New concept of dietary balance - "companion food"
“Parent food†refers to certain foods that can be used in conjunction with foods to produce “complementary†nutrients, thereby promoting people’s dietary balance. Here are some companion foods:
Liver - spinach
Both liver and spinach have the power of supplementing blood, and they have a special effect. They have a special effect on the treatment of anemia.
Beef - potatoes
Beef has high nutritional value and has a spleen-stomach effect, but beef is rough and stimulates the gastric mucosa. Cooking with potatoes and beef can protect the gastric mucosa.
Kelp - tofu
Tofu is rich in nutrients, and its contained saponins can promote the iodine in food and be absorbed by the body. Kelp contains a large amount of iodine, both with the same food can increase nutritional efficiency.
Lamb - Ginger
Mutton Yang warming, ginger to keep warm and warm, with each other with food, can drive evils, treatment of cold abdominal pain.
Chicken - chestnuts
Chicken complement spleen hematopoiesis, millet spleen, both with food is conducive to the body's absorption of chicken nutrition, hematopoietic function will also increase.
Duck meat - yam
Duck can make up Yin, with anti-inflammatory and anti-tussive effect. The yam's replenishing yin power is stronger, and the same with the duck meat, can eliminate greasy, better lung effect.
Lily - eggs
Lily has a clear fire, kidney qi, increase the efficiency of blood, the egg can make up the Yin and blood, the two cook together and add the right amount of sugar to eat, can nourish the Yin Runzao, pure heart soothe the nerves, has a unique health care effectiveness.
Fruit - meat
Fruits generally contain large amounts of potassium and sodium salts, and their participation in human metabolism can make body fluids weakly alkaline. Meat contains a large number of fatty acids, which are easily rendered weakly acidic after metabolism in the body. Both with the food can maintain acid-base balance of body fluids, is conducive to good health.