Have some sauerkraut porridge.
People think that the best way to promote digestion and appetite is to be jealous. Sour taste is produced by organic acids, such as acetic acid, lactic acid and citric acid. Eating it can promote appetite, strengthen spleen and appetite, improve the absorption of calcium, phosphorus and other elements, enhance liver function, and is also beneficial to the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Especially in summer, hot weather makes people feel uncomfortable, which will cause a series of functional disorders such as metabolism, endocrine and body temperature regulation. Eating sour food is good for health. Generally speaking, eating sour food in summer has the following four advantages.
1. Sweating and eliminating dampness: excessive sweating in summer is easy to lose body fluids, so you need to eat more sour foods, such as tomatoes, lemons, strawberries, dark plums, grapes, hawthorn, pineapples, mangoes and kiwis. Their sour taste can stop sweating, diarrhea and dampness, prevent excessive sweating, consume gas and hurt yin, promote fluid production and quench thirst, strengthen stomach and promote digestion.
2. Sterilization and disease prevention: In summer, people like to eat cold food. Seasoning with vinegar can not only increase appetite, but also kill bacteria in vegetables and prevent intestinal infectious diseases.
3. Enhance the bactericidal ability of gastric juice: It is very important to replenish water in time under continuous high temperature. Drinking water can maintain sufficient blood volume, reduce blood viscosity, expel poisons and reduce the burden on the heart and kidneys. But drinking too much water will dilute gastric juice and reduce the bactericidal ability of gastric acid. Eating sour food can increase the acidity of gastric juice, strengthen spleen and stimulate appetite, and help sterilization and digestion.
4. Conducive to the absorption of nutrition: summer needs comprehensive and balanced nutrition most. In a high temperature environment, the human body will consume a lot of nutrients. In addition to three meals a day, you should also pay attention to supplementing vitamins C, B 1, B2, A and D from vegetables, fruits and diet. People with more calcium loss should also supplement high-quality calcium preparations. Eating more sour fruits and foods can increase and help the absorption of nutrients such as calcium.