Drinking soup is very particular about health care.
No one can eat soup, but do you know whether to eat soup before or after meals? This is very particular!
As the saying goes, "soup before meals is not as good as medicine", in fact, this statement is quite reasonable.
When eating, food passes through the mouth, throat, esophagus and finally reaches the stomach, just like passing through a passage. Drinking a few mouthfuls of soup before eating is equivalent to adding a little "lubricant" to this passage to make the food swallow smoothly and prevent dry and hard food from irritating the digestive tract mucosa. When eating, drinking soup from time to time in the middle is also helpful to the dilution and stirring of food, which 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, nutritionists believe that forming the habit of drinking soup often before meals can also reduce the occurrence of esophagitis and gastritis. Experts' research also found that those who often drink various kinds of soup, milk and soybean milk are also the easiest to keep healthy in the digestive tract.
Of course, drinking soup before meals is not the better. Under normal circumstances, it is advisable to use half a bowl of soup before lunch and dinner, and more before breakfast, because after a night's sleep, the human body loses more water. It is better to have soup about 20 minutes before meals. You can also drink soup slowly and in small quantities, but don't drink too much.