If you have a cold, you should eat something light and easy to digest, and avoid greasy and indigestible or nutritious food.

The most suitable dishes are white radish, perilla, onion, ginger, garlic, perilla, light soup and porridge, lean meat or steamed chicken or fish.

What can't you eat with a cold:

First of all, during a cold, whether it is a cold or a wind-heat cold, we should avoid eating all nourishing, greasy and sour foods. Such as pork, duck, chicken, mutton, glutinous rice, astragalus root, Ophiopogon japonicus, ginseng, placenta, donkey-hide gelatin, various marine fish, shrimp, crab, longan, pomegranate, dark plum and various sticky dessert foods.

Secondly, people with colds should also avoid eating raw and cold food. Such as persimmon, bean curd, mung bean sprouts, snail, mussel meat, raw radish, raw lotus root, raw sweet potato, raw melon, raw pear, cold water chestnut, Siraitia grosvenorii, Leng Cha, chrysanthemum brain, mint, honeysuckle, white chrysanthemum, boat-fruited Sterculia, etc.