The sultry summer makes people lose their appetite. Eating some hot and sour dishes can stimulate their appetite. Seasoning with vinegar is one of the simple methods, for example, using vinegar and olive oil to make oil-vinegar salad dressing with lower calorie than Thousand Island Sauce, using vinegar, minced garlic and pepper to make cold seafood, or using vinegar to pickle cucumber, lotus root and bitter gourd as appetizers before meals in summer.
Nutritionists suggest that letting chronic patients with poor appetite and elderly people with degraded taste eat vinegar in moderation can adjust their appetite and improve their diet.
● Vinegar can stimulate gastric acid secretion and help digestion.
A moderate amount of jealousy is helpful to some people with less gastric acid secretion. But people with normal digestive tract function don't have to drink vinegar to improve digestion. Moreover, people with normal gastric acid secretion will not necessarily increase the amount of gastric acid secretion if they drink vinegar again.
Vinegar can prevent hypertension.
"Less salt and more vinegar" is the traditional way for China people to eat healthily. However, modern people eat a large number of processed foods with high frequency, and the salt intake exceeds the recommended amount of 6 grams per day. If we can make good use of vinegar to increase the flavor of dishes and reduce the use of salt, we can really reduce the risk of diseases such as hypertension, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease and stroke.
In addition, fruit vinegar contains mineral potassium, which can help the body discharge excess sodium and achieve the purpose of preventing hypertension. Of course, eating fresh vegetables and fruits can also achieve the same effect.
Chinese medicine also uses vinegar to pickle peanuts as a dietary therapy to regulate blood pressure-soak peanuts in vinegar for more than 7 days, and then eat 10- 15 peanuts every day for more than a week.
● Vinegar can help absorb calcium.
When cooking ribs soup, you can add a small amount of vinegar, which will help release calcium from bones and make it easier for us to absorb calcium.
After reading all the above statements, it is not difficult to find that many popular methods of drinking vinegar are mostly personal opinions and feelings, and scientific evidence is insufficient. In this case, is it necessary for us to be jealous and drink vinegar every day?
According to experts, a moderate amount of jealousy is harmless to health. However, the health care function of vinegar can be achieved as long as the diet is balanced, and it is not necessary to drink vinegar. Therefore, there is no need to expect too much from vinegar, let alone think that it can cure diseases. Whether to drink vinegar every day is purely a personal diet and health preference. People who are not used to drinking vinegar occasionally mix a cup of vinegar for a change as a way to increase the fun of life.
It is necessary to remind you of the timing and weight of jealousy. Improper diet will do harm to your health.
● Don't drink vinegar on an empty stomach.
No matter how strong your gastrointestinal tract is, it is not suitable for drinking vinegar on an empty stomach, so as not to stimulate the secretion of too much gastric acid and harm the stomach wall. Drinking vinegar between meals, or one hour after meals, is less irritating to the gastrointestinal tract and helps digestion.
● Up to 1-2 cups of diluted vinegar per day.
A small amount of jealousy is no problem, but anyone who drinks vinegar in large quantities like a jealous jar will stimulate the gastrointestinal tract too much. Moreover, fruit vinegar or other vinegar drinks on the market often add a lot of sugar. If vinegar is used instead of boiled water, tea and other drinks, it will increase a lot of calories. If you drink it for a long time, the probability of obesity will increase greatly, which is not conducive to weight control.