pumpkins are cooked).