What to drink to beat the summer heat? Experts recommend eight stomach-friendly heat-relieving soups
Soup, as one of the souls of food, holds an unshakable place in our country's culinary culture. In winter we often simmer soups to drive away the cold and add warmth. In fact, in summer you can also drink more soup, as it helps replenish the many nutrients lost through sweating. So what should you drink to beat the summer heat? What soups clear heat and relieve summer heat?
1. Clam and Tofu Soup
People generally use clams, a type of seafood, as an ingredient for simmering soup, because stewing them in soup greatly enhances the soup's fresh flavor. They are also very nutritious, containing rich protein, vitamins and amino acids. In summer, when the body loses various kinds of energy quickly, drinking clam and tofu soup both dispels heat and replenishes a variety of trace elements.
2. Loofah, Mushroom and Pork Rib Soup
In summer, what people most want to do is quickly dispel the heat. External heat can be dealt with by air conditioning, while internal heat can also be addressed by drinking soup. Loofah, mushroom and pork rib soup is relatively light and not greasy, with a fresh taste, and it has the effects of promoting blood circulation and detoxifying and cooling the body. Choosing to drink it in summer gives a good effect in cooling the body.
3. Century Egg and Cucumber Soup
Century egg and cucumber soup is very simple to make, and its taste is also very refreshing. The moment it enters your mouth you feel cool and comfortable. In summer people also like to eat cold dressed century eggs, and often after eating too much they feel their mouth going dry. Making soup with century eggs and cucumber avoids that dry, astringent feeling in the mouth, and both century eggs and cucumber have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. In summer, making this soup is both simple and delicious.
4. Shiitake, Tomato and Radish Soup
Although all the ingredients in shiitake, tomato and radish soup are vegetarian, its taste is also very refreshing. For those friends who want to drink soup in summer but do not like eating meat, this soup is a very good choice. Its taste is sweet and sour, and drinking it in summer gives a feeling of quenching thirst and promoting fluid production. This soup can also regulate gastric acid concentration, aid digestion, and has a good effect on lowering cholesterol levels.
5. Black Tea and Ginger Soup
Cold pathogens may accumulate in the body, passing from the exterior to the interior, slowly invading the meridians and joints, causing rheumatism and arthritis, and may also make chronic cough and asthma worse in winter. To prevent cold in summer, you can often drink black tea and ginger soup. Ginger has the effects of warming the middle, dispersing cold, inducing sweating and releasing the exterior, while black tea helps warm the body. Steeping ginger in black tea is very effective against cold pathogens. When a wind-cold cold is caused by catching a chill in summer, drinking a bowl of black tea and ginger soup while it is hot helps disperse cold and release the exterior. Brown sugar ginger soup, red date ginger soup and the like also have very good effects in warming the body and preventing cold.
6. Radish and Crucian Carp Soup
Affected by the weather, people's appetite is often poor in midsummer. If you want to improve your appetite, you might as well drink a bowl of radish and crucian carp soup. Simmering white radish and crucian carp together into soup has the effects of warming the middle, directing qi downward, strengthening the spleen and draining dampness. This soup is not only delicious but also nutritious. Crucian carp is rich in protein, unsaturated fatty acids and various trace elements, and is easy to digest and absorb. White radish, which belongs to the cruciferous vegetables, has certain anti-cancer effects. People with poor appetite can also often drink millet soup, oat soup, hot and sour soup, and the like.
7. Red Bean and Job's Tears Soup
In summer and autumn, dampness easily accumulates in the body. Many people develop symptoms of edema in summer after eating even a little food that is too cold or too salty. Therefore, the diet should focus on removing dampness and reducing swelling. Traditional Chinese medicine holds that red beans have the effects of strengthening the spleen and promoting water metabolism, clearing heat and removing dampness, and reducing swelling and detoxifying, while job's tears can clear heat, dispel dampness and eliminate edema. From the perspective of modern nutrition, both red beans and job's tears are rich in potassium, which aids urination, and are also very suitable for people prone to edema. People with heavy dampness in the body and those prone to edema can often drink red bean and job's tears soup.
In addition, kelp and winter melon soup, carp and winter melon soup and the like also help remove dampness and reduce swelling. It should be noted that people who urinate frequently should drink such soups less.
8. Winter Melon and Old Duck Soup
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, winter melon is slightly cold in nature and has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting water metabolism and dispersing phlegm, relieving restlessness and quenching thirst, and dispelling dampness and relieving summer heat; duck meat is cool in nature and can strengthen the spleen, resolve dampness, dispel summer heat and remove heat. Winter melon and old duck soup not only has the effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat, but also replenishes high-quality protein and various vitamins and minerals, making it very suitable for drinking in midsummer. Old duck and mung bean soup, mung bean and lotus seed soup and the like also help clear heat and relieve summer heat. At this point, hold the cup with both hands and politely present it to the guest.
I hope that while working hard, everyone will also take good care of their health.