Mung bean, also known as adzuki bean, is a mature seed of leguminous herb kidney bean, which is planted all over China. Because of its rich nutrition, it can be made into mung bean porridge, mung bean rice, or cake, or germinated as a dish. It is the traditional bean food of our people, so it has the reputation of "the best food in the world, and food is the world". In hot summer, mung bean soup is the favorite summer drink of ordinary people.
Precautions: People with mung bean cold, spleen-stomach deficiency cold and kidney-qi deficiency should not eat more, or need to be reasonably matched with other foods before taking it as a regular meal. Because mung beans have the function of detoxification, people who are taking traditional Chinese medicine should not drink more mung bean soup.
Summer health food 2: red beans
Red beans are flat and sweet and sour. Because red beans are good at benefiting waterways, the ancients said that "eating more makes people thin." Red beans are low in calories and rich in active ingredients such as vitamin E, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc and selenium. They are typical high-potassium foods. They have many functions, such as clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating the spleen and regulating the stomach, inducing diuresis to reduce swelling, ventilating and relieving annoyance, enriching blood and promoting lactation, and have a good curative effect on enteritis, dysentery, diarrhea and furuncle.
Every hot summer, people are prone to edema, and drinking red bean soup is the best way to reduce swelling. Edema patients have less urination. If you drink red beans as a drink at first, the swelling will be reduced the next day, and it may completely dissipate after taking them for six or seven days. The elderly have swollen legs and feet in summer, so they can eat red bean porridge to inhibit the recurrence of the disease. In addition to preventing and treating all kinds of edema, red beans can also relieve symptoms such as irritability, thirst and irritability caused by rising temperature.
Summer Health Biology III: Coix Seed
Coix seed is more like kernel than rice, so there are many places called Coix seed. Now more people like to eat coix seed, because the unique living environment of coix seed makes it less harmful, and it likes to grow in wet places. In many places, barley is grown in mountains or rivers.
Coix seed is slightly cold and should not be cooked in porridge or eaten alone. It is very suitable to make soup with some foods that can be warmed up. You can stew chicken legs, tomatoes and barley together, which is not only easy to digest, but also has a very good nourishing effect. Coix seed is not easy to digest, so try not to eat more, especially for the elderly, children and people with stomach cold and gastritis. When you eat coix seed, you must eat it in moderation, not too much.
Summer Health Food 4: Millet
Xiaomi, also known as Xiaomi, is hot and yellow, which is the most nourishing for the spleen and stomach. It is good to eat in the morning. At the same time, rice is cool, especially suitable for eating at night, so you can eat more. Noodles are hot and most nutritious. They are planted in winter, harvested in summer and eaten best in summer. In northern China, many women will use millet and brown sugar to recuperate their bodies after giving birth. Millet porridge is rich in nutrition and has the reputation of "substituting ginseng soup"
High-quality millet grain size, uniform color, milky white, yellow or golden yellow, shiny, less broken rice, no moth, no impurities.
To sum up, the above four kinds of summer health foods can help people solve their summer diet, and mung beans also have the effect of relieving summer heat. Millet can also nourish the stomach.