Milk is a common beverage in daily life. Most people drink it for breakfast, but do you know how to drink milk to maximize its benefits? Below, let's explore 10 healthy ways to drink milk that can help prevent disease and protect your health.
Thick Milk
Boil the milk and add 3% to 7% starch, rice flour, or lotus root powder to thicken it. Add a little sugar. Suitable for those with habitual vomiting, nausea, or those who need to increase their energy intake.
Fresh Milk and Jade Liquid
60g of japonica rice, 80g of fried walnuts, 45g of raw walnuts, 12g of sugar, and 200ml of milk. Wash and soak the japonica rice for 1 hour, then drain. Mix the rice, walnuts, and milk with a small amount of water, filter the mixture through a funnel, and bring the liquid to a boil. This can tonify the spleen and kidneys, moisten dryness, and benefit the lungs.
Mutton Milk Soup
Wash the mutton and cut it into small pieces. Slice the ginger. Place them in a clay pot with an appropriate amount of water and simmer on low heat for 8 hours. Stir and remove any undissolved residue. Keep the mutton broth, add sliced Chinese yam, and cook until soft. Then, pour in the milk and bring to a boil. This dish warms the middle burner, tonifies deficiency, replenishes essence, and benefits qi.
Ginger and Chive Milk Soup
Finely chop and crush the chives and ginger, then squeeze out the juice. Pour the juice into a pot, add milk, and bring to a boil. This can warm the stomach and strengthen the spleen. It is suitable for stomach cold types of gastric ulcers, chronic gastritis, and vomiting. It can be taken in the morning and evening.
Milk and Jujube Soup
500ml of milk, 25g of jujubes, and 100g of rice. First, cook the rice and jujubes into a congee. Then, add the milk and bring to a boil. This can replenish qi and blood, and strengthen the spleen and stomach. It is suitable for fatigue, physical weakness, and deficiency of qi and blood.
Milk Congee
First, cook the rice until it is half-done. Remove the rice water, add milk, and simmer on low heat to make a congee. Add sugar and stir until fully dissolved. Serve warm in the morning and evening. This can tonify deficiency, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and moisten the five organs.
Homemade Skim Milk
Boil the milk and let it sit for several hours. Remove the top layer of skin (which is the fat; this method generally removes about 80% of the fat). This is suitable for infants with diarrhea, dysentery, enteritis, and other intestinal diseases.
Milk Tea
First, steep the tea leaves in boiling water, then pour the tea into boiling milk. Whether to add sugar or salt depends on personal preference. Milk tea can reduce greasiness, aid digestion, benefit the mind and refresh the spirit, promote urination and detoxification, and relieve fatigue.
Egg Milk
First, hard-boil an egg, remove the shell and white, and mash the yolk with a spoon. Mix the yolk thoroughly with the milk. The yolk contains not only protein, fat, and vitamin A, but also substances like iron and phosphorus. This is suitable for iron-deficiency anemia.
Milk for Weight Loss
A method called the Carre method involves drinking 1 liter of milk in 5 separate doses over 3 consecutive days, while also eating some vegetables, fruits, and meat. It is said that this milk-based weight loss method can reduce body water without causing osmotic interference, thus not affecting an athlete's performance.