When people eat bitter, bitter and salty foods, they are generally balanced. However, children's excessive intake of salty sweetness leads to many diseases, resulting in poor physical fitness and decreased resistance. In order to change the imbalance of five flavors, children should be given some bitter food.

First, bitterness can promote appetite.

Bitter taste can stimulate the taste buds of the tongue, activate the taste nerves, stimulate salivary glands and promote saliva secretion because of its freshness and refreshment; It can also stimulate the secretion of gastric juice and bile. When these functions are combined, it will increase appetite, promote digestion, and help to strengthen physique and improve immunity.

Second, suffering can clear the heart and strengthen the brain.

Bitter food relieves the heat in the heart, has the function of clearing the heart, makes the mind clear and makes the brain function better.

Third, bitterness can promote hematopoietic function.

Bitter food can keep the bacteria in the intestine in a normal balance. This function of inhibiting harmful bacteria and helping beneficial bacteria contributes to the function of intestine, especially the hematopoietic function of intestine and bone marrow, and improves the anemia state of children.

Fourth, bitterness can clear away heat and detoxify.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bitterness belongs to yin, which has the function of relieving qi, and has the function of clearing away heat and calming the nerves for irritability caused by excessive internal heat. Clearing heat and relaxing bowels can not only reduce fever, but also excrete toxins from the body with defecation, so that children will not get boils or suffer from other diseases.

In daily life, the key to bitter food is to pay attention to choice and eat it reasonably. Bitter foods are mostly vegetables and wild vegetables, such as lettuce leaves, lettuce, celery, fennel, coriander, bitter gourd, radish leaves, turnips, alfalfa, sake koji, moss and so on. Dried and fresh fruits include apples, apricots, water chestnuts, almonds, black dates, mint leaves and so on. In addition, there are buckwheat and naked oats. There are also Schisandra chinensis and lotus seed cores, which can be eaten and used as medicine. It is best to soak it in boiling water and drink it. Schisandra chinensis is suitable for winter and spring, and lotus seed core is suitable for summer.