In the past, eating less "chicken, duck and fish meat" was because the conditions could not keep up, but now it is for health, deliberately eating less. Speaking of chicken, duck, fish, and meat, I would like to ask you which one you like to eat the most?
If this question is answered by the people of Nanjing, nine times out of ten it will be a duck! Why? In addition to the "ancient capital of the Six Dynasties" that we are familiar with, Nanjing is also the famous "duck capital". It is said that the citizens of Nanjing eat more than 100 million ducks a year, and some people even joke that no duck can get out of Nanjing alive!
Duck blood vermicelli soup, Jinling saltwater duck, Nanjing roast duck, Nanjing plate duck... The delicious taste of duck is clearly recognized by the people of Nanjing!
In fact, in many places, duck is not very popular compared to other types of meat, because duck has a unique taste and is not very easy to cook. As everyone knows, you are giving up a meat that is most suitable for autumn health!
Autumn tonic, the first choice to eat duck!
We often say that we should make up for it in the autumn, but many times the nutrition has not been replenished, and people will start to get on fire, indigestion, and then the more they make up, the more they are weak!
This is because we do not grasp the health of autumn, although the autumn is cool, but the weather is particularly dry, dry and easy to catch fire, and then eat some hot food, will only make it worse. At this time, duck is a good choice, duck meat is cold, not only can help clear the fire and moisturize, but also can suppress cough and spleen, raw and nourish the stomach...
Eat duck in autumn to make up for dryness
Chinese medicine has the saying of "raising yin in autumn and winter", and duck is a food that supplements yin, often saying "drink duck soup, eat duck meat, and do not cough all year round". And the duck taste sweet and cool, not tepid, hot to the fire, very in line with the characteristics of autumn health.
The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that duck meat "the main great tonic is weak, the most disinfectant heat, the urine is good, the edema is removed, the swelling is full, the internal organs are sharp, the sores are swollen, and the epilepsy is fixed." ”
Autumn ducks are the best
Ducks are waterfowl, eat more and move less in autumn, because it has to reserve energy for the winter, so the meat is fatter, firmer and tender than in summer, which is why ducks in autumn taste better than other seasons.
Nourish without burden
After getting older, I am afraid of eating meat, not to say that it is not easy to cause "three highs", but duck meat can be eaten with confidence, because the fat content of duck meat is moderate, fatty acids are mainly unsaturated fatty acids and low-carbon fatty acids, which are easy to digest after eating.
In addition, the fat in duck meat is different from other animal oils, and its proportion of various fatty acids is close to the ideal value, which has the effect of lowering cholesterol, which is especially suitable for people with atherosclerosis.
The study also found that the content of potassium in duck meat is relatively high, potassium is an effective anti-sodium substance, and eating more is very helpful for maintaining the stability of our blood pressure.
Recommend a healthy duck soup suitable for family operation:
Yam duck pot
Ingredients: 1 kg duck, 500 g yam, green onion, ginger, star anise, cooking wine, salt to taste.
method:
1, first wash and chop the duck, peel and cut the yam into pieces, slice the ginger, cut the green onion into sections;
2: After blanching the duck, cook in cold water, add green onion, ginger, star anise and cooking wine;
3: After about 40 minutes, when the oil on the surface of the soup surface has surfaced, add yam, cook until the ingredients are crisp and soft, and then add salt to taste.
efficacy:
Duck meat is cool, has the effect of nourishing the yin and nourishing the lungs, suppressing cough and phlegm. Yam is beneficial to the lungs, cough, spleen and stomach. Yam is eaten with duck meat, which can also reduce cholesterol, which is very suitable for autumn supplementation.
These people are particularly suitable for eating duck:
1. The elderly and children who have weak physique and are usually prone to cough and catch a cold, as well as young and middle-aged people who are usually tired;
2. Yin deficiency and fire-like people, such as emaciation, hypertension, diabetes and other patients;
3, autumn women's skin is particularly dry, you can also drink duck soup to supplement.
These 2 kinds of meat, eat less in autumn!
When it comes to supplements, the first thing that comes to mind is a variety of meats, autumn supplements in addition to eating more duck meat, we also have to eat less lamb and dog meat.
mutton:
Lamb is also a kind of health supplement ingredients, the tonic effect is also very good, but it is more suitable for winter, cold winter to eat lamb can be warm in the deficiency, qi to supplement the deficiency, promote blood circulation, enhance the body's resistance. But now this season is already hot and dry, and adding too much "heat" should not be healthy.
Lamb is sweet and warm, folk called "fat food", plus lamb also contains high protein, fat, for people with internal heat (easy to fire, toothache, sore throat, bitter mouth, dry mouth, ulcers, dry stool and other symptoms), liver disease patients are not suitable.
Dog meat:
Dog meat is very controversial compared to mutton, because it is not a mainstream edible meat, and people who like to eat it think that dog meat is a very nourishing meat.
Although dog meat has certain nutritional value, it is warm and warm, and like lamb, it is not suitable for this season. In addition, dog meat does not have perfect quarantine standards, food safety is not easy to guarantee, timely is not considered from an emotional point of view, and it is not very recommended to eat.