Sweet potato syrup (warming the body and strengthening the stomach)

Ingredients: two sweet potatoes, three slices of old ginger and a little sugar.

Practice: Boil all the ingredients in water for 30 minutes and serve.

Tremella orange blossom soup (moistening dryness and caring skin)

Ingredients: tremella 100g, 5 red dates, half an orange, 3 tablespoons of rock sugar on both sides.

Practice: soak tremella until soft, wash it, cut it into small pieces for later use, put 3 cups of water in the pot, add tremella and red dates, boil it together, then stew it for another 30 minutes, add rock sugar and mix well, finally add oranges, cook it slightly, and then turn off the fire to eat.

The benefits of drinking soup before meals:

(1) Drinking soup before meals can lubricate the mouth and esophagus and prevent the digestive tract mucosa from being damaged by hard objects.

(2) Drinking soup before meals can dilute and stir food, which is beneficial to the digestion and absorption of chyme.

(3) Drinking soup before meals can occupy the volume of the stomach, and it is reflected to the appetite center through the conduction of gastric mucosa vagus nerve, which makes people feel full, thus reducing the intake.

It is found that drinking a bowl of soup before meals can reduce the calorie intake of 100- 190 kcal, which is necessary for obese and chronic patients who need to control calories.

Disadvantages of drinking soup after meals:

(1) After drinking the soup, the feeling of fullness has appeared, and the calories have exceeded the standard. If you drink soup, it will cause overnutrition.

(2) Drinking soup after meals will dilute the gastric juice and the mixed chyme entering the stomach, thus affecting digestion and absorption.

(3) Drinking soup after meals increases the volume of the stomach, causes the stomach to relax acceptably, secretes more gastric juice, and increases the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.

Some points that should be paid attention to when drinking soup:

(1) Don't drink soup too fast. It's better to drink it slowly in a small mouth, which is beneficial to digestion and absorption.

(2) When making soup, you should match the ingredients according to your own situation to achieve synergy and better curative effect.

(3) When drinking soup, pay attention to the temperature of the soup, so as not to burn the oral cavity and esophageal mucosa and cause lesions. Generally, 50 degrees is appropriate, not more than 60 degrees.

(4) Don't soak rice in soup, because when you chew food, it is mainly wet and sticky by saliva. Through continuous chewing, salivary glands can be stimulated to secrete salivary amylase and lysozyme to help digestion and sterilization. If the soup and rice are mixed together, the food will secrete various enzymes if it is not fully chewed, and the food will enter the digestive tract with the soup, which will definitely affect the digestion and absorption of the food and increase the burden on the stomach. If it takes too long, it will cause gastric lesions.

Eating habits must have an impact on health. Southerners are used to drinking soup before meals, while northerners like to drink soup after meals. Northerners are generally fatter than southerners, which is more or less related to eating habits.