Summer food

Summer food, in such a hot summer, I believe many people often lose their appetite. At this time, we should choose some light food in our diet, so let's share some summer food.

Summer food 1 1 watermelon

Watermelon, as a representative fruit, has always been a favorite summer festival in China. Watermelon contains a lot of water, sugar and vitamins, which can help the body improve the symptoms of mild heatstroke. Of course, in addition to watermelon, pears, tomatoes, bayberry, bananas and other fruits also have the function of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, so you can eat some appropriately.

2. Cucumber

Vegetables represented by cucumber also have remarkable summer-heat relieving effect, and are essential vegetables for heatstroke prevention in summer. In addition, vegetables such as bitter gourd, wax gourd, loofah, kelp, lotus root and cabbage have the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, which can alleviate the discomfort caused by mild heatstroke and can be eaten more in summer.

3. Mung bean soup

Whole grains represented by mung beans are also the key diet to relieve summer heat. Mung bean soup is a popular summer medicine since ancient times, and it is very suitable to drink it in summer. In addition, red beans and lotus seeds are also representative ingredients for clearing away heat and toxic materials, and porridge and soup can be cooked in summer to prevent heatstroke.

4. Mulberry tea

Mulberry chrysanthemum tea is brewed with mulberry leaves and chrysanthemum in boiling water, and it is also a good medicine for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat in summer. Commonly used Chinese herbal medicines, such as mulberry leaves and chrysanthemum, have good effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials and can be used to prevent heatstroke. In addition, Chinese herbal medicines such as lotus leaf, kudzuvine root, honeysuckle, mint, Ophiopogon japonicus and Pogostemon rugosa also have good summer-heat relieving effects.

5. Sour plum soup

Sour plum soup is a favorite summer drink, which is made of dark plum as the main raw material. People in many places in China like to drink some homemade sour plum soup in hot summer, which can not only cool off the heat, but also improve their poor appetite in summer. If you want to enhance the function of relieving summer heat, you may wish to cook a pot of dark plum mung bean soup.

6. Green tea

Green tea is a very simple way to prevent heatstroke in summer. Green tea itself is relatively cool, which can clear away heat and reduce fever, and is more suitable for drinking in summer. Of course, green tea needs to be brewed by itself, so don't replace it with green tea drinks on the market, which will not have a good effect of relieving summer heat and keeping in good health.

What to eat for heatstroke?

According to the severity, heatstroke can be divided into threatened heatstroke, mild heatstroke and severe heatstroke.

1, threatened heatstroke and mild heatstroke

Threatened heatstroke and mild heatstroke can lead to elevated body temperature, accompanied by some uncomfortable symptoms, such as headache, dizziness, thirst, sweating and flushing. This situation needs to be transferred to a cool and ventilated environment to help dissipate heat and drink some cool drinks, such as freshly squeezed juice. You can also drink some soups for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, such as mung bean soup, watermelon juice, winter melon soup, seaweed soup, mulberry tea and so on.

2. Severe heatstroke

Severe heatstroke includes heat spasm, heat exhaustion, heatstroke, and the most serious is heatstroke. The patient's temperature is very high. If the treatment is not timely, it is prone to multiple organ failure and high mortality. So in this case, don't think about what to eat, but quickly carry out physical cooling in vitro and send it to the hospital for treatment.

Summer food 2 1, cucumber-diuresis to reduce swelling

Cucumber is the best vegetable for beauty and weight loss in summer. Regular consumption of cucumber can effectively resist skin aging, reduce wrinkles and prevent cheilitis and angular stomatitis. Cucumber has the effects of clearing away heat and quenching thirst, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, and is one of the vegetables suitable for summer consumption. However, people with weak spleen and stomach, abdominal pain and diarrhea, and colds and coughs should eat less cucumbers.

2, mung beans-heat and detoxification

Protein and phospholipids in mung beans can stimulate nerves and stimulate appetite, which is very suitable for eating in summer. Mung beans are sweet and cold, and have the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, relieving summer heat and quenching thirst, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. Mung bean soup is the most commonly used folk medicine to relieve summer heat and detoxify, and it is best to eat mung bean porridge to relieve summer heat and nourish the stomach in summer.

3, wax gourd-quenching thirst and diuresis

In summer, eat more melon to quench thirst, relieve summer heat and diuresis. Because it is a diuretic and contains very little sodium, it is a good product to reduce swelling of chronic nephritis edema, malnutrition edema and pregnant women edema. It contains a variety of vitamins and trace elements necessary for human body, which can regulate the metabolic balance of human body.

4, Flammulina velutipes-clearing away heat and solving worries

Flammulina velutipes can invigorate qi and nourish blood, clear heat and dry dampness, and relieve depression and anger. It is also rich in protein, carotene, fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients.

5, lotus root-soothe the nerves and cool the blood

Lotus root has the effects of clearing heat, calming nerves, cooling blood and removing blood stasis, and contains minerals such as vitamin B, phosphorus and iron, which can improve anemia, diminish inflammation and bacteria, reduce blood lipid and lower blood pressure.

6, loofah-clearing heat and moistening intestines

Summer is the ripe season for loofah. Medical classics and Compendium of Materia Medica all say that loofah can "clear away heat and benefit intestines". Eating loofah soup in summer can relieve the heat. When cooking soup, it should not be cooked for a long time, and it is best to keep the bright green of loofah. The towel gourd skin and towel gourd flower boil water together instead of tea, which also has the function of heatstroke prevention and antipyretic.

7. Watermelon-Relieve summer heat and trouble.

Watermelon is the first choice for relieving summer heat and thirst among melons. When heatstroke, fever, upset, thirst or other acute fever occurs in summer, watermelon should be used for complementary food treatment. Watermelon tastes sweet and cold, and has the effects of relieving summer heat, relieving annoyance, quenching thirst and diuresis. It is a good summer product and is known as "natural white tiger soup". All symptoms caused by heat, such as polydipsia, thirst, irritability, dysuria, body fluid injury and alcohol injury, are suitable for eating.

8. Myrica rubra-quenching thirst

In hot summer, friends with symptoms such as dry mouth caused by insufficient body fluid can quench their thirst by eating bayberry. In addition, eating bayberry in hot weather can also prevent heatstroke. Yangmei contains a variety of organic acids and a lot of vitamin C. Everyone knows that eating sour food can increase appetite and help digestion, so if you have a bad appetite, I suggest you eat a few Yangmei to increase appetite and help digestion.

9, pear-moistening the lungs to dry

Pear has the functions of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, eliminating phlegm and clearing fire, moistening lung and removing dryness, and is suitable for patients with lung heat cough, dry throat and sore throat, dry stool, hypertension, hepatitis and liver cirrhosis. The solstice in summer is hot and dry, which makes people thirsty and angry. Therefore, in hot weather, eating some foods that clear away heat and relieve summer heat, promote fluid production and invigorate qi can alleviate the dryness and heat of the body and make the body comfortable and healthy.

10, green tea-hydrating and antipyretic

The weather is hot and sweaty, and green tea is fruitful. I want to release potassium, which can not only replenish water, but also replenish potassium lost by sweating. Drink several times a day, so that tea polyphenols and catechins in tea can be fully absorbed by the human body. Green tea is non-fermented, tastes bitter and cold, and is too cold after being iced, which is not suitable for women and people with cold stomach. Oolong tea is a semi-fermented tea between black tea and green tea. It is neither cold nor hot, and it can also clear away heat and produce fluid. Suitable for women and people with cold stomach.

What is the best porridge to eat in summer?

1, preserved egg lean porridge

Prepare a small amount of lean meat, a preserved egg and some rice. Clean the lean meat first, then put it in a pot filled with cold water, boil it with high fire to remove the foam on the water surface, and then cook it with low fire for about 20 minutes, then you can pick up the lean meat and cut it into dices. After washing rice, put it into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil it with high fire first, then switch to low fire, and then during this time.

Preserved eggs can be shelled and cut into small pieces. When the porridge is almost cooked, add diced meat and preserved egg pieces, add proper amount of monosodium glutamate and salt, and cook for a while. Preserved egg lean meat porridge can not only nourish the stomach, but also supplement nutrients such as water and salt that the human body lacks. However, patients with hypertension, diabetes and coronary heart disease should not eat preserved egg and lean meat porridge often.

2, spinach porridge

Wash spinach and chop it for later use. After washing the rice, put it in a pot with water and cook it with fire. When the porridge is almost cooked, add chopped spinach, add appropriate amount of salt, onion, monosodium glutamate and other seasonings, and cook for a while. Spinach porridge is light, easy to digest, has the functions of soothing the liver and moistening the intestines, nourishing blood and improving eyesight, and is especially suitable for people who are old, weak, constipated and have poor eyesight.

3, bitter melon porridge

Wash the bitter gourd first, remove the pulp, then cut it into dices, then put it in a pot with rice and add water to boil it, and then cook it slowly with low heat. When the porridge is almost cooked, add a proper amount of salt, monosodium glutamate and rock sugar, and then cook and melt. It's too hot in summer, so eating bitter melon porridge helps to clear away heat and relieve summer heat, clear the heart and improve eyesight, strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite.

4, mung bean porridge

Because mung beans are hard, they need to be soaked in water for a while, and then boiled in a pot. When mung beans are half blooming, add washed rice and cook together. When the mung beans are almost all in bloom and the rice is almost cooked, add a little sugar and cook for a while. Eating mung bean porridge in summer can clear away heat and detoxify, dispel summer heat and quench thirst, and also has a certain effect on nourishing stomach and appetizing.