1. Can bird's nest be eaten with rice porridge?

Health Essays by Cao Tingdong, a famous health care scientist in Qing Dynasty. The book discusses: "Top-grade bird's nest porridge, cooking porridge and eating lightly, nourishing lung yin, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, without stagnation. Cooking porridge with light food has obvious effect on treating white lung, clear phlegm and light taste. " ? It can be seen that bird's nest porridge is beneficial to middle-aged and elderly people.

But it is not recommended that middle-aged and elderly people with diabetes eat more bird's nest porridge. Because the staple foods we eat, such as rice and white flour, all contain carbohydrates, and carbohydrates are sugar. Because rice porridge is easier to digest and absorb than rice, blood sugar will be higher.

Will adding auxiliary materials affect the nutritional value of bird's nest?

The original bird's nest has a faint taste of egg white, and proper addition of auxiliary materials will not affect its nutritional value. For example, rock sugar, milk, coconut milk, honey and medlar are all good accessories, which can enrich the taste of bird's nest stew. But some fruits contain proteolytic enzymes, such as papaya, pineapple, fig and so on. If stewed in easy water, the good taste and nutritional value of bird's nest will be reduced.

I heard that Indonesian citronella can also be eaten together?

The stems and leaves of citronella contain 0.4 ~ 0.8% volatile oil, in which citral is the main component, with the content of 75 ~ 85%. It also contains a small amount of citronellal, geraniol and methyl heptenone. Edible citronella has a strong bactericidal effect, which can prevent various infectious diseases and treat stomachache, diarrhea, headache, fever and influenza. So bird's nest and citronella can not only enrich the taste but also increase the efficacy.

What is the reason why the accessories with high sugar content are not well matched with bird's nest?

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, sugar is too sweet and too heavy, which is not conducive to clearing the lungs, but the pursuit of eating bird's nest is to clear the lungs; The other is the question of taste. When comparing the good quality bird's nest with the poor quality bird's nest, the taste of the two after polysaccharide is almost the same, because too much sugar will also mask the natural and rich egg white taste of bird's nest itself.

5, the most added is rock sugar, so is there a quantitative standard for this sugar amount? What are the disadvantages of excessive polysaccharide?

This varies from person to person. Of course, obese people and diabetics can't eat sugar. Eating too much sugar will turn into fat in the body, and even become the inducing cause of some diseases. In fact, the human body needs a lot of nutrients. Excessive intake of any kind of food or essential nutrients will lead to nutritional imbalance and adverse consequences. Eating a lot of sugar for a long time is also the same. Eating sugar for a long time exceeds the needs of the human body and the processing function of the liver, which may have an impact and harm on health and middle-aged and elderly people.

So we love to eat bird's nest, not only because of its taste, but also because of its nutritional value. The best way to preserve her nutrition is to stew, add appropriate auxiliary materials and avoid polysaccharide.