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Is it better to eat more mutton or beef in winter?

1. Benefits of eating beef: Beef is rich in various amino acids, high-quality protein, various trace elements and other nutrients. Chinese medicine believes that beef has the effects of invigorating the middle energizer and nourishing the spleen and stomach, which is very suitable for patients with deficiency of middle energizer, weakness of bones and muscles, and can improve immunity. But fundamentally, beef may be more suitable for people who exercise and need to gain muscle. It is suitable for eating all year round. 2, the benefits of eating mutton: Winter is the best season to eat mutton, because the yang of the human body is hidden in the body in winter, and the weather is cold, which may lead to stagnation of qi and blood, so it is easy to have cold hands and feet and poor circulation of qi and blood, while mutton is warm but not dry, and it has the effects of warming the middle to drive cold, warming qi and blood, supplementing qi and tonifying deficiency, so eating mutton in winter can help the body resist the cold and nourish the body. To sum up, both mutton and beef are suitable for winter consumption, but mutton is more suitable for winter tonic than beef.