Judging from the solar terms of traditional Chinese medicine, Mid-Autumn Festival is the dividing point of climate change. It is early autumn before the Mid-Autumn Festival. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather turned cold obviously, the temperature difference between morning and evening was large, and the metabolism of the human body gradually slowed down, especially for the elderly and children, who were prone to colds and coughs. In addition to upper respiratory diseases, some people may have dry skin, or gastrointestinal dysfunction such as diarrhea and constipation.

Vegetables can not only preserve health, but also help treat some diseases. So, which vegetables are suitable for health in season? The Times reporter interviewed a number of Zhejiang Vegetable Research Institute and nutrition experts in Zhejiang Province, and gave you a "healthy vegetable catalogue" according to the climate characteristics and population characteristics of Zhejiang.

What kind of vegetables help to keep healthy?

Eat a kilo of dark green and reddish brown vegetables every day.

Dr. Yao from Hangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine said that it is good to eat more green leafy vegetables in dry autumn because of their high vitamin content. "An adult should eat at least a catty of vegetables every day."

Ying Tiejin, director of the Department of Food and Nutrition of Zhejiang University, agreed. He said that dark vegetables such as spinach, green vegetables, celery, chrysanthemums, amaranth and carrots, like brown-red vegetables, not only contain more vitamins, but also have higher carotene content.

Carotene is a treasure of human body. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can tonify the middle qi, strengthen the stomach and digestion, strengthen yang and strengthen the five internal organs, and has a good effect on indigestion, chronic dysentery, cough and night blindness, so it is called "Oriental Little Ginseng". After being fried and eaten, it can be converted into vitamin A in human body, which can improve human immunity and indirectly kill cancer cells.

Special reminder is that spicy foods such as peppers should be eaten less.

Sauerkraut takes a long time to help digestion.

Professor Ying strongly recommended mustard. Such as kohlrabi, mustard tuber and clover. Because of the high content of glucosinolates in mustard, its hydrolysate has anticancer effect, so eating more can prevent cancer.

When the weather is cool, pickles are not easy to deteriorate, so you can eat more. It is generally believed that pickled vegetables have high nitrite content and are easy to cause cancer. In fact, this view is not entirely correct.

"Hangzhou people like to eat sauerkraut, that is,' Snow Red' is pickled for two or three days before serving. Actually, this is very unscientific. " Professor Ying said, "Because vegetables with a short curing time have a particularly high nitrite content, after one or two months, the nitrite volatilizes almost, leaving only pickled vegetables and pickles rich in lactic acid bacteria, which is helpful for digestion. Therefore, people will find kimchi particularly delicious. "

White vegetables nourish yin and promote fluid production.

Dr. Zhang from the Nutrition Department of Hangzhou Red Cross Hospital said that white vegetables can nourish yin and promote fluid production, such as radish, cauliflower, lily and yam.

"There is a serious loss of body fluid in summer, and now it is just beginning to enter autumn, so we should eat more vegetables that nourish yin and promote fluid production." While white vegetables are generally full of body fluid.

Eggplant is cool in autumn, which is not good for the spleen and stomach.

Early autumn health, but also pay attention to "spleen and dampness."

Chinese medicine pays attention to the unity of man and nature. In autumn, the human body should first raise the spleen and stomach to prepare for the winter.

Eggplant is cool and slippery in autumn, and people with deficiency of spleen and stomach should not eat more. Eating pumpkin is good for the spleen and stomach.

Lotus root is the king of oriental vegetables, which is anti-aging.

Professor Ying Tiejin from Zhejiang University also recommended eating lotus roots in autumn. "Lotus root is the king of oriental vegetables, rich in polyphenols, which can improve immunity and resist aging."

In addition, after the lotus root is processed to maturity, its taste changes from cool to warm. Although it has lost the function of removing blood stasis and clearing heat, it has become beneficial to the spleen and stomach, and has the effects of nourishing stomach, nourishing yin, nourishing blood and stopping diarrhea.