Many people have a misunderstanding about cooking soup, thinking that the longer the cooking time, the easier the nutrients in the ingredients will be dissolved into the soup. In fact, if the ingredients allow, the time for boiling soup must be as short as possible, otherwise it will easily destroy amino acids in food, increase purine content and lose nutrients. The best cooking time of fish soup is about 1 hour, and chicken soup and sparerib soup are generally about 1 to 2 hours. Vegetables should be added to the soup to reduce the loss of vitamin C and B vitamins, and the water surface should not be covered with vegetables to isolate the air and reduce the loss of nutrients.

It is also beneficial to drink soup from time to time with meals. Because it helps to dilute and stir food, it is beneficial to the digestion and absorption of food in the gastrointestinal tract. If you don't drink soup before meals, you will be thirsty after meals because of excessive secretion of gastric juice. Drinking water at this time will dilute gastric juice and affect the absorption and digestion of food.

Therefore, some nutritionists believe that developing the habit of drinking soup continuously before or during meals can also reduce the occurrence of diseases such as esophagitis and gastritis. At the same time, it is also found that people who often drink all kinds of soup, milk and soybean milk are also the easiest to keep the digestive tract healthy. Cantonese people drink soup, which is a special activity. For example, when spring comes and everything recovers, they drink Cordyceps sinensis and duck soup to replenish their physical strength. The summer climate is hot, the human body is easy to get angry, and drinking bitter gourd ribs soup excretes heat; When the climate is dry in autumn, drink lotus seed snow ear soup to moisten the throat and lungs; If your hands and feet are cold in winter, drink mutton and angelica soup to warm yourself up.

Of course, drinking soup before meals is good for your health. Doesn't mean it's good to drink too much. It varies from person to person, and we should also master the time of drinking soup. Generally, it is advisable to use half a bowl of soup before lunch and dinner, and drink more before breakfast, because after a night's sleep, the body loses more water. The time to drink soup is about 20 minutes before meals, or you can drink soup slowly and in small quantities. In short, the comfort of the stomach is the key to drinking soup, and "binge drinking" is forbidden before and after meals.