Edible value of yam
Do you know the benefits of eating yam? Yam can be said to be a nourishing and health food in our daily life. Yam can promote the brain to secrete dehydroepiandrosterone. Taking dehydroepiandrosterone can improve sleep, make people feel happy, energetic, look young and have a good appetite. To achieve the effect of strengthening the body and delaying aging. Yam has the functions of nourishing cells, strengthening endocrine, nourishing and strengthening human hematopoietic function, inducing interferon, improving human immune function and improving disease resistance. It plays an important role in delaying aging. Yam is rich in trace elements beneficial to human body, and has the functions of enriching blood, strengthening brain, tonifying kidney and resisting aging.
Suitable population of yam
People who plan to take tonic in winter: Yam is suitable for people in winter. For people who need tonic in winter, yam must be essential. Eating yam in winter is more conducive to the absorption of supplements. Yam is a tonic medicine, which has the function of strengthening the spleen and stomach, and is especially suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach to eat before tonic. It is a good choice to cook 20 grams of yam, jujube and rice (half of japonica rice and half of glutinous rice) into porridge.
Women who plan to lose weight: Yam has the advantage of losing weight, so it is very suitable for obese women. Yam is a good helper for slimming, because it contains less calories, more nutrients and rich crude fiber, which is easy to increase people's satiety and control their desire to eat. Moreover, the fat content of yam is very low, with only 0.2g fat per100g yam, thus achieving the purpose of slimming.
Women with cold hands and feet: In winter, women often have cold hands and feet, so they need to eat some foods that can replenish blood and nourish blood, drive away cold and keep warm. Yam is very suitable. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold hands and feet are closely related to physical weakness, while yam black chicken soup and longan yam soup have good effects of tonifying the middle warmer, benefiting qi and nourishing blood, which are especially suitable for patients with cold hands and feet.
Recurrent "old stomach trouble" patients: Yam has the function of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach for patients with stomach trouble. A considerable number of patients with "old stomach trouble" belong to ulcer disease, and autumn and winter are the seasons when ulcer disease is easy to occur or recur. Modern pharmacological studies have confirmed that allantoin contained in yam is helpful to the repair of gastric mucosa. Fresh yam can be made into yam lentil cake or millet yam cake and eaten after steaming.
Lotus root yam soup
Ingredients: lotus root100g, yam 50g, medlar10g.
Seasoning: 3g of ginger, 2g of salt, monosodium glutamate 1 g, sugar 1 g, vegetable oil15g.
working methods
1, peeled lotus root, washed and cut into thick slices; Peel and wash yam, and cut into thick slices;
2, the medlar is slightly soaked for use; Peel ginger, wash and shred for later use;
3. Heat the oil in the pot, add ginger and stir fry, and inject clear soup to boil;
4. Add lotus root, yam and medlar and cook over medium heat until cooked;
5. Season with salt, monosodium glutamate and sugar and put it in a bowl.
Efficacy of lotus root yam soup: the practice of lotus root yam soup is very simple. We need to buy lotus root, yam, medlar and other main ingredients, and then mix them with other condiments to make them. The therapeutic value of lotus root yam soup is very high, especially suitable for eating in winter. It has the effects of invigorating middle energizer, invigorating qi, nourishing blood, invigorating spleen and stomach, improving immunity, moistening lung and relieving cough, and is very suitable for eating in winter.
People often eat yam in winter, which can not only help tonify the middle energizer, strengthen the spleen and stomach, but also beautify and lose weight, dispel cold and keep warm. It is very suitable for the elderly with poor spleen and stomach, women who need to lose a little weight, or men with kidney deficiency. There are many ways to eat yam in daily life. We can use yam to make lotus root yam soup, which can help people replenish qi and nourish blood, strengthen the spleen and stomach and moisten the lungs in winter, and the effect is excellent.