Time to market: September to June of the following year.
Highlight: Some people call broccoli a "godsend medicine" and a "poor doctor". Eating broccoli often has the effects of clearing throat, moistening lung and relieving cough, and can also reduce the risk of breast cancer, rectal cancer and gastric cancer. In dry and cold late autumn, colds are high. Eating more broccoli at this time can alleviate the discomfort caused by dryness and improve the ability to prevent colds. This is because there are many flavonoids in West Lanzhou, and flavonoids have the magical effect of killing Helicobacter pylori in gastric cancer.
Recommended eating method: Broccoli tastes good after blanching, and it is more cancer-proof to eat with tomatoes. Between frying and eating, experts suggest blanching with boiling water first, and then frying after removing and draining water, so as to keep the cauliflower crisp and refreshing. Chew more when eating, so as to avoid more dietary fiber to bring digestive burden to the stomach.
2. Zucchini
Time to market: 10 ~ February of the following year.
Recommended reason: Zucchini contains more than 94% water, which is a low-calorie food with more vitamin A. Other vitamins and minerals are similar to bamboo shoots, and the proportion of potassium and magnesium is higher. Its quality is better than that of bamboo shoots, and it also contains more cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin and pectin. These substances can not be hydrolyzed by human digestive enzymes, but can promote intestinal peristalsis and facilitate fecal excretion.
Recommended eating method: Zucchini is better eaten raw than cooked food, and it can also be used as vegetable soup. It should be noted that high-temperature fried zucchini may produce carcinogenic acrylamide, so the cooking temperature must be low. Zucchini is the best pasta match. Zucchini can be added to various pasta to reduce the total calorie intake in food.
3. Pumpkin
Time to market: 10 ~ February of the following year.
Highlight: It's hot and cold in autumn, and it's easy to catch a cold. We should eat some pumpkins properly. First of all, pumpkin contains the carotene we need and is rich in vitamin E, which can improve our autumn dryness symptoms. Secondly, pumpkin can also be used for the treatment of children's roundworm, worm washing and diabetes, and can also reduce the incidence and mortality of measles. Thirdly, eating more pumpkins also has a cosmetic effect, which can make the skin more delicate. Most importantly, pumpkin has the function of neutralizing carcinogens, and its nutritional value should not be underestimated.
Recommended eating method: Autumn and winter are the golden seasons for eating pumpkins. It is easy to cook and suitable for steaming, porridge or soup. Generally speaking, pumpkins with long growth cycle contain more starch and are suitable for steaming or making various pumpkin cakes; Pumpkins with less starch are suitable for cooking. Generally, red and yellow skins are suitable for steaming, while green skins are suitable for frying.
4. Sweet potato
Time to market: September ~165438+1October
Highlight: Sweet potato is also called sweet potato, sweet potato, red moss, sweet potato and sweet potato. Sweet potato is rich in starch, dietary fiber, carotene, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C, vitamin E, potassium, iron, copper, selenium, calcium 10 and linoleic acid. With high nutritional value, it is considered by health nutritionists to be the most balanced healthy food among vegetables, and it is the champion of "Top Ten Best Vegetables" selected by the World Health Organization.
Recommended eating method: Eating alone is easy to lead to weight loss due to insufficient intake of protein, so it needs to be eaten with vegetables, fruits and protein foods to avoid nutritional imbalance. It is best not to eat the baked sweet potato with the skin. Sweet potato contaminated by black spot bacteria is not easy to distinguish after baking, so don't eat black spot or burnt sweet potato, which may cause poisoning.
5, white radish
Time to market: September to April of the following year.
Recommended reason: Chinese medicine believes that radish has the functions of promoting digestion, resolving phlegm, relieving asthma, clearing heat, smoothing qi, reducing swelling and removing blood stasis. Children have symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection when they catch a cold, such as dry throat, sore throat, repeated cough and difficulty in expectoration. Eating crisp and delicious radish can not only stimulate appetite, help digestion, but also moisten throat, eliminate phlegm and smooth qi, effectively preventing colds. Radish has high nutritional value, rich in carbohydrates and vitamins, and the content of vitamin C is 8 ~ 10 times higher than that of pear. Radish does not contain oxalic acid and will not combine with calcium in food, which is more conducive to the absorption of calcium.
Recommended eating method: there are many ways to eat white radish, not only cold salad, stew and so on. You can also use lotus root or Sydney to juice, or use houttuynia cordata and rock sugar to cook sugar water, which has a good effect of promoting digestion and nourishing the stomach, and can also moisten the lungs and relieve cough. If there are symptoms of dry throat and sore throat, it can also be mixed with ginger juice after mashing, which can effectively relieve symptoms such as pharyngitis, tonsillitis and hoarseness.