Sun, chairman of china health care association Food Nutrition and Safety Professional Committee, said that longan, yam, Euryale ferox, medlar, jujube and walnut are all of the same origin. As a supplementary health food, these combinations are all right. But from the point of view of nutrition, every food has its most suitable cooking method, and not all foods are ground into powder to be best absorbed.
"Like barley, its dietary fiber, vitamin B and other nutrients are most easily absorbed by the human body after hydrolysis, so it is best to cook porridge and soup. Like grape seed, the protocyanine contained in it can only be absorbed by human body after being extracted by a certain process. It is impossible to obtain effective ingredients simply by grinding them into powder. "
According to the merchants, the raw materials such as grains, beans and rapeseed used are cooked and then ground. In this regard, Sun said that some foods with the same origin of medicine and food have different raw and cooked effects. "Take job's tears as an example. Raw glutinous rice tends to clear away dampness and heat, while cooked glutinous rice tends to strengthen the spleen and stomach. "
The reporter also found that in addition to miscellaneous grains, longan, medlar and other foods with the same origin of medicine and food, Chinese herbal medicines such as Polygonum Multiflori Radix, Radix Puerariae, Semen Ziziphi Spinosae and Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis are also raw materials of health powder. So can dietotherapy Chinese medicine be matched at will?
Sun said that Chinese dietotherapy should be based on medicinal properties, scientific compatibility and reasonable collocation, and at the same time, it should be based on syndrome differentiation, which varies from person to person, from place to place and from time to time. If Chinese herbal medicine is ground into powder and added to health powder, the wrong choice is likely to be counterproductive and even cause physical discomfort to people with different constitutions.
"One thousand people are not desirable, and so is health powder. Everyone has different physical conditions and different ages. The choice of healthy powder should also vary from person to person. It is suggested that Chinese herbal medicines should not be added casually when processing health powder, and the advice of Chinese medicine must be followed when necessary. "