As the saying goes, "Eat three dates a day and you will never get old." The most prominent feature of jujube is its high vitamin content. Chinese medicine believes that jujube can invigorate qi and nourish blood, promote fluid production and quench thirst.
Fresh dates are richer in vitamins; But it is sometimes sexual and can't be bought often. Eating too much may damage the digestive function. Although the vitamin content of dried jujube is reduced, the iron content is increased, and its nutrition is more easily absorbed, which is more suitable for diet therapy. This paper introduces several dietotherapy methods of jujube.
Experiments show that drinking jujube water to people with poor liver function every day for 1 week can increase human serum protein, thus achieving the effect of protecting liver and detoxifying.
Three dates a day last forever, and different eating methods have different effects.
1, jujube soaked in water, nourishing liver and detoxifying.
A brewing detail of jujube determines its efficacy. Jujube skin is tough and difficult to digest. If the whole jujube is brewed, its effective components are difficult to be completely dissolved, so it is best to break it before brewing.
It should also be noted that fresh red dates should not be brewed or boiled. This is because its vitamin C content is very high, and boiling with hot water will seriously destroy vitamin C.
2, jujube soup, cough and lungs
In the book "The Ineffective Prescription" written by Yu Yu in the Tang Dynasty, it is recorded that cooking soup with red dates, tremella and rock sugar can relieve cough and moisten the lungs.
Ingredients: tremella: 20g (about half a flower), red dates: 20g, rock sugar: 60g (the weight can be increased or decreased according to everyone's taste).
Practice: put the tremella into clear water, remove the pedicle, tear it into small pieces, put it into the pot with red dates and rock sugar, add 6 bowls of water, cook it with slow fire for half an hour, and then turn off the fire.
3, red dates boiled eggs, blood and beauty
Boil brown sugar water with red dates and longan, and beat an egg with longan cotton when the red dates are rotten; Continue to boil eggs on low heat.
Red dates, longan and brown sugar all have the function of enriching blood, and the boiled eggs are very nourishing.
4, jujube porridge, soothe the nerves and help sleep
Chinese medicine believes that women with anxiety and other symptoms can be treated with appropriate amount of lily and lotus seeds with red dates. If you cook it with millet, you can better play the calming role of jujube.
5, red dates soaked in wine, blood vessels unobstructed
During the soaking process of jujube, nutrient-rich organic matter is more easily dissolved in wine. It has a certain effect on keeping blood vessels unobstructed.
Reminder:
1. Dried dates vary in size. Although there is little difference in nutrition and dietotherapy efficacy, it is suggested from the taste that jujube, especially from Xinjiang, should be used when soaking in water to make tea, and it tastes very sweet, so it is best to tear it into pieces and reuse it. Porridge and wine can be chosen at will.
2. Red dates are good for health, but not the more the better. Medium-sized dates should not exceed 15 at a time. Excessive consumption will damage the digestive function and cause hyperacidity and bloating.