Nutrition and health to taste the tenth food: pig blood pills

Red Net Moment December 14 news (correspondent Tang Xiliang Zhang Shengkang) Pig blood pills, also known as blood tofu or pig blood dumplings, is a folk specialty food in Shaoyang, Loudi, northern Yongzhou and other places in Hunan Province, and a unique dish in Hunan cuisine. Pig blood balls are generally refined with 38% tofu, 24% fresh pig blood and 38% pork belly plus a moderate amount of onion, salt, garlic, ginger and other spices.

Origin allusions

According to legend, in the ancient Baoqing Province (now Shaoyang area), there were mothers and sons who depended on each other for their lives, the husband died of tuberculosis (tuberculosis), and the son suffered from tuberculosis, which could not be cured after many medical treatments (there was no anti-tuberculosis medicine at that time). One day, he met a good doctor and asked him to eat more pig blood to supplement nutrition. And his son's mouth, refusing to eat pig blood alone, the mother cut the pig blood, tofu, pork belly, etc. into a sycamore and mixed them together to make balls, and his son liked to eat. The balls he makes have gradually become the most characteristic local delicacy - pig blood balls.

Nutritional ingredients

Pig blood balls are delicious and nutritious, and the nutrients in each 100 grams of pig blood balls are as follows:

Scientifically made pig blood balls are a delicious dish, although loved by everyone, but their preparation and consumption methods are still exquisite.

Health Tips:

In the early years, it was reported that a black-hearted trader smoked his heart in the interests of the heart, mixed the sick and dead pork into the pig blood balls and sold them into the market, such pig blood balls are not only not delicious, but even damage people's health, because the quality of pig blood balls can not be identified with the naked eye, so pig blood balls are best to eat homemade. In addition, for the consumption of pig blood pills, the following points should also be noted:

1, pig blood pills is a kind of smoked wax products, the "benzopyrene" and smoked substances produced in the smoking process are already confirmed carcinogens, so it is recommended to use modern instruments and equipment for baking and cooling in the production process to minimize the production of the above substances.

2, in the process of smoking pig blood pills added a lot of salt, so pig blood pills are a kind of hidden salt (sodium content 468.9mg / 100g) higher food, for hypertension and chronic renal insufficiency patients, are not suitable to eat.

3, when eating pig blood pills, you can cut off a layer of black skin wrapped on the outside, although the taste is a little worse, but eating in this way reduces the intake of harmful substances.

4. For patients with wasting diseases such as tuberculosis, although pig blood pills are a good source of nutrients such as protein and iron, water-soluble vitamins are obviously insufficient, so we should also pay attention to the supplementation of nutrients in this regard.