Five-dish culture
The top of the dish is a cursive word, and the bottom is a "picking", which refers to the wild plants collected. In the Chinese diet, wucai refers to plant-based dietary materials, and "five dishes for filling" refers to vegetables used to supplement the main product. We usually call vegetables as vegetables, which have the effect of dredging. Vegetables are rich in vitamins, minerals, plant proteins, sugars and dietary fiber. It assists the valley gas, dredges the stagnation, and is really a veritable vegetable.
Of course, vegetables can not replace the staple food, can not withstand the atmosphere of the valley of water, can not dominate, only in the year of famine, it is necessary to use melon vegetables instead of hunger. The development and utilization of wild plants by the Chinese nation to fill the famine is a traditional feature of Chinese cooking. Taking plants as an example, there are wild vegetables such as quinoa, purslane, nest vegetables, wattle vegetables, pearl vegetables, stone ears, ground ears, white drum ding, winter wind vegetables, oil burning, shy vegetables, Meng niang vegetables, kanmai niang, eye vegetables and other wild vegetables, and there are many varieties.
If you want to eat vegetables raw, it is best to choose those pollution-free green vegetables or organic vegetables, and vegetables produced under soil-free cultivation conditions can also be eaten raw with confidence. Vegetables that can be eaten raw after washing include carrots, white radish, tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, cabbage hearts, etc. The nutrients contained in these vegetables, such as vitamins, are easily damaged by processing and cooking, and eating them raw is conducive to the preservation of nutrients. Raw foods include drinking homemade fresh vegetable juice or mixing fresh vegetables cold.
Ruyi dish: bean sprouts
According to records, when the Qianlong Emperor was visiting the people's sentiments in Jiangnan, he once ate a kind of yellow chengcheng and golden dish in a farmhouse. At that time, the Qianlong Emperor felt that this dish was crisp and tender, and the taste was delicious, so he asked the peasant woman what this dish was, and the peasant woman did not know that it was the emperor, so she jokingly said: "This dish is shaped like 'Ruyi', but it is also 'Ruyi dish'." After the Qianlong Emperor returned to the capital, he remembered the "Ruyi dish", and the imperial chef did not know what kind of vegetable the "Ruyi dish" was, so he asked everywhere. Later, I happened to meet a small town in Jiangnan, and I learned that "Ruyi Dish" was soybean sprouts. "There is another thing, the ice muscle is jade, the child does not enter the sludge, and the root is not worthy of support", this is the poem of the Ming Dynasty Chen Ling praising the yellow bean sprouts.
Although the protein content of soybeans is high, due to its presence of trypsin inhibitors, its nutritional value is limited, so people advocate eating soy products. During the germination process of soybeans, most of these substances are degraded and destroyed. The protein utilization rate of soybean sprouts is about 10% higher than that of soybeans, in addition, the oligosaccharides such as cottonose, rhamnose, and water suddose that cannot be absorbed by the human body and are easy to cause bloating, drop sharply during the germination process or even disappear completely, which avoids the occurrence of bloating after eating soybeans. During the germination process of soybeans, due to the action of enzymes, more mineral elements such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, and zinc are released, which in turn increases the human utilization rate of minerals in soybeans.
Bean sprouts contain an interferon inducer that can induce interferon and increase the body's ability to fight viruses and cancers. Like soybeans, soybean sprouts also have diuretic and detoxifying effects.
White radish of sai ginseng
There is a folk saying: "The dried radish is crunchy and crisp, and it is often eaten until it reaches the age of 100." There are many kinds of radishes, and the main thing mentioned here is white radish. In China, the longevity holy land rugao is rich in white radish and radish products, this kind of food is rich in vitamins and fiber, often eat not only can balance nutrition, but also take away harmful substances in the body.
White radish is a common vegetable that can be eaten raw and cooked, and its taste is slightly spicy. Modern research believes that white radish contains mustard oil, amylase and crude fiber, which has the effect of promoting digestion, enhancing appetite, accelerating gastrointestinal peristalsis and coughing up phlegm. Chinese medicine theory also believes that the taste of spicy and sweet, cool, into the lungs and stomach meridians, for the diet of the best products, can treat or assist in the treatment of a variety of diseases, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" called "the most beneficial of vegetables". Therefore, white radish has certain medicinal value in clinical practice. Nowadays, "Rugao radish" has become famous at home and abroad with its own advantages of thin skin, tender meat, juicy, sweet taste and no spicy taste, chewing and no slag. Proverbs such as "Luo トト⼱⼱⼸
"Crown of fungi" white fungus
White fungus, also known as white fungus, is called snow ear with superior quality, and its nutritional value is very high, and it is known as the "crown of bacteria". It is not only a precious nutritional tonic, but also a tonic to help the strong, and is a traditional tonic treasure in China. Chinese medicine theory believes that the white ear is flat, the taste is sweet, and it has the effects of nourishing yin and clearing heat, moisturizing the lungs and relieving cough, nourishing the stomach and rejuvenating, improving qi and blood, tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the heart, strengthening the brain and refreshing, and eliminating fatigue.
White fungus is rich in natural characteristics of colloidal, coupled with its yin effect, long-term use can achieve emollient, remove the effect of melasma and freckles on the face. White fungus is also a diet food containing dietary fiber, and its dietary fiber can help gastrointestinal peristalsis and reduce fat absorption.
To be continued...
This article is excerpted from "Food Fun Through the Ages: Talk about those things that eat".
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