Winter tonic, how to choose safe and healthy ingredients

Since the beginning of winter, as the temperature gradually drops, the human body needs more calories to maintain daily life, so tonic has become the main theme of people's lives.

Chatting with a friend before, she felt a little weak and wanted to buy some safe and secure wild Codonopsis, which was grown on the market, but she was not sure whether she had used pesticides or been smoked with sulfur, so she didn't dare to buy it.

Even in shops that have been checked by some TCM teachers, she is worried about whether everything inside has been tested. Speaking of which, she herself laughed at herself that she was too tired to live.

I told her that for Codonopsis with a good reputation, you can try to buy some, wash it after receiving it, and then taste it, normal Codonopsis is not sour or bitter, sweet or slightly sweet.

In addition, as everyone pays more and more attention to food safety issues, many businesses have also begun to pay attention to the quality of ingredients to meet market demand, so sometimes we might as well hold an open mind and choose a few more stores to buy, including local pharmacies.

I've done this before, such as buying brown sugar, and selecting three stores at the same time, and after receiving it, I compared it from the origin, appearance, texture, taste, etc., and there was an unexpected gain, that is, not only did I find the good quality one, but also found that the price of this one was moderate, lower than the most expensive one.

It is also suitable for using this method in daily grocery shopping. I used to buy carrots to make kimchi, and I couldn't tell the difference between good and bad, so I bought two stalls at the same time, one carrot was larger, and the other was smaller, and the result was a small carrot, after cutting, there was a sweet and tender smell wafting out, and the big one was obviously inferior.

Some foods cannot be tasted immediately, such as meat, generally in addition to seeing whether the appearance is fresh, is to wash it, leave any seasonings unfed, boil, to see if there is a flavor of meat, if not, change to buy.

For food safety issues, in addition to giving full play to their own subjective initiative, through observation, tasting and identification, there are also the following methods.

1. Try to eat local, seasonal, and non-polluting food. If it is transported from other places for long distances, in order to keep fresh, sometimes it is inevitable to spray something; if it is out-of-season food, it is also possible to add foreign substances in the planting process in order to ensure its normal growth, and "any kind of food, only under the premise of no pollution, can be said to play an effective role".

2. Try to eat the food as it is, and eat less processed food. The more complex the processing process, the more links, not only the nutrition of the food itself is reduced, but also more additives; and the more you eat the source food, such as potatoes, radishes, cabbage, etc., which are dug out of the ground in winter, the more likely it is to be relatively clean; if you want to eat processed food, try to eat the ingredients list is simple, the additives are few, or the shelf life is shorter.

3. Be willing to spend money on expensive food. "If it is difficult to support it financially, eat less, rather lack than indiscriminate, for the food you eat in the stomach, you must have requirements and quality, otherwise you will eat unsafe food for a long time, and the body will precipitate too much garbage toxins, forming a real disease, and some diseases, whether it is Western medicine or Chinese medicine, may not be able to solve the problem. ”

Of course, something expensive sometimes doesn't necessarily mean it's good. I heard from my friends at the beach that they have a kind of shrimp that is more expensive and can be profitable, so as soon as it comes out of the water, it is used a little medicine to prolong its survival time, while those ordinary shrimp that are sold cheaply are not used. Friends normally buy cheap and fresh shrimp, and they feel more energetic than expensive ones.

Therefore, whether it is expensive or not, how to distinguish between good and bad, or by feeling, some things are beyond our ability, and we are not professionals, so we only have the part that we can control.

4. For food that you really can't figure out the quality, just put it down, buy less or don't touch it. No food is a panacea and a panacea, so there is no need to focus on eating.

On the one hand, it is easy to be anxious because you can't figure it out or can't get it, and spend too much money, time and energy; on the other hand, sometimes focus on the part, it is inevitable to lose the whole, ignoring that health is a comprehensive and systematic project, and there are many factors that determine whether a person is healthy.

5. Eating clean, relatively safe food all the time, the more sensitive your body feels. I once heard a boy say that he rarely goes to the supermarket, and he gets dizzy when he enters, because he usually likes sea fishing and breathes pure air from the blue sea.

The same is true for diet, keep eating clean food every day, the body will become more intelligent and transparent, it will automatically reject bad food, and it will tell you which foods you need to stay away from.

6. Know what your body needs. For example, friends who are deficient in yang and afraid of cold like to go to places with heating or sunlight in winter, and they will also avoid those cold and uncomfortable in terms of diet. A friend has a cold stomach, so she consciously avoids those black fungus and mushrooms with cold attributes, or when she needs to eat, she goes with warm foods such as onions.

When you understand what food your body is suitable for, you will not open the refrigerator and cabinet at home, which are full of hoarded health ingredients, and when you understand what food your body is suitable for, you can also block out some of the unsuitable food, and at the same time, it will also reduce the probability of unsafe food harming the body.

A friend who used to come to my house for lunch for a while asked him what he liked to eat, and he ordered two dishes: potato stew and tomato and egg soup. After making it a few times, I put it on my back, and every time I came, I just made these two dishes for him.

Some people may ask: Isn't this monotonous? But this is from the point of view of the questioner, and this friend of mine certainly does not find it monotonous, and he may even think that it is quite comprehensive, with meat, eggs, vegetables, roots, proteins, fats, starches, vitamins, and so on.

It was summer at that time, plus he was under a lot of pressure at work, smoking every day (now quitting), and the overall attributes of these two dishes were cool, relatively able to balance heat and dryness, in short, his spleen and stomach accepted it, it was very comfortable, so he ate it according to his own feelings, repeated every day, never tired of it, did not ask for anything more, looked silly, very simple, but who can say that he is not a wise man in ordinary life?