Summer is hot and hot, which often makes people feel irritable. We should choose light and nourishing foods, such as duck meat, mushrooms, tremella and coix seed, on the principle of nourishing, strengthening the spleen and eliminating summer heat and dampness. In addition, you can also cook mung bean porridge and lotus leaf porridge yourself to relieve the heat and cool down.

Summer diet should be low in fat, salt and multivitamins, mainly light. Sweating more in summer, hot and dry will also affect appetite. All kinds of health porridge can be used to stimulate appetite, increase body moisture and regulate the body. If you have porridge for breakfast and dinner, you can drink some Chinese health soup, which can not only quench your thirst, but also cool off the heat and nourish your body.

For example, when you cook porridge, you can add some lotus leaves (called lotus leaf porridge) in moderation, which is fragrant in taste and slightly bitter in porridge. It can awake the spleen and stimulate appetite, and also has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, clearing the intestines and nourishing the stomach, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. When cooking porridge, you can also add some mung beans or pure mung beans to cook soup, which also has the functions of relieving summer heat, quenching thirst, clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and diuresis. Soak dried lentils in rice and cook them into porridge, which can also clear away heat and dry dampness, strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea. There are also red bean porridge, mint porridge, tremella porridge, pueraria porridge and bitter melon porridge, which are all good foods for nourishing in summer.