Eating something with the corresponding color has a relative nourishing effect on our five internal organs. For example, red carrots can nourish the heart, green spinach enters the liver, and yellow potatoes are good for the spleen.
Chinese medicine believes that green (including cyan and blue) enters the liver, and eating more green food has the function of soothing the liver and strengthening the liver, which is a good "detoxification agent" for the human body.
Representative vegetables mainly include Chinese cabbage, shepherd's purse, spinach, cabbage, asparagus, cauliflower, peas, cucumber and so on.
Research shows that red food can provide rich high-quality protein, many inorganic salts, vitamins and trace elements, and can greatly enhance the heart and qi and blood functions.
The representative vegetables of this color mainly include beets, tomatoes, carrots and red peppers. The representative fruits are apples, strawberries, watermelons, pomegranates and cherries.
Yellow is the soil in the five elements of the spleen. Therefore, after the intake of yellow food, its nutrients are mainly concentrated in the middle-earth (spleen and stomach) area mentioned by Chinese medicine.
Mainly yellow food, such as pumpkin, corn, peanuts, soybeans, potatoes, apricots, etc. , can provide high-quality protein, fat, vitamins and trace elements, and is beneficial to the spleen and stomach.
White entering the lung belongs to gold in the five elements, and entering the lung focuses on invigorating qi and promoting qi. Representative vegetables are mushrooms, cauliflower, onion, garlic, ginger and so on.
In the five elements, black enters the kidney, and black dominates the water into the kidney. Therefore, eating black food often is more conducive to tonifying the kidney. This kind of food mainly includes black rice, black sesame, black beans, black fungus, kelp, seaweed and so on.