Reason for listing: among the four seasons, duck meat is especially suitable for summer. As the saying goes, "Eat ducks in summer". Duck meat is rich in nutrients such as protein, which is urgently needed by human body in summer, and can prevent and treat diseases. Duck is a kind of waterfowl with cold nature. According to the treatment principle of "heat is cold" in traditional Chinese medicine, people with heat in the body are suitable for eating duck meat, which is more beneficial to people with weak constitution, loss of appetite, fever, dry stool and edema.

Best match: add lotus root, wax gourd and other vegetables to stew.

The best cooking method: "Chicken Soup Flavored Duck". It is best to stew duck meat in summer, which is not only delicious, but also the most nourishing.

2. Coix seed

Reason for listing: Coix seed is sweet and slightly cold, and contains vitamin B 1 and various amino acids. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that Coix seed can "strengthen the spleen and stomach, invigorate the lung and clear heat". Cooking and air conditioning. Decoct, urinate and take a hot bath. "Conducive to detumescence, invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, removing arthralgia, clearing heat and expelling pus. It is a common food for diuresis and dampness. Cooking porridge with coix seed in summer is a good tonic for summer heat and fitness.

Coix seed is a good food to remove dampness and poison in the body, and it also has anti-cancer effect. In midsummer, when it rains continuously and the air is wet and sticky, many people will "hurt the summer heat". At this time, eating barley porridge can play a role in eliminating dampness and benefiting the stomach, eliminating edema and strengthening the spleen and benefiting the stomach.

Best match: barley and red bean porridge. It not only dehumidifies, but also nourishes the heart, and can also strengthen the spleen and stomach. It was none other than barley and red beans.

Best cooking method: Hot summer will weaken appetite and digestive function of stomach. Porridge food is easy to digest, which can not only help replenish the water consumed by sweating, but also quickly replenish blood sugar and energy. It is the best staple food for summer heat.

3. Mung bean porridge

Reason for listing: Mung beans have the reputation of "the best food in the world, helping the world's grain valley". In hot summer, mung bean soup is the favorite summer drink of ordinary people. Mung beans are also edible and medicinal, which can clear away heat and toxic materials, relieve summer heat and promote diuresis, and treat summer heat, polydipsia and edema. However, it should be noted that mung bean is a cool food with the same origin of medicine and food. Excessive drinking will lead to abdominal pain and diarrhea in people with physical weakness or spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, and it is not suitable for people with yin deficiency to drink in large quantities, otherwise it will lead to vigorous virtual fire, oral erosion, gingival swelling and pain and other symptoms.

Best match: it can be made into miscellaneous bean porridge with other beans such as rice or black beans, which can supplement more trace elements and B vitamins.

4. Carp

Reason for listing: Carp is in spawning season in early summer. When the spawning season approaches, fish accumulate a lot of fat and nutrients, and their bodies are fat and strong, so meat tastes the most delicious and sweet. The climate in summer is warm and humid, so drinking some carp soup is helpful to dispel dampness, stimulate appetite, induce diuresis and reduce swelling. From the nutritional point of view, carp is rich in high-quality protein, minerals and vitamins, which are easy to digest and absorb, and suitable for all kinds of people, including children, pregnant women and the elderly.

Best match: in hot and humid weather, you can add some ingredients to make soup together, such as dried tangerine peel, wax gourd and scallion. When coughing, you can cook soup with carp and a little Fritillaria to relieve cough and asthma. Red bean carp soup is a classic dietotherapy prescription to relieve nephritis edema. Eating them together can enhance the effect of diuresis and detumescence.

The best cooking method: it is easy to be hot and dry in summer, so you can choose steaming and stewing soup.

5. Auricularia auricula

Reasons for listing: Auricularia auricula is sweet and flat, and belongs to the stomach and large intestine; Has the effects of invigorating qi, moistening lung, strengthening brain, reducing weight and cooling blood. Auricularia auricula is known as "vascular scavenger". Eating more black fungus in summer, on the one hand, is conducive to detoxification and laxative, on the other hand, it has the effect of cooling blood and appetizing.

Best match: Tremella fuciformis has the effects of moistening lung, promoting fluid production, nourishing qi and blood, nourishing kidney and replenishing essence. Soak the ear in warm water, steam it with crystal sugar and water in a steamer, and make a soup with the functions of nourishing yin, moistening lung, tonifying kidney and strengthening brain.

The best cooking method: stir-frying, cold salad and soup.

Summer diet is very important, eat right, have a good appetite, and can prevent heatstroke; Eating wrong, the more you eat, the less interesting it is, which is not good for your health. In fact, the diet in summer is mainly tonic, with the principle of invigorating the spleen, eliminating summer heat and eliminating dampness.