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What is suitable for eating when you have a cold?
Colds are high, especially in winter and spring. When the body's resistance drops, it is easy to catch a cold. If it is a common cold, you can improve your immunity and fight against colds through diet. So, what should I eat quickly if I have a cold? Let's get to know each other.

What does a cold eat fast?

1, Luffa

Luffa is rich in vitamin C, which is beneficial to fight diseases. It is also rich in vitamin B family, which is beneficial to the brain development of the fetus and the health of pregnant mothers. Luffa can also clear away heat and resolve phlegm. Eating loofah can relieve symptoms such as body heat, polydipsia, excessive phlegm, asthma and cough caused by hot cold.

Fried loofah

Ingredients: 300g of towel gourd and 30g of sweet pepper.

Practice: loofah peeled, washed and cut into pieces; The sweet red pepper is pedicled, washed and sliced for later use. Heat oil in a pan, add loofah and sweet red pepper, stir-fry until 80% cooked, season with salt, and stir-fry out of the pan.

Efficacy: clearing away heat and relaxing bowels, relieving summer heat and relieving annoyance.

Step 2 water chestnut

Water chestnut is rich in phosphorus, which is beneficial to the development of teeth and bones, and can promote the metabolism of sugar, fat and protein in the body. Studies have found that water chestnut contains antiviral substances, which can effectively inhibit influenza virus. Moreover, water chestnut is tender and juicy, which is beneficial to the treatment of hot cold symptoms. People with yellow cough, sore throat and thirst have a good effect of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm and quenching thirst.

Horseshoe tofu laver soup

Ingredients: 50g laver, horseshoe 10, 2 pieces of tofu, 200g lean pork, ginger 1 slice, and a little refined salt.

Practice: soak the seaweed and wash it. Wash and dice tofu; Peeling and pedicling horseshoes, and cutting into pieces; Wash pork and cut into pieces, wash ginger, peel and slice; Add water to the casserole and bring to a boil. Add laver, water chestnut, bean curd, pork and ginger. Cook over medium heat for 2 hours and season with a little salt.

Efficacy: clearing away heat and diuresis, lowering blood pressure and promoting human metabolism.

Step 3: wax gourd

Wax gourd is rich in vitamin C and potassium. Pregnant women can eat wax gourd to reduce swelling without hurting their vitality. At the same time, wax gourd is also rich in copper, which has an important influence on the development and function of blood, central nervous system, immune system, liver and brain. Eating wax gourd in summer has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and removing heat, and has a certain auxiliary effect on infectious diseases such as chronic bronchitis.

Pork ribs and winter melon soup

Ingredients: a catty of ribs, a catty and a half of wax gourd, half a onion and a piece of ginger.

Practice: wash the ribs and cut into pieces; Wax gourd is cut into pieces about 1cm thick. Blanch the ribs with hot water, add water to the saucepan, add ginger and onion knots, add ribs after boiling, add salt after boiling again, stew for one and a half hours on low heat, and finally add wax gourd and cook for about 20 minutes.

Efficacy: summer heat and diuresis.

Patients with wind-heat cold can also eat the following cold foods, such as apples, oranges, kiwis, strawberries, figs, cucumbers, bitter gourd and tomatoes. It should be noted that people with wind-heat colds should not eat longan, litchi, dog meat, mutton, eggs, peppers, donkey-hide gelatin, ginseng and other foods.

What fruit does a cold eat?

1, pear

Pear has the effects of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, clearing away heat and relieving cough, and has obvious relieving effect on wind-heat cold, fever, dry mouth, cough and expectoration. Pear can be cooked into sugar water with Fritillaria cirrhosa, crystal sugar or honey, or steamed with Fritillaria cirrhosa powder after core removal.

2. Apple

Apples are common among all fruits. Apple is rich in vitamin C and potassium, which helps to regulate the balance of water and electrolyte and has a good relief effect on expectant mothers with morning sickness. Apple also contains anti-cold factors, which can directly resist the cold virus and accelerate recovery. You can eat apples raw or drink them with juice.

3.pineapple

Pineapple contains organic acids, B vitamins, vitamin C and other nutrients. It has the functions of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and is very suitable for pregnant mothers. Bromelain contained in pineapple can not only help patients with cold to relieve the symptoms of sore throat and cough, but also effectively decompose protein in food, increase gastrointestinal peristalsis and enhance immunity. Pregnant mothers can drink a glass of fresh pineapple juice when they have a mild cold.

4, grapefruit

Grapefruit is cold and sweet. Contains a variety of nutrients, such as carotene, vitamin C, vitamin B 1, vitamin B6, nicotinic acid, etc. It can relieve phlegm and cough and benefit the lungs. However, grapefruit is cold and should not be eaten in excess.

Cold recipe recommendation

Ginger radish soup

Ingredients: 25g shredded ginger, 50g shredded radish and appropriate amount of brown sugar.

Practice: wash and shred ginger, wash and shred radish, add appropriate amount of water to fry 15 minutes, add appropriate amount of brown sugar to boil, drink it while it is hot, and cover it after sweating.

Efficacy: Radish has the efficacy of treating viral cold, common cold, gastrointestinal cold and food poisoning, and has a unique role in preventing and treating colds.

Lycium barbarum and Sydney soup

Ingredients: Lycium barbarum100g, 3-4 Sydney, 50g rock sugar.

Practice: wash and peel Sydney and cut it into small pieces; Pour 3 bowls of water into a boiling pot, add Sydney pieces and medlar after boiling; Finally, simmer for 3-5 minutes with low fire, then add rock sugar, and eat it after the rock sugar is completely melted.

Efficacy: Lycium barbarum has the functions of nourishing liver, improving eyesight, moistening lung and relieving cough, while pear has the functions of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, clearing heat and relieving cough. This soup has a good relieving effect on wind-heat cold.

Onion ginger glutinous rice porridge

Ingredients: onion and Jiang Mo each15g, glutinous rice100g, and vinegar 30ml.

Practice: Mash ginger and wash glutinous rice clean; First add 500 ml of water and cook the glutinous rice into porridge; When the porridge is almost cooked, add onion, ginger and vinegar to continue cooking; Cooked, drink while it is hot, and often sweat. If you feel full and uncomfortable, you can drink hot with onion and ginger without glutinous rice.

Function: Conducive to the treatment of wind-cold type cold.

No matter what kind of cold it is, you should eat light, soft and digestible food at first, and eat less and more meals. You can choose liquid diets such as rice porridge, rice soup, rotten noodles, mung beans, lotus root paste, almond paste and bean products. Eating some fruits during a cold can not only cure the cold, but also help to supplement vitamins.