Duck is a kind of aquatic bird raised artificially at home, which is also called "four major meats" with chicken, fish and meat, and occupies an important position in people's diet. Beijing roast duck, Nanjing dry-salted duck and Jiangnan crisp duck, which are processed from duck meat, are all indispensable famous dishes at state banquets. Duck meat is also one of the indispensable dietary raw materials for treating many diseases.

Duck eggs, also known as duck eggs, have roughly the same nutrients as eggs, but because ducks often live in water and can eat some small fish, shrimps, snails and other foods, the protein and yolk of duck eggs have a little fishy smell, which is thicker than eggs. Duck eggs can be not only fried, boiled, fried and steamed, but also salted or preserved eggs.

Nutritional efficacy

Chinese medicine believes that duck meat has the effects of nourishing yin and tonifying deficiency, nourishing stomach and benefiting water. It has a good curative effect on internal heat, physical weakness, anorexia, dry stool and edema. It can also improve night sweats, nocturnal emission, constipation, pharyngolaryngitis, menorrhagia, oliguria and other symptoms.

Duck oil may be an edible oil similar to olive oil, which does not increase the cholesterol content of the body, is beneficial to heart health after eating, and is extremely beneficial to patients with cardiovascular diseases.

Modern medical research believes that duck eggs are rich in protein, fat, inorganic salts and vitamins, and nutrients are not easy to be lost during cooking, and the organic matter in eggs is easy to be absorbed and digested by human body, which is beneficial to promoting the growth and development of the body and maintaining the normal function of the nervous system.

Application example

☆ Whole duck can be cooked with cold scallion and stewed Wuwen duck, and loose duck can be cooked with braised duck, duck soup, salted duck, salted duck, roasted duck and crispy duck.

Duck meat used for dietotherapy should be compatible with kelp, houttuynia cordata, Cordyceps sinensis, Codonopsis pilosula, yam, garlic, adzuki bean and japonica rice.

Edible taboo

√ Malnutrition, postpartum deficiency, edema and edema of chronic nephritis should be eaten;

√ Suitable for cancer patients and after radiotherapy and chemotherapy;

√ Suitable for diabetics;

√ Patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and ascites due to cirrhosis should eat it.

Usually weak and afraid of cold, or not thinking about diet, stomach pain, diarrhea, low back pain, dysmenorrhea and other symptoms caused by a cold, do not eat duck for the time being;

ⅹ Duck meat should not be eaten with walnuts, turtles, fungus and buckwheat.

ⅹ people with spleen-yang deficiency, cold-dampness diarrhea and qi stagnation after eating should not eat;

ⅹ Not suitable for eating during illness;

ⅹ Patients with cancer, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis and liver cirrhosis should not eat it;

ⅹ Nephritis patients should not eat preserved eggs;

ⅹ Duck eggs should not be eaten with soft-shelled turtle and plum.