Duck meat is cold.

From the point of view of Chinese medicine, duck eats food mostly aquatic organisms, so its meat is sweet and cold in nature, and enters the lungs, stomach and kidney meridians, which is nourishing, nourishes the stomach, nourishes the kidneys, removes consumptive fever and bone vapor, eliminates edema, stops hot diarrhea, relieves cough and resolves phlegm.

Duck meat is rich in B vitamins and vitamin E, its fatty acids are mainly unsaturated fatty acids and low carbon saturated fatty acids, easy to digest. In addition, the fat in duck meat is different from other animal oils, the ratio of its various fatty acids is close to the ideal value, the chemical composition and olive oil is very similar to the effect of lowering cholesterol, atherosclerosis of the population is particularly suitable.

Expanded Information:

Duck can be eaten by the general population:

1, for people who have heat in the body, fire consumption; low fever, weakness, loss of appetite, dry stools and edema, food is better. At the same time suitable for malnutrition, postpartum, post-sickness, night sweats, spermatorrhea, women's menstruation, dry throat and thirst consumption.

2, need to pay attention to is, don't eat duck when you have a cold. Although duck is good, eat also have to pay attention to. First of all, cold patients should not eat duck, otherwise it may aggravate the condition. Cold or to drink chicken soup is appropriate; secondly, chronic enteritis to eat, duck taste sweet and salty, eat may make enteritis aggravation; abdominal pain, diarrhea, lumbago, menstrual cramps and other symptoms of the person is also best to eat less duck.

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