Postpartum

Five-Red Blood-Building Soup

Name: Five-Red Blood-Building 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

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#iron

#chinese

#soup

#blood_building

The famous confinement blood-building soup — red dates, adzuki, red-skin peanuts, goji and brown sugar; start once lochia clears.

MumEat recipe

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Nutritional Highlights

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36%

DAILY RDI

Protein

25.2g

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28%

DAILY RDI

Folate

168.6µg

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26%

DAILY RDI

Zinc

2.8mg

+ 3 more nutrients

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Why This Recipe?

🌸 Traditional Wisdom

Five-red soup is a word-of-mouth confinement blood tonic, often recommended by maternity nurses.

🔬 Modern Science

Adzuki and peanuts give plant iron and protein; dates and goji add iron and vitamins. Brown sugar is mostly sugar with trace iron and is 'blood-moving', so use cautiously during lochia — overall a gentle iron source.

ℹ️Limited evidence

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Instructions

3 steps

Soak adzuki beans and red-skin peanuts 1 hour.

Simmer with dates and goji 40 min until soft.

Stir in brown sugar until dissolved.

💡红糖活血，恶露未净前先不加或少加。

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Full Nutrition Breakdown

⚡Zinc

26%(2.8mg)

🍊Vitamin C

12%(10.6mg)

💪Protein

36%(25.2g)

Iron

25%(6.8mg)

Calcium

11%(107.9mg)

Folate

28%(168.6µg)

* % 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》.

哺乳期需增加铁和能量摄入；豆类坚果是植物铁来源，注意红糖添加量。

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