List of warm foods

Food is actually a very complicated thing, because people can not only obtain nutrition from food, but also experience the effects on the body. For example, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, food is divided into warm and cold properties, which have different effects on the body. Eating too much cold food can be harmful to the body and affect gastrointestinal health, while warm food can strengthen the spleen and maintain health. Let’s take a look at the list of warm foods.

Warm food refers to food that is warm in nature. Chinese people pay attention to food supplements, and among food supplements, they pay attention to warming supplements. Warm food can provide warming supplements. Common warm foods include: flour, soybean oil, wine, vinegar, ginger, onions, garlic, and carrots.

The details are as follows:

1. Food Group

Warm nature: sorghum, glutinous rice and their products.

Cold nature: buckwheat, millet, barley, highland barley, mung bean, coix seed and their products.

Neutral - rice, glutinous rice, corn, sweet potato, polished round-grained rice, red beans and their products.

2. Vegetable Group

Warm nature: lentils, green vegetables, yellow sprouts, coriander, peppers, leeks, pumpkins, garlic sprouts, garlic shoots, garlic, onions, ginger, carrots, and basil.

Cold nature - celery, winter melon, raw lotus root, raw white radish, amaranth, cucumber, bitter melon, eggplant, loofah, wild rice stem, water chestnut, seaweed, day lily (dried), kelp, bamboo shoots, winter bamboo shoots, chrysanthemum, amaranth, mung bean sprouts, spinach, rapeseed, water spinach, and lettuce.

Neutral - cabbage, tomato, cowpea, green bean, taro, chicken greens, potato, cauliflower, cauliflower, black fungus, sword bean, white fungus, yam, pine nuts, sesame, onion, mushroom, shiitake mushroom, broad bean, peanut, edamame, soybean, bean sprouts, white lentil, peas.

3. Animal Food Group

Warm nature: mutton, eel, river shrimp, sea shrimp, sparrow meat, goose eggs, and pork liver.

Cold in nature: duck meat, rabbit meat, river crab, snail meat, field snail meat, horse meat, oyster meat, duck eggs, and clams.

Neutral - pork, goose meat, carp, herring, crucian carp, silver carp, eel, shad, yellow croaker, hairtail, abalone, turtle, loach, jellyfish, squid, chicken blood, eggs, pigeon eggs, quail meat, quail eggs, sea cucumber, and bird's nest.