Aliases for fruits and vegetables: lettuce and avocado.
Family: Compositae flowers
Flowering and fruiting period: winter
Nutritional components: carotene, protein, etc.
Tropism of nature and taste: flat in nature, sweet in taste, entering the stomach, kidney and liver meridians.
Health care effect of lettuce: Lettuce has the effect of clearing liver and benefiting gallbladder, and is suitable for patients with hepatobiliary diseases.
Promote blood circulation: Lettuce contains mannitol and other effective ingredients, which has diuretic and blood circulation promoting effects.
Inhibition of virus: Lettuce contains an "interferon inducer", which can stimulate normal cells of human body to produce interferon and play an antiviral role.
How to Choose Lettuce When choosing lettuce, it is better to choose lettuce with bright green color and short stem. The firmer the lettuce, the better.
How to eat the most nutritious lettuce is easier to be absorbed by the human body than the raw lettuce fried with a little oil. Lettuce can be eaten with nutritious tofu when fried.
Suitable for the crowd: generally everyone can eat it, especially for children and adolescents who are growing up.
Not suitable for people: biochemical substances in lettuce can stimulate the optic nerve, and people with eye diseases should eat less; People with frequent urination and cold stomach should not eat it.
Suitable collocation: Lettuce is suitable for garlic, which is effective for epigastric pain and diseases.
Not suitable for collocation: lettuce should not be eaten with yam or alkaline drugs.
Suggestion before eating: 1. Because there may be pesticide residues, lettuce must be washed before eating raw.
2, whether it is fried lettuce or boiled lettuce, the time should not be too long, so as to maintain the crisp taste of lettuce.
How to preserve the freshest lettuce is suitable for short-term preservation in a low temperature and relatively humid environment of 1~2℃. Extremely sensitive to ethylene, you should stay away from apples, pears and bananas.
Sautéed Lettuce
Ingredients: lettuce 500g, dried pepper, ginger, garlic, pepper, salt, monosodium glutamate and cooking oil.
Practice: (1) Wash lettuce, cut dried red pepper in half, and slice ginger and garlic. (2) Pour the cooking oil into a wok to boil, and add ginger, garlic, pepper and pepper. (3) Stir-fry the lettuce in a pot, and add proper amount of salt and monosodium glutamate.
Efficacy: lose weight, clear liver and benefit gallbladder.
Lettuce roll
Ingredients: lettuce 250g, onion150g, auricularia auricula 200g, carrot150g, edible oil, salt and chicken essence.
Practice: (1) Wash and drain lettuce for later use. (2) After soaking the fungus in cold water, cut off the roots and tear them into small flowers. (3) Wash onion and carrot, peel and shred. (4) Add oil, salt and chicken essence to auricularia auricula, onion and carrot, mix well, roll them on the leaves of raw vegetables, put them on a plate, and steam them in a steamer for 3-5 minutes.
Efficacy: clearing heat and benefiting liver.