Durian and stinky tofu both stink, but they stink so much that they have their own merits and benefits.
That day, I was on a business trip in Shenzhen, and after dinner in the evening, I strolled around the hotel, first to consume food, and second to explore the night snack of Shenzhen people.
As I walked, I came to an alley in a residential area. Shenzhen is a tropical city, and this season is when tropical fruits are on the market, and along the alley are fruit stalls all the way, but the most common is durian stalls. The durian husks on many durian stalls are much higher than durians, and it seems that the business is good.
Durian: A great supplement for women
After a while, I discovered a very interesting phenomenon: most of the people who buy durian are women, and they are young girls. Oh, do women really know not only the taste of durian, but also the effect of durian? From a nutritional point of view, durian has extremely high nutritional value, regular consumption can strengthen the body, strengthen the spleen and qi, nourish the kidney and yang, warm the body, and is a nutritious and beneficial fruit; Durian is hot, can activate blood and disperse cold, relieve menstrual pain, especially suitable for women suffering from dysmenorrhea; It can also improve abdominal coldness and promote body temperature rise, making it an ideal tonic for those with cold physique who still have cold hands and feet in summer. Especially in a city like Shenzhen, which turns on air conditioning all day in summer, the cold in summer is heavier than winter, and durian is a good supplement for women!
The nutritional value of durian
The smell of durian, although many people can not accept, and even in some public places such as airports, hotels and other public places are forbidden to enter the hall, but in fact, it is this smell, has the effect of strengthening the spleen. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that durian "can be used for medicinal purposes, sweet and warm, non-toxic, mainly for the treatment of violent diarrhea and cold air in the heart". Durian is rich in nutrients, has the effect of strengthening the spleen and qi, tonifying the kidney and aphrodisiac, in fact, men with yang deficiency are also suitable for consumption. It is rich in vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin B, as well as potassium, calcium and zinc and other minerals, which have anti-aging, beauty effects, especially tryptophan and glutamic acid content is very high, these two amino acids can not only make people happy, but also improve immunity, fight stress. Therefore, white-collar workers who like this taste can really treat durian as a health fruit.
The taste of durian is really unforgettable, and the literary scholar Yu Dafu described it as follows: "Durian has the stench of stinky cheese mixed with onions, and has a flavor similar to turpentine, it is really smelly, fragrant and delicious!" "Anyone who likes the taste of cheese will not refuse durian.
Eating durian can bring people pleasure, the indescribable touch of the tip of the tongue and the wonderful feeling of smell fragrance, it is difficult for people who do not eat durian to experience.
Contraindications to eating durian
However, if you love durian, you must also love it in moderation, even if you like the taste of durian, you can't be taboo. Durian is not suitable for everyone to eat, dry throat, dry tongue, sore throat and other fever constitution and Yin deficiency constitution should eat with caution. When you have a cold, you should not eat more, high blood pressure, diabetes patients should not eat, let alone eat with alcohol. In Thailand, a diabetic patient died after eating four durians in a row. Therefore, the Thai Ministry of Health advises the public not to consume more than two durians a day. In case you eat too much, use the cold of mangosteen to gram the heat of a gram of durian. Therefore, some people also compare mangosteen to the queen of durian, the king of fruits, and there is quite a balance between yin and yang.
On durian, there is also its peel with the philosophical concept of yin and yang: durian is hot, but the white flesh on its peel can clear heat and dispel fire, replenish blood and qi, moisturize and nourish yin, and use it with lean meat or chicken to make soup, which is a rare delicious medicinal meal in summer.
In this way, although durian smells, but rich in nutrition, and so loving people, what is its smell? It is much better and kinder than those spiced drinks and dishes that are cloaked in incense but do things that harm people's bodies, right?
Smell and eat
Another smelly delicacy that has also been wronged by people now, that is, the snack that runs through the north and south - stinky tofu.
Stinky tofu, smells smelly, eats fragrantly. Originally, it was very nutritious, if it was made honestly according to the production process. Originally, if I had a bad appetite, I went to the supermarket to buy the time-honored Beijing brand "Yangzhou stinky tofu", vacuum packed, white as jade, and fry it with fragrant Northeast soybean oil, which is very satisfying and has the effect of strengthening the spleen.
When I went to Changsha to do Hunan Satellite TV's program, the choreographer would invite me to eat the famous Fire Palace stinky tofu, black and black, dipped in chili sauce, and very fragrant. Wang Zhihe stinky tofu in old Beijing is very graphic in my childhood memories: the sauce tofu at that time was not packaged in glass bottles, and the material was scarce, and the family gave three or two cents and sent children to buy it. When I went to buy the red square, I could meet the black side, that is, stinky tofu was sold, very smelly and smelly, the whole market was its taste, I always covered my nose and passed by, but then when I grew up, I dared to taste it once and found that the taste was comparable to the famous stinky cheese in France.
China's "vegetarian cheese"
In fact, this stinky tofu that does not need to be fried is called "China's vegetarian cheese", and its nutritional value is even higher than cheese. Its protein content is higher than meat, rich in calcium, high in amino acids and lactic acid bacteria that promote digestion, and the survival rate of plant lactic acid bacteria in the intestine is higher than that of animal lactic acid bacteria, so eating stinky tofu and drinking yogurt have the same effect.
Speaking of eating stinky tofu, a friend of mine also came to Beijing to buy Wang Zhihe stinky tofu for her elderly father suffering from senile anemia in Fujian. Once stinky tofu is made, the most significant change in its nutritional composition is the synthesis of a large amount of vitamin B12, and its main physiological function is to participate in the manufacture of bone marrow red blood cells to prevent pernicious anemia; At the same time, it can also prevent the destruction of brain nerves, that is, prevent Alzheimer's disease.
So this stinky tofu, the benefits are really many, for the elderly, especially suitable. However, the stinky tofu I am talking about is not the unsafe food that is quickly made on the street, but a traditional food that has been carefully prepared after good fermentation. The so-called smelly is also good. Fried stinky tofu, even if the tofu is safe, the oil in the pot is still worth questioning!
Durian and stinky tofu, although smelly, but good in the bones.