People have a proverb: "Ginger in the morning is better than ginseng soup; ginger in the evening, eating like arsenic". Does this statement make sense? With this doubt, the reporter interviewed Zhou Yan, director of Clinical Nutrition Department of Zhengzhou hospital.

Zhou Yan pointed out that from a nutritional point of view, there is no scientific basis for the taboos of not eating ginger in the evening and eating ginger. Ginger is a kind of condiment, which can not only remove the fishy smell, but also increase the freshness. It is a commonly used food material in cooking. Ginger is rich in nutrients, rich in many beneficial ingredients, and has a warm effect om stomach. It is suitable for people with cold constitution to eat. There is no clear stipulation when ginger is to eat ginger best, of course, there is no absolute time not to eat ginger, eat in the morning, eat in the evening is no problem. Director Zhou suggested that we should eat less greasy and stimulating food in the evening, and encourage people to eat proper amount of vegetables, fruits and coarse grains, so as to have a balanced diet and to be healthier.

Actually, ginger has the function of accelerating blood circulation, stimulating gastric juice secretion, and then helping digestion, so as to achieve the effect of strengthening stomach. The most important principle of human body when eating food is balanced diet. When choosing food, we must pay attention to diversity. We should take in grain, vegetables and fruits, all kinds of meats, eggs and milk in an appropriate amount. This kind of diet can ensure that our body needs adequate intake of vitamins, amino acids, minerals and so on.

“When ginger is rotten, it is still edible”this view is wrong, because deteriorated ginger can produce many pathogenic bacteria, including a highly toxic substance safrole, once absorbed by the human body, it will destroy the human intestinal flora health, but also appear some symptoms, such as diarrhea, abdominal pain and other adverse reactions. In serious cases, it can also cause hepatocyte degeneration, leading to canceration.