Amaranth is a very common vegetable in life, rich in nutritional value, cheap price, popular with many people, whether it is fried or cold mixed, it is very delicious and delicious, people also like to buy red amaranth to eat. #爱乐养生 #
Eating the golden age of green leafy vegetables, green leafy vegetables are rich in dietary fiber, vitamins and a variety of nutrients that are beneficial to the body, eating more green leafy vegetables, can play a laxative effect, effective toxins and garbage, maintain good health, reduce the burden and pressure of internal organs.
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What are the benefits of eating more red amaranth that is so concerned about to the body?
1. Clear heat and reduce fire
Red amaranth cool, into the lungs, large intestine meridian, there is a heat, diuretic, detoxification, cool blood effect, summer often eat amaranth can clear the body heat, increase the amount of urine discharged damp heat, cool blood stasis, the liver fire caused by damp heat, red eye pain, sore throat has a certain auxiliary effect.
2. Promote the development of bones
Calcium is an important nutritional element to maintain bone health, with the growth of age, a large number of calcium elements in the body are lost, relevant experts have found that amaranth contains a variety of calcium that is easily digested and absorbed by the human body.
Proper consumption can play a role in calcium supplementation, the growth of teeth and bone joints also has a good promotion effect, often joint sore people can usually eat a little more red amaranth.
3. Prevent vision loss
The eyes are the windows of the mind, is an important key for us to see this beautiful world, red amaranth contains more nutrients, which carotene and vitamins can stimulate the development of the optic nerve, improve the function of the optic nerve, effectively prevent retinopathy and fundus lesions, to prevent vision decline, improve vision, alleviate the problem of dry eyes, have obvious effects.
People who often have dry, itchy and inflamed eyes can eat more red amaranth to protect eye health, prevent night blindness, and improve vision.
4. Detoxification and detoxification
Red amaranth also has the effect of clearing heat, detoxification and detoxification, which can prevent excessive accumulation of heat poison in the body, and has a certain conditioning effect on diarrhea and dysentery caused by excessive damp heat, insisting on eating can improve the basal metabolic rate, accelerate the discharge of toxic garbage in the body, maintain good health, and reduce the burden and pressure of internal organ tissues.
5. Lose weight and lose weight
The nutrients contained in red amaranth are mostly dietary fiber, plant-based dietary fiber is easy to be digested and absorbed by the human body, eating red amaranth can improve the body's metabolic capacity, accelerate the discharge of toxic garbage to lose weight and slim down, get rid of excess fat and oil, and shape a good body.
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Why can't I eat red amaranth at night?
Red amaranth is a kind of vegetable with strong photosensitivity, the reason why it is not recommended to eat at night is because eating too much of this wild vegetable at night will enhance the photosensitivity of the skin and increase the skin's absorption of ultraviolet rays.
As the weather becomes warmer, the ultraviolet rays of the sun's rays are becoming more and more intense, in daily life, if they cannot be adjusted and suppressed in time, a large amount of ingestion of red amaranth will make the skin of the body become sensitive and fragile, prone to allergic reactions, and will also be because of the strong irradiation of the sun, the skin will be red, swollen, hot and painful and local inflammation, resulting in skin darkening and accelerated aging, and more melasma and age spots will grow.
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Doctors recommend: try not to eat with these 3 things, understand
1. Foods containing dietary fiber
Red amaranth contains more fiber, belongs to the cool food, proper consumption although can improve the function of gastrointestinal peristalsis and digestion, is conducive to gastrointestinal health, can also play a laxative effect, effectively improve the problem of constipation, but if a large amount of consumption, it will lead to more fiber directly into, the body is easy to induce excessive intake of fiber, increase abdominal pain, diarrhea and flatulence problems.
When eating red amaranth, it is best not to eat too many green leafy vegetables rich in fiber, so as not to aggravate the damage rate of the spleen and stomach.
2. Too cold food
Chinese medicine said: red amaranth is originally a kind of sweet and cold food, after eating too much will lead to a large number of cold invade the body, stimulate the stomach, induce gastrointestinal discomfort, eat red amaranth, if you eat too much cold food, it will also aggravate the stimulation and damage to the gastric mucosa and gastrointestinal tract.
Eating two kinds of too cold food at the same time will induce abdominal pain and diarrhea, seriously damage the health of the stomach and intestines, and increase the burden and pressure on the stomach and intestines.
3. Vinegar
Vinegar is a common condiment in the kitchen, sweet and sour taste is popular with many people, many people cook red amaranth, always like to add the right amount of vinegar, such a practice is very wrong.
In an acidic environment, the chlorophyll of amaranth will become a substance called olive green demagnesium chlorophyll, which will lose a lot of the nutritional value of red amaranth.
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What foods are red amaranth suitable for eating at the same time?
【Red Amaranth and Pork Liver】
Red amaranth is rich in iron and lysine, can clear heat and detoxification, blood tonic and hemostasis, tonify two stools, pork liver is rich in protein, vitamins and inorganic salts, for blood replenishment.
The combination of the two provides rich nutrition for the human body, suitable for liver deficiency and dizziness, night blindness, dizziness, anemia and other symptoms, helping to enhance the body's immunity.
【Red Amaranth and Eggs】
Eggs can nourish yin and dryness, nourish blood and fetus, both eat together, have the effect of nourishing yin and dryness, clearing heat and detoxification, and enhancing the body's immunity.
It is suitable for fever and poison irritability, hoarseness, sore throat, astringent urination, red diarrhea and other diseases.
【Red Amaranth and Japonica Rice】
Red amaranth and japonica rice are combined to make red amaranth japonica rice porridge, which can play a role in clearing heat and stopping diarrhea, and is suitable for the treatment of acute bacterial diarrhea and enteritis in the elderly.
【Red Amaranth and Plantain】
Plantain has a sweet and cold taste, has the effect of diuretic, clearing, blindness and expectorant, and is matched with amaranth with hemostatic and antibacterial effects, and the effect is enhanced, which can be used to treat hematuria, unfavorable urination, edema, hot diarrhea, diarrhea, dizziness and other symptoms caused by urethritis.
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How to choose fresh red amaranth?
(1) Look at the leaves
If you want to buy fresh red amaranth, be sure to carefully observe the color of the leaves of the red amaranth, the color of the leaves is much darker for open-air planting, the leaves are thicker, the taste is old, and the nutrient density is high.
Most of the light colors are planted in greenhouses, the leaves are thin and tender, and the nutrient density is low.
(2) Look at the freshness
When buying red arrow vegetables, you can pinch its roots by hand, it is easy to break the tender mustard greens, it is not easy to break, indicating that the cellulose content is more is the old amaranth, it may also be that the quality caused by excessive water loss is poor, do not buy.
(3) Look at the roots
When the red amaranth has a complete root, the tender amaranth root must be less, relatively short, the old red amaranth root must be more, the root is relatively long, the root with soil on the root is relatively fresh, the storage time is longer, the washed mustard looks clean but not easy to store, it is best to eat it on the same day.
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