Every time someone in the family is sick, the elders and friends always advise you to drink more soup, even if you don't eat meat, it doesn't matter. Why do we advocate drinking soup? Today, I recommend a delicious and immune-boosting soup - Boiled Pork Bone with Porcini Mushrooms.
【Nutritional Value of Boiled Pork Bone with Porcini Mushrooms】
Porcini mushrooms are a type of mushroom that grows in the wild and is highly prized for its flavor. Pork bones refer to the vertebral bones of pigs, cows, sheep, and other vertebrates. Pork bones are commonly used in cooking and are readily available in the market. Vertebral bones protect the spinal cord and often contain marrow inside, which makes the soup more fatty and greasy. Before boiling the soup, it is recommended to blanch the bones to remove some of the fat and make the soup clearer.
Pork bone soup needs to be simmered for a longer time to extract more collagen and mucopolysaccharides from the bones. As December approaches, the weather gets colder, and the yang energy of nature goes into hiding, waiting for a better resurgence in the coming year.
Therefore, we have specifically chosen pork bone as an ingredient with hidden properties to help us store yang energy better. Combined with the delicious porcini mushrooms, kidney-strengthening walnuts, calming jujubes, vision-improving goji berries, and digestion-regulating dried tangerine peel, the soup is both delicious and nourishing, suitable for people with low immunity and prone to colds.
【Why do we advocate drinking soup?】
Although the nutritional value of soup is not as high as directly eating meat, it is a better choice for patients.
Chicken soup and meat soup still contain many beneficial substances, such as free amino acids, small peptides, glutamate, glutamine, creatine, B vitamins, etc., which can be quickly utilized by weak and malnourished patients, improving appetite and enhancing digestive capacity.
For weak patients, although the protein content in intact meat is higher, their poor digestion and absorption ability, as well as impaired liver and kidney functions, prevent them from fully digesting and absorbing the protein, which may even burden the digestive system and liver and kidneys.
