Postpartum

Red Date, Longan & Peanut Soup

Name: Red Date, Longan & Peanut Soup
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 1 servings

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MINS

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SERVINGS

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Easy

LEVEL

#confinement

#blood_building

#vegetarian

#lactation

One of the 16 lactation soups — red dates, longan and peanuts simmered together; sweet, warming and blood-nourishing, best once lochia has cleared.

MumEat recipe

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Nutritional Highlights

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24%

DAILY RDI

Protein

16.8g

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20%

DAILY RDI

Folate

119.6µg

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16%

DAILY RDI

Zinc

1.8mg

+ 3 more nutrients

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Why This Recipe?

🌸 Traditional Wisdom

Red date, longan and peanut soup is a sweet-tasting member of the confinement blood-and-lactation soups.

🔬 Modern Science

Dates and peanuts give plant iron and protein, longan is warming and 'blood-nourishing'; being warming, use less during lochia — overall a gentle iron source.

ℹ️Limited evidence

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Instructions

3 steps

Soak peanuts 1 h; pit red dates.

Simmer peanuts and dates 40 min.

Add longan, simmer 10 min more.

💡桂圆偏温热，恶露未净先少放。

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Full Nutrition Breakdown

💪Protein

24%(16.8g)

🌿Folate

20%(119.6µg)

🍊Vitamin C

10%(8.8mg)

Iron

10%(2.6mg)

Zinc

16%(1.8mg)

Calcium

5%(46.4mg)

* % based on pregnancy daily reference intake (RDI)

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References

[1] 中国营养学会.《中国哺乳期妇女膳食指南2022》.

哺乳期需增加铁与能量；豆类坚果是植物铁来源，注意桂圆温热适量。

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