4 ways to eat wolfberry to keep healthy
Lycium barbarum is the standard for health care professionals of all walks of life
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Many people have a soft spot for wolfberry soaking in water
But do you know which is the best way to eat wolfberry?
How to choose a good wolfberry?
Today, I will introduce you to the knowledge about eating wolfberry
What does wolfberry do?
Lycium barbarum is the dry ripe fruit of the Solanaceae plant Lycium barbarum. Sweet and flat in nature, it belongs to the liver and kidney meridians.
The main active ingredient in Lycium barbarum is Lycium barbarum polysaccharide (LBP), which has the functions of immune regulation, antioxidant, blood lipid and blood sugar regulation. Other nutrients include 8 essential amino acids, more than 20 trace elements, rich beta carotene, vitamin C, and germanium, an element that is very rare in general food. Beta carotene is a nutrient that is beneficial to the retina and can be consumed by patients with cataracts, myopia and visual fatigue.
The "Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine" published in modern times summarizes the discussions of physicians in the past dynasties, and summarizes that wolfberry has four functions: nourishing the kidney, moistening the lung, nourishing the liver, and improving the eyesight. Tears, consumptive cough, thirst, nocturnal emission, etc.
How to eat wolfberry
When it comes to eating wolfberry, there are quite a few, such as tea, soup, porridge, dry chewing and so on.
①Dry chew
The most healthy way to eat wolfberry is to chew it dry. Treat wolfberry as a snack, wash it and chew it directly. It is authentic, convenient and fast, suitable for most people.
This way of eating can more fully absorb the nutrients in wolfberry, which is more conducive to its function. But it should be noted that the amount of dry chewing should not be too large, about 10 grams is appropriate, otherwise it is easy to nourish excessively.
People with excess heat in the body and people with spleen deficiency, dampness and diarrhea should not take it. People with low blood pressure and allergic constitution should use it with caution.
②Porridge
Cooking porridge with wolfberry and japonica rice, or adding wolfberry to high temperature cooking in soup, can help release the active ingredients of wolfberry, making it dissolve in the porridge soup and be easily digested and absorbed.
Recommended health recipes: Chinese yam and wolfberry porridge. This porridge nourishes yin and moistens dryness, nourishes liver and kidney, nourishes yin and improves eyesight.
③Bubble tea
Soaking wolfberry in water is simple and easy, but its active ingredients cannot be fully dissolved. Therefore, it is best to eat wolfberry after drinking water.
④Bubble wine
Wine can activate blood and dredge collaterals, and various active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine are also easy to dissolve. The medicine can give full play to the effect of wolfberry through the power of alcohol and the medicinal potential of wine, and strengthen its effect of nourishing the liver and kidney.
However, because it is an alcohol, it should be used with caution by people with poor liver and kidney function.
How to choose high-quality wolfberry?
one look. Normal wolfberry is mostly dark red, the hilum is white, and the color distribution is uneven.
Second grip. Normal and high-quality wolfberry has good dryness, and the grains are distinct in the hand and will not stick together.
Three smells. Leave the wolfberry in a confined space for a while, if it emits a pungent smell, it is likely to have been smoked with sulfur.
Four tastes. Put the wolfberry directly in the mouth and chew it. The wolfberry soaked in alum will have a bitter taste of alum, while the wolfberry smoked by sulfur has a sour, astringent and bitter taste.
Five bubbles. Throw a few medlars into warm water, the high-quality ones are not easy to sink, and the color of the soaked medlar is light yellow or orange-red; while the processed medlars are seriously discolored.
References
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