People who can eat "spring vegetables" are health experts! Eat spring into your stomach

Some people say that the best way to make your body feel spring is to eat it in your stomach.

The willows spit green, the spring flowers sprout, and fresh spring vegetables come out of the soil in handfuls. Different spring vegetables not only satisfy the taste buds, but also have their own health effects.

Interviewed experts

He is a researcher at the National Vegetable Engineering Technology Research Center.

Chi Xiaoling, Director of Hepatology Department, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Zhou Chunling, Vice President of Nutrition and Food Safety Branch of China Geriatrics Association

Dr. Rui Lili, Department of Food and Nutrition, Academy of Military Medical Sciences

Chinese chives

"Leek is fragrant in spring and smelly in summer." Although leeks can be eaten all year round, the most tender and delicious is spring leeks.

Leek has the benefits of dietotherapy.

From the perspective of modern nutrition, leek is rich in dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals, among which dietary fiber can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and avoid constipation.

Leek is rich in phytochemicals, such as sulfur-containing compounds and volatile essential oils, which not only endows leek with unique leek fragrance, but also helps to sterilize, stimulate appetite and reduce the incidence of cardiovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease.

Li Shizhen described leek as "the dish of the liver" because the liver governs hair growth, and leek is a warm food, which can help the liver promote hair growth.

Leek contains saponins, flavonoids and other substances, which helps to improve immunity.

Choose leek to see the incision

The flatter the incision, the fresher the leek; Pinch the root of leek, and the leaves can stand upright, indicating that the quality is better.

If the root incision of leek grows pimples, or the leaves are loose, it may be left for a long time.

The roots of fresh leeks are white, contain more water and look bright; The root of the old leek is blue. You can also pinch the roots, and the leeks pinched by your hands are fresher.

Chinese chives on the market can be divided into broad leaves and narrow leaves. Broad-leaved leeks have light green leaves, low dietary fiber content and relatively good taste, but they are light to eat.

Narrow-leaf leek has slender leaves, dark green leaves and high dietary fiber content, and its taste is not as good as that of broad-leaf leek, but it is richer.

There is no special difference in nutrition between the two kinds of leeks. It should be noted that leeks with abnormal leaves should be purchased with caution, because growth regulators are likely to be used when planting.

There are many ways to eat Chinese chives, such as scrambled eggs with Chinese chives, shredded pork with Chinese chives and jiaozi stuffing.

shepherd's purse

What people often do now is to wrap jiaozi with fresh shepherd's purse, which is called Spring Warm bloom.

Shepherd's purse can supplement calcium and help reduce swelling.

Shepherd's purse shepherd's purse is rich in nutrition, with high contents of vitamin C, carotenoids and various minerals. It is particularly worth mentioning that its calcium content is higher than that of milk with the same weight.

Shepherd's purse also has certain medicinal value. Traditional medicine thinks it can be used to treat dysentery, enteritis, gastric ulcer and other diseases.

Boiling shepherd's purse porridge is very suitable for people with stagnant diet and loss of appetite. The food tastes sweet and light, but it is cold. Has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, cooling blood, stopping bleeding, clearing liver-fire, improving eyesight, invigorating stomach and promoting digestion.

However, people with weak spleen and stomach and loose stools should not eat more.

Pick shepherd's purse to see the size of leaves

Shepherd's shepherd's purse on the market now is basically divided into shepherd's purse with small leaves and shepherd's purse with large leaves, which are slightly different in material selection.

Shepherd's purse is also called "loose-leaf shepherd's purse" Generally, the leaves are scattered, the color is gray-green, and they are wild. The color planted in greenhouses is tender green.

The loose-leaf shepherd's purse with thin leaves and astringent touch is better, and the flavor with red leaves is more intense.

Shepherd's purse with big leaves is also called Shepherd's purse with plate leaves. Its leaves are slender and complete, and the color is usually bright green. This shepherd's purse is basically cultivated artificially.

Big-leaf shepherd's purse can choose thin and tender leaves. It's already blossomed, so don't buy one with a stalk in the middle, which means it's old.

Shepherd's purse can be used for stuffing, cold salad after blanching, laying eggs, making soup and cooking porridge.

Chinese toon

Toona sinensis is one of the representatives of spring vegetables, and it is also a common homologous product of medicine and food among the people.

Eating Toona sinensis strengthens the stomach and regulates qi.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can regulate the symptoms such as loss of appetite, indigestion, vomiting, abdominal distension, abdominal pain and diarrhea caused by the imbalance of middle energizer.

Toona sinensis can also regulate symptoms such as bitter taste, dry mouth, upset, dry stool and emotional disorder caused by prolonged damp heat.

Choose four key points of Toona sinensis

Toona sinensis should be as short as possible. Short and tender, longer and older.

The tender leaves of Toona sinensis are reddish brown, which is not easy to be torn off. If the leaves are green, they will fall off when touched, indicating that they are old.

If the stem of Toona sinensis is thick, it means it is newly grown; If the stem is thin, it means that it is old, and the harder the stem, the older it is.

When buying Toona sinensis, if you can smell the obvious fragrance, it means it is fresh. If you smell bad smell, it's probably Toona sinensis, so you can't eat it.

The content of nitrate and nitrite (converted from nitrate during storage) in Toona sinensis is high, so it is best to blanch Toona sinensis before cooking, whether it is cold, fried, pickled or fried.

lettuce

Lettuce is crisp, tender and refreshing, rich in nutrition and has many health-care effects.

Lettuce helps to relieve constipation.

Lettuce is crispy, light green in color and high in potassium. Eating more lettuce can not only promote urination, but also be extremely beneficial to patients with high blood pressure and heart disease.

Lettuce can enhance the secretion of gastric juice and digestive glands, thus promoting the functions of various digestive organs; Contains a lot of plant cellulose, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and effectively improve constipation.

Lettuce is rich in vitamins, calcium, magnesium and dietary fiber. Studies have found that a substance in lettuce can resist rhinitis caused by allergies in spring and relieve discomfort caused by allergies.

Pay attention to three points when choosing lettuce.

The leaves are green and tender, indicating that the water is sufficient, the taste is good, and it is relatively fresh; Don't buy yellow leaves.

The skin of fresh lettuce is white and green. The darker the color, the older the taste.

The thicker, harder and straighter the lettuce stem, the fresher it means. If it is elastic and soft to pinch, it will be old and probably hollow.

Lettuce can be used for cold salad, stir-frying, or pickled into pickles and pickles.

spinach

Spinach is known as "the king of vegetables". Spinach in spring is red and green, and it is delicious.

Spinach protects the eyes and promotes blood circulation.

Spinach contains a lot of β-carotene, which is an excellent source of vitamin B6, folic acid, iron and potassium. Eating spinach can "dredge blood vessels, open the chest and diaphragm, reduce qi and moderate, quench thirst and moisten dryness".

Spinach is one of the best sources of lutein, which is very effective in preventing "macular degeneration" caused by eye aging.

Vitamin B2 and beta carotene in spinach, when the former is sufficient, the eyes are not easily congested; The latter can be converted into vitamin A in human body, which helps to prevent dry eye.

In addition, spinach is also rich in potassium, calcium and magnesium, which can help eye muscles to enhance elasticity and reduce the chance of myopia.

Pick spinach and look at the leaves.

The leaves are fully stretched, plump, dark green and shiny; If the leaves turn yellow, black, soft and the stems are damaged, especially spinach with yellow spots on the leaves and gray hairs on the back of the leaves, it is likely to be infected with downy mildew.

There are two kinds of spinach on the market now, one is a big round leaf with short petiole and the other is a small leaf with long petiole. Generally speaking, the latter tastes better and spinach tastes stronger.

It should be reminded that the red roots of spinach must be kept in spring, because almost all the iron content is in the roots. Spinach can be boiled and cold, or it can be made into soup with tofu.

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