In summer, many people reflect that their mouth is dry and bitter, and they don't want to eat. At this time, they need to drink more soup, and drink a few mouthfuls of soup before meals, which is conducive to food dilution and mixing, and promote digestion and absorption. Most importantly, drinking soup before meals can make the food in the stomach fully close to the stomach wall, enhance the sense of fullness and reduce appetite. Drinking soup after a meal can easily lead to excess nutrition and obesity.
The selection principle of soup in summer
Summer is hot, the human body is sweating, salt will be lost with sweat, if the heart muscle is lack of salt, the heart beat will be abnormal. According to traditional Chinese medicine, it is advisable to eat more sour taste to strengthen the surface and salty taste to tonify the heart in summer. In summer, the digestion and absorption function of human body is relatively weak, so we should choose light raw materials to make soup, not fat, sweet and thick taste.
Summer soup is slightly saltier than other seasons, can play a role in sweating and replenishing body salt. Some people will appear anorexia, anorexia, reticence and other states in summer. At this time, it is suitable to choose raw materials that can help digestion, relieve summer heat and rich in water-soluble vitamins to make soup. For example, poultry, fish as the main material, with fungi, fruits and vegetables cooked, appropriate addition of garlic, onion and other spices.
In addition, properly increasing the supply of B vitamins in raw materials can reduce the incidence of various kinds of inflammation. Proper supplement of vitamin E can reduce the damage of sunlight to accelerated aging of skin. Suitable for making soup in summer: duck, tomato, balsam pear, lettuce, celery, lotus seed, lily, wax gourd, etc. Among them, duck meat has the functions of nourishing yin and stomach, strengthening spleen and tonifying deficiency, and eliminating dampness.