Steaming grapefruit to nourish the stomach and moisten dryness in autumn helps reduce fat

The weather turns cooler in autumn, and if you eat fruits raw, your stomach always seems to be "upset". You might as well try cooking the fruits. Although compared to eating them raw, it loses heat-sensitive vitamins and phytochemicals, in addition to nourishing the stomach and moistening dryness, it also has the benefits of moistening the lungs, preventing diarrhea, relieving cough, and lowering blood lipids.

In addition to peeling and eating grapefruit raw, you can also choose to steam or cook it to help reduce blood lipids.

★ Steaming grapefruit helps reduce fat

Pomelo can regulate qi and eliminate phlegm, moisten the lungs and clear the intestines, strengthen the spleen and reduce fat. The most common way to cook grapefruit is to make honey grapefruit tea. Use a knife to scrape off the pomelo peel thinly and tear the pomelo flesh into small pieces; put the cut pomelo peel into clean water and cook on medium heat for 10 minutes; then add the flesh and boil for 1 hour. After it cools down, add honey and stir well.

Steamed oranges can relieve cough.

★Boiled apples to prevent diarrhea

Around November every year, autumn diarrhea is prevalent, and boiled apples can help relieve diarrhea symptoms. Apples contain tannic acid and pectin. Tannic acid is an intestinal astringent that can reduce the moisture in the stool. Pectin also has astringent and antidiarrheal effects after being cooked. Apple peel is rich in tannic acid, and pectin is also distributed inside the flesh near the skin. Therefore, do not peel the apples when boiling them in water to avoid the loss of effective ingredients.

★ Steaming and cooking pears can help moisten the lungs

Autumn is the best season to nourish the lungs. Eating more pears can moisten the lungs, clear heat, replenish yin and moisten dryness. Pears are cold in nature. Cooking them into soup will reduce their coldness and improve their effect of moisturizing and clearing heat. Some people like to peel the pears and dig out the cores when cooking pears. This is not advisable. Pear skin is best for moistening the lungs and relieving coughs. When cooking soup, just wash the pears, cut them into pieces and cook them directly.

Steamed oranges are the most commonly used dietary remedy for relieving coughs in autumn, but this method is suitable for hot coughs caused by qi stagnation, blood stasis or lung dryness, but not for cold coughs caused by exogenous wind and cold.

★Steamed oranges are sweet and sour to relieve cough

Steamed oranges are the most commonly used dietary remedy for relieving coughs in autumn, but this method is suitable for hot coughs caused by qi stagnation, blood stasis or lung dryness, but not for cold coughs caused by exogenous wind and cold. The specific method is to wash the oranges and soak them in salt water for 20 minutes; cut a flat cut on the top to form a cup; poke a few holes in the exposed flesh with chopsticks, and then put the cut "lid" back on; put the oranges in a bowl and steam them for 15 minutes. After steaming, peel the orange peel and eat the flesh. It is best to drink the juice at the bottom of the bowl as well.

Steamed hawthorn strengthens the spleen and stimulates appetite

Hawthorn contains a large amount of organic acid, fruit acid, etc. Eating it raw will cause certain irritation to the stomach, and its sour taste is also unacceptable to many people. As for the steamed hawthorn, it has the therapeutic effects of strengthening the spleen and appetite, digesting food and relieving stagnation, and promoting blood circulation and resolving phlegm. The specific method is to remove the core of the hawthorn, put it in a bowl, add rock sugar, and steam it in a steamer for 15 minutes. The steamed hawthorn is bright in color, sour and sweet, and can increase appetite and aid digestion.

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