The food we eat every day provides us with all the nutrients our bodies need, and the nutritional value of different foods varies. Our food is divided into sour, sweet, bitter, hot and salty according to its taste. According to the acidity and basicity, we have acid food and alkaline food.
Many pregnant mothers in pregnancy will find that some people suggest that they eat acidic food, then what is the advantage of eating acidic food? Which foods are acidic foods? Let's take a look at it next.
First, the meaning of acidic food
Human food can be divided into acidic food and alkaline food. The determination of the acidity and basicity of food is not based on people's sense of taste, nor on the chemistry of food dissolved in water, but on the basis of the acidity of the final metabolite produced by food entering the human body.
Acidic foods are usually rich in protein, fat and sugar, and contain potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium and other elements, metabolism in the body after the formation of alkaline substances, can prevent the blood to acidic change.
Popular point of view, acidic foods have these: starch, animal food, sweets, refined processed foods (such as white bread), fried foods or cream, beans (such as flowers, raw, etc.).
Two. Acidic food classification
Strongly acidic food: egg yolk, cheese, dessert, sugar, tuna, halibut, cheese, pastry, persimmon, mullet, dried fish etc..
Acidic food: ham, Bacon, chicken, pork, beef, bread, wheat, eel, tuna, beef, bread, wheat, cream, etc.
Weakly acidic food: chocolate, hollow powder, onion, rice, peanuts, beer, fried tofu, seaweed, clams, octopus, loach etc..
Three, pregnant women eat acidic food what is the role?
1. acidic foods help iron to absorb better. In acidic conditions, trivalent iron into two iron easily soluble in water, if the body lacks the acid, it will affect the absorption of iron, iron absorption rate will decline, obstructed formation of hemoglobin, easily lead to anemia, affect fetal development. Therefore, eat more acidic food, can promote the body to better absorb iron, and promote the formation of hemoglobin.
2. acidic food is conducive to fetal bone formation. The main component of bone is calcium, free calcium forms calcium salts and the process of deposition in the bone is inseparable from the participation of acidic substances. Taking the right amount of acidic food is beneficial to the formation of fetal bones at 2-3 months of gestation and promotes fetal development.
Note: relatively speaking, the daily diet of acidic food intake more, they will make the body acidification, break the normal acid-base balance, and even acidic. Acidity can cause health problems.
Four, acidic food recipe recommended
1. black fungus stir fried pig's liver
Materials: black fungus, pig liver, starch, cooking wine, onion, ginger, sesame oil, salt, edible oil each amount
Method: black fungus bubble hair, wash and tear. Clean cut liver slices, grasping evenly in the starch Euryale ferox, boiled in hot water. The liver into 80% hot pan, add wine, onion, ginger, salt and stir fry until cooked, pour out. Pot stay in base oil, stir fry the fungus and shiny sweet, into the liver, add MSG, sesame oil stir wellserve.
2. cabbage fried shrimp
Material: cabbage, dried small shrimps, edible oil, garlic, salt and the amount
Practices: wash the cabbage cut into sections, 3 tablespoons of water slightly rinse shrimp. Wok get angry, put the oil pan, add appropriate amount of dried small shrimps, garlic, cabbage stir fry, stir fry until cooked, without seasoning on the table.