A soothing, moistening sweet soup for confinement — gelatinous snow fungus with lotus seeds and red dates; calming and digestible, a comforting warm afternoon snack.
MumEat recipe
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Nutritional Highlights
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15%
DAILY RDI
Zinc
1.6mg
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13%
DAILY RDI
Folate
80.9µg
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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)