In summer, when the weather is hot, people are prone to heatstroke under high temperatures, so it is very important to eat some cooling foods appropriately. The first choice of cooling foods is ice-cold drinks and foods, such as eating red bean ice, which is an excellent food for cooling down and relieving heatstroke. However, since red bean ice contains a large amount of sugar, will eating red bean ice make you fat? What are the benefits?

The nutritional value of red bean paste is very high, and it has a good effect. Consuming red bean paste regularly is beneficial to protecting our heart and liver, can relieve alcoholism and detoxify, can promote diuresis and moisten the intestines, and can also lower blood lipids and blood pressure, preventing cancer and anti-cancer.

Red bean paste is one of the main fillings, and it is used in many delicious foods, such as mooncakes, sweet rice balls, zongzi, steamed buns, and so on.

The production process of red bean paste is complicated, you can choose to buy red bean paste products on the market, add osmanthus, rose, mint, raisins, and other ingredients to create different flavored red bean paste fillings.

Nutritional value of red bean paste

1. Red beans contain a large amount of saponins, which can stimulate the intestines, thus it has a good diuretic effect, can relieve alcoholism and detoxify, and is beneficial to heart disease, kidney disease, and edema.

2. Red beans contain a large amount of dietary fiber, which has good effects on moistening the intestines and promoting defecation, lowering blood pressure and blood lipids, regulating blood sugar, detoxifying and anti-cancer, preventing kidney stones, and promoting healthy weight loss.

3. Red beans are rich in folic acid, and consuming more red beans can promote lactation for postpartum women and lactating mothers.

The health benefits of red bean paste:

Sweet and sour, neutral, non-toxic, entering the meridians of the heart, small intestine, kidney, and bladder.

It has the effects of removing heat and toxicity, dissipating evil blood, reducing distension and fullness, promoting urination, and facilitating lactation.

Treating carbuncles, abscesses with pus, distension and fullness in the lower abdomen, difficulty in urination, edema, beriberi, feverishness, dryness and thirst, alcoholism, dysentery, jaundice, hemorrhoids with bleeding, and blocked lactation; externally applied for treating hot毒 sores, blood clots, and sprains.

Mung beans and red dates are good health food ingredients. Their natural plant essence components contain very rich nutrition and are very good for the body after consumption. Although mung beans and red dates have high nutritional value, mung beans are cold in nature, while red dates are the opposite. So, can mung beans and red dates be cooked together? What are the taboos?

Green bean soup has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, quenching thirst, and dissipating summer heat. Mung beans are rich in nutrients and are a type of bean with high economic and nutritional value. Green bean soup is a traditional Chinese folk summer-cooling delicacy. There are various ways to make green bean soup, with a variety of flavors, the most common being the Coix Seed and Mung Bean Soup, Lily and Mung Bean Soup, Pumpkin and Mung Bean Soup, and Kelp and Mung Bean Soup, etc. Experts remind that people with weak and cold constitutions should not drink green bean soup every day. Blindly drinking green bean soup can lead to diarrhea or a decrease in the immune system of the digestive system.

People with cold and cool constitutions. Those with symptoms such as cold limbs, abdominal distension, diarrhea, and loose stools are not suitable for drinking green bean soup. Eating mung beans may even worsen the symptoms or trigger other diseases.

The elderly, children, and people with weak constitutions. Because the protein content in mung beans is even higher than that in chicken, macromolecular proteins need to be converted into small molecular peptides and amino acids under the action of enzymes to be absorbed by the human body. People of this kind have poor digestive function and are prone to diarrhea due to poor digestion.

People who are taking various medications. The detoxifying effect of mung beans comes from the precipitation formed by the combination of mung bean protein and other components with organic phosphorus and heavy metals. However, these detoxifying components can also decompose the efficacy of the medicine and affect the treatment.

Do not drink green bean soup on an empty stomach, as it is cold in nature and drinking it on an empty stomach is bad for the stomach.

Mung beans themselves are a type of traditional Chinese medicine that can dissipate heat and detoxify. If suffering from diseases with heat symptoms such as wind-heat exterior syndrome, boils, scarlet fever, summer heat invasion, etc., one can take green bean soup as usual when taking Chinese medicine, which has a complementary effect. If suffering from symptoms such as weak gastrointestinal tract, fatigue, coldness all over the body, cold pain in the waist and legs, loose stools, etc., green beans should be avoided. Otherwise, it not only reduces the efficacy of the medicine but may also worsen the condition.

Although duck meat is a very delicious food, it is a hot food and can promote certain diseases in some people. Therefore, before eating duck meat, it is necessary to fully understand the nature of food interactions and consider one’s own physical condition to decide, such as whether to eat duck meat when coughing, and what are the taboos? Let’s take a look at the explanation below.

Duck meat should not be eaten when coughing. Coughing is often caused by respiratory tract infection, which is a pathological stage of the body, and the diet should be light and easy to digest. Therefore, it is best not to eat duck meat.

Although duck meat is rich in nutritional value and has good therapeutic effects, it is cool in nature, greasy, and easy to cause diarrhea and retain pathogenic factors. Moreover, it is also greasy and not easy to digest. People with colds should not eat duck meat, otherwise, it may worsen the condition. Those with abdominal pain and diarrhea should eat less duck meat. People who are susceptible to colds should also avoid eating duck meat because ducks are cool in nature. However, if the illness is caused by wind-heat and fire, duck meat can be eaten in moderation to help reduce fire.

Duck meat is suitable for people with internal heat, those with a fever, those with weak physique, loss of appetite, dry stools, edema, malnutrition, postpartum or post-sickness, and those with dry throat and thirst.

People with stomachache, diarrhea with clear stools, back pain, cold-type dysmenorrhea, obesity, arteriosclerosis, and chronic enteritis should not eat duck meat, except for those with colds.

Fresh duck meat may contain bacteria, so it should be cleaned and cooked before eating. Duck meat has a mild taste and can be eaten all year round. Duck meat is best eaten in summer and autumn; eating it in autumn can relieve the dryness of autumn, and eating duck meat in summer is more effective than other tonifying meats. Duck meat is best eaten with yam, red beans, angelica, and cabbage.

Fried sauce noodles are loved by many people, but in addition to being able to eat the ready-made ones outside, you can also try to make them yourself in your daily life. The key lies in understanding the steps and methods of making them, and the following is the introduction of Qingyuan fried sauce noodles.

Method one

【Ingredients】：Wide noodles 200g, pork mince 150g, tofu skin 20g, dried shrimp 20g, cucumber 20g, mushrooms 10g, garlic 2 cloves,

【Seasonings】：Vegetable oil 30g, sesame oil 1 teaspoon, soy sauce 1 tablespoon, bean paste 2 tablespoons, sweet bean paste 2 tablespoons, white

Sugar 1 teaspoon,

【Method】

1. Soak dried shrimp and mushrooms until soft, remove the stems and slice,

2. Wash and mince tofu skin, cucumber, and mince garlic,

3. Pour oil into the pot, heat to 150°C, sauté minced garlic, add pork mince, mushroom strips, dried shrimp, tofu skin, and mix with bean paste and sweet bean paste, add soy sauce, water, sugar, and sesame oil, simmer and fry until fragrant, making the fried sauce.

4. Cook the noodles until they are done, remove and place in a bowl, add the fried sauce and cucumber slices, mix well and serve.

【Features】：Rich in sauce flavor, smooth and refreshing.

【Chef’s Tip】：Using Northeast soybean paste to make the sauce will add a unique flavor.

Method two,

【Ingredients】：One pound of pork belly cut into cubes, a moderate amount of cucumber cubes, a moderate amount of green pepper cubes, a moderate amount of onion cubes, a moderate amount of radish cubes, 300g of authentic soybean paste, 1000g of noodles (these are reference amounts, you can adjust according to your taste, these sauces can serve 8-10 people).

【Method】

1. Marinate the pork cubes with cooking wine and cornstarch for 15-30 minutes.

2. Handling of the ingredients for the curry flavor

After cutting the onions into pieces, quickly blanch them, drain them, wrap them in paper towels, and pat them to ensure all the moisture is dried. The pork slices are cut into strips, and the millet is used by cutting the pork slices into strips and boiling them. It is not recommended to use the pork shreds commonly used for stir-frying, as they are too thick and difficult to shape when wrapping. Add a little cooking wine during boiling to remove the smell.

3. Handling of the ingredients for the seaweed flavor

The dragon beard noodles are boiled and chopped. The bamboo shoots are drained of oil and dried with paper towels. For a healthier option, you can rinse with hot water, but if you use the second method, some of the deliciousness of the bamboo shoots will be taken away by the hot water, and then they need to be chopped. The dried mushrooms are added to the pot with water, soy sauce, and mirin, the amount depending on personal preference, and boiled for 5 to 10 minutes. After cooling, slice them.

4. After preparing the ingredients, divide the rice into two small pots, add curry flavor (excluding cheese slices and lettuce) and seaweed flavor prepared materials, mix well, cover with plastic wrap, place the rice and start to roll and flatten! Remember to use a thin layer of rice to place the cheese slices first for the curry flavor, then add a layer of rice filling on top, press tightly to expel air, and then shape it properly.

4. Pine nuts are rich in fatty oil, which can moisten the intestines, promote defecation, and relieve constipation without damaging the body’s essence, and has a certain therapeutic effect on constipation in the elderly and children with insufficient body fluid and constipation;

5. The fat content in pine nuts is mainly oleic acid, linoleic acid, and other unsaturated fatty acids, which have a good effect of softening blood vessels and are an ideal health food for the middle-aged and elderly;

6. Pines contain a rich amount of phosphorus and manganese, which have a nourishing effect on the brain and nerves and are a good brain food for students and those with intellectual labor, and also have a good preventive effect on senile dementia.

Generally, it is suitable for all populations to consume

1. Suitable for the weak physique of the middle-aged and elderly, those with dry and hard stools, and those with chronic bronchitis with persistent cough without phlegm; suitable for those with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases;

4. Brush a thin layer of oil on the steamer, place the shaped depression-shaped heads into the steamer, and steam over high heat for 10 minutes.

Method 2:

1. Mix together corn flour, millet flour, and sugar, add warm milk, and knead into a smooth dough.

2. Cover the dough with a damp cloth and let it rest for 10 minutes.

3. Knead the dough into a long strip, then cut it into small portions of equal weight.

4. Take a small portion, roll it into a ball, pinch it into a depression-shaped head, make them one by one, and place them in the steamer.

5. Steam over high heat, and after the steam rises, steam for another 10 minutes.

Method 3:1. Wash the celery leaves, blanch them in boiling water, squeeze out the water, and cut into fine particles. Boil the fresh corn, and cut the kernels into fine particles.

2. Preserved eggs contain excessive lead. Traditional preserved eggs use some heavy metals such as lead oxide or copper to promote protein coagulation during the pickling process. If consumed over a long period, lead or copper can accumulate chronically and be harmful to health. If pregnant women eat preserved eggs during pregnancy, the impact will be greater.

3. If the lead in preserved eggs penetrates the brain, it will directly inhibit the secretion of growth hormone, causing children to have stunted growth, premature sexual development, obesity, and other issues. For the health of the baby, it is best not to eat preserved eggs during pregnancy.

4. After pickling, the nutritional components of preserved eggs also undergo certain changes. The protein content is 8.7 grams per 100 grams in fresh eggs, while that of preserved eggs with lotus seeds is 13.1 grams, an increase of 4.4 grams; in terms of cholesterol content, fresh duck eggs contain 9.8 grams per 100 grams, while preserved eggs with lotus seeds contain 10.7 grams, an increase of 0.9 grams; the carbohydrate content decreases significantly, from 10.3 grams per 100 grams in fresh duck eggs to 2.2 grams, a decrease of 8.1 grams; in terms of vitamin content, vitamin A decreases from 1380 international units in fresh duck eggs to 940 international units, a decrease of 440 international units. Therefore, there is also a decrease in nutrition.