Old people have weak chewing and swallowing ability, and often can't eat a lot of things at a meal, and they eat for a long time. Nutritionists suggest that in order to get enough calories and nutrition for the elderly every day, you can eat 5-6 meals a day, add low-fat milk foam biscuits (or nutritious oatmeal), low-fat milk oatmeal, bean curd and eggs to the soybean milk between meals, and cut into small pieces to make fruit or puree.
Use bean products to replace some animal proteins, and the elderly should limit their meat intake. Some protein sources should use soybeans and bean products (such as tofu and soybean milk) instead. The diet of the elderly should at least include 170g of good protein (such as lean meat, fish, eggs, tofu, etc. Vegetarians should get high-quality protein from soybeans and nuts (peanuts, walnuts, almonds, cashews, etc.). ) put vegetables in the staple food and cook them together.
In order to facilitate the elderly to chew, soft vegetables such as tomatoes, loofah, wax gourd, pumpkin, eggplant and green leafy vegetables are selected and cut into small pieces or thin strips for cooking. If the elderly usually take porridge or noodle soup as their staple food, please add 1 ~ 2 kinds of vegetables at one time and cook them together. You can eat at least 500 grams of vegetables every day. Eat 350 grams of fruit every day.
Fruit is a food that the elderly often ignore. Soft fruits such as bananas, watermelons, peaches, papayas, mangoes and kiwis are suitable for the elderly. You can slice the fruit or scrape it off with a spoon to make fruit paste to eat. Pay attention to the control of ingredients when making juice, and you can add water to dilute it when squeezing juice. Supplementing vitamin B, recent research shows that,
Therefore, it is good for the elderly to eat less cooked fat. It is best to refine the oil into lard, extract a little at a time, and fry it with Su You. Because pig milk contains nutrients that can prolong life, it can prevent coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease. If you can buy pig bones frequently, you'd better break them and drink them in boiled soup. Because bone soup can relieve osteoporosis in the elderly, prevent muscle spasm and knee back pain, and prevent human aging.