Second: It is best to choose some fresh ingredients in summer, such as seasonal vegetables or seasonal fruits, such as watermelons, tomatoes and cucumbers. Eating more fresh fruits and vegetables every day can effectively supplement the nutrients needed by the body and prevent heatstroke.
In addition, the summer diet should be liquid or semi-liquid, such as mung bean porridge and lotus seed porridge. If you want to eat melons and fruits, you must peel them and wash them. It is best to add some garlic paste or vinegar to vegetables, which can not only achieve the effect of sterilization and disinfection, but also effectively increase appetite and promote digestion.
Third: It is best to choose some cool drinks in summer, such as sour plum soup, mung bean soup, chrysanthemum tea, etc., which can help the body dissipate heat and supplement the water and various nutrients needed by the body.
Fourth, we must pay attention to hygiene in summer diet, because this season is the fastest season of bacterial reproduction all year round, so many foods are easily polluted. So we must pay attention to health in our daily diet.
Recommended summer health medicated diet:
First: mung bean barley duck soup
Ingredients: duck, coix seed, mung bean, dried tangerine peel and salt.
Practice: blanch the duck with boiling water once, then rinse it with cold water and drain it; Put the prepared duck, washed one-person mung bean and dried tangerine peel into a casserole; Add a proper amount of water, cook for 20 minutes on high fire, and then skim off the oil slick and foam; Continue to simmer for two hours; Add the right amount of salt and you can get out of the pot.
Efficacy: This summer health medicated diet has the functions of quenching thirst, relieving summer heat, diuresis and moistening skin. Among them, duck meat can effectively nourish yin, diuresis and tonify deficiency; Coix seed is rich in protein, which can effectively soften the keratin in the skin, make our skin smoother and whiter, and moisturize the skin after long-term use; Mung beans can achieve the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and diuresis.
Second: Semen Cassiae and mung bean lean broth
Ingredients: cassia seed, mung bean, rape, lean meat, rice wine and salt.
Practice: put cassia seed, lean meat and mung bean into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, and then boil over high fire; After boiling, add appropriate amount of rice wine; Turn to low heat and continue to cook for about 40 minutes; Then add the prepared rape, cook for ten minutes, add salt, and you can eat.
Efficacy: This medicated diet can effectively clear away heat and toxic materials, lower blood pressure and blood lipid, and has a great protective effect on our liver, so it is very refreshing to eat. Cassia seed contains a lot of emodin and rhein, which has anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, liver protection and blood pressure lowering effects. Mung beans can detoxify, relieve summer heat and induce diuresis. Therefore, this health medicated diet can reduce the possibility of chronic diseases in the body.
Third: Wet the shredded melon.
Ingredients: fresh watermelon peel, asparagus, Ophiopogon japonicus, mint and various condiments.
Practice: soak asparagus and Ophiopogon japonicus in clear water, remove the inner core after fertilizer removal, and then cut into filaments for later use; Wrap mint in gauze, then put it in a pot with asparagus and Ophiopogon japonicus, and add a proper amount of water; Remove mint and fruit juice after cooking; Remove the outer green peel from watermelon peel, then cut into filaments, add a little salt and stir evenly; Drain the water after two hours; Put the prepared asparagus, Ophiopogon japonicus and watermelon peel into the pot, stir-fry for a while, and then add seasoning to serve.
Efficacy: This summer health medicated diet is crispy and refreshing, and it is not easy to feel greasy. Both asparagus and Ophiopogon japonicus have the effects of nourishing yin, moistening lung and nourishing stomach. Adding a small amount of mint can effectively clear away heat and relieve summer heat.