Can watermelon and duck meat be eaten together

There are some aspects of mutual promotion and restraint between meat and food. Many foods cannot be eaten together with meat, otherwise it will have adverse effects. Duck meat can replenish vitality, regulate qi deficiency, and treat urinary problems. Watermelon can clear away heat and detoxify, relieve cough, and prevent heatstroke. It is a must-have summer product for relieving heat. Watermelon and duck meat can be eaten together, and they also have a good effect of relieving heat. In the hot summer, in addition to eating watermelon to relieve heat, you can also make mung bean soup and lotus leaf porridge to lower body temperature.

Duck meat can be eaten with watermelon to make watermelon duck, which has the functions of nourishing yin and replenishing body fluid, clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving heat and promoting diuresis. It has a good therapeutic effect on people with summer heat and thirst, excessive heat damaging body fluid, and difficulty urinating. It is an excellent tonic for summer.

Here’s how to do it

Material

1 duck weighing about 3 pounds and 1 watermelon.

seasoning

5 grams of ginger, 15 grams of cooking wine, 7 grams of salt, 5 grams of each onion, 10 grams of sugar, 1 gram of pepper, and 2 grams of MSG.

step

1. Wash the ginger and cut it into slices; cut the green onion into long sections and place them on a plate for later use.

2. Put the slaughtered duck into a pot of boiling water, remove the large bones, cut into pieces and set aside.

3. Make a teacup-sized cut at the watermelon stem, scoop out the pulp with a spoon, and place the duck pieces into the watermelon shell.

4. Add ginger slices, scallion segments, cooking wine, salt, sugar, pepper, and MSG, add water to marinate the duck pieces, cover the opening of the watermelon with the cut melon stem, and seal it with a bamboo stick.

5. Take a porcelain bowl, put the watermelon in it, steam it over high heat for 2 hours, until the duck meat is tender, then take it out and you have the watermelon duck.

The best way to beat the heat : keep calm. As the saying goes, "If you keep calm, you will feel cooler." When the weather is hot, people tend to be irritable, so to cool off the heat you must first calm your mind, feel clear-headed, be optimistic and happy, and avoid being anxious, nervous, impatient or excited. Keep your nervous system in a tranquil state.

The best summer food : mung beans. Mung beans are sweet and cold in nature, and have the effects of clearing the heart and promoting urination, relieving heat and quenching thirst, and clearing away heat and detoxifying. Mung bean soup is the most commonly used folk remedy for cooling down and detoxifying. Eating mung bean porridge regularly in summer is best for cooling down and nourishing the stomach.

The best heat-relief remedy : lotus leaf. Lotus leaves are bitter in nature and have a refreshing fragrance. Fresh lotus leaves are good at clearing away summer heat and eliminating filth. They are most commonly used in prescriptions for clearing heat and relieving summer heat.

The best fruit to cool down : watermelon. Watermelon is sweet and cold in nature. It has the effect of relieving heat, relieving restlessness, quenching thirst and promoting diuresis. It is a good product for relieving summer heat and is known as "natural white tiger soup". It is suitable for consumption for symptoms such as thirst due to summer heat, irritability due to thirst, difficulty urinating, damage to body fluids due to summer heat, and damage caused by alcohol. However, people with heat syndrome and cold and dampness should not eat it.

The best vegetable to relieve heat : bitter gourd. Bitter melon is cold in nature and bitter in taste. It has the functions of clearing away heat and detoxifying, clearing the heart and relieving heat, improving eyesight and lowering blood pressure. It has preventive and therapeutic effects on heatstroke, dysentery, and malignant ulcers. Bitter melon contains a variety of amino acids, vitamins and minerals.

The most nutritious meat : duck. Duck is a waterfowl and its nature is cold. According to the TCM treatment principle of "treating heat with cold", in the hot summer, if there is heat in the body and it is easy to get angry, with symptoms such as low fever, weakness, poor appetite or edema, eating duck meat can not only supplement high-quality protein, but also has the effects of "clearing" and "tonifying".