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What vegetables are good for autumn and winter?
You can eat cauliflower, lettuce, carrots and other vegetables in autumn and winter.

The vitamin C content of cauliflower is 3-4 times higher than that of Chinese cabbage and soybean sprouts, and 2 times higher than that of citrus. Chinese medicine has always said that "white goes into the lungs." Cabbage flower is a timely health care vegetable, which can not only prevent respiratory diseases such as colds, but also be a very good vascular cleaner.

The iodine content in lettuce is high, which is beneficial to the basic metabolism and physical development of human body. The nutrition of lettuce leaves is much higher than that of lettuce stems. People who cough easily in autumn can eat lettuce leaves to relieve cough.

The rich riboflavin in spinach is an important nutrient to effectively prevent oral ulcer, cheilitis, glossitis and dermatitis.

Tomato has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and can be used to treat dry mouth, anorexia, stomach heat and bitter taste, gingival bleeding, aphtha and bitter taste.

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

Autumn is dry, eat more green leafy vegetables, because the vitamin content is high, it is good to eat more. An adult should eat at least a catty of vegetables every day. Dark vegetables such as spinach, green vegetables, celery, chrysanthemum, amaranth, carrots, etc. Like brown-red vegetables, they are rich in vitamins and carotene. 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.

White vegetables can nourish yin and promote fluid production, such as radish, cauliflower, lily and yam. The loss of body fluid is serious 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."