As the saying goes: a white shades a hundred ugliness, so women want their skin to be white and tender. If you want to have good skin, in addition to paying attention to the usual skin care, you must also pay attention to sun protection.
It's summer and the sun is shining even more intensely. Rub sunscreen, wear sunscreen clothing, and use sunscreen measures such as umbrellas to achieve better sunscreen effect. However, sunscreen can not only do "surface articles", in order to better do a good job of sunscreen, we can eat some foods with sunscreen effect in our daily diet, these foods are rich in vitamin C, have antioxidant effects, and help sunscreen.
These 12 foods are called "natural sunscreen", so see which foods they are and collect them.
01. Goji berries
Goji berries contain many alkaloids, such as betaine, carotene, riboflavin, niacin, vitamins and so on. There are also many trace elements, such as potassium, calcium, sodium, zinc, iron, copper, selenium and so on. In addition, goji berries also contain a variety of amino acids, which are very nutritious.
Goji berries are also very good at blocking the oxidative effects of ultraviolet rays, which is good for protecting our skin and relieving dermatitis and puffiness caused by sunburn.
Recommendation: 【Goji berry soaking water】
Whether at home or at work, drinking with goji berries in water is the easiest way to eat. Rinse the dried goji berries with warm water, put them in a cup, brew them in hot water and drink. After drinking it a few times, eat the goji berries to allow the nutrients to be fully absorbed.
02. Green tea
Green tea contains antioxidants, and the catechins in green tea have strong antioxidant properties. It can help us reduce the probability of our skin being damaged by the sun.
Drinking tea in the summer should pay attention to drinking hot tea to quench thirst and relieve heat, drinking herbal tea hurts the stomach, and pay attention not to drink tea on an empty stomach.
03. Tomatoes
Mature tomatoes are rich in lycopene, which can effectively block the formation of free radicals in the skin and reduce the damage of ultraviolet rays to the skin. The experiment also found that the sun protection ability of the skin of people who regularly ate tomatoes was one-third higher than that of people who did not eat tomatoes. Moreover, tomatoes are better cooked than raw.
Recommended recipe: Tomato potato soup
Ingredients: 2 tomatoes, 1 potato, a little cooked beef, a little green onion and ginger
Method:
1. Tomatoes, potatoes, beef are cut into cubes, green onions and ginger are chopped.
2. Pour cooking oil into the pot, add green onion and ginger and stir-fry until fragrant, add potatoes, add a little soy sauce, stir-fry for 1 minute.
3. Add the tomatoes and beef and stir-fry for 1 minute.
4. Pour an appropriate amount of water into the pot, this soup is suitable for making a thick soup, do not add too much water.
5. Bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes, add salt, a little chicken essence, sprinkle a little coriander or minced leeks and garnish, you can get out of the pot.
04. Carrots
Carrots contain volatile oils, sugars, anthocyanins, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2 calcium, iron and other nutrients. Carrots are also rich in carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A in the body, which can promote the production of photosensitive pigments in the eyes and relieve eye fatigue. Carotene and other phytochemicals help with antioxidants and strengthen skin resistance.
Recommended recipe: Carrot balls
Ingredients: 2 carrots, about 250 grams of pork, 1 egg, a little green onion and ginger, a little starch.
Method:
1. Carrots with a wire rubr and rub into thin wires. Mince the pork into minced meat and mince the green onion and ginger.
2. Inside the pork minced pork, add salt, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, minced green onion and ginger, beat in 1 egg and stir well.
3. Put the shredded carrots into the pork, add a little water starch and stir well.
4. Pour cooking oil into the pot, put the balls into the pot and fry for about 3 minutes. People who lose weight can cook the balls in water and eat them, and the taste is also very good.
05. Broccoli
The nutrients in broccoli are not only high in content, but also very comprehensive, mainly including protein, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, vitamin C and carotene. In addition, broccoli has a more comprehensive mineral content than other vegetables, and is rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, zinc, manganese, etc., which is much higher than that of cabbage flowers that also belong to the cruciferous family.
Broccoli contains a compound called isothiocyanate, which helps to strengthen the antioxidant capacity of human skin cells to protect against UV damage.
Recommended recipe: Sautéed mushrooms with broccoli
Ingredients: 1 broccoli, 1 red pepper, 1 carrot, agaricus mushrooms (can be replaced with shiitake mushrooms), a little green onion, ginger and garlic
Method:
1. Wash the broccoli, pick them into small flowers, blanch them in boiling water for 1 minute, then remove them. Agaricus mushrooms are soaked in advance, remove the root stems, blanch in water for 2 minutes and then fish out. Carrots and red peppers are sliced horizontally, and chopped shallots, ginger, and garlic.
2. Pour cooking oil into the pot, sauté the onion, ginger and garlic to make the aroma, pour in the carrots, sauté the agaricus mushrooms for 2 minutes.
3. Add broccoli, red pepper and continue to sauté for 2 minutes.
4. Add salt, chicken essence, sesame oil, stir-fry well and then out of the pan.
06. Cucumber
The main components of cucumber include protein, fat, glycosides, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, vitamins, caffeic acid, a variety of free amino acids and so on. Because it contains colloidal fruit acid, it is often used to restore sunburn and for spot lightening. Cucumber juice is also often used to cleanse the face and prevent skin allergies, and is a traditional beauty product.
Recommended recipe: Cucumber mixed with fungus
Ingredients: 3 cucumbers, each appropriate amount of curd bamboo and fungus, dried chili pepper, green onion, and garlic, and chop separately.
Method:
1. Wash the cucumber and pat it into segments. The bamboo and fungus are soaked in advance, washed, and blanched for 2 minutes respectively and then fished out for later.
2. Put the cucumber, rotten bamboo and fungus on the plate and set aside.
3. Stir-fry the shallots, garlic and dried chilies in the pan, stir-fry until fragrant, and pour into the dish along with the oil.
4. Add a little salt, chicken essence and sesame oil to the plate, mix well and serve.
07. Soy products
Regular eating soy products is conducive to sunscreen whitening, soybean isoflavones contained in soybeans is a plant estrogen, which has antioxidant effects, can help women maintain lustrous and delicate skin, such as tofu, soy milk are good sunscreen food.
Recommended recipe: Golden needle tofu soup
Ingredients: About 500 grams of tofu, 2 tomatoes, about 150 grams of enoki mushrooms, a little green onion and ginger.
Method:
1. Cut the tofu into cubes, cut the tomatoes into small pieces, wash the mushrooms and cut off the roots, blanch them in boiling water for 2 minutes and then fish out.
2. Pour cooking oil into the pot, add green onion and ginger and sauté until fragrant, add tomatoes and enoki mushrooms and stir-fry for 2 minutes.
3. Pour an appropriate amount of water into the pot, bring to a boil and cook for 3 minutes, add tofu and continue to cook for 2 minutes.
4. Put salt, chicken essence in the pot, mix well, sprinkle a little green onion to garnish it, and you can get out of the pot.
08. Cherry
The abundant vitamin C in cherries moisturizes the skin, helps fight the formation of melanin, and helps with sun protection.
Fresh cherries are rich in sugar, protein, carotene, iron and more. Iron is an important component of heme in the blood, the blood is sufficient, of course, the skin is white and red, and carotene and vitamin C are whitening skin must be supplemented. In addition, the fruit acid contained in cherries can also promote the formation of cuticles in the skin.
09. Peaches
Peach pulp is rich in protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamin B, vitamin C, carotene, organic acids and a lot of water, these ingredients can supplement the body's nutritional needs. Peaches are rich in fruit acid, which has a moisturizing and whitening effect, prevents pigmentation, helps with sun protection, and promotes blood circulation to make the complexion of the face clean and rosy.
10. Watermelon
Eating watermelon is more than just a water supplement for the human body. Watermelon juice contains a variety of health and beauty chemicals, such as amino acids that promote the physiological activity of the skin. These ingredients are easily absorbed by the skin and are helpful for moisturizing and sunscreen of the facial skin.
11. Lemon
Low in calories and rich in citric acid, lemons are an excellent source of potassium, calcium, iron, vitamin C and bioflavonoids.
Lemon is rich in vitamin C, which can promote metabolism, whiten spots, tighten pores, have a certain care effect on the skin, and enhance the skin's sun protection ability.
12. Apple
Apple peel is not only rich in vitamin C ingredients, but also contains antioxidants that can resist ultraviolet UVB components - quercetin ingredients, which is helpful for whitening the skin and lightening the spots. When eating apples, use salt water to clean the apples, eat apples with belt meat, do not waste this natural "sunscreen".
Sunscreen can not only do "surface articles", these 12 kinds of "natural sunscreen", in the summer must eat more. What other foods do you know that have sun protection? Please leave a message in the comment area to share it, let everyone know more about sunscreen food, we all have to be beautiful in summer.
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