Pork ribs are sweet, salty and flat, and enter the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians. They are delicious, not as greasy as pork belly, and have the effects of nourishing yin, strengthening yang, benefiting essence and nourishing blood. People with deficiency of both qi and blood and yin deficiency should eat more ribs. At the same time, ribs contain protein, fat, vitamins and a lot of calcium phosphate, collagen, bone mucin and so on. Children and the elderly often eat ribs to supplement the calcium needed by the body and promote bone health.
Pork is on ribs, and the essential fatty acids in pork provide heme (organic iron) and cysteine, which promotes the absorption of iron, so eating more ribs can alleviate the symptoms of iron deficiency anemia, especially suitable for people with insufficient blood and yin deficiency.
In addition, ribs also have the function of delaying aging, and the effect of ribs soup on the elderly is remarkable. This is because bone marrow is the most important thing in human bones, and both red blood cells and white blood cells in blood are formed in bone marrow, from which people can absorb and enhance the ability of hematopoietic cells to achieve the purpose of delaying aging. And sparerib soup is the simplest nutritional supplement. Pork ribs soup is rich in calcium, and people who lack calcium should also eat pork ribs soup to achieve the purpose of supplementing calcium. The soup cooked with ribs is cold, which can strengthen the waist and knees, benefit strength, make up weakness and strengthen bones and muscles. If the spleen and stomach are deficient in cold and people with poor digestion eat it, it is easy to cause flatulence or diarrhea, so ginger or pepper should be added to the bone soup. Calcined charcoal powder of pig bone is mild in nature and has the functions of stopping diarrhea, strengthening stomach and strengthening bones.