Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Weather inquiry - It's very hot. Is there any good food to relieve summer heat?

It's very hot. Is there any good food to relieve summer heat?

Pay attention to supplement some nutrition in summer. Protein is abundant, and fish, meat, eggs, milk and beans are better.

Vitamin supplements:

Fresh vegetables and fruits, such as tomatoes, watermelons, bayberry, melons, peaches and plums. Rich in vitamin c;

Vitamin B is abundant in cereals, beans, animal livers, lean meat and eggs.

Supplementary water and inorganic salts: Edible foods with high potassium content, such as fruits, vegetables, beans or bean products, kelp, eggs, etc. Eat more foods that clear away heat and promote diuresis: watermelon, bitter gourd, peach, dark plum, strawberry, tomato, cucumber, mung bean and so on.

In addition, drinking porridge in summer is also of great benefit.

Red bean porridge has the function of tonifying kidney and eliminating edema, and people with poor renal function had better eat more.

Broad bean porridge is good for chronic edema and nephritis.

Lotus leaf porridge can relieve summer heat, clear stomach and moisten intestines, quench thirst and detoxify.

Lotus porridge can strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, and is good for diarrhea, insomnia, nocturnal emission and leucorrhea.

Lily porridge can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, nourish the heart and soothe the nerves, and is suitable for the elderly with insufficient lung yin.

Winter melon porridge has the effects of diuresis, detumescence, quenching thirst, promoting fluid production and lowering blood pressure.

Auricularia auricula porridge can promote fluid production and moisten lung, nourish yin and moisten lung, and can treat hypertension and chronic bronchitis.

Astragalus porridge can treat edema caused by spleen deficiency.