What should women eat to have a good complexion and rosy skin?

For mature women, they experience a menstrual period every month. If they are not properly adjusted, they are prone to iron deficiency anemia, which leads to pale complexion. At this time, they must strengthen their diet, eat more foods rich in iron, and eat more foods with warming and tonic effects. For staple foods, you can choose glutinous rice, millet, and yellow rice, which have good blood-enriching effects. In addition, eat some meat and eggs, eat more fruits and vegetables, etc.

1. Choice of staple food and beans

Choosing foods rich in minerals such as japonica rice, glutinous rice, millet, yellow rice, barley, and oats can replenish qi; foods rich in high iron and mucopolysaccharides such as purple rice and black rice are good for replenishing blood.

2. Choice of meat, eggs and milk

Foods rich in thiamine, riboflavin, and niacin, such as chicken, goose, beef, rabbit, dog meat, quail, pheasant, pork tripe, herring, silver carp, knife fish, pomfret, octopus, and donkey meat, help replenish qi; foods rich in protein and bioalkali, such as pork, mutton, beef, pork liver, lamb liver, beef liver, pig blood, duck blood, turtle, pomfret, mandarin fish, yellow croaker, octopus, conger eel, eel, squid, sea cucumber, clam meat, and hairtail, are good for replenishing blood.

3. Choice of vegetables

To replenish qi, you can choose foods rich in B vitamins such as yam, potato, pumpkin, winter bamboo shoots, carrot, shiitake mushroom, lentil, etc.; to replenish blood, you can choose foods rich in mucopolysaccharides, folic acid, and bioalkali such as black fungus, ground fungus, day lily, spinach, carrot, lotus root, and hair algae.

4. Dietary taboos

Avoid smoking, drinking and spicy food. Eat mild and soft food for nourishment. Avoid eating raw, cold and cool food. Also eat less barbecued and smoked food.

Many women do not like to be the "yellow-faced woman" with a yellow complexion. A sallow complexion is often caused by deficiency of qi and blood. It is recommended to start with dietary adjustment. Foods that can replenish both Qi and blood can replenish both Qi and blood. Commonly used foods include pork, pork tripe, beef, chicken, etc., and the Chinese medicines that are often used with them include Codonopsis pilosula, Astragalus membranaceus, Angelica sinensis, Rehmannia glutinosa, etc.