There are some tips for eating yams: yams need to be soaked in salt water immediately after being sliced to prevent oxidation and blackening; fresh yams will have mucus when cut, which can easily slip and stab wounds. You can wash them with clear water and a little vinegar first, which can reduce mucus. <br />Yam is sweet and calm in nature, and enters the lungs, spleen, and kidney meridians; it is not dry or greasy; it has the effects of strengthening the spleen and replenishing the lungs, replenishing the stomach and kidney, strengthening the kidney and essence, improving the ears and improving eyesight, helping the five internal organs, strengthening the muscles and bones, long-term determination and tranquilizing the nerves, and prolonging life; It mainly treats spleen and stomach weakness, fatigue, loss of appetite, chronic diarrhea, lung qi deficiency and dryness, phlegm and cough, kidney qi deficiency, weakness of the waist and knees, weakness of the lower limbs, frequent diabetes, frequent urination, premature ejaculation, white and turbid white and turbid diarrhea, red skin swelling, obesity and other diseases.
Black rice contains most inorganic salts such as manganese, zinc, and copper that are 1 to 3 times higher than rice; it also contains special ingredients such as vitamin C, chlorophyll, anthocyanins, carotene and cardiac glycosides that rice lacks, so black rice is more nutritious than ordinary rice. Eating more black rice has the functions of appetizing appetite and nourishing the heart, strengthening the spleen and warming the liver, improving eyesight and activating blood circulation, and smoothing astringent and replenishing essence. It has a good nourishing effect on young people's gray hair, women's postpartum weakness, post-illness body weakness, anemia and kidney deficiency. <br />Red beans smell sweet, sour, flat and non-toxic. They have the functions of "body fluid, promoting urine, eliminating swelling, and stopping vomiting". They are called "the valley of the heart" by Li Shizhen. It has the effect of dispelling dampness and replenishing the spleen. It is suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach. It is often used in dietotherapy for various purposes such as hypertension, arteriosclerosis, edema caused by various reasons, and to relieve heat, relieve toxicity, and strengthen the stomach. Red beans are rich in starch, so they are also called "rice beans". Red beans have a high lysine content in protein and should be mixed with cereals to form bean rice or bean porridge. <br />Nutritional effects of peanuts: calm in nature and sweet in taste; enter the spleen and lung meridians. Lunge the lungs, harmonize the stomach, and replenish the spleen. Treat dry cough, nausea, edema, athlete's foot, lack of milk for nursing women, moisten lungs and reduce phlegm, nourish and regulate qi, clear throat and relieve cough. Indications for malnutrition, lack of food and weakness, dry cough and less phlegm, hemoptysis, tooth epistaxis, skin purplish and other diseases. <br />Peanut food is compatible: For people with weak stomach and intestines, peanuts should not be eaten with cucumbers and crabs, otherwise it may lead to diarrhea.
Sweet foam is a traditional popular porridge food in Jinan. It is a kind of salty porridge made mainly of millet flour. People in Jinan also commonly call it "five-spice sweet foam". Among the many snacks in Jinan, Tianmo is the most affordable and high-quality "signature" snack. <br /><br />One of the origins of sweet foam<br /> In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, due to natural disasters and wars, a large number of refugees flocked to Jinan. There was a small porridge shop surnamed Tian, which often gave up porridge for relief. The victims told each other that an increase in the number of people coming to the porridge shop to drink porridge to save lives. The porridge shop was unable to satisfy everyone's demands, so it added a large amount of vegetable leaves and salty and spicy seasonings to the porridge. Whenever the victims saw white foam in the big pot of porridge before serving bowls and serving porridge, they affectionately called it "Tian Mo", which was the porridge provided by Boss Tian. At that time, a needy scholar who came to Jiji to take the exam also came here to get this porridge. The meal was extremely sweet and he thought that the "sweet foam" would be a true inheritance. Later, after the scholar obtained fame and became an official, he made a special trip to Ji to drink sweet foam again. He no longer felt like it used to be. When asked why, the boss replied that it was actually "Tian foam", which means porridge with the surname Tian. The official suddenly realized that it was caused by a mistake in writing when he only listened to the sound, so he wrote a plaque "Sweet Foam" and recited a poem: "I mistakenly made Tian Mo sweet because of the connection at the beginning; I have read all the vicissitudes of the world. Taste, after bitterness and spiciness, it is always sweet." From then on, this salty porridge was called "sweet foam". It seems that only by personally visiting and drinking this delicious salty porridge can you feel the origin of the name Tianmo! <br /><br />The second origin of sweet foam<br /> There is a saying that best explains the origin of "sweet foam": it was not called "sweet foam" at first, but called "Tianmo"-when the porridge is ready, add some vermicelli, vegetables, peanuts, seasonings, etc."Finally", it tastes great! "Tianmei" spread. Later, people transformed it into "sweet foam" according to its homophonic elegance.
