Read: Each festival has traditional food, there are corresponding dietary taboos, winter as the first winter festival, diet must have changed, so what traditional food to eat in winter? If you are in the winter season to supplement the cold, then what is the best to eat in the winter? Next and I go together to understand it.

What is the best thing to eat in winter

Eat dumplings

Dumplings

Winter, dumplings, the flavor of both with the cabbage, but also dipped in vinegar and rotten garlic to eat, to be considered a different The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal on your own. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing and how you are doing it. Because of our country to agriculture as a country, attach great importance to the twenty-four seasons, "festival", the grass and trees new growth point also. Autumn harvest and winter storage, this day, to improve the life, the choice of "delicious but dumplings". That's why there is a saying in the Book of Rites that "eating melon is also a sacrifice to the ancestors". The winter solstice, the ancient Chinese custom of "winter solstice festival".

Eating salted meat and vegetables with rice

Eating a bowl of salted meat and vegetables with rice on the winter day is a specific custom of the old Suzhou people. The rice is made of frosted greens, fat and thin salted meat, and rice vinegar, and is cooked on a brick stove using straw as fuel, making it fragrant and sticky. Although the salted meat and vegetable rice is not included in the famous recipes of Suzhou, it never lacks of diners who love it.

In fact, there is another significance of eating salted meat and vegetables with rice, that is, eating salty kidney. Salty since ancient times is listed as the first of the five flavors, after the winter weather gradually cold, most likely to hurt the kidney Yang Qi. Salty food into the kidney, can play the effect of tonic kidney. However, it should be noted that hypertensive patients should not eat too much salt.

Eating cream to supplement

Winter tonic eat cream is the old tradition of Suzhou people over the winter. In the old days in Suzhou, some big families also use red ginseng, cinnamon, walnut meat, in the winter soup to drink, there is a tonic blood to help the efficacy of Yang. Usually every winter season, Suzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as some of the old pharmacy will be opened specifically to complement the outpatient clinic, for the public to boil ointment, the sale of winter tonic health care products. Need to be reminded that the cream must not "follow the wind" to eat, pay attention to "one person a party", first eat "open road party" exploratory tonic, make appropriate adjustments and then open the formal prescription.

Eat sugar cane

Chaoshan region, winter to eat sugar cane, fried rice. Sugar cane can become one of the "winter" food, because the folk have always had "winter eating sugar cane teeth do not hurt", meaning that the "winter" sugar cane is already ripe, eaten without fire, this time to "eat sugar cane", "eat sugar cane", "eat sugar cane", "eat sugar cane", "eat sugar cane", "eat sugar cane", "eat sugar cane", "eat sugar cane", "eat sugar cane". This time "eat sugar cane" can protect the teeth, but also can play a tonic effect.

Drink grassroots soup

Lidong, Minzhong is commonly known as "cross winter", meaning the turn of autumn and winter. Lidong "make up for the winter", every family to simmer grass root soup, will be the root of Angelica dahurica, salt wood root, cangzhi root, ground ripening root, etc. chopped into slices, down the pot boiled out of the thick grass root soup, fish out the root block, and then add chicken, duck, rabbit or pig's trotters, pork belly and so on simmering.

Eating patties

On this day, Zhangzhou's villagers celebrate the good harvest by pounding the patties. Steamed glutinous rice poured into the stone mortar, pounded tough, sticky, pulled into the size of a ping-pong ball, kneaded carefully into a ball; peanut rice fried fragrant, finely ground, and sugar mixed together. The mochi is rolled in sugar and peanut flour and placed in a large bowl. It is also known as "rattling mochi" because it is eaten with chopsticks, like a rattlesnake. After making the mochi, you have to pay homage to the God of the land and thank him for his generosity.

Brewing yellow wine

Brewing yellow wine on the day of winter is a traditional Shaoxing wine-making custom. In winter, the water is clear and cold, and the temperature is low, which can effectively inhibit the breeding of stray bacteria, and also enable the wine to form a good flavor in the low-temperature fermentation process for a long time, which is the most suitable season for brewing and fermentation. Therefore, Shaoxing people call the period from the beginning of winter to the beginning of spring of the next year, the most suitable time for making yellow wine, "winter brewing", to pray for the well-being of the people.

Eating Dumplings

Dumplings are a famous snack in the Yangtze River Valley, and there are two kinds of dumplings: white dumplings and green dumplings. Dumplings are round and spherical in shape, symbolizing reunion, and it is similar to the Lantern Festival in the north, but bigger than the Lantern Festival, which is the size of an apple. A large adult, eat three on the belly round. The outside layer of the doughnut is crispy and crunchy, while the inside of the various spices will be heated up with the doughnut, the aroma comes to the nose.

Dumplings have the same structure as buns, with an outer layer of glutinous rice jiang and an inner layer of different fillings. Dumplings are richly stuffed with: meat, dried tofu, squash, garlic, ginger, scallions, lotus root, dried prunes, and chili peppers ...... Chop them into fine dices and fine grains, season them, put them in a pan and fry them with salt and other seasonings, and then cool them down and start wrapping the dumplings in the drained glutinous rice syrup.

Eat mutton hot pot

Folklore has a cloud: north eat dumplings south eat onions, copper pot mutton good winter. Mutton sex warm, often eat easy to fire, Chinese medicine pay attention to "hot and cold" approach to food therapy. Therefore, eat lamb with cool and sweet and flat vegetables, can play a cool, detoxification, the role of fire. Cool vegetables are generally winter melon, squash, greens, spinach, cabbage, enoki mushrooms, mushrooms, lotus root, wild rice, bamboo shoots, choy sum, etc.; and sweet potatoes, potatoes, mushrooms, etc. are sweet and flat vegetables.

Ginger Duck

In Taiwan, on the day of winter, the streets of the 'mutton stove', 'ginger duck' and other winter tonic restaurant full of people. Many families also stew sesame oil chicken and chicken with four ingredients to replenish energy.

Eat red beans and glutinous rice

In the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River, there is a winter night the whole family get together *** eat red beans and glutinous rice custom. According to legend, there is a person called **** Gong's, his son is not talented, evil, died on the day of the winter solstice, died into the epidemic ghost, continue to brutalize the people. However, the ghost of the epidemic is afraid of red beans, so people cook and eat red beans rice on the day of the winter solstice, to avoid the ghost of the epidemic, disaster prevention and relief.

Winter diet to pay attention to what

Eat more staple foods, appropriate to eat some lamb, quail and sea cucumbers. Protein, fat and carbohydrates are known as thermogenic nutrients. Therefore, in winter, we should increase the intake of staple foods and fats appropriately to ensure the supply of high-quality protein. Dog meat, mutton, beef, chicken, venison, shrimp, pigeon, quail, sea cucumber and other foods are rich in protein and fat, calorie production, Chinese medicine is considered beneficial to the kidneys and yang, warming the middle and warming the lower part of the body, replenishment of qi and blood function, the best effect of cold.

Fear of cold and lack of calcium and iron. People afraid of cold and the body intake of certain minerals is less relevant. Such as calcium in the body of the amount of content, can directly affect the cardiac muscle, blood vessels and muscle expansion and excitability; blood iron deficiency is an important cause of iron-deficiency anemia, often manifested as less heat production, low body temperature. Therefore, supplementation of calcium and iron rich food can improve the body's ability to protect against cold. Calcium-containing foods mainly include milk, soy products, kelp, seaweed, shells, oysters, sardines, shrimp, etc.; iron-containing foods are mainly animal blood, egg yolks, pig liver, soybeans, sesame seeds, black fungus and jujube.

Kelp, nori can promote the secretion of thyroxine, produce heat. The human body's thyroid gland secretions have a called thyroxine, which can accelerate the oxidation of many tissue cells in the body, increase the body's ability to produce heat, so that the basal metabolic rate is enhanced, the skin blood circulation is accelerated, resistance to cold cold, and iodine-containing foods can promote the secretion of thyroxine. Iodine-rich foods are: kelp, purslane, hairy vegetables, jellyfish, spinach, cabbage, corn and so on.

Animal liver, carrots can increase resistance to cold. Cold weather makes the body's vitamin metabolism change significantly. Increased intake of vitamin A and vitamin C can enhance cold tolerance and adaptability to cold, and has a good protective effect on blood vessels. Vitamin A is mainly from animal liver, carrots, dark green vegetables, etc., and vitamin C is mainly from fresh fruits and vegetables.

Sesame and sunflower seeds provide the necessary elements for the body to withstand the cold. Cold weather increases the demand for methionine in the body. Methionine can provide a range of methyls necessary for adaptation to the cold through transfer. Therefore, more foods containing more methionine should be consumed in winter. Such as sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, dairy products, yeast, leafy vegetables and so on.

Eating spicy can get rid of cold. Chili contains capsaicin, ginger contains aromatic volatile oil, pepper contains piperine. They all belong to the spicy food, eat some more in winter, not only can enhance appetite, but also promote blood circulation, improve the ability to protect against cold.