How to eat red wolfberry? How to choose wolfberry

Diet therapy is quite popular, and wolfberry is often used as a nourishing food for health care. Usually we need to have a certain understanding of the ingredients. If we are not clear about the characteristics of the ingredients, it will bring some adverse reactions to the body. Some friends left a message asking whether wolfberry is hot or cold, and whether it is acidic or alkaline. Let's open it to find out!

Contents of this article

1. How to eat red wolfberry?

2. How to choose wolfberry

3. Is wolfberry hot, cool, alkaline or acidic?

How to eat red wolfberry?

1. Add a handful when cooking or making porridge. Soaking wolfberries in water is the most common way to drink them, but most of the vitamins contained in wolfberries are water-soluble and are easily destroyed by heat. It is recommended to soak the dried wolfberries for a while, and then add a little wolfberry as an ingredient when cooking, making porridge, or steaming buns or boiling dumplings.

2. Eat like ordinary food. The best way to eat wolfberry is to add it to porridge, rice, soup, and dishes like ordinary food. It is not only nutritious but also will not cause internal heat.

3. Add some when making soy milk. Many people soak wolfberries in water to drink, but it is difficult to fully absorb the vitamins and carotene in wolfberries just by soaking them. You can choose to put a handful of wolfberries in the soy milk machine when making soy milk, so that you can make full use of the various nutrients and trace elements contained in wolfberries.

4. Chewing wolfberries dry is better for kidney health than boiling them in soup. Lycium barbarum polysaccharide is a kind of proteoglycan. If it is boiled and heated to extract, it will denature and reduce its efficacy. Therefore, in terms of eating method, chewing wolfberries directly will absorb the nutrients more fully and is more conducive to its health care effect. Generally, it is more appropriate for healthy adults to eat about 20 grams of wolfberries per day. If you chew wolfberries dry, the amount you eat should be halved, otherwise it is easy to over-nourish.

How to choose wolfberry

Good wolfberries look dark red, but not too bright, are roughly uniform in size, not damp, and have no blackheads. Ningxia wolfberries are generally spindle-shaped with a natural white spot at the end.

The good wolfberries are not sticky in the hand and have no obvious lumps. If they feel a little astringent, it means the quality of the wolfberries is not good.

Well-soaked wolfberries are usually full and plump. After soaking in water, most of the Ningxia wolfberries will float to the surface of the water.

Smell: Illegal vendors usually use sulfur to smoke wolfberries to achieve a bright color effect. The smoked wolfberries usually smell sour or irritating. Really good wolfberries have a unique flavor.

Ningxia wolfberry tastes sweet but not greasy, slightly sour, and has a slightly astringent and bitter aftertaste.

Is wolfberry hot, cool, alkaline or acidic?

"Compendium of Materia Medica" records that wolfberry is neutral in nature and sweet in taste. It is not difficult to find that wolfberry is a neutral Chinese medicine or food ingredient, that is, it is neither cold nor warm, but wolfberry is a tonic Chinese medicine, and most tonic Chinese medicines are warm in nature. For people who often eat wolfberry, they may have the phenomenon of getting angry. Because wolfberry is warm in nature, people who get angry, constipated, have a fever, or have diarrhea should not eat wolfberry.

People who practice dietotherapy also need to have a certain understanding of the acidity and alkalinity of food. Lycium barbarum contains Lycium barbarum polysaccharides, Lycium barbarum pigments, betaine, amino acids, carotene, etc. It belongs to the category of plant fruits and cannot be classified based on its acidity and alkalinity. Lycium barbarum tastes sour, but after being metabolized by organs in the body, it will produce some alkaline nutrients to inhibit blood acidification.

Wolfberry is a warm and nourishing Chinese medicine. If you want to eat it, you must control the dosage. Adults can have health benefits by eating about 20 grams a day. If you want to exert the medicinal effect, you need to eat about 25 grams. Don't just use wolfberry to make tea, remember to eat the wolfberry after soaking. Perhaps most people's understanding of wolfberry only stays on the aspect of nourishing the liver and kidney. There are some aspects that need to be paid attention to. If you feel that you are well conditioned, you don't need to eat wolfberry.