4. Salads
Like chilled soups, salads are a great way to start your meals in summer. Salads are quick to prepare and are quite healthy (unless you load them with heavy dressings). Remember the more the number of fresh vegetables in the diet, the healthier you will be in summer. Salads are healthy and easy to digest in summer.
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Nutritionist, Patricia suggests “You can make quick salads with chopped cucumber, tomatoes, lettuce, cabbage, beetroot, coriander or parsley and add a dash of salt, pepper and lime juice to give it taste and load them with vitamins and minerals. You can alternatively add thick curd, salt and pepper to the vegetables to make a cool salad.”
5. Curd
Curd is a great summer food as it has cooling properties. Curd can be had in various forms like raita, lassi, shrikhand, chass etc. South Indians have curd and rice, while north Indians prefer chilled lassi to beat the heat in summer.
Nutritionists recommends consuming curd in summers as it contains proteins in the pre digested form and is rich in vitamin B which helps to soothe allergies and ulcers that are common during hot season
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6. Fresh Fruits
It is important to minimize the intake of dried fruits and increase the intake of fresh foods. Fresh fruits are nutritious and refreshing. Many seasonal fruits like mangoes, litchi, water melons, strawberry and jamuns are available in summer. These fruits are juicy and can be had as snacks to beat the heat.
Patricia Sadri suggests, “Seasonal fruits like water melon have high water content and higher cooling properties that help to beat the heat”
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7. Vegetables
You can stock your refrigerator with a wide variety of summer vegetables like onions, brinjal, bottle gourd, celery, tomatoes and cucumber as they are very nutritious and low in calories.
Nutritionist Patricia Sadri says, “It is important to have seasonal vegetables as the summer vegetable contains antioxidant properties that help to minimize skin damage caused due to exposure to sun.”
8. Cook vegetable with curd or tomatoes
Most Indian foods are made in the form of gravies .It is important to save your rich gravies made from coconut, cashew nuts and poppy seeds (khus khus) for when it is cooler. It is advised that in summers you have light gravies made from tomatoes, or curd as they are easy to digest. Adding cumin seeds (jeera) and coriander will make the gravies more cooling and appealing.
It is advised that you avoid fried, spicy or salty food to avoid the discomforts of summer. It is also essential to cut down beverages such as colas, tea or coffee. Tea and coffee contain caffeine that leads to dehydration when had in excess amounts, hence it is essential to limit the consumption of tea and coffee to one or two cups in a day.
It is important that that you choose your food wisely to beat the scorching heat of summer!!!
9. Cucumbers
As for cucumbers, actually use them more for my skin. just slice them up and place them flat on my face after long exposure to the sun.
figured it would be better than plastering aloe vera on my face.
But they generally have the qualities of keeping your body temperature cool, so it’s nice to consume a lot of cucumbers in the summer. Slice them up like sticks and munch on them or make cold cucumber soup using vinegar to bring back my appetite.
10. Watermelon
You can dig in with a spoon and a straw, you can cut them up like cubes, or you can even just chop them with their edges.This juicy fruit, as you know, is filled with moisture.
Try cutting up the watermelon in half and empty the inside to wear it like a helmet on your head . It might look silly, but it really helps you cool down.
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