Where is donkey meat a specialty?
"Dragon meat in the sky and donkey meat on the ground" is the highest praise for donkey meat. Many places in western Shandong, southeastern Shandong, northern Anhui, western Anhui, northwestern Henan, southeastern Shanxi, northwestern Shanxi, northwestern Shaanxi, Hebei and other places have formed unique traditional foods and local famous foods.
For example, burning donkey meat is a very popular traditional snack in northern China, which originated in Baoding. Widely spread in the central Hebei plain, pickled donkey meat and soup stock are added to crisp fire. Baoding is the center of catering culture and the birthplace of Hebei cuisine. After the development and promotion of hardworking people in Hebei Province, donkey meat fire finally made it famous throughout the country. Donkey-burning shops can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of North China, which are completely integrated into the lives of local residents.
In addition, there are foods with similar names in Hejian, Hebei Province, but their practices and tastes are quite different. The most intuitive difference is that the donkey meat in Baoding is round, while the donkey meat in Hejian is rectangular. According to Records of the Historian, the burning of donkey meat originated in Baoding, Hebei Province in the second year of Ming Dynasty (AD 1400), and now it is spread all over Zhao Yan.
Nutrition of donkey meat
Donkey meat has the characteristics of "two highs and two lows": high protein and low fat; High amino acids and low cholesterol. It has a good health care effect on arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease and hypertension. In addition, it also contains animal glue, collagen and calcium, which can provide good nutritional supplements for the elderly, children, the weak and the rest after illness.
Because of its cool nature, pregnant women, people with deficiency of spleen and stomach, and people with chronic enteritis and diarrhea had better not eat it.
Donkey knowledge
The contents of lysine and methionine in donkey meat are1481~1825mg/100g and 270~490mg/ 100g respectively, which are similar to pork and beef.
The freshness of meat mainly depends on the amount of amino acids that affect the umami taste. The content of glutamic acid in donkey meat is higher than that in Tianmen radon. The total amount of two umami amino acids in donkey meat is higher than that in beef. Judging from the ratio of umami amino acids to total amino acids, donkey meat is 27.33%, beef is about 25.34%, and pork is between 24% and 26%. This is also an important reason why people call donkey meat delicious.
The content of unsaturated fatty acids in donkey meat, especially linoleic acid and linolenic acid with high biological value, is much higher than that in pork and beef.
Who can't eat donkey meat?
Donkey meat is a meat with high protein, low fat and low cholesterol. Chinese medicine believes that donkey meat tastes sweet and cool, and has the effects of invigorating qi and nourishing blood, nourishing yin and strengthening yang, calming the nerves and relieving annoyance. Treat the strain of distant times. Boiled juice and hollow drink can cure hemorrhoids and attract insects. Donkey kidney, sweet and warm, benefits kidney yang, tendons and bones. Can be used for treating impotence, soreness of waist and knees, etc. But even if donkey meat has so many functions, not everyone is suitable for eating donkey meat. People with chronic enteritis and diarrhea should avoid eating donkey meat.
Why do people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, chronic enteritis and diarrhea avoid eating donkey meat? That's because donkey meat is a hot food and is not easy to digest, so it is not easy to be absorbed by the body. Gastroenteritis patients have spleen deficiency and their ability to digest food is very limited. If they eat this indigestible food, they are more likely to cause serious gastrointestinal diseases, such as diarrhea. Furthermore, eating this hot food will easily lead to repeated alternation of diarrhea and constipation, further aggravating the occurrence of gastrointestinal diseases.
Therefore, people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, especially those with chronic gastroenteritis, poor gastrointestinal function, frequent diarrhea or constipation, are not suitable for eating donkey meat. For the sake of health, even if the donkey meat is delicious and tempting, it is best to control your mouth and make taboos.