Red food is good for heart - fruit chapter

Red food is good for the heart - fruit chapter: red apple, big red date, red pomegranate, red pepper (guest: Fan Zhihong, Cheng Haiying) video background information of the road to health professor Fan Zhihong, chief physician of China Agricultural University Cheng Haiying, Beijing Hospital of traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Capital Medical University In many colors of food, red food should be the most eye-catching, enthusiastic and festive one, red apple, big red date, red pomegranate, red pepper, in addition to the appearance of gorgeous, their nutritional value can not be underestimated, as the saying goes, eat three dates a day, never show old There are sweet potatoes in the meal, with a red face Take a pepper when you are cold, and the cold will go away naturally These proverbs all show the nutrition of red food and the effect of dietotherapy and health care How much do you know about red food? What are the therapeutic effects of red food? Let's listen to the nutrition experts from the health care experts of traditional Chinese medicine Is red food more relevant to the season? Yes, as we all know, traditional Chinese medicine pays special attention to five elements The range of five elements is very wide There is a five color one The solar term corresponding to red should be summer Although it's autumn, the temperature is still very high It's meaningful to talk about this red food at this time Let's say that nature's creation is really amazing How can food present such different colors? Answer Nature is really amazing When we talk about colors, we always think of pigments In fact, there are many kinds of natural pigments in nature There are several kinds of pigments that show red One is heme We all know that meat food and viscera are red from heme, and tomatoes, watermelons and carrots For example, some of the strawberries you eat, like those that can fade, like cherries, and those that come from polyphenols, can be red These natural pigments have antioxidant or other good functions We have a saying called an apple a day The doctor is far away from me Why does he have such a high evaluation of apple? Answer It's like this In terms of our health care medicine, apple is the most basic one It contains a lot of fiber, which is helpful for the digestive system Generally speaking, many old people will tell their children or their families to eat more apples, which can keep their stool in normal condition In addition, some pregnant women's families say that they should eat more apples, and the skin of their children will be very delicate , so we all know these basic common sense Answer In fact, if the apple is not able to row vitamins, but it can't be said that the absence of vitamins is its great disadvantage It has other good things, such as it contains more polyphenols, especially the peel part, which is high in content, and then it eats more chewy This is from pectin, because the apple is relatively large, which is very dominant Potential, you eat it all, so the total amount you get will be larger, and this pectin has very good biological effects, such as delaying the rise of blood sugar, delaying the rise of blood lipids, and it can also have a certain sense of satiety Is the red skin of an apple more nutritious than the inside flesh? Answer From the test results, it is true that the content of some polyphenols in the skin is dozens of times higher than that in the inside For example, vitamin C, pectin and cellulose are all higher than that in the inside However, although it is high, it only has a thin layer after all, and it can't replace you to eat such a large pulp So if you really don't want to waste the skin, you can even have a fruit belt Block, if you think the skin is safe enough Ask us Chinese people have a very special feeling about apples, because when we were little, there were no other fruits? It's like the meeting in 1970s and 1980s, that is, there are some apples in winter, and there are not many kinds of apples, that is, sour apples After eating the apples, the appetite of this person can increase In addition, from the economic point of view, it's not expensive, so it's easier for everyone to get It's a common fruit, and it's put for a long time Ask someone else that you always watch computers, TV people, eat apple and radiation protection? Answer apple for skin care and beauty, it has a better moisturizing, nourishing Yin, the role of Tianjin, so from this point of view, it should be said to have a certain auxiliary role Is it helpful for some cancer patients to eat more apples? Yes, that is to say, the polyphenols extracted from apples have a strong radiation resistance effect, of course, this effect is not limited to apples, many fruits have this effect In the early red circle of July 15, the jujube falls on the pole in August 15, and it's time for the big red jujube to mature again Jujube has been planted for more than 3000 years in China, and its health preservation function has been well known and used by people There is a saying that people eat three jujubes every day for a lifetime without aging, and five grains plus jujube is better than Ganoderma lucidum Shennong Materia Medica, the first pharmaceutical monograph in China, called jujube as a rare top grade, and compendium of Materia Medica called jujube as sweet and smooth, which can help people to keep their temper, pass nine orifices and help twelve classics In addition to health preservation, jujube has also been given special significance in our country When we get married, we sprinkle some red jujube to wish the new couple red and fiery in the future, and beauty During the Spring Festival, make some date cakes and date buns to offer sacrifices to the gods and pray for blessings I wish you a happy and prosperous life in the coming year Like jujube, pomegranate is also the red fruit endowed with spirit From ancient times to the present, pomegranate has always been a symbol of wealth, auspiciousness and prosperity, because people with many pomegranates often regard it as the mascot of offspring reproduction and family prosperity There has always been a custom in Chinese folk to wish their offspring prosperity with pomegranate patterns When it comes to jujube, many female friends love it very much? Answer Bencao recorded this jujube very early It was recorded as a medicine It has a very good effect of replenishing blood, which may be very clear to many friends For example, if the patient is in hospital due to illness, many people go to visit, so they take a basket of jujubes Zhang Zhongjing, a famous medical expert in our motherland, wrote a treatise on typhoid and miscellaneous diseases More famous, there are many prescriptions in this book He has used jujube in many prescriptions, such as Guizhi Decoction for colds, Xiaochaihu Decoction for menopause and so on Many prescriptions use jujube Ask now a lot of people like to eat jujube, its taste is very good, then what kind of connotation does its nutrition have? Answer The main use of traditional Chinese medicine is dried dates In fact, the fresh dates are coming down in autumn They are really a treasure They are the highest content of vitamin C in all kinds of cultivated fruits in the world We generally say that the king of vitamin C thinks of kiwifruit In fact, the vitamin C of kiwifruit can't be compared with fresh dates, because the amount of fresh dates is more than twice as much In fact, not only the vitamin C is high, but also the iron content is one of the best in the fruit, as well as the potassium content, which is even higher than banana and potato Therefore, jujube is really an excellent fruit in the nutritional value It also contains polysaccharides, a large number of flavanone like ketones and so on Therefore, Chinese medicine says that it is well supported by facts Ask a lot of people to come down to fresh jujube, like to eat directly like this, but some people think it's a little prickly throat, do you have any tricks? A: some middle-aged and old people may not eat it directly like young people In fact, the skin of jujube should be a good thing Many people think it's very hard, so they are willing to cook it and eat it again, so the skin is not so hard Ask if steam will not affect its nutritional composition? From the vitamin point of view, you need to cook it a little bit, but even if it's broken, it's a little higher than apples and pears There are many processed products of jujube now Some people have developed the freeze-drying product of jujube, such as the whole freeze-drying product, the flake or powder product In this way, you can eat them as snacks all the year round, and the vacuum freeze-drying will not affect the nutritional value of the product How can jujube help our whole body? Answer Jujube, for example, is very helpful in anti fatigue The extract of jujube, including jujube juice, has been proved to have anti fatigue effect in animal experiments Then jujube can also promote the proliferation of spleen lymphocytes, improve human immunity, so it is not easy to get sick So when you are strengthening your body, you can eat it for a long time After a long time, your health will be significantly improved Ask if we can improve our own treatment or prevention of disease by making some small diet prescriptions at ordinary times? Answer yes Now jujube can be used in many aspects, such as respiratory diseases, some coughs, tracheitis and so on At present, it is still used in many ways Jujube for bronchitis: raw materials: 250g of jujube, two handfuls of leek root: Decoction of jujube for asthma: raw materials: 500g of fresh pumpkin (peeled), 15-20 jujubes (denuded), and proper amount of brown sugar production methods: Decoction with water to ask pomegranate what is the special outstanding place in the aspect of TCM and nutrition value? Answer People who have eaten pomegranate know that it is a kind of sour and sweet food, which is very delicious For many things in traditional Chinese medicine, if there is a sour and sweet taste, it has the effect of promoting body fluid to quench thirst For those who are Yin deficient, thirsty or dry, it can promote body fluid to quench thirst In addition, it is like the situation that the spleen and stomach are not good at ordinary times, which is often prone to diarrhea Eating pomegranate can alleviate or alleviate it Diarrhea, a very good thing But pomegranate can be eaten in such a few days, and its seed is very troublesome to eat, but is it worth our effort to eat it? Answer In fact, pomegranate is a very star fruit in the recent year We say star is a star in the West Originally, pomegranate is eaten in a few countries, but it is eaten less in the West In recent years, studies have found that pomegranate juice has much better antioxidant properties than apples, pears and peaches, so it has done a lot of in-depth effects on this aspect It is found that the polyphenols in pomegranate juice have a strong effect on preventing vascular endothelial injury, that is to say, it can be up to the start-up stage of arteriosclerosis, so it has a good effect on preventing cardiovascular disease There is another study I think I did very well, which is to use the elderly to do experiments and give the elderly half a kilogram of pomegranate juice every day, because it's troublesome to eat, After persisting in this way for some time, it was found that some products of oxidation in the blood of these elderly people decreased, and the function and index of antioxidation increased