There is no food you can’t eat if you have a cold. However, it is recommended to avoid spicy, stimulating, cold, greasy, sweet or salty foods, and to eat a light, digestible and nutritious diet.
Cold patients often have dry throat, sore throat, cough and other respiratory symptoms, some patients will also have abdominal distension, diarrhea and other digestive symptoms. Try to avoid spicy, stimulating, cold, greasy, too sweet or too salty food, to avoid stimulating the throat, gastrointestinal tract and other aggravating discomfort.
To summarize, try to eat light and easy to digest food when you have a cold, and supplement protein, vitamins and water to enhance the body’s metabolism in order to recover as soon as possible.