What foods should I eat during the summer?

What to eat in Summer? The summer heat is the second solar term in Autumn. There are many folk customs, such as eating ducks, longan porridge, eating white balls... Have you heard of these customs? What to eat in the end? The following small series introduces you.

What to eat in summer?

1. Ducks

Nanjing's traditional eating habits are eating ducks during the “summer days” season. The ducks, especially the ducks in Nanjing Jiangning Hushu area, are the most sought-after ducks. It is reported that the ducks there are sweet and cool and are suitable for fat and thin. If there is no time, the old Nanjing people will go to the deli to buy half a duck to go home; people who are free will stew "radish duck duck soup" or do "broiled duck duck" to neighbors at home, which is what the common saying goes. The duck is sent at the office and there are no diseases.

Hangzhou people used to divide ducks into old ducks, tender ducks, and big ducklings. In terms of nutrition, the old ducks have more lean meat and less water content. Their relative taste and nutrition will be better. Duck is mostly used for roast duck, sauce duck and so on. There is a small trick on how to identify old ducks and tender ducks: The lazy ducks generally have relatively uniform hair, and their mouth and soles are relatively hard. Their colors are yellow and black, and their bones are hard to touch. In addition, the same size, old duck weight than the weight of the duck.

2. Longan

"Cheats" arrived, and "summer" was over. The old Fuzhou "stompen" no longer drink herbal tea, and eat more "qi", "blood" thing, the old Fuzhou used to eat longan, longan after shelling porridge to eat.

After the summer heat has entered the fall, there is a saying in the Chinese medicine on "supplementing autumn", so it makes sense to drink less herbal tea and more longan. At this time pay attention to "qi", "blood", to avoid cold food; while the longan partial temperature, good heart, qi and blood, there is the role of nourishing qi, in this climate is beneficial to food; but diet does not Too rigid, it is not stipulated that this solar term must eat longan porridge, and many people can eat it in peacetime, which is beneficial.

3, white balls

In addition, the old food Fuzhou eats in the heat is white meat balls. The white ball is actually a glutinous rice ball. The practice is very simple. The glutinous rice flour is diced into small granules. The broth is boiled and the sugar is added. The taste is sweet. It can not only add carbohydrates, but also relieve the greasy smell in the summer.

Glutinous rice has the effect of nourishing yin, and autumn can properly drink glutinous rice porridge. Glutinous rice, its sweet, warm, into the spleen and kidney, can nourish the body upright, with Qi and spleen, Sheng Jin antiperspirant role. After eating, it will have a fever on the whole body and it will protect the body from cold and nourishment. Eating glutinous rice properly in the fall will have a good tonic effect on the body.

4, herbal tea

The practice of burning tea at the Department of Health has been prevalent since the Tang Dynasty. Every time during the summer heat, every household has the habit of decocting herbal tea, first go to the pharmacy to prepare prescriptions, and then prepare tea at home, meaning to eat “bitter” in the autumn, in the heat, heat, digestion, in addition to lung heat and other aspects There are benefits.

If you feel dry mouth and dry before and after the summer heat, to dry cold Ophiopogon or Dendrobium tea, help relieve heat, but also Yin; Sydney to join honey, Chuanbei soaked in water for drinking, there is phlegm and cough, The role of Shengjin Yangfei is also suitable for people who are mad. However, during the summer season, herbal tea should be consumed less, because the heat is not severe at this time, and herbal tea is excessively bitter and cold, and can easily hurt the spleen and stomach. It is also not beneficial to the lungs and kidneys.

5, sour plum soup

In the sixties and seventies of the last century, there were tea stalls selling sour plum soup on the streets of Wenzhou, so there was a saying that “Summer sour plum soup was full of fire”. Making sour plum soup is very simple. At night, use boiling water to brew dried plums and add rock sugar. After cooking and letting cool, put it in a wooden covered ice bucket to cool it down. It tastes sweet with acid, slightly salty, and tastes good.

Wumei is rich in organic acids, it can effectively inhibit lactic acid, reduce fatigue, and remove harmful substances that cause blood vessels to age. Therefore, summer heat and sour plum drink can refresh the body, thirst, let the muscle and vascular tissue rejuvenate. In addition, when you eat more meat, drinking sour plum juice can help balance the body's pH.

After the summer heat, the most important thing is to raise the lungs, and white food such as white fungus, Chinese yam, white radish, lily, white peony and pear are most likely to enter the lungs. It is recommended to eat more and eat less spicy food.

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