A must-have for winter weight loss! Chrysanthemum officinale protects the liver and promotes detoxification

It’s the peak season for hotpot again. For office workers who always have “sit-related obesity”, they need to be more careful about their diet in order to eat healthily and lightly. Winter is the season for mountain chrysanthemum. Nutritionists say that its rich crude fiber and vitamin C help gastrointestinal motility, detoxification and weight loss, and its B vitamins can protect the liver and promote calorie metabolism. Eating a moderate amount of mountain chrysanthemum with hot pot can help control weight.

Mountain chrysanthemum is rich in crude fiber, vitamins B and C, which help control weight. open

Mountain Chrysanthemum is also known as "Da Mou Cai", "Airplane Grass", "Showa Grass" and "Prince Grass". It belongs to the Asteraceae (Compositae) plant. It has a special smell and is rich in nutrients. It is very suitable for stir-frying, making soup or hot pot. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mountain chrysanthemum is cold in nature and sweet in taste, and has health benefits such as relieving fever, cooling blood, diuresis, laxative, nourishing the heart, and lowering blood pressure.

Three keys to weight loss with Chrysanthemum chrysanthemum: crude fiber, vitamin B and C

Hong Ruopu, a nutritionist at the Zhongxiao branch of Taipei Municipal United Hospital, said that the unique aroma of mountain chrysanthemum comes from ingredients such as α-pinene, benzaldehyde, and lemon oil, which can regulate the intestines and stomach and promote appetite. For those who want to lose weight, the rich crude fiber contained in mountain chrysanthemum can help intestinal peristalsis, promote defecation, and achieve the purpose of clearing the bowels; a large amount of vitamin C can accelerate the burning rate of fat during exercise.

In recent years, experimental studies including those from the University of Arizona in the United States and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom have found that the vitamin C content in the blood affects the rate of fat burning. People with higher vitamin C concentrations in the body consume calories faster during exercise, and the fat burning efficiency can even differ by 30%.

Winter is the peak season for hotpot tonic. Eating it in moderation and pairing it with high-fiber vegetables can promote gastrointestinal motility and reduce fat accumulation.

Nutritionist Hong Ruopu also said that the vitamin B contained in mountain chrysanthemum is a fat-soluble vitamin, which can not only coordinate the liver's metabolism of fat and sugar, promote the conversion into energy, and avoid the accumulation of excess fat in the body, but also improve the liver's detoxification function, improve fatigue, inattention, tension, night blindness and discomfort caused by mucous membranes in various parts of the body.

When eating hot pot or meals in winter, it is helpful to eat a little mountain chrysanthemum. It not only protects the liver and helps lose weight, but the beta-carotene, vitamins B1, B2, C, iron, magnesium, and potassium it contains are also good for maintaining vision and preventing high blood pressure. Iron and calcium can also help the body produce new blood and increase the hardness of bones.

【Mountain chrysanthemum mixed with dried tofu】

• Ingredients: 300 grams of mountain chrysanthemum, 8 slices of spiced dried tofu, 5 grams of minced garlic.

• practice:

  1. Wash the mountain chrysanthemum and blanch it in hot water, put it into ice-cold boiled water to cool, remove it from the water, drain it, chop it into pieces, and set aside.

  2. Blanch the spiced dried tofu in hot water to remove the beany smell, drain and chop into small pieces for later use.

  3. Mix chopped chrysanthemum and dried tofu with 10 grams of sesame oil, 20 grams of olive oil and fried minced garlic, add a little salt and sugar, and serve.

• Description: Chrysanthemum chrysanthemum is rich in beta-carotene, vitamin B2, C, potassium and calcium. It emits a unique chrysanthemum-like fragrance, so it is also called "spring chrysanthemum" or "chrysanthemum". As long as you use simple cooking methods, you can also make it delicious, healthy and unique.

【Health Tips】:

Mountain chrysanthemum is a wild vegetable and is cheap. When people choose mountain chrysanthemum, they can choose varieties with smaller leaves, which have a more tender taste. When refrigerating, first drain the water from the washed leaves, then put them into a plastic bag and tie them up. Although mountain chrysanthemum is rich in nutritional value, Chinese medicine believes that it has a cold and slippery nature. People with weak constitution, cold spleen and stomach, and prone to diarrhea should not eat too much.