Can beef and mutton be eaten together?

Chicken, beef and mutton are meats that people often eat in their daily diet. They can be seen on the dining table during festivals. Can beef and mutton be eaten together? Everyone knows that many foods are incompatible. Eating them together will cause harm to the body, so try to avoid eating them together. Beef and mutton can be eaten together without any problem. Let's find out what mutton should not be eaten with.

1. What should not be eaten with mutton?

1. Vinegar. Many people like to add vinegar as a condiment when eating mutton, which makes it taste more refreshing. In fact, this is unreasonable. Vinegar contains protein, sugar, vitamins, acetic acid and a variety of organic acids. It is warm in nature and should be paired with cold foods, but is not suitable for hot lamb.

2. Tea. Because mutton is rich in protein and tea contains more tannic acid, drinking tea immediately after eating mutton will produce a substance called tannic acid protein, which can easily cause constipation.

3. Bean paste. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Eating mutton with bean paste can cause chronic diseases." Bean paste is made from fermented beans. It is salty and cold in nature, and has the effect of relieving heat and toxins. Mutton is a very hot food, which has the opposite function to bean paste. Eating them together for a long time will affect your health and even cause chronic diseases. Therefore, when eating mutton, do not dip it in bean sauce.

4. Pumpkin. Lamb and pumpkin are both warm foods. Eating them together can easily cause "getting angry". Pumpkin is warm in nature and sweet in taste, and has the effect of tonifying the middle and replenishing qi. Mutton is a very hot food, and has the effects of replenishing deficiency and dispelling cold, warming qi and blood, and benefiting the kidneys and replenishing weakness. Both are tonic foods. Eating them at the same time may cause indigestion, abdominal bloating and stomach pain.

5. Watermelon. Eating watermelon after eating mutton can easily "damage your vitality". This is because mutton is sweet and hot in nature, while watermelon is cold in nature and is a raw and cold food. Eating it not only greatly reduces the warming and tonic effect of mutton, but also harms the spleen and stomach.

6. Pear. If you eat both of them at the same time, some enzymes in the pear can break down the enzymes in the mutton, hinder digestion, and cause indigestion, abdominal bloating, stomach pain, etc.

In addition to the foods listed above, there are many other taboos in eating mutton. Mutton should not be eaten with cheese, bamboo shoots, pinellia, red beans, grapefruit, etc. Please note that people who are allergic to it or who may develop eczema should eat it with caution.

2. What is the best way to eat mutton?

Delicious mutton is a great tonic for winter. When paired with the right foods, the mutton's flavor will be more fully released. What is the best food to eat with lamb? The following foods are the best pairings when cooking lamb.

1. Radish. Lamb stewed with radish is a very popular dish in winter. Stewing the two together can fully bring out the cooling effect of radish, which can help eliminate stagnation and reduce phlegm and heat.

2. Ginger with skin. When stewing mutton, adding some ginger with skin can not only make the taste more delicious, but also remove the mutton smell, and it can also disperse fire, remove heat, and dispel wind.

3. Tofu. When mutton and tofu are cooked together, the gypsum in the tofu can clear away heat and fire, relieve restlessness and quench thirst. Tofu is also rich in various trace elements.

4. Cool vegetables. Lamb is a nourishing food, and eating it often can easily cause getting a sore throat. Traditional Chinese medicine has a therapeutic method of "treating heat with cooling", which means that combining very hot food with cold food can have a better therapeutic effect. When cooking mutton, you can pair it with cool and sweet vegetables, which can have the effects of cooling, detoxifying and removing heat. Cool vegetables include winter melon, loofah, spinach, cabbage, enoki mushrooms, mushrooms, and wild rice stems.

5. Ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, fennel and spices. Cook mutton with these seasonings, cut into slices and eat after it is cooked. It can relieve indigestion caused by spleen and kidney deficiency, abdominal pain, and cold pain in the waist and knees.

6. Traditional Chinese medicine. Cooking mutton with certain Chinese medicinal materials can not only remove the mutton smell, but also achieve the maximum therapeutic effect. For example, you can simmer mutton with cooked aconite, licorice, angelica, salt, ginger, cinnamon, star anise and water in appropriate amounts over low heat. It has a certain effect on colds in the elderly, cold coughs, physical weakness and fear of cold, back pain and weak legs, frequent urination, etc.