In the hot summer, consuming the following foods can cool down the body, help with weight loss and cholesterol reduction, and benefit the body.
Mung Beans
In traditional Chinese medicine, mung beans are believed to detoxify the body, assist in eliminating toxins, and promote normal metabolism. Mung beans can detoxify alcohol poisoning, wild bacteria, organophosphate pesticides, and erysipelas. The skin of mung bean sprouts, known as mung bean skin, has the effects of cooling, detoxifying, and improving vision.
Bitter Melon
Bitter melon contains alkaloids, urea-like bitter substances, which can stimulate appetite, diuresis, promote blood circulation, reduce inflammation, refresh the mind, and even have a cytotoxic effect on cancer cells. Eating bitter melon regularly in summer can help cool down, relieve fatigue, and aid weight loss. Bitter melon also contains substances such as chromium and insulin, which significantly lower blood sugar levels, promote sugar breakdown, convert excess sugar into heat, help improve fat balance in the body, making it an ideal dietary food for diabetic patients.
Tomato
Cherry
Cherries are warm in nature, with a sweet and sour taste, nourishing the liver and kidneys, benefiting the stomach and spleen, and having anti-fatigue effects. Cherry seeds are rich in iron, which is very effective in preventing iron-deficiency anemia in menopausal women; cherries also contain abundant calcium, effectively preventing osteoporosis.
