Soluble dietary fiber, food, food and mucus are nutritional essence.
Soluble Dietary Fiber Food
Many people feel sticky when they eat tremella, okra and agaric. Is it curious what these sticky things are? Quietly tell you, these slimy can be nourishing essence!
This kind of food mucus has a unified name, soluble dietary fiber. This kind of fiber is viscous, can absorb a large amount of water in the intestinal tract, keep the feces soft, and promote the reproduction of beneficial bacteria in the intestinal tract to create a healthy intestinal ecological environment. In addition, it can also help reduce blood lipids and improve sugar metabolism.
It turned out that food mucus is such a good nutrient essence! So what foods do we eat every day that contain this mucus?
1. Okra
Okra mucus contains abundant soluble dietary fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, protect gastric mucosa, reduce cholesterol absorption, and reduce lipid and stool.
In addition, okra is also rich in viscous glycoproteins, flavonoids, vitamins and potassium and other nutrients.
Tips
Don't slice the okra
Don't slice the okra, try to ensure its integrity when cooking, so as to preserve the nutrients in the okra as much as possible, especially the seeds and mucus inside.
How do you eat?
Fried Okra
Okra roots, salt, butter, chili powder
1. Choose tender okra, fried, old or not fresh effect is not good, can not bite;
2. Sit in a pot and boil the water, then turn the washed okra into hot water. You can fish out the overcooled okra after discoloration. After cooling, the okra should absorb the excess water.
3. Heat the pan, melt the butter, spread the okra, fry slowly over medium heat, add salt, grind pepper before leaving the pan, and put pepper noodles after leaving the pan.
2. Tremella fuciformis
The dietary fiber content of Tremella fuciformis is as high as 30.4%, which contains a large amount of soluble dietary fiber. This is the special "magic weapon" of Tremella fuciformis, Tremella polysaccharide. It can promote the proliferation of beneficial bacteria in intestine and improve intestinal health. At the same time, Tremella fuciformis also rich in protein (about 10%) and calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium and other minerals.
Tips
Tremella fuciformis should be thick and well-rounded
If you want Tremella custard to be thick, smooth and tender, you are advised to do so:
1. Tremella fuciformis must be thick and full-blown, its soluble dietary fiber content will be high;
2. Warm or cold water should be used when Tremella fuciformis is foaming. After complete foaming, tear small pieces as far as possible before cooking.
3. Before cooking, the tremella fungus can also be steamed in a pot for about 15 minutes without water, and then cooked with water in the normal way.
How do you eat?
Tremella fuciformis soup
Tremella fuciformis, 10 white fruits, 3 cinnamon, a handful of wolfberry, a handful of qinshi, sweet beans, appropriate amount of clear water
1. Prepare all the ingredients. Bubble Tremella fuciformis for 20 minutes. Cut the root of Tremella fuciformis with scissors and tear it into small pieces.
2. Put enough water into the pot, clean all the ingredients, then pour them into the pressure cooker, and cook them according to the cooking key.
3. Half an hour later, when the steam exhaust is finished, the lid of the pot is uncovered, and the "sweet beans" (the finished products purchased) are put into the pot while it is hot, stirred, and the lid is covered and stewed for 5 minutes.
3. Auricularia auricula
Modern research also shows that Auricularia auricula is rich in colloid, besides promoting intestinal peristalsis, it also has a strong adsorption capacity, which can absorb harmful substances remaining in the digestive tract and drain them out of the body, and can also reduce the absorption of oil.
Tips
Cold Water for Foaming Auricularia auricula
Dry Auricularia auricula foamed with hot water can shorten the time, but it will dissolve the polysaccharides and lose its crisp taste. It is suggested that the water temperature of foaming Auricularia auricula should not be too high, and cold water should be used.
How do you eat?
Fried Lily with Auricularia auricula
Auricularia auricula, dried lily, scallion, salt, beef meal, raw extract and starch
1. Auricularia auricula is soaked in water for 24 hours or so, and the water is changed 2-3 times in the middle. If the weather is too hot in summer, it is better to put it in the refrigerator for foaming, and the dried lily is also foamed with water.
2. Pour oil into the pan, heat it and add scallions to stir-fry, then pour in the soaked black fungus to stir-fry.
3. Pour in the lily and stir-fry for a while. Put salt, sauce and beef meal to taste according to your taste.
4. Thin Scutellaria baicalensis with water starch before boiling.
4. yam
Cut yam, can pull out the sticky filaments, which is its unique mucin, mucopolysaccharide, can moisturize the gastric mucosa, play a protective role.
Yam is a small expert in both medicine and food. Modern medicine believes that yam has high nutritional value. It contains rich starch, amylase, protein, vitamins, etc. It has the functions of lowering blood sugar and lipid, enhancing immunity, anti-aging and so on.
Tips
Eat less staple food when taking yam
Yam belongs to rhizome food, and its starch content is relatively high. Therefore, when taking yam, we should reduce the intake of other staple foods appropriately.
How do you eat?
Rose yam mud
Yam 250g, Rose Tea 4, Milk Refining
1. Prepare the necessary ingredients, peel and slice yam, and steam it in an electric cooker.
2. During steaming yam, the rose tea can be broken into fragments for reserve.
3. After steaming the yam with chopsticks, take out the spoon and crush it into a muddy shape.
Pour in the crushed roses and stir in the condensed milk.
4. Put the mixed yam paste into the mounting bag and squeeze out the shape you like.
5. lotus root
Lotus root mucus contains not only mucin, but also lecithin, vitamin C, which is very helpful to our body. It is worth noting that Lotus Root Cools Blood to stop bleeding and nourish blood, so for this reason So for women, lotus root is a good tonic.
Tips
People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold eat less
Although it is good to eat lotus root, we should pay attention to the cold nature of fresh lotus root. It is difficult to digest raw cold lotus root and easy to damage the spleen and stomach. Therefore, people with spleen deficiency, stomach cold and diarrhea should eat less. It is more appropriate to eat well-ripened lotus root.