What should I eat in such hot weather?

Summer is hot and the temperature rises. People often feel loss of appetite, reduced work efficiency, and even symptoms such as heatstroke. When the temperature is high in midsummer, the amount of perspiration on the human body surface increases greatly, and the loss of water, minerals and water-soluble vitamins in the body will also increase accordingly. At this time, the body's metabolism is also accelerating, and the demand for nutrition is also increasing. Therefore, the daily diet in summer should be balanced, comprehensive and reasonable. On the basis of ensuring food, beans, meat, fish, eggs, milk, vegetables and fruits every day, summer food should be added appropriately to supplement the essential functional components of the body.

Summer food must have three functions: first, it can supplement some nutrients or vitamins (especially vitamins B 1 and B2) or minerals (especially calcium and potassium); Second, it can promote gastrointestinal function, increase the secretion of digestive juice (digestive enzymes) and help digestion; Third, it can increase water intake, improve water and salt metabolism in the body, regulate appetite, maintain physical strength and improve work efficiency.

Now I would like to recommend some popular foods in summer, arrange the diet structure reasonably and evenly, and cooperate with these summer foods to clear away heat and detoxify, so as to achieve the effect of relieving summer heat.

The first recommended ingredient is summer food:

1, mung bean

Summer heat index: ★★★★★★★

Cognitive index: ★★★★★★★

Chinese medicine believes that mung beans are sweet and cold, enter the heart and stomach, and have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and diuresis. It is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that cooking with mung beans can reduce swelling and reduce qi, clear away heat and toxic materials, relieve summer heat and quench thirst, harmonize the five internal organs, soothe the nerves and replenish deficiency, and moisturize the skin; Mung bean powder can detoxify, treat sores and swelling, and treat burns; Mung bean skin is antipyretic, toxic and astringent; Mung bean sprouts can relieve alcoholism and detoxify.

2.watermelon

Summer heat index: ★★★★★

Cognitive index: ★★★★★★★

Watermelon, also known as cold melon. Chinese medicine believes that watermelon is sweet and cold, and has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, quenching thirst and diuresis. Compendium of Materia Medica also points out that watermelon can "cure throat obstruction, relieve middle energizer and lower qi, promote diuresis and eliminate dampness, cure blood dysentery and relieve alcoholism".

2. Lotus seeds

Summer heat index: ★★★★★★★

Cognitive index: ★★★★

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lotus seeds are sweet and flat, and have the functions of nourishing the spleen and astringent intestines, nourishing the heart and benefiting the kidney. Drinking lotus seed soup every day in summer can strengthen the heart and ambition, nourish the heart and benefit the spleen. Middle-aged and elderly people eat it, which makes people healthy and beneficial to health. It is scientific to drink lotus seed soup in summer to prolong life.

4. Coix seed

Summer heat index: ★★★★★

Cognitive index: ★★★

Coix seed is cold and enters spleen, lung and kidney meridians. It has the functions of invigorating spleen and lung, clearing away heat and infiltrating temperature, and is also beneficial to balance blood pressure and blood lipid. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, Coicis Semen has the functions of invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, tonifying lung and clearing heat, expelling wind and removing dampness, beauty beauty, strengthening body and prolonging life. Can be used for treating spleen and stomach weakness, hypertension, urinary calculi, urinary tract infection, ascariasis, etc. , as well as cancer prevention, diuretic, antipyretic and physical fitness.

5. water shield

Summer heat index: ★★★★★

Cognitive index: ★

Water shield is a perennial aquatic herb of Nymphaeaceae, also known as water shield, water chestnut and lake vegetable. Delicious and tender, it is one of the precious vegetables. It is rich in protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals. It is mainly produced in Taihu Basin of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, and leaves with curly leaves are picked from late April to late October of 10. Water shield has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, reducing swelling and detoxifying. Treat dysentery, jaundice, carbuncle and furuncle. "The Compendium of Medical Forest" has "removing vexation, relieving fever and eliminating phlegm". Water shield is cold, so you can't eat many meals for a long time.

6. Cucumber

Summer heat index: ★★★★

Cognitive index: ★★★★

Cucumber is sweet and cool, and has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis and detoxifying. It has a unique effect on diuresis due to chest heat, and also has obvious effects on dehumidification, intestine moistening and analgesia. Propylene diacid can inhibit the conversion of carbohydrates into fat, so it is beneficial to obese people and patients with hypertension and hyperlipidemia. Cucurbitacin C can fight cancer, and cucumber juice has a cosmetic effect. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, cucumber has the effects of clearing away heat, quenching thirst, diuresis and detumescence.

7.bitter gourd

Summer heat index: ★★★★★

Cognitive index: ★★★★★

Bitter gourd, also known as cucurbitaceae, is an annual climbing herb. Chinese medicine believes that bitter gourd tastes bitter and cold; Heart, lung, spleen and stomach meridians. Has the effects of relieving summer-heat, detoxicating and invigorating stomach.

8. tea

Summer heat index: ★★★★★

Cognitive index: ★★★★★

The physiological and pharmacological effects of tea components on human body are various. Caffeine in tea can excite the central nervous system, help people cheer up, improve thinking, eliminate fatigue and improve work efficiency. Caffeine and theophylline in tea have diuretic effects and are used to treat edema and stagnant tumors. Acute icteric hepatitis can be treated by detoxification and diuresis with black tea syrup. Tea polyphenols and tannic acid in tea act on bacteria, which can coagulate the protein of bacteria and kill them. Can be used for treating intestinal diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery and enteritis. The skin is swollen and painful, festering and purulent, and the skin is broken by trauma. Washing the affected area with strong tea has anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effects. Oral inflammation, ulceration, sore throat, treated with tea, also has a certain effect.

9. water chestnut

Summer heat index: ★★★★

Cognitive index: ★★★★

Eleocharis tuberosa, also known as black taro, bitter gourd, chestnut and sweet clover, is scientific name (Heleahat is tube ro sa ashulus). Compendium of Materia Medica holds that water chestnut is "sweet, slightly cold, slippery and non-toxic". Its function is to "quench thirst and remove arthralgia-heat, warm the middle warmer and replenish qi, reduce Dan Shi, dispel wind and detoxify, and remove excess heat in the chest, so it can be used as powder food. Clear eyes and ears, eliminate jaundice and stimulate appetite. Do powder food, thick stomach, not muscle; It can detoxify and is suitable for people who eat stones. Treat five kinds of diaphragmatic qi, exclude overnight food and eat after meals. Mistreatment of copper, treatment of bloody dysentery and blood collapse, avoiding poison ",water chestnut" sweet and slightly cold, non-toxic. " Water chestnut is not only a beautiful vegetable and fruit, but also a natural Chinese medicine.

10, spinach

Summer heat index: ★★★★

Cognitive index: ★★★

Spinach was called "red-billed green Ying Ge" in ancient China, also known as Persian cuisine and red-rooted cuisine. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that eating spinach can "dredge blood vessels, open the chest and diaphragm, reduce qi and balance, quench thirst and moisten dryness". The ancient Arabs also called it "the king of vegetables". Spinach not only contains a lot of beta carotene and iron, but also is an excellent source of vitamin B6, folic acid, iron and potassium.

Then, I recommend the following soup dishes, which are not only delicious, but also have the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.

1, medlar sliced egg drop soup

Ingredients: Lycium barbarum100g, lean pork10g, 2 eggs and 4 slices of ginger.

Practice: Wash the lean pork, cut it into small pieces, wash the medlar, put it in the pot for 3 minutes, and then add the eggs to boil.

How to eat: drink soup, eat lean meat and medlar.

Efficacy: nourishing yin and moistening dryness, nourishing blood and enriching blood, and improving eyesight.

Indications: dizziness caused by yin deficiency of liver and kidney, with symptoms such as headache, numbness of limbs, palpitation, low back pain, dry mouth and throat, red tongue, little fur and rapid pulse.

2, loofah pork lean soup

Ingredients: loofah 250g, lean pork 150g, proper amount of oil and salt.

Practice: Wash the towel gourd, cut into pieces, slice the lean meat, put it in a pot, add 3 bowls of water, cook for about 1 hour, and season.

How to eat: drink soup, eat lean meat and loofah.

Efficacy: clearing heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxifying.

Indications: cough due to lung heat, characterized by fever, cough, yellow and thick phlegm, yellow urine, red tongue with yellow coating and rapid pulse.

3, melon sashimi soup

Ingredients: raw fish 1 strip (about 250g), 500g wax gourd, 60g red bean, and 5 shallots.

Practice: Cut raw fish (snakehead) open, remove scales and intestines, wash, cut wax gourd with skin, mash onion, wash red beans, and put them in a pot with 4 bowls of water. Cook raw fish and season with salt.

How to eat: Eat soup and raw fish, melon and red beans once a year.

Efficacy: clearing heat and relieving summer heat, diuresis and detumescence. Indications: Summer dampness is superior to yang, with symptoms of chills and fatigue, swollen face and floating limbs, short and red urine, and red tongue with white fur.

4. Watermelon ribs soup

Ingredients: watermelon rind 1/5 chunks, sparerib 150g, appropriate amount of salt, 4 bowls of water, boil over high fire, add the sliced watermelon rind, then simmer for 10 minutes, and add a little salt to taste.

How to eat: eat soup and ribs.

Efficacy: clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, quenching thirst and diuresis.

Indications: For patients with fever, heatstroke, oral ulcer and hypertension in summer, tremella can be added to make soup, which can also be used as a material for female facial massage.

There is also some common sense of cooling off the heat.

1, eat more porridge

Eating more porridge is a traditional health care method in China, which is of great benefit to the body. The porridge used for heatstroke prevention includes mung bean porridge, lotus leaf porridge, fresh lotus root porridge and raw reed root porridge. You can also use Semen Cassiae15g, Flos Chrysanthemi15g, 60g of japonica rice, and rock sugar porridge as cool drinks in summer and autumn. In addition, adding sweet potatoes and mustard to boiled porridge in japonica rice has the effect of relieving summer heat and sweating.

Step 2 drink more soup

When people sweat more and lose more body fluids, drinking more soup can not only replenish water in time, but also help digestion and absorption. It is best to drink bean soup when drinking soup. Mung beans are cool and have the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Mung beans and mint can also be made into mung bean mint soup, mung bean pumpkin soup, mung bean rice kernel soup and mung bean honeysuckle soup. In addition, boiled soup with watermelon peel peanut100g, malt 50g and rice kernel 50g has a good effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.

Step 3 drink more tea

Drinking more tea can not only replenish the water lost in the body after sweating in time, but also clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Because green tea is cool, try to drink it in hot weather. In addition, you can also make all kinds of tea drinks by yourself. Stir-fry100g barley, add1500-2000ml water to boil, and drink after cooling. It is a very delicious steamed dumplings tea, which can cool down and prevent heatstroke. Brewing a proper amount of Pogostemon and Cassia seed with boiling water, and cooling to drink is a good Pogostemon herbal tea. White chrysanthemum, orange peel, hawthorn and fresh bamboo leaves are 5- 10g each, which is a good chrysanthemum bamboo leaf tea after being brewed with 500- 1000ml boiling water.

Step 4 eat more green vegetables

The weather is hot and humid, and people generally like to eat light, delicious and non-greasy food. Vegetables have this characteristic and are rich in vitamins and protein. Therefore, we should try to eat more green vegetables, such as beans, melons, Chinese cabbage, coriander, fennel and so on. It can not only supplement nutrition, but also clear away heat and relieve summer heat. For example, cucumber, wax gourd and bitter gourd all have very good effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. You can eat it cold and raw, or you can fry it with a little shredded lean meat.

5. Eat more fruits and vegetables

Sweet melon juice can not only quench thirst, but also clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Watermelon is sweet, juicy and cool, and it is the first melon to clear away heat and relieve summer heat and quench thirst. In addition, melons and cucumbers are eaten raw after washing, or drunk after juicing, which has a good effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat. Kiwi contains a lot of vitamin C, which has a very good effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. It is a fruit and drink often selected by high temperature and field workers. Pear juice, water chestnut juice, lotus root juice (or sugarcane juice), Ophiopogon japonicus juice and fresh reed root juice are mixed together to make a five-juice beverage, which has good effects of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, clearing heat and relieving summer heat.

It is also necessary to remind everyone that six points should be paid attention to when making summer food. First, we should guard against microbial and pesticide pollution in food raw materials; The second is take-away food, which needs high temperature disinfection after returning home; Third, the choice of food raw materials should be fresh, and cold dishes should be cooked and eaten now; The fourth is to eat as much as possible to ensure that the food is fresh; Fifth, tableware and containers should be strictly disinfected and cleaned to prevent pollution; Sixth, don't send "hot food" directly into the refrigerator.