What does the saying 'Fish without garlic, sheep without ginger, and cattle without chives' mean? Does it make scientific sense?

Due to China's vast territory, vast land and abundant resources, and different climates, products and customs, the diet has also formed many flavors. Depending on the seasons, 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. Some foods, although high in nutritional value, may not be suitable for pairing.

The biggest feature of a dish is that it must not only have aesthetics, but also nutrition, and taste better. To achieve this goal, high technology is required. In Chinese food traditions, there is an old saying that fish does not have garlic, sheep do not have ginger, and cattle do not have chives.

Do you know what this means?

01 As the saying goes, fish do not have garlic, sheep do not have ginger, and cattle do not have chives. What does it mean? Does it make scientific sense?

fish without garlic

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

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

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

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

However, the ancients believed that garlic should not be used when cooking fish, because the garlic slices have a strong taste.

sheep without ginger

Due to the strong taste of mutton, we also use ginger cooking wine or garlic to remove the taste of mutton when processing mutton.

But the ancients believed that ginger should not be placed in mutton.

The main reason is that mutton itself is a warming food. If ginger is added, ginger is also a warming food, which can easily make the body angry.

If you want to remove the Xingshan flavor from the mutton, you can put a few pieces of radish, then a small amount of angelica and a moderate amount of high wine to remove the fishy smell of the mutton.

When simmering 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 also nourish the yin and moisten the lungs.

Cow garlic

Chives are also a side dish for many delicious foods. When many people eat food, they always sprinkle a handful of chives 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 relatively strong. If leeks and beef are paired together, the taste will be heavier. Leeks and beef are also hot foods. Often eating this way can easily lead to body anger.

Especially when beef stew, do not stew with leeks. You can make beef stew with tomatoes. For example, tomatoes that we eat regularly have great nutrition and taste for milk and do not cause a 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 aniseed 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 as to be healthier, let you enjoy delicious food, and eat healthy.

In addition, the ancients also summed up some food countermeasures in the diet. Many people deliberately put a table of food relatives at home, pay more attention when eating, and try not to mix these complementary foods together.

02

Can food really compete with each other? What happened to the CCTV food phase?

Regarding this issue, CCTV once refuted the rumor that food is mutually exclusive, arguing that there is no such claim in nutrition and food safety theory.

By food we mean that each ingredient has its own unique effect, and sometimes inappropriate ingredients eaten together can alter the effect or even be the cause.

In fact, food is arguably the longest-running food rumor in Chinese history. In addition to dose, talk of toxicity can only be alarmist.

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

Including honey and onions, beef and chestnuts, peanuts and cucumbers, crabs and persimmons, respectively, human experiments and animal experiments. So, whether human or animal, everything is normal. This is also the first time that food has been directly refuted through scientific experiments.

At the 2018 CCTV 315 Gala, there were also rumors that food experts. Taking crabs and persimmons as examples, it is said that the parameters of crabs and tomatoes in human gastric juice will not become arsenic. Excessive focus on food intake can also affect the diversity of our food intake. The rumours about food being incompatible are untenable.

However, many netizens refuted the rumor, saying they would not buy it. They believe that the food the ancients said was not poisonous, but that when they ate too much together, various symptoms of discomfort appeared. For example, if they eat too much beef and chestnuts together, they may suffer from indigestion.

Foods that eat together are not necessarily poisonous, but two foods or medicines weaken each other, and the nutritional value or drug properties are also called mutualism.

That is to say, if the two foods are added together, it is also good to eat uncomfortable, and it is also good for the body to pay more attention to it.

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 on their own. It is true that so-called gram foods are prone to diarrhea or stomach pains, but people with good stomachs do not eat anything.

The ancients summed up these mutually restraining foods based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, but now when people refute, they are refuted from the theory of Western medicine.

How to refute two different theoretical systems?

Chinese medicine believes that western medicine equipment cannot detect the meridians and collaterals of Qi deficiency. While not much has changed in the short term, there will be substantial changes in the long term.