Introduction: With the changing living environment and the evolution of substances, environmental pollution is becoming increasingly severe. We breathe too much polluted air, are exposed to too much radiation, eat too many processed and preserved products, and endure too much emotional stress—all of which are sources of toxins. To eliminate the "garbage" from our bodies and restore our natural health, we must consciously use food as a means of detoxification. Below are a few detoxifying foods recommended for everyone; eating more of them is beneficial for your health.
1. Seaweed
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, seaweed is considered to have a cold nature and a salty taste, and its functions include softening hard masses, dissipating nodules, clearing heat, promoting urination, and reducing fat and blood pressure. Modern medicine suggests that the alginic acid in seaweed can slow down the intestinal absorption of radioactive strontium and excrete it from the body. Therefore, seaweed can help prevent leukemia and also expel cadmium from the body.
Cold Seaweed and Vermicelli Salad
2. Tea
Tea can speed up the excretion of toxic substances from the body, a function closely related to its content of tea polyphenols, polysaccharides, and vitamins. People who often work with computers should drink more tea to prevent radiation from computers.
3. Mung Beans
Mung beans have a cold nature and a sweet taste and can counteract poisons from metals, arsenic, and plants. They are also effective in preventing and treating poisoning from heavy metals, pesticides, and various other toxins. Therefore, people who are frequently exposed to harmful substances should eat more mung bean soup and mung bean sprouts.
4. Cherries
Cherries are currently recognized as a fruit that can remove toxins and impure fluids from the body and are also quite effective for kidney detoxification. They also have a laxative effect. Additionally, dark purple grapes also have a detoxifying effect and can help form intestinal mucus, clearing waste from the liver, intestines, stomach, and kidneys.
Sweetened Cherries and Cherry Jam
5. Carrots
Carrots are not only rich in carotene, which increases the body's vitamin levels, but also contain a large amount of pectin. Pectin combines with mercury to reduce the concentration of mercury ions in the blood and accelerates their excretion from the body, making carrots an effective detoxifying food.
6. Figs
Figs are rich in organic acids and various enzymes, which can clear heat and moisten the intestines. They also aid digestion and have liver-protecting and detoxifying effects. Recently, it has been discovered that they offer some resistance to toxic substances such as sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide.
7. Apples
Apples contain galacturonic acid, which is quite helpful for detoxification. Their pectin can also prevent food from rotting in the intestines.
Apple Pie