Postpartum

Garden Vegetable Soup

Name: Garden Vegetable Soup
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 12 min
Yield: 1 servings

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MINS

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SERVINGS

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Easy

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#confinement

#vegetarian

#soup

#anti_swelling

The 'week-one vegetable soup' recommended by confinement-centre nurses — a few seasonal veggies simply boiled; light, de-swelling, vitamin-rich and duct-friendly.

MumEat recipe

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Nutritional Highlights

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84%

DAILY RDI

Vitamin C

71.4mg

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25%

DAILY RDI

Folate

152.6µg

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11%

DAILY RDI

Calcium

108.2mg

+ 4 more nutrients

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Why This Recipe?

🌸 Traditional Wisdom

Drinking light vegetable soups in week one is common confinement-centre advice.

🔬 Modern Science

Plain-boiled veg hydrates and supplies vitamins and minerals; high potassium helps relieve edema, and the light broth won't add clogging risk.

⚠️Moderate evidence

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Instructions

3 steps

Cut seasonal veg (winter melon, cabbage, carrot, mushroom).

Boil water with ginger, cook veg until soft.

Season lightly with salt and sesame oil.

💡第一周清淡为主，别加浓汤底。

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Full Nutrition Breakdown

🦴Calcium

11%(108.2mg)

🩸Iron

6%(1.6mg)

☀️Vitamin D

1%(0.2µg)

Folate

25%(152.6µg)

Vitamin C

84%(71.4mg)

Zinc

10%(1.1mg)

Protein

6%(4.2g)

* % based on pregnancy daily reference intake (RDI)

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References

[1] WHO. WHO recommendations on postnatal care (2014).

Light, nutrient-dense foods and fluids support early postpartum recovery.

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