When the cold winter arrives, many people prefer to drink hot drinks to keep away the cold, such as milk tea and hot coffee. Although these hot drinks taste good and replenish water, they are usually high in calories, and many of the added ingredients may have adverse effects on physical health.
In our family, we do not drink these hot drinks in winter, but prefer to cook some soups to moisten the lungs. Among them, we often cook apple tea three times a week. Although this fruit tea does not look special, it actually has many benefits for health.
As a common and popular fruit, apples are rich in vitamin C, fiber, and a variety of antioxidants. There is a widely circulated saying: "Eat an apple a day, keep the doctor away." This saying is not groundless, but because apples do have many health-promoting properties that can have a positive effect on our physical health.
Benefit the stomach and promote fluid production: Apple tastes sweet, sour and cool, and enters the spleen and stomach meridians. For abdominal pain, bloating, loss of appetite, indigestion caused by weak spleen and stomach, and thirst, dry mouth, sore throat caused by insufficient body fluid, etc., drinking apple tea appropriately has a good effect of benefiting the stomach and promoting fluid production.
Get rid of troubles and help sleep: Apple tea also enters the heart meridian. For people who are upset, insomnia, and neurasthenia, drinking apple tea appropriately can help get rid of troubles and help sleep.
Regulate qi and resolve phlegm: Boil apples with other ingredients such as tangerine peel and red dates to make tea, which can have health effects such as regulating qi and resolving phlegm and stomach.
Antioxidant: Apple tea is a special drink that can resist oxidation. After heating, the polyphenols contained in apples will increase significantly. These polyphenols are natural antioxidant ingredients. After being absorbed by the human body, they can lower blood sugar and blood lipids, remove free radicals in the body, and improve the body's antioxidant capacity.
Antidiarrhea and defecation promotion: Apple tea has a two-way regulatory effect, which can both stop diarrhea and promote defecation. The pectin in apples can astringe the intestines, eliminate various pathogens in the intestines, and relieve diarrhea symptoms. At the same time, pectin is also a water-soluble dietary fiber that can be digested and absorbed by the human body.
Nutritional supplement: After heating, the various nutrients contained in apples will be released into the water, and people can absorb and utilize them as soon as possible after eating to meet the needs of normal body metabolism.
Beauty and skin care: Apple tea is rich in vitamin C and pectin, which can clean toxins in the body and enhance the body's own immunity. At the same time, nutrients such as fructose, dietary fiber, and pectin can nourish delicate skin, increase skin cell activity, and reduce wrinkle formation.
Moisturizing the lungs and relieving coughs: Apple has the effects of moisturizing the lungs and relieving coughs, replenishing the middle and replenishing qi, and moisturizing the intestines and laxatives, and has a certain therapeutic effect on coughs.
Ingredients (one cup)
Steps
Brew Oriental Beauty Tea with hot water, let it stand for 5 minutes and take 150g of tea soup. Soften the cheese and beat it with a whisk until smooth. Put ice cubes, Oriental Beauty Tea soup and green apple jam into the cup and stir gently to mix the tea soup and jam. Gently spread the beaten cheese on the surface of the tea soup to form a rich cheese layer.
Take a small piece of cherry blossom wood and light it with a musket. The wood block will start to produce smoke. Put the cup lid upside down on the smoke, and then cover the cup lid to make the smoke linger.
After it is done, open the cup lid and the smoke in the cup will erupt.
Tips
Tea selection: Oriental Beauty Apple Cheese Tea has a unique fruity and honey aroma, which is the soul of this drink. If it is not available, you can use green tea instead, but the flavor will be slightly different.
Smoking tips: If cherry wood is not available, you can use apple wood or cherry wood instead, and the smoked flavor is equally good.
Sweetness adjustment: According to personal taste, you can increase or decrease the amount of green apple sauce.
