What does the saying 'Fish does not have garlic, sheep does not have ginger, and cattle do not have leeks' mean? Is there a scientific reason?

Due to China's vast territory, vast land and abundant resources, the climate, products and customs of different regions are different, and the diet has also formed many flavors. According to seasonal changes, China has been seasoning side dishes. It is mellow in winter, light and cool in summer, stewed in winter and frozen in summer. When cooking, it will be matched according to the characteristics of the food. Although some foods have high nutritional value, they may not be suitable for pairing.

The biggest characteristic of a dish is that it should not only have aesthetic feeling, but also have nutrition and better taste. To achieve this goal, super high technology is required. In the tradition of Chinese cuisine, there is an old saying that fish does not have garlic, sheep does not have ginger, and beef does not have leeks.

Do you know what this means?

01 What does it mean that fish does not have garlic, sheep does not have ginger, and cattle do not have leeks? Is there a scientific reason?

fish without garlic

Fish is an indispensable ingredient in our life, and there are many foods made from fish. Generally, we should pay attention to the deliciousness when eating fish.

So when we buy fish, we like to choose the freshest fish, and the soup made after slaughter is the best.

However, the fishy smell is relatively strong, and if it is not cleaned, it will also affect the freshness of the fish.

Generally speaking, when we remove the fishy smell, in addition to marinating with cooking wine, ginger and garlic slices are used to remove the fishy smell.

But the ancients believed that garlic should not be used when cooking fish, because garlic slices have a strong smell, and if fish is marinated with garlic slices, it may cover up the aroma of fish.

sheep without ginger

Because the taste of mutton is relatively strong, we also use ginger cooking wine or garlic to remove the taste of mutton.

But the ancients believed that mutton should not contain ginger.

The main reason is that mutton itself is a warming and tonic food. If ginger is added, ginger is also a warming and tonic food, and it is easy to make the body angry when paired together.

If you want to remove the Xingshan smell on the mutton, you can put a few pieces of radish, and then put a small amount of Chinese angelica and an appropriate amount of high wine to remove the fishy smell of the mutton.

When stewing lamb, don't put some hot ingredients. You can put some radishes, which can not only neutralize the heat of the mutton, but also prevent the body from getting angry, and nourish yin and moisten the lungs.

Beef not leek

Leeks are also a side dish to many delicious meals. When many people eat, they always sprinkle a handful of leeks before serving, and the delicious taste will be stimulated immediately.

But when making beef, try not to eat it with leeks.

The taste of beef itself is relatively strong, and the taste of leeks is also relatively strong. If leeks and beef are paired together, the taste will be stronger. Leeks and beef are also hot foods, and frequent eating like this can easily cause the body to get angry.

Especially when stewing beef, do not stew with leeks. You can put tomatoes in goulash. For example, the tomatoes we often eat have good nutrition and taste for milk, and will not cause physical fire.

It can be seen that this sentence left by the ancients has a scientific basis and is also the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients.

We try to follow this principle when making these meat products. If we want to remove the fishy smell, we don't have to use garlic or ginger slices, cooking wine or other big ingredients to remove the fishy smell.

In order to ensure the taste of food and make your body healthier, you must make healthy food into a healthy way of eating, so that you can be healthier, let you enjoy delicious food and eat healthily.

In addition, the ancients also summed up some food mutual restraints in diet. Many people put up a food chart at home, pay more attention when eating, and try not to mix these mutually exclusive foods together.

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Is there really a mutual restraint between foods? What's going on with CCTV's food mutual restraint?

Regarding this issue, CCTV once refuted the rumors that food is mutually exclusive, arguing that there is no such thing as food interdiction in the theory of nutrition and food safety.

The so-called food means that each ingredient has its own unique effect, sometimes inappropriate ingredients eaten together may change the effect, and may even become the cause.

In fact, the fact that food is incompatible is arguably the longest-running food rumor in Chinese history. In addition to dosage, talking about toxicity can only be alarmist.

According to CCTV reports, as early as 1935, Professor Zheng Ji, the founder of the Chinese Nutrition Society, a Chinese scientist, chose the 14 most popular groups of so-called contraindication foods at that time.

Including honey and onions, beef and chestnuts, peanuts and cucumbers, crabs and persimmons, respectively for human experiments and animal experiments. Therefore, everything is normal whether human or animal. It's also the first time a food has been directly refuted through a scientific experiment.

At the CCTV 315 Gala in 2018, there were also rumors of food experts. Take crabs and persimmons as an example, say that the parameters of crabs and tomatoes in human gastric juice will not become arsenic. Excessive focus on food compatibility can also affect the diversity of our food intake. Rumors about food compatibility are untenable.

However, many netizens refuted the rumor, saying they would not buy it. They think that the food that the ancients said is not poisonous, but that when they eat too much together, various discomfort symptoms will appear. For example, if they eat too much beef and chestnuts together, they may have indigestion.

Eating mutually restraining foods is not necessarily poisonous, but the two foods or medicines weaken each other, and the nutritional value or medicinal properties are also called mutual restraint.

In other words, if the two kinds of food are added together, it is also a gram of discomfort to eat, and paying more attention to it is also a good thing for the body.

In addition, CCTV's rumors are not strict, which mainly has a lot to do with personal physique. Some people's stomachs are not tasty by themselves. The so-called gram food is indeed prone to diarrhea or stomach pain, but people with a good stomach don't eat anything.

The ancients concluded that these anti-inhibiting foods were judged according to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, but now when people refute it, they always refute it from the theory of western medicine.

How to refute two different theoretical systems?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Western medicine equipment cannot detect qi deficiency meridians. While not much has changed in the short term, there will be substantial changes in the long run.