Nutritional yellow

Author: Zhang Enlai
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: Yellow foods are widely distributed in nature. Common examples include soybeans, yellow millet, corn, tofu, fermented bean curd, dried tofu, gluten, roasted gluten, and oil skin, which are rich in nutrition, inexpensive, and play an important role in people's diet. In aquatic products, there are also many yellow foods such as fish roe, dried scallops, crab roe, dried shrimp, eel, yellow croaker, yellow sea cucumber, jellyfish, clam king, and seaweed, all of which contain rich proteins and trace elements needed by the human body, and are also one of the favorite food ingredients. Additionally, vegetables such as potatoes, cauliflower, yellow tomatoes, pumpkin, yellow garlic, ginger, as well as pineapples, chestnuts, portobello mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots, egg yolk, tripe, and butter can also be classified as yellow foods. Traditional Chinese medicine has long discussed the relationship between the color of food and health preservation. The five colors of food correspond to the five internal organs of the human body: red enters the heart, green enters the liver, yellow enters the spleen, white enters the lungs, and black enters the kidneys. Modern nutritional research has found that yellow fruits and vegetables such as carrots, soybeans, peanuts, and apricots are rich in vitamins A and D. Vitamin A can protect the gastric and intestinal mucosa, preventing conditions such as gastritis and gastric ulcers. Vitamin D promotes the absorption of calcium and phosphorus, two mineral elements, thereby strengthening bones and muscles. It also has a certain preventive effect on common diseases such as rickets in children, myopia in adolescents, and osteoporosis in middle-aged and elderly people. Yellow foods such as corn and soybeans, as well as fruits like oranges, tangerines, and grapefruits, are rich in vitamin C and some trace elements, which can invigorate the spleen, prevent gastritis, and help prevent night blindness, protect the liver, and improve beauty. Yellow ginger contains various volatile components such as gingerol, gingerene, and gingerol, which can enhance myocardial contractility, stop vomiting, resist ulcers, protect the liver, promote bile secretion, exhibit antioxidant effects, and regulate the central nervous system. It can also inhibit the synthesis of carcinogens such as nitrosamines. In summary, yellow foods have excellent medical and health benefits for the human body.