1, vinegar can stimulate appetite, promote the secretion of saliva and gastric juice, help digestion and absorption, make appetite strong, and promote digestion and accumulation.

2. Vinegar has good bacteriostatic and bactericidal effects, and can effectively prevent intestinal diseases, influenza and respiratory diseases. Adding vinegar to the diet can not only inhibit the growth of bacteria, but also enhance the flavor of food.

3, vinegar can soften blood vessels and lower cholesterol, which is a good prescription for patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as hypertension. The mineral potassium can excrete excess sodium in the body and prevent hypertension and arteriosclerosis.

4. Vinegar can protect skin and hair very well. In ancient China, it was recorded that vinegar was used as medicine, which was believed to have the effects of hair growth, beauty, blood pressure reduction and weight loss. It can also promote the acid-base balance of human body. beauty beauty, adding flowers and fruits, honey, etc., has a better effect.

5, vinegar can eliminate fatigue, promote sleep, and can reduce the discomfort of motion sickness and seasickness. High temperature weather is easy to fatigue and poor rest, and vinegar can oxidize and metabolize lactic acid that leads to fatigue.

6, vinegar can also reduce the concentration of alcohol in the gastrointestinal tract and blood, and play a role in sobering up.

7. Vinegar also softens chicken bones and shark fins and promotes calcium absorption.

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Application of vinegar:

1, rinse your mouth in time to protect your teeth after eating jiaozi dishes dipped in vinegar or eating more vinegar.

2. When cooking, the best time to add vinegar is at both ends, that is, adding vinegar immediately after the raw materials are put into the pot and adding vinegar before the dishes are put out of the pot. The first time should be more, and the second time should be less.

3. Vinegar can be used for raw materials that need to be deodorized and greasy, such as cooking aquatic products or stomachs, intestines, hearts, etc., which can eliminate fishy smell and peculiar smell, and some raw materials with heavy fishy smell can also be impregnated with vinegar in advance.

4, vinegar is used to cook raw materials with bones, such as ribs, fish, etc., which can soften bone spurs, promote the dissolution of minerals such as calcium and phosphorus in bones, and increase nutrients. It is recorded in Huangdi Neijing that when edema patients avoid salt, vinegar can be used instead; As early as the Han Dynasty, Hua Tuo had treated abdominal pain caused by ascaris with vinegar. In ancient Rome, people used vinegar to treat wounds; By the middle ages, Europe had been disinfected with vinegar. In Shanxi, China, there is a folk proverb that "you don't have to go to a drugstore if you have two vinegar at home".

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