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Postpartum

Lotus Seed & Snow Fungus Soup

10
MINS
🍽
1
SERVINGS
👩‍🍳
Easy
LEVEL
#confinement
#vegetarian
#anti_swelling

A soothing, moistening sweet soup for confinement — gelatinous snow fungus with lotus seeds and red dates; calming and digestible, a comforting warm afternoon snack.

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Nutritional Highlights

15%
DAILY RDI
Zinc
1.6mg
🌿
13%
DAILY RDI
Folate
80.9µg
💪
13%
DAILY RDI
Protein
9.1g

+ 3 more nutrients

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Why This Recipe?

🌸 Traditional Wisdom

Lotus seed snow fungus soup is a common soothing, moistening sweet soup in confinement.

🔬 Modern Science

Snow fungus offers plant gums and fiber, lotus seeds are calming with some protein, dates add iron — moistening and digestible for a postpartum snack.

ℹ️Limited evidence
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Instructions

3 steps
1

Soak and tear snow fungus; core the lotus seeds.

2

Stew snow fungus and lotus seeds 1 h until gelatinous.

3

Add dates, goji and rock sugar, stew 15 min.

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Full Nutrition Breakdown

🩸Iron
11%(2.9mg)
🍊Vitamin C
11%(9.4mg)
🌿Folate
13%(80.9µg)
Calcium
5%(53.7mg)
Zinc
15%(1.6mg)
Protein
13%(9.1g)

* % 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》.

哺乳期饮食宜均衡多样,温和易消化的甜羹可作加餐。

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