In summer, the weather is sultry, which is easy to cause fatigue, poor appetite and listlessness.
Many young people will drink cold drinks at this time, especially carbonated drinks. Too unhealthy, too unhealthy, too unhealthy!
Most carbonated beverages on the market have single nutritional ingredients, and the main raw materials are water, sugar, carbon dioxide, and food additives used to increase color and aroma. Although the types and dosage of additives will not affect health as long as they meet the national standards, they are not beneficial at all.
However, pouring a large amount of sucrose and high fructose syrup day after day does great harm to the body. The most direct thing is that it is especially easy to get fat, and leads to dental caries, osteoporosis, acne and nutrient absorption.
Therefore, if you really want to quench thirst, relieve summer heat, relieve fatigue and stimulate appetite, you may as well make your own healthy drinks in summer.
Below, Dr. Clove will recommend several models for you.
Stimulate appetite: cantaloupe jujube hawthorn drink
In hot summer, the mouth is sticky and greasy, and there is no appetite. After a few days like this, nutrient intake is insufficient, which affects daily study and work. On the day when you don’t want to eat, have a cup of jujube, cantaloupe and hawthorn drink to stimulate your appetite!
Formula20g of jujube, 10g of hawthorn and 100g of cantaloupe.
When cooking, hawthorn and jujube are added first, and cantaloupe is added later.
Hawthorn pulp is sour and sweet, sweet in the mouth, stimulating appetite and promoting digestion. It also contains organic acids such as citric acid and malic acid, vitamin C and rich nutrients such as minerals. When matched with jujube and cantaloupe, it is sweet and sour, bringing out the best in each other.
Cantaloupes can also be replaced by apples.
Relieving Fatigue: Potato Fresh Milk Drink
In summer, people often feel sleepy and tired because they sweat a lot and lose a lot of water and minerals. However, unless they sweat a lot (outdoor work and physical exercise), they generally do not need to supplement salt specially, because Chinese people generally eat too much salt and supplement it at any time for three meals a day.
What really needs attention in summer is to supplement water and trace element potassium. When potassium is deficient, symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness and inattention will occur, seriously affecting working conditions. After timely potassium supplement, symptoms can usually be relieved quickly.
Formula: 25g purple potato powder or purple potato powder (or steamed purple potato is pressed into mud), 200ml of milk or yogurt in a box (or 30g milk powder about 2tablespoons), honey (optional), blueberry.
Potatoes and purple potatoes are rich in potassium and carbohydrates, which can well meet human needs. Dairy products can supplement high-quality protein and rich calcium. After blending, add a little honey and sprinkle a few blueberries to add flavor and stimulate appetite.
Removing heat and relieving summer heat: green tea, sweet osmanthus and medlar tea
The air conditioner outside the house is loud and there are many guests in the house. Long-term expectation in the air-conditioned room, because dryness is easy to lead to sore throat and oral ulcer, which can also be understood as “excessive internal heat”.
Formula: 6 grams of green tea, 6 grams of medlar (a handful of 10 or so), dried osmanthus flowers
First of all, prepare some green tea. Tea polyphenols and theanine in tea have strong antioxidant activity and help relieve summer heat. Then add medlar, red and green, which is good-looking and delicious.
Finally, add sweet osmanthus. All right, go and wash your face. When you come back, spring tea and autumn cinnamon are fragrant, low in sugar, fat and calorie, especially suitable for people who are thirsty, upset and depressed in summer.
Warm Tips
The biggest advantage of homemade drinks is that they can be chosen according to their own personal needs. In fact, the choice of ingredients is very wide, including flowers, fruits, vegetables, light tea and miscellaneous beans. They can be freely used and matched with the above ingredients to make compound drinks.
1. Fruits:
Sweet taste: litchi, banana, longan, watermelon, jujube, sugar cane, etc.
Sweet and sour taste: sweet orange, kiwi fruit, grape, mango, grapefruit, etc.
Sour taste: lemon, hawthorn, waxberry, pineapple, etc.
2. Miscellaneous beans and coarse cereals: mung beans, red beans, purple rice, Job’s tears, sago, etc. They are rich sources of B vitamins and minerals such as potassium and magnesium. Simply boiling mung bean soup, red bean soup and purple rice dew, and slightly chilling them, is also the choice of Xian Yi, old and young.
3. Light tea: green tea, black tea, chrysanthemum tea, etc.
4. Dairy products: yogurt, milk, milk powder, etc.