Your "Summer Solstice Health Food Recipe" has arrived!
Your "Summer Solstice Health Food Recipe" has arrived!
Your "Summer Solstice Health Food Recipe" has arrived!
Your "Summer Solstice Health Food Recipe" has arrived!
Your "Summer Solstice Health Food Recipe" has arrived!
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  • Your "Summer Solstice Health Food Recipe" has arrived!
  • Your "Summer Solstice Health Food Recipe" has arrived!
  • Your "Summer Solstice Health Food Recipe" has arrived!
  • Your "Summer Solstice Health Food Recipe" has arrived!
  • Your "Summer Solstice Health Food Recipe" has arrived!

Your "Summer Solstice Health Food Recipe" has arrived!


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It's too hot

Don't know what to eat?

Check out this healthy summer recipe

Makes it easy for you

Cool down this summer!

Eat duck!

The hot and humid weather of summer makes even the most beloved fish and meat seem unappetizing. Want to eat meat but don't want to get heatstroke? Eating duck is the best choice!

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As the saying goes, "Old duck in the Great Heat is better than medicine." Duck contains a lot of monounsaturated fatty acids, even more than olive oil, which can effectively lower cholesterol and prevent cardiovascular diseases.

Duck blood is rich in iron. Many adult women are iron deficient, and duck blood contains heme iron, which is very helpful for iron supplementation. Great duck!

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Here are a few recipes recommended for summer, to invigorate the spleen and stomach, eat more of this ↓↓

01

Yam and Old Duck Soup

Yam contains abundant diastase and polyphenol oxidase, which helps with the digestion and absorption of the spleen and stomach, and has a good nourishing effect on the spleen and stomach. It is suitable to make old duck soup with sweet and cold duck meat.

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【Ingredients】

500g old duck, 50g yam, 30g lotus seeds, 20g Dendrobium officinale, 30g coix seed, 5g tangerine peel, 3 slices of ginger, 2 jujubes.

【Steps】

1. Cut the old duck into pieces;

2. Put all the ingredients into a rice cooker and add an appropriate amount of water;

3. Cook for about 2 hours, then add salt to taste.

02

Stewed Water Duck

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【Ingredients】

1 water duck, winter melon, onion, cooking wine, ginger.

【Steps】

1. Put the ingredients in a pot, add water, and bring to a boil over high heat;

2. Reduce heat and simmer for about two hours;

3. Add an appropriate amount of salt.

 

Hydration

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes "Yin and Yang Five Elements" and "the unity of man and nature." Winter is Yin, summer is Yang. Summer is the season of Yang flourishing and Yin declining, which is also when the human body's Yang Qi is vigorous. The body's Yang Qi tends to rise and flourish in summer, and the cold Qi in the body is easy to dissipate.

 

During the dog days, people sweat profusely with a little work or exercise, followed by a strong feeling of thirst. Therefore, hydration becomes paramount during the dog days.

Here are some good things for summer hydration and heatstroke prevention, please check them out ↓↓

01

Plum Tangerine Peel Drink

It promotes body fluid production, stops thirst, and invigorates the spleen and stomach. It is suitable for people with excessive sweating, thirst, and poor appetite.

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【Ingredients】

10g dried plums, 10g hawthorn, 10g licorice, 3g tangerine peel.

【Steps】

1. Put all the ingredients in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and bring to a boil over high heat;

2. Simmer over low heat for 30 minutes;

3. Add rock sugar and cook for another 5 minutes.

02

Refreshing Mung Bean Soup

【Ingredients】

30g mung beans, 9g reed root, 3g raw licorice.

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【Steps】

1. First wrap the reed root and licorice in cheesecloth;

2. Add an appropriate amount of water and cook with mung beans;

3. Remove the bag containing the reed root and licorice before drinking.

03

Shengmai Yin

【Ingredients】

5g ginseng, 5g Ophiopogon japonicus, 5g Schisandra chinensis.

【Steps】

1. Put the ingredients in a cup and steep with boiling water for half an hour to an hour;

2. Can be repeatedly brewed;

3. The ingredients can be eaten at the end.

04

Honeysuckle Tea

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【Ingredients】

3g honeysuckle, 3g Prunella vulgaris, 2g licorice, 3g bamboo leaf.

【Steps】

1. Put the ingredients in a cup and brew with boiling water;

2. Cover the cup and let it steep for a few minutes.

The above recipes are from People's Daily Science and Technology, for reference only. May not be suitable for people with allergies, diseases, etc. Please confirm the applicability and personal health condition before consumption. Seek medical attention immediately if you feel unwell.

Although the methods of eating are different,

The aspirations for a safe and cool summer are similar

May you experience the heat

And still yearn for the distance with clarity

The heat will end

Time is endless

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