Pork belly is the stomach of the pig, sweet taste, temperate, the "Materia Medica" said: "Pork belly, for the spleen tonic products." If the spleen and stomach are replenished, the qi is beneficial and beneficial.
From the perspective of Chinese medicine dietary therapy, pork belly enters the spleen meridian and stomach meridian. For people with less spleen deficiency, loss of appetite, and indigestion, it is appropriate to eat pork belly, and by nourishing the spleen and stomach meridians, it can improve the transportation capacity of the spleen and stomach, and then alleviate the above symptoms.
In the eyes of the older generation, "a pork belly ten pairs of medicines", when someone is unwell, eating a pork belly is better than taking medicine. With the enhancement of people's awareness of health and wellness, pork belly has become the first choice among many skin care products, and soup, stir-frying, and stewing are very delicious.
People often say "where to eat to supplement where", especially for people with bad spleen and stomach, you can try to use pork belly to cook soup to drink, can achieve the purpose of nourishing the stomach and protecting the stomach, the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach is very obvious,
In addition, pork belly is also rich in vitamins, calcium and iron elements, and is also extremely rich, so it is a rare and good ingredient.
What are the benefits of eating pork belly regularly?
1 Healthy spleen and stomach
Pork belly is rich in vitamins and trace elements, can improve people's immunity, but also can achieve the purpose of stomach protection, especially people with gastritis or chronic stomach disease, usually should eat a little pork belly, can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, reduce gastrointestinal burden, to a certain extent can also alleviate constipation.
2 Replenish qi and replenish blood
We all know that people with anemia should eat more pig liver, but pork belly can also promote iron in the body, thereby promoting the role of hemoglobin in the blood, and in terms of taste, the taste of pork belly is more acceptable than pig liver.
3 Fetal protection
Pork belly is rich in folic acid, for pregnant women often eat pork belly can achieve the purpose of fetal protection, but must pay attention to the appropriate amount, folic acid can prevent the fetus from malformations in the process of growth and development, and can also ensure that the adoptive father's nutrition is sufficient, to provide a stable development environment for the fetus.
4 Improve urinary frequency
Elderly people often have frequent urination, urgency of urination, and women in pregnancy or after giving birth, there will be frequent urination, at this time may wish to buy some pork belly to eat, can play a certain role in alleviating, improve urinary frequency and urgency and other issues.
These three types of people should not eat pork belly
1 three high and heart disease patients
Pork belly belongs to the internal organs of animals, containing more cholesterol and fat, for patients with high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia and high blood sugar, the increase in cholesterol will lead to an aggravation of their disease, resulting in an increase in the burden of organs in the body, which in turn affects heart function.
2 obese people
After all, pork belly belongs to meat, and contains more cholesterol, obese people have high cholesterol in the body, if you eat too much pork belly, it is a burden for such people.
3 patients with gout
Pork belly is one of the foods with the highest purine content, and even if eaten in small amounts, it can cause excessive purines in ventilated patients. Purine exceeding the standard will metabolize a large amount of uric acid, forming a high uric acid situation, high uric acid for a long time, can cause gout or aggravate the condition of gout.
Pork belly preparation
【Spicy pork belly shreds】
Spicy pork belly silk in addition to pork belly, the most important thing is millet spicy, after the fresh pork belly is cleaned, the cold water under the pot blanched water, followed by a clean iron pot, start a low heat slow stew, but this time must be mastered, can not stew too bad, otherwise fried to eat a little chewy no.
【Lotus pork belly soup】
The pork belly is scrubbed with salt seven or eight times, then blanched in cold water, blanched into strips, and finally the pork belly and barley are put together in a casserole and stewed, and after an hour, add lotus seeds, goji berries, black pepper, etc., and the delicious lotus pork belly soup is completed.
【Sticky rice pork belly bun】
Soak the glutinous rice in advance and prepare a little pork belly, sausages, mushrooms and chestnuts.
Then the pork belly is cleaned, put in the water to blanch, and then the series of ingredients prepared before are stuffed into the pork belly, about eight minutes full, and then sew the pork belly mouth with a toothpick or thread.
Then put in the pressure cooker, add cooking wine, the water is not over the pork belly, after about half an hour, smell the smell and eat.
How to choose pork belly?
1, look at the color, if it is fresh pork belly white with a slight light yellow; The pork belly is not fresh and green in white, and the color is not pure.
2, look at the viscosity, fresh pork belly mucus more, not fresh pork belly mucus less.
3, look at the elasticity, fresh pork belly is elastic; Unsearned pork belly is inelastic and the meat is fluffy.
4, look at the smoothness, fresh pork belly is rich in luster; The pork belly that is not fresh is dull, such as turning the belly open, there are hard small bumps inside, and it is not suitable for purchase.
5, look at the texture, fresh pork belly texture is firm and thick; The pork belly that is not fresh has no texture.
Conclusion ——
Although it is said that a pig's belly top 10 pairs of drugs, but can not replace the drug, the body is not timely to seek medical treatment. In addition, remember not to eat more, can be a small number of times, even if the body does not have any diseases of normal people, if you often eat pork belly, it is likely to lead to an increase in cholesterol in the body, and then cause dietary obesity, it will not be worth the loss.