1. condiment
Vinegar is the most commonly used seasoning in daily life, and vinegar is one of the main seasonings in daily cooking. Vinegar can remove fishy smell and relieve boredom, increase the umami and fragrance of food, and reduce the decrease of vitamin C during food heating. When cooking fish food, adding vinegar can remove the fishy smell and make the food calcium. Iron is easier to dissolve, which is beneficial to the absorption and utilization of human body.
When cooking, if you accidentally put too much salt, pepper, oil, etc. It is too salty, too spicy and too greasy. Adding vinegar can reduce the taste. When you are in cook the meat, you can also add some vinegar to make the meat cook faster and increase the flavor of the meat.
2. Beauty
The cosmetic effect of vinegar is mainly reflected in the moisturizing convergence of skin and hair and the alleviation of pigmentation. Mixing vinegar and glycerin at the ratio of 1: 5 can make the skin more delicate. Adding a spoonful of vinegar to 250g water and 10g honey once a day before going to bed can make the skin tender and ruddy.
Mix two eggs, a spoonful of malt oil and a spoonful of balsamic vinegar. After washing your hair, rub the mixture on the roots of your hair, let it stand for half an hour and then rinse it with water. It can clean the oil in the hair and make it darker and more shiny. Applying vinegar to your hair before going to bed can prevent dandruff.
3. Disinfection and antisepsis
Since ancient times, people have used vinegar to sterilize and prevent corrosion. When an epidemic is prevalent, they burn stones, pour vinegar on them, and smoke their rooms with steam. In addition, vinegar has long been used to pickle fish and vegetables to increase the shelf life of food. Vinegar and salt are the best preservatives of all times.
Modern scientific research has confirmed that vinegar does have a strong bactericidal ability, which can kill Staphylococcus pyogenes, Salmonella, Escherichia coli, Shigella and so on within 30 minutes. In the season of frequent respiratory diseases, some water can be infiltrated into vinegar, and then heated on the fire, so that the vinegar-water mixture can slowly evaporate indoors, which can achieve the effective effect of preventing colds.
allay tiredness
When the human body is tired and weak, the body will have symptoms such as shoulder sclerosis, backache, etc. These symptoms are all caused by acidic body fluids. After the human body ingests carbohydrates such as starch, it will be decomposed into glucose after digestion, and it will become liver sugar after entering the liver through the blood, and then it will be transported to various parts of the body for combustion and converted into heat energy. During the combustion process, glycogen will grow pyrogluconic acid and then decompose into lactic acid. In addition to some lactic acid will be excreted through urethra, some lactic acid will remain in the body.
After strenuous exercise and excessive intake of protein and meat, body fluids will become more acidic, the brain or spinal cord will be stimulated, and fatigue symptoms will appear. If you want to change the symptoms of body fluid acid, you can add a little vinegar when cooking food, which can oxidize lactic acid in the body and eliminate fatigue.
treat a disease
Ordinary vinegar also has the function of treating diseases, because the main component of vinegar is acetic acid, which can stimulate the stomach nerves, enhance the secretion of gastric juice, prevent food from over-fermenting in the stomach, and have the effect of appetizing and resolving food stagnation. In modern clinical medicine, vinegar is also used to treat hypertension, biliary ascariasis, atrophic gastritis, infantile parotitis, tinea corporis, tinea of hands and feet, and mild burns. In addition, if you eat alkaline poisons by mistake, drinking a lot of diluted vinegar immediately can play a first-aid role.