Eat more red foods in the summer.

Introduction: During the transition from spring to summer, eating more red fruits and vegetables can supplement vitamins and help prevent and resist cold viruses.

Tomato: Consuming 50-100 grams of tomatoes daily can meet the body's need for several vitamins and minerals. Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that tomatoes have the effects of promoting saliva to quench thirst, nourishing blood, and stimulating appetite.

Red Apple: Scientists call apples the "all-around healthy fruit." Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that red apples benefit the heart and can lower blood lipids and soften blood vessels.

Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes

Carrot: Carrots are known as "little ginseng" and are rich in nutrients such as carbohydrates, fats, carotene, and vitamins. Traditional Chinese Medicine believes it has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, nourishing the liver and improving eyesight, clearing heat and detoxifying, and lowering qi to stop cough.

Red Chili: Rich in vitamins, carotene, and various trace elements needed by the human body. Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that red chilies have medicinal properties of warming the middle jiao to lower qi, dispelling cold and removing dampness, and can enhance appetite, ward off cold, and kill bacteria.

Sweet Potato: Known as the most nutritionally balanced health food. Traditional Chinese Medicine believes it is sweet in nature and neutral in property, with the effects of tonifying the spleen and qi, relaxing the bowels, promoting saliva to quench thirst.

Roasted Sweet Potato

Red Jujube: The ancient Chinese medical book "Ben Jing" records that red jujube is sweet in nature and warm in property, affecting the spleen and stomach meridians, with the functions of tonifying the middle jiao and qi, nourishing blood and calming the mind, and moderating the properties of other herbs.

Red Amaranth: Rich in various nutrients. The protein it contains is more easily absorbed by the human body than that in milk, and its carotene content is more than twice that of eggplant and fruit vegetables. It can improve the body's immunity and is known as the "longevity vegetable."

Amaranth with Garlic