Operation: honeysuckle 10g, chrysanthemum 10g, jasmine 3g, add boiling water to make tea.
Uses: clearing away heat and toxic materials, treating headache, thirst and sore throat.
Honeysuckle distillate
Operation: add water to the flowers and leaves of honeysuckle, steam for 30 minutes with strong fire, filter out the soup, add rock sugar and drink.
Uses: clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.
Tip: Avoid eating honeysuckle.
● It belongs to the lung and stomach meridian in the twelve meridians, which is very effective for lung and stomach discomfort.
● Taboo: People with cold constitution and poor gastrointestinal tract should avoid taking it.
chrysanthemum
(1) Chrysanthemum tea: Tea made of chrysanthemum, with a fragrant smell, can relieve summer heat, promote fluid production, dispel wind, moisten throat, nourish eyes and relieve hangover.
(2) Making tea with white chrysanthemum can calm the liver and suppress yang, dispel wind and clear heat, cool blood and improve eyesight. White chrysanthemum is sweet and can enhance the fragrance of tea soup with good palatability.
(3) Chrysanthemum tea Chrysanthemum tea is one of people's favorite cool drinks. There are two kinds of chrysanthemums, yellow and white, which are famous at home and abroad. When used for soaking in water or drinking tea, it not only has strong fragrance, but also has the functions of dispelling wind and clearing heat, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, lowering blood pressure and dredging pulse.
Mint: Make tea with mint. You can use menthol and menthone in mint to dispel wind and clear heat. Tea has a cool feeling and is a good medicine for clearing heat and diuresis.
Using sliced American ginseng to make tea can adjust the taste of tea by using the sweet and cool characteristics of American ginseng, which has a good effect of tonifying yin deficiency. This kind of American ginseng tea often has the good effects of nourishing lung and stomach, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, clearing asthenic fire and reducing fever.
Making tea with orange peel can make use of the functions of regulating qi, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Soaking orange peel with green tea can pyrolyze phlegm, resist bacteria and diminish inflammation, so it is good for people who cough a lot of phlegm.
Coix seed tea
There are many reasons for edema. If it is edema caused by simple water retention, it is recommended to drink coix seed tea.
Ingredients: parched Coicis Semen 10g, fresh lotus leaf 5g, hawthorn 5g.
Practice: When the hot water is boiled, you can drink it.
Efficacy: clearing heat and promoting diuresis, and treating edema.
Lotus leaf tea
Depression and mental stress may increase intestinal sensitivity and cause constipation. Recommend lotus leaf tea.
Ingredients: 3 grams of lotus leaf, 6 grams of fried cassia seed and 3 roses.
Practice: brew with boiling water.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, promoting diuresis and diuresis, controlling water, reducing swelling and promoting hair growth.
Cassia seed tea
People with slow peristalsis (especially obese dieters during dieting and weight loss) tend to accumulate in the body, causing constipation. Recommend cassia seed tea.
Material: cassia seed tea.
Practice: hot water brewing.
Efficacy: clearing liver, improving eyesight, diuresis and relaxing bowels.
In winter, it will be helpful to use prescriptions for removing fire, diet and clearing fire.
In winter, many people get angry easily. The following diet methods can be used for reference.
Hoarse throat: 1, drink light salt water; 2, drink orange peel sugar tea.
Sore and sore throat: 1, tender loofah mashed to juice, washed together frequently; 2, vinegar and the same amount of water gargle can relieve pain; 3, rinse your mouth with a spoonful of soy sauce, about 1 minute, 3-4 times in a row.
Blister on the mouth: 1, cut a few slices of ginger and chew carefully, which can slowly eliminate blisters; 2, raw chewing 1-2 cloves of garlic or garlic leaves, blisters can gradually disappear.
Expectoration: 1, mulberry bark 10g, licorice root and bamboo leaf 5g each, washed and put into a pot, and decocted with appropriate amount of water, which can cure phlegm in the morning; 2, ginger 1 piece chopped, eggs 1 piece, a little sesame oil. Like frying poached eggs, fry ginger and eggs in oil and eat them while they are hot, twice a day.
Three kinds of clearing fire soup
Fish head soup with loofah and tofu
Soup: a catty of loofah, a fresh fish, appropriate amount of tofu, appropriate amount of ginger and appropriate amount of salt.
Method: Wash the loofah, trim and cut into sections; Wash the fish head and cut into sections; Tofu is slightly washed with clear water; Put fish head and ginger in a pot, add appropriate amount of boiling water, simmer for 20 minutes, add tofu and loofah, simmer for 15-20 minutes, and add seasoning.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and purging fire, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, cleaning skin and removing spots, dredging meridians, resolving phlegm, relieving asthma and relieving cough.
Winter melon and mandarin fish soup
Soup: one catty of wax gourd, half catty of mandarin fish, proper amount of cooking wine, refined salt, onion, ginger slices, raw oil and chicken powder.
Methods: The cavity of Siniperca chuatsi was cleaned, and the scales and gills were removed. Peel the wax gourd, remove the pulp and cut into pieces; Fry the fish in a hot oil pan, add cooking wine, ginger and water, and cook until the fish is cooked. Add salt, onion and chicken powder.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, inducing diuresis to reduce swelling, calming the liver, expelling wind and removing heat. Can lose weight and moisturize the skin.
Mustard beef soup
Soup: a catty of mustard, half a catty of beef, a few pieces of ginger, and the right amount of oil and salt.
Method: peeled ginger and mashed; Wash beef and slice it; Wash mustard and cut into sections. Put the ingredients in a boiling pot, cook for a while with high fire, season with oil and salt, and eat while it is hot.
Efficacy: mustard tastes pungent and warm, dispelling cold and relieving exterior syndrome, benefiting qi and resolving phlegm; Beef is sweet and flat, nourishing the spleen and stomach, benefiting qi and blood, and strengthening bones and muscles; Ginger is pungent, warm, and cold-dispelling. The soup has the effects of invigorating spleen, invigorating qi, resolving phlegm, relieving cough, relieving exterior syndrome and dispelling cold, and can be used for treating common cold, headache, bone pain all over the body, and white expectoration.
Autumn diet should pay attention to removing fire, eat less foods that are easy to get angry, and eat more foods that nourish yin and moisten dryness, promote fluid production and moisten lungs and autumn fruits. Here is a delicious food that can remove fire, moisten lungs, detoxify and nourish skin.
Ingredients: Pitaya, Tremella, Auricularia, Sydney.
Accessories: rock sugar, mung bean and medlar.
Exercise:
1. blanch tremella and auricularia with boiling water, pick and wash, take pitaya pulp, shell it for later use, and cut pitaya meat and Sydney into even pieces.
2. Put the chopped pitaya and Sydney into tremella, fungus and rock sugar, and simmer for one hour. At the same time, cook the green beans for later use.
3. Put the stew in the pitaya shell and sprinkle with mung beans and medlar.
Detoxification effect: clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and moistening lung can help smokers and drinkers discharge toxins.
In summer, people are prone to "getting angry" symptoms such as red eyes, sore throat, swollen gums, oral ulcer pain and tongue erosion. Summer "getting angry" can be regulated by diet, and "dietotherapy" has a unique effect.
First, drink lotus seed soup to get rid of the heart fire
Symptoms: there are two kinds of deficiency and excess, and deficiency fire is characterized by low fever, night sweats, upset, dry mouth and so on. Excess fire is characterized by repeated oral ulcers, dry mouth, short and red urine, and irritability.
Dietotherapy: 30g of lotus seeds (without removing lotus plumule), 0/5g of gardenia/kloc (wrapped with gauze), adding appropriate amount of rock sugar, decocting in water, eating lotus seeds and drinking soup.
Second, eating pig liver can remove fire.
Symptoms: dry cough without phlegm or less phlegm but sticky, hot flashes and night sweats, fever of hands and feet, insomnia and red tongue.
Dietotherapy: pork liver 1, chrysanthemum 30g (wrapped in gauze), * * * boiled until the liver is cooked, and the liver is eaten and soup is drunk.
Third, drink mung bean porridge to relieve stomach fire.
Symptoms: There are two kinds of deficiency and excess. Deficiency fire is characterized by mild cough, less appetite, constipation, abdominal distension, red tongue and less fur; Excess fire is manifested as epigastric discomfort, dry mouth and bitter taste, and dry stool.
Dietotherapy: 30 grams of gypsum powder and appropriate amount of japonica rice and mung bean. First, the gypsum is boiled in water, then filtered to remove residue, and the clear liquid is taken, and then the japonica rice and mung bean are added to cook porridge.
Fourth, drink pear water fire.
Manifestations: headache, dizziness, tinnitus, dry eyes, bitter taste, bad breath and pain in both ribs.
Dietotherapy: 10g Fritillaria is mashed into powder, two pears are peeled and cut into pieces, appropriate amount of rock sugar is added, and stewed in clear water.
Five, eat pork loin to kidney fire
Manifestations: dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, backache and fatigue, hot flashes, night sweats, and fidgety.
Dietotherapy: 2 pig kidneys, 65,438+05g of Lycium barbarum and 65,438+05g of Cornus officinalis are cooked in a casserole until they are cooked thoroughly, and then eaten and served with soup.
A stewed peanut food with pawpaw and pig bone removed.
Ingredients: papaya 1 piece (about 750g), peanut kernel100g, pig bone 250g, 4 red dates, 4 slices of ginger and appropriate amount of salt.
Production: Wash the red dates, remove the core, add two bowls of water, add peanuts, pork bones, ginger and salt, simmer for one hour, then put them in the heart-removed papaya and steam for one hour.
Efficacy: Papaya is cold and sweet, containing protein, vitamins B, C, G, protease and lipase. This dish has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, helping digestion and strengthening the spleen and stomach.
Chinese medicine believes that "all diseases are born of qi". Qi stagnation can cause fire, phlegm, hypertension and other diseases. This paper introduces some foods that can be used to treat diseases.
Radish: invigorating qi and nourishing stomach. It has the effect of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm for patients with qi stagnation and internal heat. Green radish has the best curative effect, followed by red skin and white heart (carrots are ineffective), and it is best to eat raw. If your stomach is upset, you can make radish soup.
Rose: When making tea, putting a few petals of roses can smooth the air. People who are not used to drinking tea can soak roses alone, or put fragrant roses in vases in their rooms and breathe in the fragrance of flowers to calm their spirits.
Lotus root: Lotus root can ventilate, strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish the heart and soothe the nerves, and is also a good product for invigorating qi. Boiling lotus root or porridge is the best.
Fennel: Fennel fruit is used as medicine and young leaves are eaten. Both seeds and leaves are beneficial to qi. Cooking stuffing or stir-frying with leaves can strengthen the stomach and relieve pain, and has a good effect on chest tightness and pain.
Hawthorn: Hawthorn is good at relieving qi and relieving pain, resolving food stagnation, and is suitable for chest tightness, abdominal distension and pain caused by gas-packed food. It also has certain curative effect on tachycardia and arrhythmia caused by anger. Eat raw, cooked and soaked in water, and all kinds of eating methods are effective.
Fire extinguishing strategy:
1. Use toothpaste with fire-relieving effect. This kind of toothpaste generally contains honeysuckle, forsythia, isatis leaf, isatis root and so on. They have the function of clearing away heat and toxic materials.
2. Lotus seed ice porridge: Lotus seeds are rich in calcium and potassium, which is good for teeth. Lotus plumule has a good heart-clearing effect and can be used to treat sores on the mouth and tongue. Iced lotus porridge is more suitable for summer and tastes good. Lily and jujube can also be added into the raw materials.
Fire-fighting coup: Ophiopogon japonicus tea
Ophiopogon japonicus is sweet and slightly bitter, and has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and clearing heart fire and relieving annoyance. Take a proper amount of Ophiopogon japonicus and brew it with water, and then add the same crystal sugar that moistens the lung and promotes fluid production and chrysanthemum that clears the liver and improves eyesight, which can improve the problem of insufficient vaginal fluid caused by excessive sweating in time.
Fire-fighting coup: mung bean soup
Some people should not drink more mung bean soup to relieve summer heat-summer heat is prevalent, and mung bean soup is a traditional folk product in China to relieve summer heat. Chinese medicine believes that mung bean has the effects of relieving summer heat and benefiting qi, clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening throat and quenching thirst, and can prevent heatstroke and treat food poisoning.
Mung beans are sweet and cold, and have the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, reducing swelling and reducing fever. It is a good product for removing fire in summer. It is rich in protein, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. Regular drinking can regulate endocrine and lower cholesterol and blood pressure.
Healthy DIY
Crystal tricolor pill
Efficacy: clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, enhancing immunity.
Materials: tremella 10g, sweet potato 20g, yam 20g, and red dates 20g.
Seasoning: 2 tablespoons rock sugar, 65438+ 0 tablespoons ginger juice.
Exercise:
1. Wash sweet potato and yam, peel and steam.
2. Boil water in the pot and add red dates. After a while, add sweet potato, yam and tremella, and then add rock sugar and ginger juice according to taste.
Nutrition Tips: Sweet potato and yam are rich in vitamin A and vitamin C, and a small amount of protein and fat can increase human immunity. Tremella is a nourishing product, which can nourish yin and moisten the lungs, benefit the stomach and produce fluid, and is very helpful for relieving summer heat.
To remove fire, we must first distinguish the types of spring dryness.
The safest way to treat spring dryness is to choose medicated diet for dietotherapy. But spring dryness can be divided into warm dryness and cool dryness, which should be put according to the symptoms.
Cool and dry type
Cold dryness mostly occurs in early spring, which is the result of the combination of dryness and wind-cold pathogens invading the human body. Symptoms of patients include dry cough, little or no phlegm, dry nasopharynx, itchy throat, aversion to cold and fever, headache and no sweat. You can use sesame brown sugar porridge for diet therapy. Take 50 grams of sesame, 0/00 grams of japonica rice/kloc, and appropriate amount of brown sugar. First, fry sesame seeds and grind them into fine powder. Boil porridge with japonica rice. When the porridge is cooked until it is thick, add sesame brown sugar and cook for a while. This porridge is delicious and suitable for liver and kidney deficiency, dizziness, lung dryness and cough.
Warm dry type
It is characterized by dry cough, dry mouth, little phlegm, adhesion into silk, difficulty in coughing up, even coughing chest pain, blood in sputum, accompanied by nasal congestion, headache, chills and body heat. It is a combination of dryness and heat and pathogenic wind and heat, and chestnut rock sugar porridge should be used for diet therapy. Take 50 grams of chestnut kernel, japonica rice 100 grams, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Chop up chestnut kernels and put them into the pot with japonica rice, add appropriate amount of water to cook porridge, and when the porridge is cooked to be thick, add rock sugar to taste and serve. This prescription has the functions of nourishing stomach and strengthening spleen, tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding, and is suitable for anorexia, weakness of spleen and stomach, soreness of waist and knees, weakness of limbs, dreaminess, insomnia, nocturia and other diseases.
After reading the following five rounds of anti-dryness, you will know that the solution is in front of you. So many good things can help you overcome dryness, as long as you do it and say it. Do it for DIY, and talk naturally for eating.
First round focus PK
Player: fruits and vegetables
Dry lips VS cucumber kiwi fruit juice
A written challenge to war
When winter comes, the air seems to be dried by the dryer, and the place with such thin lips can't escape the invasion of dryness, so licking lips every day has become a "compulsory course" for many people. In fact, dry mouth is not caused by excessive internal heat, but because you don't "eat" well or you are too partial to food. Just mix your usual diet and eat more fruits and vegetables. If your lips are very dry, there is a more powerful trick, that is, taking vitamins, and using vitamins C and B2 to deal with chapped lips is very effective!
Ultimate magic
Cucumber kiwi fruit juice
200 grams of cucumber, 30 grams of kiwi fruit, 200 ml of cold boiled water and two teaspoons of honey. Cleaning cucumber, removing seeds, leaving skin and cutting into small pieces, peeling kiwi fruit and cutting into pieces; Put it into a juicer, add cold water and stir, pour out and add honey, and drink it one hour before meals.
Reminder: Never lick dry lips with your tongue, it will only be drier.
Winter in the north has always been dry, and the weather with little precipitation in Beijing in recent days has kept the humidity of the air below 50% ... to drive away the three "magic weapons" of dryness.
The focus of the second round PK
Participants: foods containing manganese.
Dry and itchy skin VS sweet potato fried melon
A written challenge to war
Scratch left and right, rub up and down ... why is it so itchy? After scratching, there are several white spots and peeling on the skin. Alas, the disaster caused by dryness is really not small! In fact, people with dry and itchy skin lack one thing, that is, manganese, which can make people absorb more protein and reduce the harm of toxic substances to the skin. With manganese, you are not afraid of dry and itchy skin! Foods rich in manganese are: soybeans, sweet potatoes, cauliflower, Chinese cabbage and so on.
Ultimate magic
Fried pumpkin with sweet potato
Sweet potato 300g, pumpkin 100g, coriander leaves, onion, minced garlic. Sweet potato and pumpkin are cut into pieces; Add minced garlic and shallots when the oil is 40% hot, stir-fry sweet potato pieces, add pumpkin when it is 50% ripe, add appropriate amount of water, salt and chicken essence, and drain the soup.
Reminder: Don't scratch the itchy skin, it is easy to get infected.
The skin in winter actually needs special care, but on a cold night, with warm hands, where are you willing to deal with cold water and lotion ... taking a hot bath in winter to eliminate dryness?
The focus of the third round PK
Players: nuts, fish, coarse grains
Dried hair VS red dates and walnut soup
A written challenge to war
MM knows that eating walnuts can maintain hair, but not everyone knows why walnuts are good for maintaining hair. In fact, because walnuts contain selenium, selenium can penetrate deep into hair and make it strong, while vitamin B can make it tough. If you want to get these two magic weapons for hair care, you should look for them from nuts, fish and coarse grains.
Ultimate magic
Jujube and walnut soup
250g candied dates, walnut kernel 100g, and proper amount of sugar. The candied dates are pitted, washed and drained; Put walnut kernel and sugar into a pot and cook with low fire; When the soup is thick and the walnuts are soft, turn off the heat and eat. This sweet soup nourishes the liver and kidney, moistens the lungs and produces fluid, nourishes the blood and moistens the hair.
Reminder: Try not to blow your hair with a hair dryer to avoid getting drier.
Netizen Xiaoyan: The nasal cavity is always dry, with mild nasal congestion and red nasal mucosa. What should I eat for dietotherapy?
Lidoctor: after cleaning the nasal cavity, try dropping compound peppermint oil.
The focus of the fourth round PK
Battlefield: food for clearing fire
Oral ulcer VS honey pear cream
A written challenge to war
My voice is a little hoarse and I have a small sore on my tongue. What should I do at this time? I want to know with my clear thumb. Fresh green leafy vegetables, such as cucumber, orange, green tea and pear, have a good effect of clearing fire, and carrots are better, which can also supplement vitamins. You can eat oranges to comfort yourself while watching TV, and drink more green tea at ordinary times ... think about it, how "nourishing" it is!
Ultimate magic
Honey pear paste
Take raw pears, squeeze them into pear juice with a juicer, add appropriate amount of honey, and cook them with slow fire until they are paste. A spoonful a day can clear away heat, promote fluid production and moisten the throat.
Reminder: Don't eat spicy food, drink, smoke or stay up late during "getting angry". You should pay attention to maintain oral hygiene, rinse your mouth frequently and drink plenty of water.
Protect your neck from dryness in winter
The focus of the fifth round PK
Player: Cold drinks
Nosebleeds VS fruit sago
A written challenge to war
It's the peak season of nosebleeds again. Have a cold drink. This is good for you. You will definitely say, "drink cold drinks in winter, not a cold drink inside and outside!" " "Ha ha, it's not. Although it is dry and cold in winter, it is very easy to get angry. Eating a little cold drink can not only put out the fire, but also make you feel different from summer. Of course, although cold drinks can take away some calories in the body, they can treat the symptoms but not the root cause, so you might as well eat some cold food, such as radish, lotus seeds and preserved eggs.
Ultimate magic
Fruit sago
Wash sago with clean water, then pour it into boiling water (stir while cooking to prevent sago from sticking to the pot); Boil sago until translucent, and separate sago from hot water; Boil another pot of boiling water, pour the translucent sago into the boiling water until it is completely transparent, and pour out all the boiling water; Boil a small can of milk (coconut milk can be used instead) and add a little sugar; Pour sago into milk and cook until boiling; Cool the cooked sago and add diced fruit to make sweet and delicious sago.
Reminder: Don't eat cold drinks in winter, otherwise it will hurt your stomach.
Ingredients: 4 carrots and 2 big apples.
Practice: Wash the carrots and keep the organic leaves at the top. Wash apples. Juice the carrots first, then the apples. Mix, stir and drink immediately.
Efficacy: This is one of the few fruit and vegetable juices that can be mixed. Carrots and apple juice are not only delicious, but also one of the best detoxifiers and body supplements you can find. This mixed juice also has a cosmetic effect and is very beneficial to the skin. Red apples taste sweet, so if you use red apples when juicing, carrots are also sweet, which will make the juice very sweet. So, you can also use green apples to make juice.
★★★★★★ β-carotene, folic acid, vitamin C, calcium, pectin, magnesium, potassium and phosphorus.
★★★★ Vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B6 and vitamin E, copper, iron and zinc.
Cabbage apple juice
Ingredients: 1/2 handful of watercress and 3 sweet apples.
Practice: Wash raw materials, juice and drinks.
Efficacy: This mixed juice is a very good detoxification agent for the body. It can clean blood, lower cholesterol, crush kidney calculi and bladder stones, and can also be used as diuretics and laxatives.
★★★★★★ β-carotene, pectin, folic acid, sodium, iron, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, vitamin C and vitamin E.
★★★★ Other B vitamins, zinc and copper.
Raspberry apple juice
Material: 1 basket of raspberries, 3 apples, 1 banana.
Practice: Wash raspberries and apples thoroughly with running water, and then cut the apples into pieces. Bananas are peeled and juiced first. Then juice raspberries and apples. Mix thoroughly and drink immediately.
Efficacy: This is a bright pink juice, but it is not too sweet, because there is a faint special smell in raspberries. To sweeten the juice, you can add 1 banana. This is a kind of fruit juice with powerful cleaning function, which is suitable for rapid detoxification of the body and helps to relieve cold symptoms. If you have a cold, you can drink a glass of this juice before going to bed. The natural tryptophan in bananas will promote your sleep.
★★★★★★ β-carotene, vitamin H, chlorine, pectin, folic acid, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and vitamin C.
★★★★ Other B vitamins, vitamin E, copper and zinc.
Apple pineapple ginger juice
Materials: 1 cm ginger root, 1/2 apples, 1/3 big pineapples.
Practice: Peel ginger and pineapple. Wash the apples and slice them. Cut the pineapple into thin slices that can be juiced. Juice ginger first, then apple and pineapple. Mix and stir the squeezed juice until it bubbles. Drink it as soon as you are ready.
Efficacy: This is a thick, milky mixed juice, which tastes sweet and contains the fragrance of ginger. Ginger has a strong stimulating effect on the circulatory system in the body, and can also relieve symptoms such as nausea and dysmenorrhea. Pineapple has a good cleaning effect on the body and is an effective fruit for treating diseases. Apples are also very good body cleaners and tonics. Therefore, this mixed juice contains a lot of tonics, which is very beneficial to you if you feel unwell.
Cabbage celery apple juice
Ingredients: 200g Chinese cabbage, 2 apples, celery 1 root.
Production: clean cabbage and celery stalks, chop them, cut apples into pieces, and then put them into a juicer to juice.
Efficacy: slimming, cholagogic, refreshing and skin care.
Some points to note:
First of all, we should carefully choose the fruits and vegetables for juicing. First, to ensure freshness, clean fruits and vegetables before juicing to prevent pesticide residues on fruits.
Second: after washing the fruits and vegetables, peel them first, then cut them into small pieces, and then put them into the juicer for juicing, which is convenient for the juicer to work normally.
Third: drink it immediately after juicing, because the nutrients of fruits and vegetables are easy to lose their function in the air, and the freshly squeezed ones will be fresher, which is conducive to human absorption.