As the saying goes, "eat green in spring, eat red in summer, eat white in autumn and eat black in winter". Literally, you can understand that different colors of food are eaten in different seasons. So winter is coming. Since it's "eat black in winter", what are the black foods? What are the recommended ones?
Black food refers to the food containing natural melanin and showing black, purple or dark brown. Black food is not only of high nutritional value, but also rich in vitamins and minerals. In addition, some black foods also contain anthocyanin, an anti-aging nutrient. In winter, they eat three kinds of black foods: tonifying kidney qi and anti-aging.
The first black food recommended for you in winter is black corn in coarse grain:
People usually eat sticky corn and sweet corn. Maybe not all of them have eaten the new variety of black corn. Black corn is rich in nutrition and delicious. It is a very good coarse grain.
The protein content of black corn is more than 17% higher than that of common corn, and the B vitamins, iron, potassium, calcium and other contents are also higher.
Many people may worry about whether black corn will be genetically modified food, which you can rest assured. In fact, black corn has a long history of planting in China. This unique variety can be traced back to the Yuan Dynasty, when corn was also known as maize. And the black in corn comes from anthocyanins, which are familiar nutrients.
The second black food recommended for you in winter is purple cabbage in vegetables:
As we all know, cruciferous vegetables are very nutritious, and they were once considered as "star vegetables" with anti-cancer effect. Purple cabbage in the vegetables is the "representative person" of cruciferous vegetables.
Purple cabbage has very low calories, only 25 calories per 100 grams of purple cabbage, so it is often used as a food match in diet. Moreover, the content of purpurine in purple cabbage is very low. There is only 9.7 mg of purpurine per 100 g of purple cabbage. It's a low purine food to know that it's less than 50 mg.
The third black food recommended for you in winter is black chicken in meat:
Finish saying the black food in the coarse grain and vegetables, let's talk about the black food in the meat, which is the black chicken that will cook soup for pregnant women when sitting on the moon.
Compared with the common chicken, black chicken has more protein, but less cholesterol and fat. In addition, the iron content is also high, suitable for women to eat. The iron content of every 100g black chicken is 2.3mg, while the iron content of common chicken is 1.2mg, nearly double.
When women come to menstruation, they can also drink black chicken soup. We should know that black chicken and white chicken balls are extracted from black chicken. After cooking, black chicken meat is not only tender and delicious, but also contains a lot of black colloidal substances in the soup, which has a special nourishing effect on human body.