What are the benefits of eating leek? Leek is a very common vegetable in our daily life. Leek has a unique pungent smell. Some people like it and some people hate it. In fact, leek is good for our health. Let's see what are the benefits of eating leek.
What are the benefits of eating leeks 1 1, and the nutritional value?
Leek not only has edible value but also medicinal value. Leek has high water content and is rich in vitamins, especially beta carotene. Eating a bunch of leeks can meet the human body's daily demand for beta carotene. Leek also contains vitamin C and vitamin E. The calories of leeks are relatively low, so you don't have to worry about getting fat when you eat leeks. Leek contains a lot of crude fiber, which can help digestion and prevent the occurrence of intestinal cancer.
2. Efficacy
The nutrients in leek are actually very rich, which can prevent some common diseases, enhance people's resistance and eliminate people's fatigue. Eating leeks often can prevent colds, prevent symptoms of cold hands and feet, and is also good for the stomach.
Leek also has antibacterial and liver-protecting effects, which can help the human body kill some common bacteria and protect internal organs. Of course, the iron content of leek is also high, so the effect of enriching blood is also remarkable, and children can also promote the development of bones and teeth.
3. Warm reminder
Although eating leek has many benefits, there are still some taboos. Eating too much leek is easy to get angry and may cause gastrointestinal discomfort, so people who are easy to get angry and have a good gastrointestinal discomfort should eat in moderation and not eat too much. Try to eat leeks in hot weather. Leeks are rich in crude fiber, so they are not easy to digest. People's digestive system is not very good in hot weather, so try to eat less.
What are the benefits of eating leeks? 2 Precautions for pregnant women to eat leeks.
1, leek should not be eaten with beef: leek is pungent and warm, which has the function of warming the middle warmer and helping the yang, while beef is warm and has the function of benefiting qi and strengthening yang. Eating both together, such as adding oil to the fire, will easily lead to the rise of virtual fire, leading to gum swelling and pain.
2, leeks should not be eaten with honey: vitamin C in leeks is easily destroyed by minerals in honey, and leeks are rich in dietary fiber, while honey moistens the intestines and facilitates defecation, which is easy to cause diarrhea.
3, leeks should not be eaten with white wine: white wine is pungent and hot, which will promote blood circulation and dilate blood vessels, while leeks are pungent and warm, warming and strengthening yang, both of which are too pungent for people who have recovered from a serious illness, so they cannot eat together.
4, leeks should not be eaten with vinegar: leeks and vinegar eat together, which will destroy carotenoids in leeks and easily cause nutrient flow.
5, leeks should not drink milk with food: leeks contain oxalic acid, milk is rich in calcium, and oxalic acid will affect the absorption of calcium in milk, which will lead to the lack of nutrition in milk.
6, leeks are best matched with pork: leeks are not easy to digest, so try to eat with other foods to alleviate the irritation of leeks to the stomach.
In addition, leek is rich in sulfide, which can promote the body to absorb vitamin B 1, so it is a more nutritious way to eat leek if it is matched with pig meat food rich in vitamin B 1.
7. You should not eat more leeks in summer. In summer, most leeks are aging, with coarse fiber, which is not easy to be absorbed, and the gastrointestinal function is reduced in summer, especially for pregnant women. Eating more leeks is easy to cause abdominal distension, discomfort or diarrhea.
8. You should not heat leeks for too long. Leek is rich in vitamin B, which can be destroyed by heating. The longer the heating time, the more damage. Therefore, it should not be eaten after long-term heating.
9. You should not eat leeks raw. The cooking time of leek should be skillful, and it should not be heated for too long or eaten raw.
Because leek is rich in cellulose, difficult to digest, and unlike onion and garlic, which can be peeled before eating, the edible part is close to the ground, which often pollutes the eggs of microorganisms and parasites, and there are many ramets, which are not easy to wash clean and easily infected with diseases, so it is not suitable for raw eating.
10, fire with yin deficiency is not suitable for eating leek, which is pungent and warm to help yang. It can dry the fire and exhaust the true yin. Animal experiments show that it can cause mania, convulsions and even death in the animals being tested, so "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica" says: "Fire with yin deficiency is the most taboo."
1 1, leek contains a substance called oxalic acid, which can prevent trace elements from entering the fetus. Therefore, once pregnant women eat too much leeks, oxalic acid in the body will appear in large quantities.
If the fetus is not compensated by trace elements in time, it is easy to have various congenital diseases, so pregnant women should be very careful when eating leeks.
12, leek is a cold food, if it is eaten too much, it is easy to cause diarrhea. If pregnant women have recurrent diarrhea, there may be threatened abortion.
13, in addition to controlling the consumption, it is best to use water several times before cooking leeks, so as to remove oxalic acid in leeks and protect the health of pregnant women to the maximum extent.
Tips: Pregnant women can eat leeks, but they can't eat more, especially some pregnant women with bad stomachs, which may cause discomfort after eating leeks. It is better for such pregnant women to eat less leeks.
The benefits of women eating leeks
1, beauty: leeks are rich in vitamin A. Eating more can not only beautify and protect skin, improve eyesight and moisten lungs, but also reduce the chances of catching colds, cold and asthma.
2, protect the liver: leek contains volatile essential oil and sulfide and other special ingredients, emitting a unique pungent smell, which helps to regulate liver qi, stimulate appetite and enhance digestive function.
3, sterilization and anti-inflammatory: the sulfur compounds contained in leeks have a certain bactericidal and anti-inflammatory effect, which can inhibit Pseudomonas aeruginosa, dysentery, typhoid fever, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus.
4, stasis and blood circulation: leek has the effect of stasis, blood circulation and detoxification, which is beneficial to the human body to lower blood lipids and prevent coronary heart disease, anemia and arteriosclerosis.
5, laxative: leek contains a lot of vitamins and crude fiber, which can improve gastrointestinal peristalsis, treat constipation and prevent intestinal cancer.
6, lowering blood fat: leek has the effect of removing blood stasis and detoxifying, which not only effectively lowers blood fat, but also prevents coronary heart disease, anemia and arteriosclerosis, so it is advisable to eat more leeks.
7. Helpfulness: In fact, eating some leeks properly also has the effect of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney. Eating some leeks properly is beneficial to helping sex and improving women's desire.
Women should not eat more leeks.
(1) Although the edible value and medicinal value of Chinese chives are high, we should not eat too much Chinese chives, which will lead to side effects. Therefore, we should pay attention to the problem of quantity when eating Chinese chives.
(2) Although leek has many benefits to human body, it is not the more the better. Leek has a lot of crude fiber, which is not easy to digest and absorb. Eating too much at a time often causes diarrhea. It is best to control it at a meal 100 g to 200 g, not more than 400 g. In addition, people suffering from yin deficiency and excessive fire (symptoms: upset, flushed cheekbones, dry mouth and no desire to drink water, red tongue with little coating, night sweats, etc.) should not eat leeks. People who don't like spicy food should not eat it, and people who are allergic should not eat it.
(3) Finally, for female friends, if you want to whiten, it is recommended to eat less leeks, because it is photosensitive food. Photosensitive plants contain vitamins and are also doped with some photosensitive substances, and these photosensitivity plants will attract ultraviolet rays if they are taken in excess.
Make ultraviolet rays do more harm to the skin. Moreover, photosensitive foods are generally rich in a large number of metal elements such as copper, zinc and iron, and these metal elements will change when they encounter ultraviolet rays, which will sharply aggravate the accumulation of melanin in the skin, thus making the skin black or forming black spots.
Edible taboo of leek
1 Don't eat beef when eating leeks. Leeks are easy to get angry, and beef is also warm food, so it is easy to get angry when eating together. Don't drink white wine when eating leeks, it will stimulate blood vessels and intestines and stomach, and it is easy to cause various diseases.
Leek and honey can't be eaten together. Eating the two foods together will destroy the nutrition and easily cause diarrhea. Leek can't be eaten with spinach. Leek is warm and spinach is cold, but both kinds of food have the effect of smoothing intestines, so eating together is prone to diarrhea.
2. Don't eat too much leek. Although it is very good for your health, eating too much leek can easily lead to excessive internal heat. Leek contains a lot of crude fiber.
Originally, it can help digestion and clear the intestines, but if you eat too much, it will easily affect the stomach and intestines, and diarrhea may occur. Although leek can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, it is not easy to digest if you eat too much, especially for people with bad stomachs.
3, warm reminder that it is best to choose a tender blue leek to eat, the color is generally older, you can try it for a while, the old leek is more unpalatable and may not bite.
Therefore, when buying leeks, we should pay attention to selecting tender leeks. If the leek is cooked and not eaten, it is best to throw it away. Cooked leek can't stay overnight, and it will be poisoned if eaten overnight.