Recipes for menstruation
March 29, 2023
The nutrition during the puerperium is directly related to the recovery of the mother's body and the healthy growth of the newborn. One of the most important health care measures during the menstrual period is to strengthen the diet and nutrition. So what kinds of food should be supplemented during the menstrual period? What are the recipes for menstruation?
Foods to eat during the menstrual period
Eggs
Eggs are rich in high-quality protein, lecithin, lecithin, and a variety of vitamins and minerals, and are easy to digest and suitable for use after childbirth. However, eggs need to be consumed in moderation, not the more you eat the better, 1 to 2 per day.
Brown sugar
Brown sugar is suitable for menstrual supplementation because of 2 reasons.
1. It is rich in nutrition, contains iron, calcium and carotene, has the function of blood tonic and blood activation, diuretic and helps the mother to discharge water and harmful substances retained in the body as soon as possible.
2. It contains a large amount of glucose, which can effectively supply energy and help the uterus recover quickly.
But consuming too much brown sugar can cause symptoms such as bloating and loss of appetite, so you should take supplements according to your own body needs.
Rice wine
Rice wine is also known as yellow wine, hot, gas welding, a small amount of drinking after childbirth, can dispel the wind and blood, to ward off evil and remove obscenities, conducive to the elimination of dew and uterine repair, if the postpartum cold drinking has the effect of soothing the meridians and activating. Rice wine must be consumed in moderation, excessive drinking can lead to internal heat in the mother and baby.
Soup
Chicken soup, fish soup, ribs soup contains easily absorbed protein, vitamins, minerals, and delicious taste can stimulate gastric juice secretion, improve appetite, and also promote lactation. Maternity sweating plus lactation, water needs to be higher than the average person, so maternity to drink more soup. But experts remind, in more soup at the same time, also do not forget to eat more meat. Meat is much more nutritious than soup, that "soup is more nutritious than meat" is not scientific.
Millet
It is a good idea to have vitamin B 1 and vitamin B2, which can help the mother to regain strength, stimulate intestinal peristalsis and increase appetite. However, experts warn that millet porridge should not be too thin, and in the postpartum period can not be completely millet as the main food, so as not to lack other nutrients.
Lotus root
It contains a lot of starch, vitamins and minerals, is rich in nutrients, light and refreshing, and is the best vegetable for eliminating blood stasis and creating new ones, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach, moisten dryness and nourish yin, move blood and remove blood stasis, clear heat and produce milk. Eating lotus root can clear the blood that accumulates in the abdomen after childbirth, improve appetite, help digestion, promote milk secretion, and help to feed the newborn.
Cauliflower
It contains protein as well as phosphorus, iron, vitamin A, vitamin C, etc. It is rich in nutrients and tastes delicious, especially suitable for making soup. It has the function of decongesting, diuretic, antipyretic, pain relieving, blood tonic and brain building. During the puerperium, abdominal pain, unfavorable urination, pale face and restless sleep can easily occur, so eating more yellow cauliflower can eliminate the above symptoms.
Soybean sprouts
Contains a lot of protein, vitamin C, fiber, etc. Protein is the main raw material for the growth of tissue cells, can repair the maternal childbirth damaged tissue; vitamin C can increase the elasticity and toughness of the blood vessel wall, to prevent postpartum bleeding; fiber can pass intestinal laxative, to prevent maternal constipation.
Kelp
It contains more iodine and iron, iodine is the main raw material for making thyroxine; iron is the main raw material for making blood cells. Maternity eat more kelp, can increase the content of iodine and iron in breast milk. Newborn babies eat this milk, which is conducive to the growth and development of the body and prevent cretinism.
Suitable recipes for menstruation
Diced meat and fresh scallops
Ingredients: 200 grams of pork tenderloin, 200 grams of fresh shellfish. The right amount of asparagus, mushrooms, 1 egg white, cooking oil, soy sauce, starch, cooking wine, salt, onion, ginger, old soup, MSG.
The practice is as follows.
1. Wash the tenderloin and cut it into 1 cm square diced meat; then mix the egg white and starch with a little water to make a paste, put the diced meat into it and mix well.
2. Cut the fresh shellfish, put it in a pot of boiling water, and take it out to control the water.
3. bamboo shoots, mushrooms are cut into 1 cm left to have a square dice, onion and ginger cut into shreds for use.
4. Put the pot on the fire, put the cooking oil to heat, put the diced meat into the mix, and take it out when it is 80% mature, and control the oil.
5. Pour the oil out of the pot, leaving a little oil, add onion and ginger stir-fry, then add asparagus, mushrooms, fresh shellfish, stir-fry a few times, then add salt, sprinkles, stock, add diced meat after the pot, stir-fry a few times, put MSG, season well and then remove from the pot.
Efficacy: nutritious, especially the calcium content is very high, for the maternal calcium and postpartum recovery is very good help.
Crispy quail
Ingredients: 3 quails, soy sauce, cooking wine, pepper salt, pepper, Chinese medicine, sugar, onion, ginger, salt, cooking oil in appropriate amounts.
Practice as follows.
1. Remove the guts of the cranes, clean them, and cook the quail slightly in boiling water - fish them out and set aside.
2. Put the prepared soy sauce, cooking wine, pepper, Chinese herbs, sugar, green onion, ginger and cooked quail into a large bowl, add water to cover the quail and steam for 3~5 minutes.
3. Put the pot on the fire, put cooking oil to heat, then put the steamed quail into the pot and fry until the skin is crispy. Remove and serve with pepper salt.
Efficacy: This dish is rich in calcium, iron and other minerals and protein.
Milk and black rice porridge
Ingredients: 250 ml of milk, 100 grams of black rice, sugar in appropriate amounts.
Directions: Wash black rice, add the right amount of water, soak in a pot for 2-3 hours, then cook on medium heat until the porridge is almost cooked, add milk and sugar and cook. Take it twice a day in the morning and evening on an empty stomach with warmth. This congee has the effect of benefiting qi, nourishing blood, generating fluid and strengthening the spleen and stomach, and is suitable for those with deficiency of qi and blood and weakness of spleen and stomach after delivery.
Cashew flower and fungus soup
Ingredients: 150 grams of pork loin, 15 grams of wood ear, 20 grams of bamboo shoots, 500 grams of chicken broth, salt, monosodium glutamate, green onion in appropriate amount.
Processing: Pork loin in half, remove the waist bash, wash, cut into orchid slices, slightly soaked in water: fungus washed with water.
Practice: put the loin, fungus and bamboo shoot slices into the pot together and cook. Fish into the soup bowl, add onion, salt, monosodium glutamate, and pour the boiling chicken soup into the soup bowl that is ready.
Nutritional efficacy: fresh and mellow, rich in vitamins and proteins, fat, carbohydrates, calcium and other nutrients, to promote maternal recovery and lactation, the lungs, stomach, kidneys and other internal organs have a good tonic effect.
Loofah and egg soup
Ingredients: 200g loofah, 1 egg, 400g chicken broth, 10g peanut oil, 3g each sesame oil, salt and cooking wine, 1g MSG.
Processing: scrape off the outer skin of the loofah, cut into 6 cm long sections, then cut into small strips; knock the egg into a bowl and mix well with chopsticks.
Practice: frying pan on the fire, put peanut oil, burn to 60% heat, pour people loofah stirring until green, add chicken broth, basin, MSG boiling, drizzle the egg, add wine, open skim the froth, put the sleeve, served in a bowl that is ready.
Effect: This soup has bright color, fresh flavor, rich in protein, fat, calcium, zinc, vitamin C and other nutrients, with wind, phlegm, cool blood, detoxification, diuretic, blood, swelling, laxative, milk and other effects.
Chestnut cassoulet chicken
Ingredients: 3 catties of broiler, half a catty of chestnut meat, 10 grams each of monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, sugar, ginger, refined salt and green onion, 15 grams of tahini powder, 1 kilogram of soup and 150 grams of peanut oil.
Method: remove the bones of the broiler and cut small pieces, add tai bai powder, salt and mix well; chestnut meat fried until the skin is tight; chicken pieces fried in a frying pan until the surface is golden brown, the pan left the bottom oil under the onion, ginger, slightly fried, then the chicken and soup, seasoning, cook for 25 minutes on medium heat, add chestnut meat, when the soup is thick, pick off the onion, ginger, thicken with tai bai powder to serve.
Effect: Chestnut has the function of nourishing the stomach and spleen, tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the tendons, activating the blood and stopping bleeding, etc. It can be paired with meat chicken which has the function of nourishing the blood and nourishing the essence and nourishing the five viscera, and it can also promote the drainage of dew and recovery of the uterus through the effect of activating the blood and stopping bleeding of chestnuts.
Diet taboos for the menstrual cycle
Sour, spicy and sweet food: Sour and spicy food will stimulate the new mom's weak stomach and intestines, causing a lot of discomfort. Sweet food is best to drink only brown sugar water, too much to eat other sweet food not only affects appetite, but also easy to make excess heat and converted into fat, causing postpartum obesity.
salted food: salted food can affect the water and salt metabolism in the new mother's body.
MSG: in order for babies not to develop zinc deficiency, new mothers should refrain from eating excessive amounts of MSG
Ginseng: If ginseng is taken during the menstrual period, it will affect energy recovery due to excitement and difficulty in sleeping. In addition, during childbirth, the blood vessels of the internal and external genitalia are mostly damaged. Taking ginseng may affect the self-healing of damaged blood vessels, resulting in more than bleeding or even haemorrhage. Ginseng.
Cold food: Cold food is prone to damage the spleen and stomach, affecting the digestive function, leading to diarrhea, causing postpartum abdominal pain and bad dew.
Sitting moon diet principles
It's not advisable to make up quickly, so as not to lose more than you gain. Most of the new mothers have not yet completely smooth mammary ducts, the first two or three days after delivery should not be too eager to drink the soup to promote milk, otherwise the milk period may be so painful that you want to cry, but also easy to get mastitis and other diseases.
It is not advisable to eat raw, cold and hard food. New mothers are weak after giving birth and have poor resistance, which can easily cause gastroenteritis and other digestive diseases. Try not to eat cold fruits, such as watermelon and pears, during the first week after giving birth.
Small amount and more meals, it is appropriate to match meat and vegetables. Use more soup foods to facilitate breastfeeding.
Food should be fluffy, tasty, easy to digest and absorb. Many new mothers will have loose teeth after giving birth, too hard food on the one hand is not good for the teeth, on the other hand is not conducive to digestion and absorption, so the maternal rice should be cooked softer, less fried or hard with shells of food;.
The main and side dishes should be changed and eaten together.