Red dates are a natural and unprocessed health food, and they are also a highly nutritious snack with excellent health benefits. Especially for women, red dates are an essential food. Why are red dates so popular among women, and who else can benefit from consuming red dates?
[Nutritional Value of Red Dates]
1. Red dates contain a substance called rutin, which can soften blood vessels and lower blood pressure, making it effective in preventing and treating hypertension.
2. Red dates have anti-allergic properties, can eliminate fishy and unpleasant odors, calm the mind and spirit, enhance memory and brain function, and increase appetite.
3. Red dates also contain a large amount of vitamin C, riboflavin, thiamine, carotene, niacin, and other vitamins. They have a strong nourishing effect, can improve the body's immune function, and enhance disease resistance.
[Who Should Consume Red Dates]
1. People with excessive phlegm and dampness
These people often have a thick and greasy tongue coating, a sweet or greasy taste in the mouth, poor appetite, and often feel fullness in the stomach. In severe cases, they may experience dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and swelling of the eyelids and face. The greasy and nourishing nature of red dates is easy to contribute to dampness, making it difficult to remove phlegm and dampness from the body and exacerbating the above discomfort. People with this constitution are more suitable to eat foods that invigorate the spleen and eliminate dampness, such as coix seed, adzuki bean, Chinese yam, and luffa.
2. People prone to excessive internal heat
These people have a hot constitution and often experience symptoms of internal heat such as constipation, bad breath, and sore throat and swollen gums. Red dates have a sweet and warm nature, which is more suitable for nourishing warmth. However, if consumed in large quantities, it can exacerbate the internal heat like adding fuel to the fire.
3. Patients in the early stage of a cold
In the early stage of a cold, the invasion of wind-cold or wind-heat pathogens in the body is strong. If red dates are consumed at this time, its sticky and greasy nature can often cause the pathogenic factors to stagnate, leading to the consequence of "keeping the enemy inside the gate" and making it difficult to remove the pathogenic factors from the body, which is not conducive to recovery.
4. Patients with diabetes
Red dates contain a relatively high amount of sugar, which can increase blood sugar levels and worsen the condition for patients with diabetes. Therefore, people with high blood sugar should not consume too many red dates.
