In the literature, we can also see the records that the Ming court attached importance to diet health care. For example, Liu Ruoyu recorded in Volume 20 "Eat a Good Diet" that "eating boar kidneys in March Palace, the big pair can be worth five or six points, which is insufficient."

Li Shizhen's magnum opus Compendium of Materia Medica in Ming Dynasty recorded 65,438+0,892 kinds of medicines, including more than 300 kinds of cereals, vegetables and fruits, many of which were food. There are many drugs that can only be made through biological changes, such as crisp and milk rot, which greatly enriches the types of foods for diet and health.