White radish is a common vegetable, which can be eaten raw or cooked. It tastes slightly spicy. Modern research believes that white radish contains mustard oil, amylase and crude fiber, which has the functions of promoting digestion, stimulating appetite, accelerating gastrointestinal peristalsis, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Chinese medicine theory also thinks that it is sweet in taste and cool in nature, and enters the lung and stomach meridians. It is a good dietotherapy method, which can treat or assist in the treatment of many diseases. Compendium of Materia Medica calls it "the most beneficial vegetable".

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1, white radish can't be eaten with carrots.

White radish is rich in vitamin C, which is very beneficial to human health, while carrot contains an enzyme called ascorbic acid, which will destroy vitamin C in white radish. Eating the two together will make the loss of vitamin C disappear, and eating radish will not get vitamin C.

2. white radish can't be eaten with acidic fruit.

Eating white radish with acidic fruit can induce thyroid diseases. When radish enters the human body, it will produce thiocyanate. If you eat a large number of acidic fruits such as oranges, apples and grapes at the same time or before, the flavonoids in fruits will be converted into hydroxybenzoic acid and ferulic acid after bacterial decomposition in the intestine, and their interaction with thiocyanate will be strengthened into thiocyanate, which can inhibit thyroid function and then induce goiter.

3. white radish can't be eaten with persimmon.

Persimmon contains a lot of plant pigments, which will be decomposed into an acidic substance in the human intestine. Eating radish will produce thiocyanate to inhibit thyroid gland, thus inducing or leading to goiter. Persimmons, pears, apples, grapes and other fruits all contain a lot of plant pigments.

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