How to eat radish and its taboos

Radish is a very common vegetable. How can we eat it to get the most nutrition? Come and take a look at the introduction here.

Nutritional value of radish

Radish is known as "little ginseng". Late autumn is the season when fresh radish is on the market. So what are the nutrients of radish? What are the methods of cooking radish?

As the saying goes, "October radish is like a small ginseng", which means winter is the best season to eat radish. Radish, also known as "radish", is mainly white radish (there are also red radish, carrot, etc., which will be discussed in future columns). Radish is very nutritious and contains a variety of vitamins and minerals. The content of vitamin C is nearly 10 times higher than that of pears and apples.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, radish is neutral in nature, pungent and sweet in taste, and enters the spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effects of eliminating stagnation, resolving phlegm and clearing heat, relieving qi and relieving stomach pain, and detoxifying. It is mainly used to treat food stagnation, phlegm cough and aphonia, vomiting blood, epistaxis, thirst, dysentery, migraine, etc. Radish is also a common side dish when we cook, especially when cooking and steaming, adding radish can make the taste more delicious.

Radish is generally suitable for cooking, mixing, and making soups. It can also be used as an ingredient or garnish. In addition, there are many types of radishes. It is better to eat radishes raw with more juice and less spicy. You can also use red radishes as a substitute. People who don't like to eat cold foods usually eat cooked radishes. In addition to being eaten raw or fried, radishes can also be used as medicinal food, boiled, or boiled in soup, mashed and drunk, or applied to the affected area. There are many ways to use radishes, depending on your needs.

Finally, please note that white radish is mainly used for purgation, while carrot is used for nourishment, so it is best not to eat them together. If you want to eat them together, you should add some vinegar to blend them to facilitate nutrient absorption.

Knowing the above knowledge about white radish, let's learn some dishes made with radish!

Lamb stew with radish

Take 500g of mutton, clean it and cut it into 5cm square pieces, add a small piece of ginger into the oil pan and stir-fry, pour it into the casserole, add water to boil and simmer for 1 hour (or stew it in a pressure cooker for 15 minutes); then cut the white radish into pieces, add it to the mutton soup, add salt, and continue to simmer over low heat until the radish and mutton are tender. It has the effects of nourishing the spleen and kidney, strengthening the tendons and bones, and resisting wind and cold.

Braised Radish

Cut the white radish into small pieces, boil it in boiling water, filter out the water (to remove the spicy taste of the radish), then fry the boiled radish in an oil pan, add soy sauce, salt, MSG, a little sugar, and a little water, and cook until cooked. This dish is soft, sweet, and delicious, and has the effect of harmonizing the stomach, digesting food, and reducing phlegm.

Candied Radish

250 grams of radish, sliced, put in a bowl, add 2-3 spoons of maltose or sugar, set aside overnight, it will be soaked into radish syrup, which can be drunk at any time; you can also squeeze radish juice, add sugar to drink; or slice radish, boil it in water instead of tea. It can have the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, moistening lungs and relieving throat, and is used for acute and chronic bronchitis and whooping cough. People who usually cough with thick phlegm and sore throat can also drink it .

Taboos on eating radish

Don't eat carrots and white radish together

Carrots and white radishes are not suitable for consumption together. White radishes are high in vitamin C and are very beneficial to human health, but if they are mixed with carrots, the vitamin C will be completely lost. The reason is that carrots contain an enzyme called ascorbic acid, which will destroy the vitamin C in white radishes.

Avoid eating radish and orange together

Radishes and oranges are on the market at almost the same time, so it is very easy to eat them together. When radishes are ingested by the human body, a substance called thiocyanate is quickly produced. The flavonoids in oranges are converted into hydroxybenzoic acid and ferulic acid in the intestines, which react with thiocyanate to form thiocyanate, which inhibits the function of the thyroid gland, thereby inducing or causing goiter.