MAKE-UP AT ITS BEST FROM WITHIN - MY DIET REGIME - BLACK VINEGAR PORK KNUCKLE

To maintain a healthy intestinal digestive system, good blood circulation, purifying my blood and cleansing of my arteries, and a good way to have a calcium rich meal, therefore whenever I go dim sum restaurant, BLACK VINEGAR PORK KNUCKLE (猪脚醋) is ANOTHER of my MUST HAVE dish!

This is a popular and traditional element of Asian cuisine especially during post-natal confinement.  It is high in collagen content, which may lower blood pressure. Some Chinese restaurants in Singapore do serve BLACK VINEGAR PORK KNUCKLE  as a dim sum dish.

A person’s skin began to accelerate ageing after 25 years old, this is because moisture and collagen of the true cortex lost. This shows, if you want to anti-aging, you must supply collagen for the skin in time.

Today everyone love foods containing nutrition, so what food can supply collagen for skin?

Collagen exist mostly in the animal, in addition to the popular pig’s knuckles, skin.

Food rich in collagen: all cattle, chicken feet, chicken, chicken skin, fish skin, shark’s fin and cartilage, pig’s knuckles , pigskin and bone has a layer of sticky colloid, which eat up soft and flexible, this is collagen.

These food form “aspic” and “process” after cooking, after cooling, is collagen after adding water boil into sol, then cooling form gel.

Fish collagen’s structure is most close to human body, and it is the most easy to body tissues of collagen protein absorption identification. Fish collagen protein main sources of deep sea fish is the cartilage. In order to make the food of collagen released, with stew, boil, burning and cook soup are the best way.

Black Vinegar Pork Knuckle

This popular post- delivery confinement dish relates to very specific post-natal care for one month after childbirth. Predominantly a Chinese practice, this one month period known as the confinement period is believed to be a crucial time where the new mother’s strength and vitality must be properly replenished to prevent ailments like premature ageing or rheumatism from setting in.

Apart from being a preventive measure against health problems, certain ingredients used in the special diet during the confinement period is also intended to help boost the body for milk production.

Various ingredients found in confinement food recipes eg. old  ginger, black vinegar, sesame oil, rice wine, eggs, red dates etc. are ingredients very commonly used in everyday  Chinese cooking. These seemingly humble and simple ingredients make up the core of confinement food cooking due to their distinctive health-enhancing values targeted at strengthening and boosting the vitality of the new mother.

Health Benefits of this Chinese Confinement dish

Old Ginger

A mainstay of confinement food, it is used mainly to dispel “wind” from the body. It is generally believed that the new mother will find significant traces of “wind” in her body after childbirth. If left unchecked, it may lead to ailments like rheumatism or inexplicable aches and pains later in life.

Ginger is also useful in supporting good intestinal digestion and overall blood circulation.

Black Vinegar

Traditionally known for its curative ability to help purify the blood and cleanse the arteries. The generous amount of vinegar used in the cooking of this dish readily dissolves the calcium content in the pork bones, resulting in a delectable dish of succulent pork in healthy, calcium-rich gravy.

Collagen exist mostly in the animal, in addition to the popular pig’s knuckles, skin.

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