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Soup in Summer?
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By Secretchina
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Fish head tofu soup.
5. Fish Head Tofu Soup
n summer, our bodies lose a lot of water so we need to rehydrate. The following seven soupy drinks are especially good for the hot weather. They cool down and detoxify the body and help lower blood lipid levels (fat build up in arteries), among many other benefits mentioned below.
Tofu is rich in protein and calcium. It removes heat from the body and lowers blood lipids. The soup made of fish head and tofu strengthens the body and brings energy. It nourishes and protests the spleen and the stomach, and very importantly—it tastes great.
1. Mung Bean Soup
6. Daikon Soup
Drinking mung bean soup helps cool down the body and detoxifies. It is great in quenching thirst. Mung bean soup is a traditional and popular drink in summer for Chinese.
Daikon soup is not only the best healthy choice in winter but also a good drink in summer. Daikon, a type of root vegetable like a radish, is a powerful food that helps circulate the energy “qi” in the body. It also helps relieve coughing and clears phlegm, as well as cools down the body and detoxifies.
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Silver ear soup.
3. Silver Ear & Lily Bulb Soup
Silver ear is also known as snow ear, or white tree ear. It’s an edible fungus used widely in Chinese medicine and cooking. The soup of silver ear and lily bulb prevents hot flashes and night sweats. It nourishes and protects the lungs and the stomach. It makes one glow with a rosy complex. Drinking the soup over the long term can nurse the lung, spleen, and kidneys back to health.
Daikon soup.
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Mung bean soup.
7. Luffa (Loofah) Soup
Luffa is a cold-natured food with a natural sweetness. Eating luffa relieves heat in the body and protects the intestines. It also prevents phlegm, detoxifies, and promotes energy flow (qi) in the body. It sometimes can cure bloody bowel. Applying liquid in luffa on the face removes freckles and wrinkles and brightens
2. Winter Melon Soup
Winter melon, a.k.a. white gourd or winter gourd, is a cold-natured food. It helps clear the heat in the body, cooling you down. It quenches thirst and protects the stomach. It also helps metabolise sugar into energy and prevents fat formation. Winter melon is also anti-aging.
the facial skin. Eating luffa or applying luffa liquid on the face over a long term gives you smooth and non-sensitive skin. It also prevents acne and skin pigmentation. Interestingly, luffa is actually the plant that grows into the loofa sponges once the green seed pod is dried out and peeled. With research from Monica and Hsin-Yi.
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Winter melon seaweed soup.
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Winter melon soup.
Eating seaweed increases calcium, lowers sodium in the body, and helps removes cholesterol. Soup made with winter melon and seaweed is low in fat, nutritional, reduces heat in the body, and helps in losing weight.
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4. Winter Melon Seaweed Soup
Luffa soup.