When choosing meals for the elderly cold, you should be light and pay attention to the reasonable combination of carbohydrate foods, vegetables and protein foods.
1. Carbohydrate food: such as steamed bread, rice and other staple foods, in principle, should be soft food, easy to digest staple food.
2. Vegetable food: such as cabbage, bok choy, celery, carrots and other vegetable food, rich in vitamins and dietary fiber, may be beneficial to the recovery of the disease.
3. Protein food: for example, you can choose lean meat, shrimp, milk and other protein foods, rather than some fat meat. In addition, the intake of meat products need to be moderate, otherwise it may increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.
To summarize, when the elderly have a cold, they should reasonably match their diet and choose light meals.