Osmanthus and Sour Plum Soup

Overview

Sour plum soup is a traditional Chinese folk refreshing drink with a long history. In the hot summer, drinking a cup of iced sour plum soup can indeed relieve a lot of heat. However, many people only know that it can relieve the heat, but they do not understand that the benefits of sour plum soup are much more than that. Sour plums are warm and sour in nature and contain very rich organic acids, such as malic acid, citric acid, etc. Among them, there is also citric acid, which can effectively inhibit the production of lactic acid. Excessive lactic acid content in the body is an important cause of fatigue. Drinking some sour plum soup can quickly eliminate fatigue and restore physical strength. In addition, sour plums have strong antibacterial power, which not only helps digestion and increases appetite, but also has the effects of clearing the stomach, deworming, and preventing diarrhea. Drinking sour plum soup during the hot summer is not only sweet and sour, but also has the effect of appetizing and replenishing water, which is much better than those carbonated drinks. Although sour plum soup tastes sour, it is an alkaline food. If you eat too much acidic foods such as meat, drinking some sour plum soup will help balance the pH value of the blood in the body. In addition, sour plum soup can also reduce liver fire and help digestion. Those with strong liver fire should consume more sour plum soup.

Tags

• soups
• black plum
• dried hawthorn
• dried osmanthus
• licorice
• rock sugar

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash black plum, hawthorn and licorice with clean water and soak them for 30 minutes

   

2. 2 Put it into a pot and boil it together with the soaking water

   

3. 3 Turn to low heat and simmer for about 40 minutes

   

4. 4 Add dried osmanthus and rock sugar and continue cooking for about 10 minutes

   

5. 5 After cooling, filter out the residue

   

6. 6 Just keep it in the refrigerator