In our daily intake of food, have you ever paid attention to the color of the food on the table? Every day into the market to buy food, you have not according to the color selection of ingredients? In fact, healthy color ingredients can help us live longer. The lack of a certain type of color food intake, it may cause a certain type of nutrition deficiency, which can lead to the production of disease. Yellow foods strengthen the spleen and regulate blood pressure Yellow foods are the most grounded, most of them are rich in vitamins, minerals and other high-quality trace elements, especially yellow fruits and vegetables, such as: carrots, bananas, pumpkin, which are rich in carotene and vitamin C can promote metabolism. In addition, when you use inappropriate weight loss methods, the body’s internal digestive system, internal organ function will be disrupted, which can be repaired by the intake of yellow food. Yellow foods are rich in potassium, which can assist in lowering blood pressure. For example, bananas contain 226 mg of potassium per 100 grams; durian contains 400 mg of potassium; dried apricots contain 226 mg of potassium; soybeans contain 1500 mg of potassium. However, the high sugar content of bananas is not conducive to potassium supplementation for the elderly. Yellow food also contains lecithin. Lutein in yellow food has the function of promoting potassium and sodium excretion, regulating the content of cholesterol in human body, effectively reducing cholesterol and high blood lipid. Lutein can also prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Representative foods: ginger, corn, millet, soybeans, pumpkin, bananas, lemon, enoki mushrooms, etc. Tips Among the various yellow foods, soy is the richest in potassium and lecithin. When making soy foods, we can soak soybeans for 5-6 hours and blanch the softened soybeans with water. Since mayonnaise does not tolerate high temperature, this can reduce the cooking time and fully retain the beneficial mayonnaise for us. Red food protects the heart and replenishes the blood The red color of enthusiasm is, of course, the most powerful in terms of burning fat. That is to say, eat more red food, you can let the accumulation of fat in the body to accelerate the burning, easy to create easy to thin body. In addition, tomatoes, red beans, watermelon and other red foods have a diuretic and blood-supplementing effect, which has a very powerful role in speeding up metabolism. Red food is rich in iron, iron in the body has a hematopoietic function, involved in the synthesis of hemoproteins, cytochromes and various enzymes, to promote growth; iron also plays a role in the transport of oxygen and nutrients in the blood; the face of the person out of the beauty of red, can not be separated from the iron. Iron deficiency in the body can lead to deafness and memory loss; iron deficiency can lead to thickened blood and thus increase the risk of stroke, etc. Representative foods: liver, red beans, tomatoes, watermelon, red dates, etc. Tips Pork liver contains 31.1 mg of iron per 100 grams of pork liver, beef contains 3.2 mg of iron per 100 grams of beef, chicken liver contains 13.1 mg of iron per 100 grams of chicken liver, and chicken blood contains 28.3 mg of iron per 100 grams of chicken blood. Don’t rush to cook the fresh liver you bought, you should rinse the liver under the tap for 10 minutes and then soak it in water for 30 minutes; you can also add some white vinegar to the water slightly to speed up the elimination of toxins. Orange food improves immunity and replenishes vitamin A. Among the various colors of food, orange food is the food with the highest carotene content. Carotene can be converted into vitamin A when ingested into the body’s digestive organs, making it the safest vitamin A supplement available. It maintains healthy eyes and skin, improves night blindness, rough skin conditions and helps protect the body from free radical damage. Lack of carotene can cause lead to decreased immunity, premature aging, insomnia, weakness and also lead to the normal differentiation of epithelial cells is blocked, which may cause cancer. Representative foods: carrots, goji berries, pumpkin. Tips Carrots, wolfberries and pumpkins are rich in beta carrots, which can be transformed into vitamin A in the body. carotene combined with oil is more easily absorbed. However, excessive supplementation of vitamin A carries the risk of vitamin A toxicity. Purple food anti-aging purple food contains a lot of anthocyanins, anthocyanins have a very strong antioxidant effect, can effectively block the “free radicals”. The antioxidant effect of purple foods is the best natural “eye care food”. Therefore, nutrition experts suggest that eating purple foods regularly can effectively protect eye health and prevent various eye diseases. Representative foods: purple rice, heart radish. Tips Grape skin and seeds are high in anthocyanins, which protect blood vessels and antioxidants. Purple rice and heart radish are rich in anthocyanins. Tips for cooking purple rice porridge: Sun-dry purple rice before cooking for more anthocyanins. Amoy rice should be short and few times. White foods moisten the lungs When it comes to white foods, we can immediately think of rice, tofu, silver ears these, white in our minds is the color of protein. Indeed, white food is a source of protein and calcium, although it is said that its nutritional value in the five kinds of color food species lowest, but it gives our body to provide the basic energy power to maintain the basic operation of our body. The white food can not directly burn fat, but can ensure the healthy operation of our body, and like pears, lotus root, silver fungus these foods are very delicious and low-fat, eat more harmless. Representative foods: rice, white sesame, white radish, winter melon, bamboo shoots, cauliflower, lotus root, tofu, pear, silver fungus, lychee, etc. Tips Almonds can be boiled with barley in the ratio of 1:5 porridge, but also with pork lung stew, both have a nourishing and moderating effect. The best way to eat lily is to cook porridge. Can be made with glutinous rice lily porridge, add a little rock sugar simmering, not only delicious, and tranquil, help sleep; can also be used lily, lotus seeds and red dates cooked into a soup, can tonic and tranquil. Green food protects the liver, anti-aging Green is a cool color, mentioned green, the editor’s brain flashed the word – purification. In fact, it is true that most green foods have a common feature, that is, rich in fiber, as you know, this is a term often mentioned by the editors, our weight loss contributors are also less this member. Fiber can help regulate the gastrointestinal tract, open the intestinal tract, improve constipation, so it seems that the green food called our body’s “scavenger”, is not too much. In addition, most of the dark green vegetables are also green food, which is rich in vitamins and fiber but plays a significant role in weight loss, not only to directly improve our metabolic function, but also to adjust the body’s pH, so that the balance, to ensure that the body works fast, slimming will also be twice as good! Representative food: spinach, celery, cucumber, leeks, peppers, onions and other dark green vegetables, green beans, green beans, kiwi fruit, etc. Tips Vegetables to try to use high fire fast fry, can reduce the loss of vitamin C. Tomatoes fried in oil for three or four minutes, the vitamin preservation rate of 94%. Black foods for kidney Most black foods are full of nutrients and are able to bring you vitality by purifying your body of waste while strengthening your immune system. They are mostly natural foods that play a big role in promoting hormone secretion and regulating metabolic balance, thus helping you to eliminate toxins from your body and promote fat loss. Representative foods: black beans, black fungus, black rice, black sesame, seaweed, purple kale, eggplant, black chicken, etc. Tips Don’t put too much oil when frying wood fungus, otherwise it will destroy the nutrients in it. Many nutrients in fungus are water-soluble, so fungus mixed with water to make (for example, stew, etc.) has higher nutritional value than fried. Wood fungus has the effect of nourishing Yin and moistening the lungs, but don’t eat too much at once, otherwise it will cause indigestion.