Post Date December, 03 2023
Yesterday we talked about the choice of staple food and meat. Today we will talk about how to choose vegetables and fruits, and what we can eat if we want to eat snacks occasionally.
1、 Eat 500g of vegetables every day, more than 200g of which are green leafy vegetables
Vegetables are a good source of vitamins and dietary fiber. According to the recommendations of the Chinese Dietary Guidelines (2016), 500g of vegetables per day can meet the body's needs for these nutrients.
Some kidney friends may have high blood potassium or decreased urine volume, so they need to limit the intake of potassium ions. Because potassium ions are dissolved in water, kidney friends can blanch before cooking to remove most of the potassium ions from vegetables. In addition, blanching can also soften the cell wall of vegetables and make them easier to eat oil. When cooking, you can add less oil.
There are many kinds of vegetables, and the dark-green leafy vegetables have the highest nutritional value. The main purpose of eating vegetables is to supplement vitamins. Leaf vegetables have the highest and most comprehensive vitamin content. This is because green leaves are the main place for plants to carry out photosynthesis, and the energy of plants depends on the support of photosynthesis. Close to the water, the tower gets the moon first, and these places will also produce various nutrients. Therefore, ensuring the intake of 200g leafy vegetables every day is more beneficial to ensuring the intake of nutrients.
In addition, some vegetables have relatively high calories and relatively low protein content, and can replace some staple foods, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, taro and other potatoes. Every 90g of potatoes is equivalent to 25g of staple foods. However, potato has high potassium content. If kidney friends have decreased urine volume or high blood potassium, they should not use potato as staple food to prevent blood potassium accumulation.
Some vegetables with strong satiety are often eaten by kidney friends as staple foods, such as yams and pumpkins. In fact, the caloric density of these two vegetables is relatively low, and using them as staple food can easily lead to malnutrition.
2、 Eat 200g of fresh fruit every day
Fruits and vegetables are rich in water-soluble vitamins and dietary fiber. Fruits are also rich in bioflavonoids and organic acids. Eating 200g of fruit every day can increase appetite, help digestion, and enhance body resistance.
Many kidney friends like to drink fresh fruit juice and think it is delicious and healthy. However, in the process of fruit juice extraction, vitamin C and other antioxidant substances fully contact with oxygen. Under the action of oxidase, this part of substances beneficial to human body will oxidize and cause great losses.
Are all fruits suitable for kidney friends? Of course not.
Some kidney friends need to limit the intake of potassium ions. These kidney friends should try to avoid selecting fruits with high potassium content. Generally speaking, fruits with less water content have lower potassium content, such as bananas, avocados, etc. In addition, carambola contains a neurotoxin that needs to be metabolized by the kidney. Kidney friends have problems with their kidney function and it is difficult to metabolize this substance, so they should never eat carambola.
3、 Low protein, low phosphorus, low potassium, low salt and low fat are preferred for snacks
Kidney friends usually want to eat some snacks, but they don't know what they can eat. In fact, just look at the food composition table of snacks and choose snacks with low protein, low phosphorus, low potassium, low sodium and low fat.
After dinner Dim sum lotus root starch
Lotus root powder is the most suitable snack for patients with kidney disease. It not only has extremely low protein content, but also contains rich calories. Many kidney friends will suffer from malnutrition due to insufficient calorie intake due to diet restriction. It's cold. I'm hungry between meals and drink a bowl of hot and sweet lotus root powder. It's said that I feel happy.
Wheat starch pumpkin cake
Although starch is hard and dry, it can also be made into delicacies through the development of kitchen gods. For example, the formula of wheat starch pumpkin pie was developed by Tao Jie in the Love Kidney Marathon group.
Low-protein biscuit
If you have an oven at home, you can also make low-protein cookies. The method is also very simple. Just change the recipe of the cookies a little.
