Many women like to eat snacks when they are bored, but there are many types of snacks. It's important to learn to distinguish the benefits and drawbacks of various snacks and choose the right ones according to your physical condition. Some women have a poor appetite and may experience loss of appetite. How can this be addressed? You can start by choosing snacks that promote the production of saliva to quench thirst. This way, you can enjoy delicious snacks while also improving your digestive health. Please see the introduction to the following snacks, which we hope will be helpful to you.
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1. Persimmon Cake
The persimmon fruit is sweet, astringent, neutral, and non-toxic. The persimmon calyx is astringent and neutral, affecting the lung, spleen, stomach, and large intestine meridians. It has the effects of clearing heat and moistening the lungs, promoting the production of saliva to quench thirst, and strengthening the spleen to resolve phlegm. It is used to treat conditions such as lung-heat cough, dry mouth and thirst, vomiting, and diarrhea.
Persimmons also have special effects for beauty and weight loss. Eating fresh persimmons often can improve complexion and treat chloasma. Boiling a green persimmon with 30 grams of mulberry twig in water and drinking it once or twice a day has a weight loss effect. Eating 3-5 dried persimmons daily has a remarkable effect on beauty and removing blemishes. Below, Xiao Mei recommends two delicious persimmon cake recipes for you:
Rose and Walnut Persimmon Cake Peanut and Sesame Persimmon Cake
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2. Hawthorn Slices
Hawthorn slices contain various vitamins, tartaric acid, citric acid, hawthorn acid, malic acid, etc. The lipase they contain can promote the digestion of fatty foods and has functions such as promoting gastric juice secretion and increasing gastric enzymes. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the effects of eliminating food stagnation, stopping dysentery through astringency, invigorating blood circulation, and removing stasis. It is mainly used to treat food accumulation, chest and epigastric fullness, hernia, blood stasis, and amenorrhea. In addition, eating hawthorn slices can also help with weight loss and lower blood lipids. Below, Xiao Mei recommends two delicious hawthorn recipes for you:
Homemade Hawthorn Slices Rock Sugar Hawthorn
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3. Preserved Plums
Li Shizhen wrote in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "The plum is a fruit for the blood aspect, it strengthens the stomach, astringes the lungs, warms the spleen, stops bleeding, resolves phlegm, reduces swelling and detoxifies, promotes the production of saliva to quench thirst, and treats chronic cough and dysentery." Preserved plums can stimulate the taste buds, causing saliva secretion and increasing appetite. Below, Xiao Mei recommends two delicious preserved plum recipes for you:
4. Sour Plums
The organic acids in sour plums are mainly citric acid, malic acid, tannic acid, bitter leaf acid, succinic acid, tartaric acid, etc. They have the effects of promoting saliva to quench thirst, stimulating appetite, and relieving fatigue. The content of citric acid is particularly high, the highest among various fruits. Citric acid is an important acid essential for human cell metabolism. It can promote the breakdown of lactic acid into carbon dioxide and water to be excreted, thus relieving fatigue and benefiting calcium absorption. Sour plums can neutralize acidic foods (such as meat and grains), promote metabolism and digestion, and improve gastrointestinal function. Below, Xiao Mei recommends two delicious sour plum recipes for you:
5. Licorice Apricots
The main effect of licorice apricots is to promote the production of saliva to quench thirst, which is especially effective for people with a dry mouth, providing immediate relief. However, licorice mostly grows in deserts or arid areas, so it also has the effect of moistening the lungs and detoxifying. They can be eaten in the morning; their sweet and sour taste can refresh the mind. The chewy apricot flesh is not too sour, and it also has a certain protective effect on teeth. It is worth noting that apricots are a "warming" food, so eating too many can lead to "internal heat" (heatiness). People with chronic gastritis and stomach ulcers should also eat them in moderation. Below, Xiao Mei recommends two delicious licorice apricot recipes for you: