"Less pungent and more sour" is a principle of traditional Chinese medicine nutrition about autumn diet. The so-called less spicy food means less spicy food. This is because the lungs are golden, ventilated in autumn and full of lung qi in autumn. Eating less irritating food can prevent lung qi from being too abundant. In autumn, the weather turns from hot to cold, and the yang disappears and the yin grows. Therefore, autumn health care must follow the principle of "nourishing and harvesting", in which the diet should be centered on moistening dryness and benefiting qi, focusing on strengthening the spleen, nourishing the liver and clearing the lung, and eating more warm and sweet food.

The spicy and sour taste in "less spicy and more sour" is not completely equivalent to what we usually call spicy and sour taste. Five flavors of spicy taste, also known as spicy taste, can be divided into three types: hot spicy taste, spicy spicy taste and spicy spicy taste, which are often reflected in condiments such as pepper, pepper, onion, garlic, ginger and curry. In the tradition of five kinds of sour taste, it also contains astringent taste, which has the effect of convergence and convergence. It is used to treat hyperhidrosis, diarrhea, frequent urination and nocturnal emission. In addition, the combination of sour taste and sweet taste also has the function of nourishing yin and moistening dryness. Hawthorn is the most acidic substance in fruits, followed by grapes. In addition, grapefruit and pomegranate are also sour fruits that are often eaten in autumn.

Acidic food refers to meat and other foods, and eating too much is harmful to the human body. The human body is relatively balanced. In a natural and healthy state, our body should be weakly alkaline, that is, the pH value of blood (pH value) is around 7.4. When the body is in this weak alkaline state, all kinds of extremely complex biochemical functions in the body can be fully exerted. All wastes can be eliminated quickly and thoroughly, and will not accumulate in the body. On the contrary, if you eat too much acidic food, your body and blood will become acidic, which will lead to organ failure and various diseases over time.

Acidic foods are:

1 meat, fish and eggs.

All starches and grains, especially refined starches (such as white rice, white bread, white noodles, biscuits, brewed refined meal packages, etc.).

All sweets, especially jam, jelly, syrup, candy, ice cream, beverage (extremely acidic, quickly corrodes teeth), chocolate, canned fruit and so on. Is prepared from white sugar, refined sugar and refined salt.

Why is the refined food acidic? Because the alkaline minerals and nutrients attached to it disappeared in the process of processing and refining. There is only one kind of sugar left, which enters the digestive system and causes the reaction to burn rapidly, forming acidic substances.

4 seasoning and pickles.

5 Onions, garlic and meat.

Some beans and nuts, especially peanuts, peas and lentils.

All oil and cream, greasy and fried, fried food.

The acidity of grain can be reduced by proper cooking and treatment. For example, if bread is baked in an oven, the starch in it will be converted into fructose. When they are converted into this form, they become digestible carbohydrates, just like sugar in fruits. Many whole grains (brown rice, brown rice flour, brown bread, wheat germ, etc. ) is obviously lower in acidity than processed and refined grains, so everyone should switch to whole grains as much as possible.

Alkaline foods that should be added to food:

1 Vegetables: Almost all vegetables, especially green vegetables, can be cooked into vegetable soup. Bean sprouts are the best cleanser for the body and are rich in vitamins and minerals.

Milk must be yogurt without cream.

3 molasses, pure honey.

Most nuts, such as pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds, cashews, sesame seeds and walnuts.

5 Fruit and freshly squeezed juice: Fruit is the easiest to digest in food, because the ingredients of fruit itself are very simple, and people don't need to spend a lot of energy to digest it. Therefore, in nutrition, fruit is often called the best alkaline food and the best detergent in the body.

Factors that determine the pH of food;

1 Expired or not

Mature vegetables are usually alkaline; Immature fruit, with strong sour or astringent taste, is an acidic food.

2 organic or inorganic planting

If the fruits and vegetables are planted in inorganic or sprayed with chemical fertilizers and pesticides, the minerals contained in the soil are inherently lacking, so the planted fruits and vegetables are insufficient in alkaline minerals and acidic, which is not as healthy as organic fruits and vegetables.

3 germination or not

All nuts, beans, drupes and grains containing plant protein are acidic foods, but there are exceptions, such as soybeans in beans, almonds and Brazilian beans in nuts, sesame seeds, Qiao Mai and millet in grains.

If seeds containing plant protein can be soaked, germinated, germinated or germinated in water, the acidity will gradually decrease and the alkalinity will gradually increase, eventually forming food with sufficient alkalinity.

4 others

Food additives, processed refined foods and synthetic drugs such as carbonated drinks, prescription drugs and synthetic vitamin pills all belong to negative acidic foods, showing an acidic reaction.

5 peanuts are extremely acidic.

Peanut contains highly dangerous and deadly pesticides and carcinogen aflatoxin, and even organic peanuts may contain aflatoxin. The safest peanut is dried organic peanut, which can avoid the formation of aflatoxin.

There are different opinions about the acidity and alkalinity of raw milk.

After analyzing the pH of food, the following characteristics can be obtained:

1 Most animal foods are acidic.

Most grains and some nuts are acidic foods, which are the main energy sources for human beings.

Alkaline foods include most vegetables, fruits and seaweed. In other words, low-calorie plant foods are almost all alkaline foods.

In addition to knowing which foods are acidic and which foods are alkaline, we should also know the pH of the food. For example, if you eat a lot of foods with high acidity, your body will be sour, so you should reconcile it with other foods with high alkalinity.

In addition, there is another reason for acidic constitution, that is, the mental stress reaction of urbanites. The pressure from the outside, through the diencephalon, reaches the accessory kidney and pituitary gland, and then reaches various organs through hormone secretion. At this time, if the calcium ion in the blood is determined, it will definitely drop below the normal value, that is, the pressure will reduce the calcium ion in the blood and make the blood acidic. In short, environmental pollution and abnormal living and eating habits make our constitution gradually acidic, and the disorder of life rhythm will cause acidic constitution. Too nervous mood and the load of the body undergoing surgery are easy to make our constitution acidic.

1. Keeping a good mood and mood has a great influence on the acidification of body fluids. Exercise moderately and put an end to smoking, drinking and other bad hobbies.

2. Don't eat midnight snack: Eating after 8 pm is usually called midnight snack. Because the amount of human activity is low at night, and most of them are at rest, the food left in the intestine will turn sour and ferment to produce toxins, which will make the body sour.

3, to eat breakfast: the human body temperature reaches its lowest point at 4: 30 in the morning, and the blood circulation will slow down. If you sleep too late and don't eat breakfast, the blood circulation will slow down, the oxygen will be reduced, and the body will be sour.

4. Adjust the diet structure, and the ratio of acid-base food is suggested to be 20: 80. Drink more alkaline ionized water and less acidic water, such as purified water and cola. If the constitution is acidic, you can use alkaline foods, such as brown rice, vegetables and fruits, and seaweed foods. Your weight reflects your health. Your health depends on your daily health care. The more you care, the healthier you will be.

The food we eat every day can be roughly divided into acidic food and alkaline food. From the point of view of nutrition, the reasonable combination of acidic food and alkaline food is the guarantee of good health.

Food acid-base list:

Strongly acidic food: egg yolk, cheese, dessert, sugar, tuna, flounder.

Acidic food: ham, bacon, chicken, pork, eel, beef, bread and wheat.

Weakly acidic food: white rice, peanuts, beer, laver, octopus, chocolate, hollow powder, onion.

Strongly alkaline foods: grapes, tea, wine, kelp, oranges, persimmons, cucumbers and carrots.

Moderately alkaline foods: soybeans, tomatoes, bananas, strawberries, protein, prunes, lemons, spinach, etc.

Weak alkaline food: red beans, apples, Chinese cabbage, tofu, cabbage, rape, pears, potatoes.