Soup for an hour is enough 
 
 
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        Guangdong strong old fire soup, "would rather feed without food, cannot eat soup", not only drink soup before meals, and longer in clay pot soup commonly used special vessels. Allegedly, soup is delicious, it is collocation is proper, especially for health care but also didn't have to say. So, this how to eat for many people to follow gradually, especially severe winter, many people often supplements in this fashion. Is to drink soup before meals, understandable, but can have the effect of health care, cannot treat as the same. 
 
        As winter signings, the choice of ingredients and match is very important, but the cooking method and time also is very exquisite, especially when add some supplements traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Many people think that soup to commonly 2 ~ 3 hours, 4 hours, even in fact of nutrients can be lost greatly, especially some nutrients not resistant to high temperature. In cook good soup, mostly for the rest of the impurities, though delicious, but the fat content is higher, especially contains a large number of purine material, this for patients with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, gout, is unfavorable. As traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the soup, the general in half an hour (with the volatile component of traditional Chinese medicine time shorter) its active ingredients can fry out 60% ~ 70%, and then again how decoction, such as more than 1 hour, basically have no active ingredients. Need special attention is that, generally the extension of Chinese herbal medicine as the decoction time, its effective ingredients can be destroy, or evaporate, will greatly affect the efficacy. At this time of the so-called soup care is a kind of psychological effect, however, in fact nutrition and traditional Chinese medicine effective component, and for some patients, to improve and even counterproductive. 
 
        For this reason, for someone who has the winter signings habit, in cooking, it is better to take the traditional cooking method, stew time 1 hour is enough. NingWeiXia (chengdu)
 
 
 
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