Why should we eat more spinach in spring?

Spinach is a common vegetable all over the year, but it is better for spring. Its roots are green, fresh and delicious.

Spinach contains many types of nutrients, and most of the nutrients are several times more than other vegetables, so it is known as the "treasure of nutrition." Chinese medicine believes that spinach is cool, sweet, non-toxic, enter the intestines, stomach, there is blood to stop bleeding, benefit the five internal organs, blood circulation, thirst quencher, nourishing yin, liver, help digestion and other effects. "Herbal Materia Medica" considers spinach "Lee's five internal organs, through gastrointestinal heat, hangover poison. Danxia people eat good food." "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that spinach can "by the blood, open the chest, under the breath, quench thirsty Runzao." "With interest home diet spectrum" that spinach "open the chest, through the stomach, Runzaohuoxue, stool astringent And people suffering from acne Yi Shi."

There are many ways to eat spinach, such as frying, mixing, burning, soup, porridge and ingredients. Spinach scrambled eggs have the nutritional benefits of promoting liver cell regeneration. The spinach mixture tablet has the effect of clearing the liver and clears the eyes, and is suitable for diseases such as unclear vision caused by insufficient blood of the liver and dizziness and limb tremor. With spinach and Yanggan soup, you can raise liver and eyesight, ease the dryness of two eyes, blurred vision and other symptoms, is a modern "computer family" can not but taste the food. Spinach porridge, nutritious, with spleen Qi, nourishing blood tonic effect, often used to treat iron deficiency anemia. Spinach pig blood soup has nourishing and bleeding, accumulating yin moistening function, suitable for blood deficiency intestinal dryness, anemia and bleeding and other illnesses.

It should be noted that spinach contains oxalic acid, oxalic acid and calcium combined easily form calcium oxalate crystals, it will affect the body's absorption of calcium, therefore, can not spinach with calcium-rich beans, soy products and fungus, shrimp, kelp, Seaweed and other foods with food, and should be as much as alkaline foods such as vegetables, fruits and the same food, this can promote the dissolution of calcium oxalate, prevent stones. Computer workers and diabetics can eat regularly. People with spleen and stomach, diarrhea, and loose stools should eat less food. Patients with nephritis and kidney stones should not eat it.