Introduction: With the Double 11 shopping festival just around the corner, is there still any space left in your shopping carts? While e-commerce is all-powerful and can sell you everything, it can't buy you health. However, buying healthy and nourishing ingredients to eat at home can be beneficial to your physical health!
Today's e-commerce can truly be called "all-powerful," selling everything from large furniture to seasonal vegetables. It has even turned November 11th, originally "Singles' Day," into a shopping festival. Regardless, it deserves praise for the convenience and benefits it brings to consumers. With Double 11 approaching, you can take this opportunity to buy some healthy, nourishing, and long-lasting ingredients to bring home. This way, you can satisfy your shopping craving while also benefiting your health, killing two birds with one stone.
Beans
Beans have seven major health benefits: delaying aging, lowering blood pressure, preventing cancer, reducing cholesterol, preventing overeating, improving gut flora, and killing fungi. They can also assist the effectiveness of statin drugs, reduce the damage cholesterol does to blood vessels, and help maintain overall health. Beans themselves contain little moisture and can be stored for over a year after being dried and sealed.
Sesame, Red Date, and Black Sesame Soy Milk
Nuts
Most nuts are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, which can regulate blood lipids and enhance the body's immunity. Long-term consumption of nuts can boost intelligence, protect the cardiovascular system, and inhibit the growth of tumor cells. The hard outer shell of a nut isolates the nut kernel from the outside environment, and it can be stored for about six months in a cool, shaded place.
Chinese Medicinal Herbs
Delicious and healthy Chinese medicinal herbs like snow fungus, shiitake mushrooms, goji berries, and red dates are timeless themes in health-preserving food therapy. They are used in soups, dishes, and sweet soups. After buying them home, as long as they are kept dry, they can be stored for over a year.
Water Chestnut and Snow Fungus Soup
Tea
Tea contains components like catechins, cholestenone, caffeine, inositol, folic acid, and pantothenic acid, which can promote human health. Green tea relieves fatigue, black tea protects the heart, Pu'er aids digestion, and scented tea beautifies the skin. Different teas have different health benefits, and their storage methods also vary. Green tea can be stored at room temperature for about a year, black tea is best consumed within two years, while for Pu'er, there are no strict rules. Raw Pu'er tea, if stored under suitable temperature and humidity, can be preserved permanently. Ripe Pu'er tea is made from raw Pu'er that has undergone artificial fermentation; storing it for too long will cause the tea flavor to fade and will also affect its health benefits.
Honey
Honey is a top choice for moisturizing and has excellent effects for both external and internal use. Theoretically, honey can be preserved forever because its high sugar content makes it impossible for any bacteria to survive. However, considering that honey in China is generally processed, it is recommended to consume it before the date indicated on the packaging.
Honey, Fruit, and Yogurt Drink