Swap Your Breakfast for This: Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar and Cholesterol Drop, and Dampness Clears Up Too
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Every day you have to think about 3 important questions: what to eat in the morning, what to eat at noon, what to eat at night.
When it comes to breakfast, different regions have different habits. In the north, people might just grab a jianbing guozi from a roadside stall. In many parts of central China, breakfast is a bowl of rice noodles. Cantonese people are the most particular about breakfast - morning tea can be a whole table of food, with rice noodle rolls, shaomai and shrimp dumplings all laid out.
Today let's focus on what is best to eat in the morning. This "best" option is packed with nutrition, very convenient to make, and the key point is that no matter whether you are from east, west, south or north, no matter man or woman, young or old, it is good for your body. It is Chinese yam - are you surprised?
Eating Chinese Yam in the Morning Has Powerful Benefits
Chinese yam is usually stir-fried or used in soup - when did it become a breakfast food? Change the cooking method and it can be breakfast, for example steamed plain or cooked into porridge.
Especially the long iron-stick Chinese yam, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen and boosting qi, but the timing of eating it also matters greatly.
Around 8 in the morning is when the spleen meridian is at its most active
, so steaming long Chinese yam at this time means the beneficial components of the food will be better absorbed by the body.
Steamed Chinese Yam
Steaming Chinese yam is the easiest way to make it for breakfast. Scrape off the fine hairs a little, rub and wash it clean of mud with fresh water, then cut it into sections and steam over heat for about 20 minutes.
Depending on how thick or thin the Chinese yam is, the steaming time varies. Each person needs to adjust according to the actual situation and the heat level. If you really can't tell whether it is fully cooked, you can poke it with chopsticks just like steaming sweet potato.
Just steam the Chinese yam until cooked - don't over-process it, otherwise the mucilage protein inside will be destroyed and its spleen-strengthening and stomach-nourishing effects will be greatly reduced.
After steaming, you can peel it and eat it directly. At first it may seem too bland, but gradually you will taste the natural sweetness of the ingredient - fresh, mild and soft. If you are not used to eating it plain, you can dip it in a little jam or white sugar.
Chinese Yam Porridge
Speaking of breakfast, porridge is of course indispensable, and Chinese yam is a very versatile porridge ingredient.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty there was a famous doctor named Zhang Xichun who loved Chinese yam greatly. In his work "Records of Medicine with Reference to Western Medicine" he recorded this story: a married woman suffered from diarrhea for several months in a row, until she was reduced to skin and bones. In the end Zhang Xichun suggested boiling Chinese yam into porridge and taking it three times a day. Unexpectedly, after drinking it for three months, the woman gradually recovered her health.
When cooking porridge, add chunks of Chinese yam and a few torn red dates - it is most suitable for children and the elderly. That is because both groups have weaker teeth and a relatively weak digestive system, and Chinese yam porridge is very easy to digest.
In addition, people with weak spleen and stomach or indigestion are also suited to drinking Chinese yam porridge. You can also make peanut Chinese yam porridge, goji berry Chinese yam porridge, longan Chinese yam porridge, pumpkin Chinese yam porridge and so on.
Red Date Chinese Yam Porridge
Ingredients
10 red dates, 200 g fresh Chinese yam, 100 g japonica rice, an appropriate amount of white sugar.
Method
1. Soak the japonica rice and red dates for half an hour in advance. Drop a few drops of oil into the japonica rice, stir it, and let it sit for 5 minutes; peel the Chinese yam, cut it into small pieces, and soak them to prevent discoloration.
2. Pour an appropriate amount of water into a pot, add the japonica rice and stir, then cook over low heat after the water boils.
3. Once the rice grains are soft, add the Chinese yam and red dates, simmer slowly over low heat, stirring with a spoon, until the porridge is sticky and soft.
Chinese Yam Mash
Chinese yam mash is more suitable for young children and elderly people with poor teeth, and the benefits are the same. To make a well-shaped, soft Chinese yam mash, the choice of Chinese yam is very important. You must choose the kind with less moisture and a starchy texture, that is
iron-stick Chinese yam.
If you use the somewhat translucent, crisp kind of Chinese yam, the finished product will be very runny and won't hold its shape.
Pumpkin Chinese Yam Mash
Ingredients
Chinese yam (300 g), pumpkin (300 g), honey (appropriate amount).
Method
1. Wash the Chinese yam and cut it into small sections; peel the pumpkin, cut it into thick slices, and steam them until cooked in a steamer.
2. Mash the steamed pumpkin into a puree and set aside.
3. Peel the steamed Chinese yam and mash it into a puree, then mix the two purees together.
4. Drizzle with honey and it is ready.
Reminder:
Chinese yam oxidizes and turns black after peeling, so steam the Chinese yam first and then peel it.
Four Cautions for Chinese Yam
1. Chinese yam is high in starch, so people with diabetes should not eat an excessive amount at one time. If you particularly like eating Chinese yam, you should appropriately reduce the amount of staple food.
2. When eating hot pot, it is best to eat less Chinese yam, otherwise it is easy to get internal heat.
3. Men with prostate cancer and women with breast cancer should not eat Chinese yam.
4. People with dry stools or constipation should best eat less Chinese yam.
How to Choose Chinese Yam
When selecting and buying,
among Chinese yams of the same size, the heavier ones are better, and for the same variety, the one with more fine hairs is better
. The more fine hairs a Chinese yam has, the more starchy its texture and the more yam polysaccharides it contains, and the better its nutrition. Finally, look at the cross-section: the flesh of a Chinese yam cross-section should be snowy white, which shows it is fresh. If it is yellow like rust, do not buy it.If there are abnormal spots on the surface, you absolutely must not buy it, because it may already have been infected with disease. Also note that the cut section of Chinese yam should be sticky, and the outer skin should be undamaged.
Chinese yam fears freezing and fears heat. When buying Chinese yam in winter, you can hold it in your hand for about 10 minutes. If the Chinese yam sweats, then it has been frozen. Break it open and look - a frozen Chinese yam's cross-section mucus will have turned to water, with a hard core and reddish flesh, and poor quality.
Chinese Yam as Breakfast Has Benefits Rivaling Ginseng
Chinese yam's starch content is generally higher than that of ordinary vegetables, so Chinese yam can be part of the staple food rather than just eaten as a dish.
Some people think Chinese yam is just a root tuber from the soil, not worth much, and that if you want to tonify you need ginseng, bird's nest and the like. But Chinese yam has a gentle, gradual tonifying effect that other Chinese medicines can hardly achieve.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes Chinese yam has the effects of tonifying the spleen, lungs and kidneys, and boosting qi and nourishing yin.
Modern medicine believes its nutritional value is very high, containing rich amylase, fat, protein, multiple vitamins and so on. It has effects such as lowering blood sugar and blood lipids, enhancing immunity and anti-aging - its benefits are too numerous to count.
1. The "three highs" drop
Chinese yam contains
a large amount of mucilage protein,
vitamins and trace elements, which can effectively prevent blood lipids from depositing on blood vessel walls, prevent cardiovascular disease, and have the effects of lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids and calming the mind. Chinese yam contains mucilage protein, which has the effect of lowering blood sugar, and long-term consumption also has the effect of preventing and treating diabetes.
As a tuber, Chinese yam is an excellent high-potassium, low-sodium food, and also a rare delicacy for patients with diabetes, high blood pressure and high blood lipids.
2. Dampness is gone
Chinese yam contains substances such as amylase and polyphenol oxidase, which are beneficial for the spleen and stomach's digestion and absorption,
and it is a mild food-medicine dual-purpose item for tonifying the spleen and stomach.
It can be eaten whether there is deficiency of spleen yang or deficiency of stomach yin.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the internal organ corresponding to dampness is the spleen; when spleen and stomach function is poor, dampness is easily produced. Moreover, the spleen governs transportation and transformation, and expelling dampness requires energy, which requires the spleen and stomach to transform food. When spleen and stomach function is strong, dampness naturally has nowhere to hide. And Chinese yam is neutral in nature, suitable for the vast majority of people.
3. The kidneys are no longer deficient
Chinese yam contains multiple nutrients and has the effect of strengthening the body and nourishing the kidneys and essence. Well-known medicines such as Liuwei Dihuang Wan, Bawei Dihuang Wan and Guishao Dihuang Wan all include Chinese yam, which shows its kidney-tonifying power.
4. The lungs are well nourished
After the Start of Autumn, many people feel dry mouth and tongue, hoarse voice and dry cough, dry skin and so on. This is the most obvious climate feature of autumn, "dryness", which does relatively great harm to the lungs and throat. Chinese yam contains
saponins and mucilaginous substances
, and both of these components have lubricating and moistening effects, so they can boost lung qi, nourish lung yin, and treat symptoms such as lung deficiency, phlegm cough and chronic cough.
5. You look younger
Chinese yam is a rare good thing that is both medicine and food, containing multiple rich substances such as amino acids, for example free amino acids, polyphenol oxidase, vitamin C, iodine, and 16 kinds of amino acids. Amino acids can repair damaged cells and damaged factors, so it has a very good beauty effect. Stick with eating it for half a month and your whole person will feel completely renewed.
6. Cancer is kept at bay
Chinese yam is regarded as a cancer terminator, especially with good effects on preventing and treating colon cancer. The dietary fiber in Chinese yam tubers can prevent toxic compounds from attaching to the colonic mucosa; in addition, the vitamin A in Chinese yam also provides protection for the human body against lung and oral cancers.
Who would have thought that swapping breakfast for Chinese yam could be so powerful. Try it quickly - eating it in autumn and winter is especially good!
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