How should I eat meat or vegetarian hot pot first？

　　It is a better choice for Chongqing people to get together with relatives and friends and eat hot pot. But when eating hot pot, have you ever considered putting meat dishes first or vegetarian dishes first, which is healthier for your health?

　　How to eat hot pot is healthier for human body. Let’s see what citizens, hot pot restaurant owners and nutrition experts say.

　　The popular online article said that you should rinse vegetarian dishes first.

　　Recently, an article by China, a popular science scientist, talked about whether to rinse meat or vegetables first when eating hot pot. The answer given in the article turned out to be: rinse vegetarian dishes first, and potatoes and sweet potatoes are the best ones to be cooked first.

　　The article explains that because potatoes and so on contain a lot of starch, eating starchy things before cooking can form mucous membranes in the stomach and intestines, which plays a role in protecting the stomach and intestines. Moreover, potatoes and sweet potatoes contain a lot of dietary fiber. Putting a little potato and sweet potato in your stomach can absorb less fat and cholesterol. At the same time, eating starchy food first can increase satiety, and then you can eat less meat, lose weight and save money, killing two birds with one stone. In addition, rinsing vegetarian dishes first can cleverly avoid too much purine in hot pot, which is healthier for human body.

　　Jiucheng Chongqing Renxian Shuan Huncai

　　Yesterday, the reporter interviewed 30 Chongqing citizens, 27 of whom said that when eating hot pot, they would rinse the meat first. In addition, one person said that while waiting for the meat to be cooked, he would burn some vegetarian dishes in the clear soup of the Yuanyang pot, one person said that he would eat the vegetarian dishes in the clear soup first when he lost weight, and another person said that the vegetarian dishes cooked for a long time would be put into the pot together with the meat dishes, which one would be cooked first.

　　Ms. Tang, 27, said that when she ate hot pot, she would think of eating vegetarian dishes only after eating almost all the meat, and most people in Chongqing ate all red soup, so she could not talk about health preservation.

　　Ms. Fan, who lives near Jiaochangkou, said that as a foodie, she eats hot pot with meat, so she eats meat first and then vegetarian food. Moreover, vegetarian dishes are just for wrapping up greasy food, otherwise eating vegetarian dishes first will feel like eating a hot pot for nothing.

　　"It must be to eat meat dishes first. If you treat a guest with vegetarian dishes first, it will make the guests feel very stingy, so it will be embarrassing." Mr. Yang, a 30-year-old, said that the order in which he eats hot pot leeks is to pour the leeks into the pot first, and the vegetarian dishes are put at the end. "Many times the vegetarian dishes ordered are put in the last pot, but they can’t eat any more."

　　The owner of the hot pot restaurant also said that meat should come first.

　　The reporter learned that not only Chongqing people eat hot pot dishes in the order of meat first, but also many hot pot restaurants serve food in the order of meat first. Mr. Wu, the owner of a well-known old hot pot restaurant in Chongqing, said that from the perspective of health care, he agreed to rinse vegetarian dishes first, but the consumption habits of guests are to eat vegetarian dishes first, so every store of his is to serve vegetarian dishes first. As far as the sales volume in the store is concerned, the sales volume of meat dishes is more than double that of vegetarian dishes.

　　Mr. Feng, the person in charge of another old hot pot restaurant, thinks that eating hot pot with starchy vegetarian dishes such as potatoes and lotus root slices is easy to muddy the soup, which will affect the taste of the dishes cooked later. In addition, the hot pot in Chongqing is spicy, and most vegetarian dishes are more spicy. If you rinse the vegetarian dishes first, it may hurt your stomach. If you eat a mandarin duck pot, you can also eat the vegetarian dishes in the clear soup first, and then eat the meat dishes in the red soup.

　　Feng Long, a national judge of China hot pot industry, thinks that the order of eating hot pot should be enhanced first. That is to say, first put the ingredients that can increase freshness, such as bean sprouts, mushrooms, coriander, etc., and then rinse the meat dishes, and put the vegetarian dishes at the end. Because from a health point of view, some vegetarian dishes contain oxalic acid, so it is better to put them in the back for scalding.

　　expert

　　It is best to scald vegetarian dishes first for health preservation.

　　So from the perspective of health, should we rinse the meat dishes first or the vegetarian dishes first when eating hot pot? Li Liu, director of the Clinical Nutrition Department of Chongqing People’s Hospital (the Third Hospital), believes that when eating hot pot, eat some vegetarian dishes such as potatoes first, and then eat some rice, so that after eating more dietary fiber, you can increase your satiety, eat less meat and absorb less fat and cholesterol.

　　At the same time, she also said that hot pot contains a lot of purine, and meat dishes are generally more than twice as much as vegetarian dishes, and the purine content of vegetarian dishes alone will be much lower. Purine is water-soluble and more soluble in water at high temperature, so people with high uric acid should try to eat less hot pot, and even if they eat it, they should eat vegetarian dishes first.

　　In view of the problem of oxalic acid in vegetarian dishes, Li Liu said that this view is also reasonable, but vegetarian dishes with more oxalic acid are mainly leafy vegetables, which can really be scalded at the back. The vegetable dishes that are first scalded are suggested to be mainly melons and fruits, such as melon and pumpkin.

　　Finally, the order of hot pot rinsing given by Li Liu is: rinse melon and fruit vegetables first, then meat vegetables, and finally eat leafy vegetables. (Chongqing Evening News-Upstream Journalist Zhang Chunlian)