Soup is an indispensable dish on the table, and the types and tastes of soups in different regions are different. The soup on the Cantonese dining table will be used as an appetizer; In more parts of the country, soup will be the last course.
Eating soup before meals is healthier and has the following two advantages.
First, drinking soup before meals is nutritious and appetizing. Drinking soup before meals can awaken our gastrointestinal function and prepare for a big meal. The interval between meals is about 5 hours. Drinking soup properly before meals can make the stomach start to wriggle and prepare for digesting food.
Our intestines and stomach are also like a machine. Before we start eating, we should eat some soft food to prepare our intestines and stomach psychologically and adjust our state to the best. In this way, when we eat a lot, the stomach can better shoulder the heavy responsibility of digestion.
Therefore, drinking soup before meals is a nutritious and healthy eating habit, which can make our appetite open and help us eat more food.
Second, drinking soup before meals is conducive to food digestion and digestion of food in the stomach, relying on gastric acid and gastric juice. Drinking soup before meals can increase our gastric juice and turn the food we eat into a thin paste. This kind of food with moderate thickness will be digested more smoothly, which is more conducive to gastrointestinal health and safety.
People who have the habit of drinking soup before meals rarely have indigestion in their diet. This is also a very important benefit of drinking soup before meals. If you put the process of drinking soup after a meal, it will have the opposite effect. Soup will dilute gastric juice, which is bad for our digestion.
Although drinking soup before meals is nutritious and healthy, there are still many people who can't form such a good habit. When do you eat soup in your eating habits?