The weather is getting colder and colder, and the radish season is coming! They all say "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer", but do you know why? I'm afraid some people think it must be because it's cold in winter. Eating radish can warm you up. In fact, on the contrary, radish is a cool thing. Although it tastes slightly spicy, its function is not to warm the body, but to clear away heat and fire. Now let's take a look at it with 5 1 health net! Why eat radish?

Failure is internal fire. Whether it is the air conditioning and heating of contemporary people or the stove heating kang of ancient people, we might as well make a joke. In winter, people have a "hot tendency", so a lot of internal fires naturally accumulate in their bodies, and we need radish, a cool food, to beat it.

Adjust the recipe. When it is cold, people will unconsciously increase their meat intake. From the perspective of food balance, radish is also needed to regulate the calories in the diet.

The nutritional value of radish is one of the most economical vegetables in autumn and winter in China, and it is also the most affordable food therapy drug for the public. Radish is rich in nutrition and is known as "Little Ginseng". It contains many vitamins, such as vitamin A (carotene), vitamin B 1 and vitamin C, among which the content of vitamin C is 8 ~ 10 times higher than that of pears and apples. Glycosylated alcohol in radish helps digestion and can help decompose starch and fat in food.

Radish is not only delicious in dishes, but also a good medicine for treating diseases. There is a folk saying in our country that "radishes are on the market, but doctors are fine" and "eating radishes in winter and ginger in summer does not require doctors to prescribe". At first glance, although these words have some exaggerated ingredients, it is scientific to analyze the medicinal effects and ingredients of radish.

Li Shizhen, a famous medical scientist in Ming Dynasty, admired radishes and advocated eating them every meal. In his book Compendium of Materia Medica, he said that radish can "relieve qi, eliminate valley, relieve summer heat and eliminate evil spirits." People will feel very comfortable after eating greasy food such as big fish and meat. That's the reason.

According to the research of medical scientists and nutritionists in Japan, Britain, the United States and other countries, radish contains some biological enzymes, which can decompose carcinogenic nitrosamines and lignin, and has the function of preventing cancer. In recent years, the medical community has also found that radish can reduce the concentration of cholesterol and blood lipids in the body, which is also good for preventing hypertension and coronary heart disease.