Note: These four foods are essential for nourishing and protecting your stomach!

Nowadays, stomach diseases are common, so people's awareness of nourishing and protecting the stomach is constantly strengthening. Diet therapy is one of the best ways to nourish and protect the stomach, but the question is, what specifically should people eat to be good for the stomach?

1. Pumpkin

Pumpkin is rich in carbohydrates and pectin, which can protect the gastrointestinal mucosa from the irritation of rough food; it is rich in vitamins and calcium, phosphorus and other ingredients, and is a master at strengthening the stomach and digesting food. The rich pectin in pumpkin can also promote the healing of ulcers and "absorb" bacteria and toxic substances, including heavy metals such as lead, thereby playing a detoxifying role. The mannitol in pumpkin has a laxative effect and can reduce the harm of toxins in feces to the human body; dietary fiber is very fine and soft, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and relieve constipation without damaging the gastric mucosa.

Autumn and winter are the golden seasons for eating pumpkin. It is easy to cook and can be steamed, cooked into porridge or made into soup. For example, to make millet and pumpkin porridge, soak 100 grams of millet in water for 20 minutes. Peel and cut 300 grams of pumpkin into pieces. Boil the millet for 30 minutes, then add the pumpkin, stir well and continue cooking for 15 minutes.

It should be noted that pumpkin is warm in nature and eating too much will promote dampness and heat. Therefore, people with symptoms of stomach heat and bad breath, or suffering from skin sores, itching, jaundice, athlete's foot, diarrhea, bloating, qi stagnation and dampness should not eat too much.

2. Carrots

Nutritionists point out that carrots help digestion, relieve stagnation, replenish the middle and promote qi circulation, nourish the stomach and strengthen the spleen, and are more suitable for treating symptoms such as weak spleen and stomach and poor appetite. Chinese medicine believes that it can "relieve qi and replenish the middle, benefit the spleen and diaphragm, moisten the intestines and stomach, calm the five internal organs, and has the effect of strengthening appetite." Carrots are rich in vitamin A, which can prevent respiratory infections, maintain normal vision, and treat night blindness and dry eyes.

The beta-carotene in carrots is easily soluble in fat. After combining with fat particles and bile in the small intestine, it is absorbed along with fatty acids. Therefore, it is best to cook this type of vegetable with oil so that the human body can make full use of it. Carrots will absorb better after being fried in oil.

I would like to recommend a porridge that strengthens the spleen and nourishes the stomach. You may want to try it. This porridge can supplement vitamin A during the peak cold season. It has an auxiliary effect on recurrent respiratory tract infections and dry skin, and also has the effect of nourishing the stomach. First wash the japonica rice and cook it into porridge. After the rice is cooked, add the fried carrots into the porridge and cook for another 15 minutes.

3. Cabbage

Cabbage is mild in nature, sweet in taste, non-toxic, and enters the stomach and kidney meridians. Cabbage is one of the best vegetables recommended by the World Health Organization and is also known as a natural "stomach dish". The vitamin K1 and vitamin U it contains can not only resist gastric ulcers, protect and repair gastric mucosal tissue, but also keep gastric cells active and reduce the chance of lesions.

Cabbage is a type of cabbage. Research has found that cabbage contains a certain "ulcer healing factor", which has a good therapeutic effect on ulcers and can accelerate wound healing. It is an effective food for patients with gastric ulcers. People with poor gastrointestinal function can eat cabbage frequently.

Kale contains almost no fat, so it is best to use olive oil when cooking it. This is because with the help of this unsaturated oil, the various fat-soluble vitamins contained in cabbage can be absorbed and utilized by the body.

4. Sweet potatoes

Sweet potatoes have the effect of nourishing and warming the stomach, and are also known as the "king of anti-cancer." Sweet potatoes also won the top spot in the "ranking list" of 20 anti-cancer vegetables released by the National Cancer Research Center of Japan. Sweet potatoes are rich in starch, carotene, and more than 10 trace elements such as potassium and iron. They can protect the structural integrity of human epithelial cells, inhibit viral activity, block the production of nitrosamines in the gastrointestinal tract, eliminate the toxic effects caused by mercury, cadmium, arsenic, etc. in food or the environment, and block the carcinogenic process of toxic metals.

Although sweet potatoes can be used as a staple food, if they are consumed as a staple food for a long time, it may cause malnutrition. If you eat sweet potatoes with other foods, you can take advantage of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, achieving a balanced diet. The protein contained in sweet potatoes complements the protein in rice and flour, and can significantly supplement the deficiency of vitamin C in flour, calcium in rice and the lack of carotene in both. Eating sweet potatoes together with rice and white flour can improve the nutritional value of the staple food and prolong people's life.

However, sweet potatoes contain a lot of starch, which will be converted into glucose after eating, and are not suitable for diabetics.