7 Foods That Can Cleanse Oil and Absorb Fat and the Correct Way to Eat Them

**3.** 7 Foods That Can Cleanse Oil and Absorb Fat

**Pre-class Preparation:**

Which foods can help cleanse the skin and absorb fat?

How should these foods be eaten correctly?

The nickname "DouDou" came from her love of beans. DouDou read in some magazine that edamame (soybeans) had weight-loss benefits, so she began a bean-eating spree. However, DouDou was very picky about her beans. She wouldn't eat boiled beans, nor fried beans. She only ate fragrant, crunchy beans. These crunchy edamame beans were mostly common products on supermarket snack shelves, with flavors like spicy, barbecue, and wasabi... basically, almost any flavor you could imagine was available. Of course, weeks and months passed, and DouDou not only didn't lose weight, but actually gained more. Now, DouDou was puzzled: was what the magazine said true?

Yes, edamame does indeed have weight-loss benefits. It can cleanse the intestines of excess oil and absorb subcutaneous fat, but this amazing effect can only be realized through proper consumption. In the previous section, we learned about eight foods that you can eat without gaining weight. In this section, we'll introduce seven more amazing foods like edamame that can cleanse the intestines of excess oil and absorb subcutaneous fat. We'll also point out some common misconceptions about these foods, helping you avoid making the same mistakes.

▲Edamame

Edamame is rich in choline, which can prevent the body from absorbing and storing fat, and also has a fat-burning effect, making it very suitable as a weight-loss food. In addition, edamame soup has the health benefits of scraping away intestinal fat, minimizing arteriosclerosis, and protecting cardiovascular health.

**Dietary Misconception:** Fried edamame snacks are very high in calories because they contain preservatives, flavorings, and starch, making them unsuitable as a snack for weight loss.

**Dietary Recommendation:** Boiled edamame soup. Boiling edamame and adding salad dressing, or making an oil-free edamame and lean meat soup, are both healthy choices that can help cleanse the intestines of fat and inhibit fat formation.

▲Pumpkin

Pumpkin is a popular slimming food in Japan and South Korea. A recent study by the International Health Association found that consuming pumpkin puree with dinner every day for a week can increase body fat metabolism by 18%. This is mainly because pumpkin is rich in fiber, which increases satiety and reduces the desire to eat other foods. Furthermore, the zinc in pumpkin promotes fat burning, while its fiber slows down the absorption of carbohydrates, glucose, and cholesterol, and helps remove fat from the intestinal walls.

Dietary Myth: Delicious pumpkin pancakes are a favorite for many. However, pumpkin pancakes are not a true weight-loss food. Because they are rich in oil, starch, sugar, and other fillings, they can increase the body's calorie intake.

**Dietary Recommendation:** Steamed Pumpkin. Wash the pumpkin, cut it into chunks, steam it until cooked, and then use a spoon to scoop out the flesh to eat.

▲Soybean paste

Many women filter out the soybean pulp when making soy milk at home. In fact, soybean pulp is a real weight-loss food. It is rich in oligosaccharides, which can promote the growth of beneficial bacteria in the gut, regulate fat and cholesterol metabolism, reduce the accumulation of acidic metabolic waste in the body, and help detoxify the intestines. It also contains abundant minerals such as calcium, soy protein, and soy fiber, which can promote fat burning, making it an excellent weight-loss ingredient.

**Dietary Myth:** Avoiding Soybean Pulp. Many people avoid soybean pulp because of its unpleasant texture. In fact, it has more nutritional, health, and weight-loss benefits than soy milk.

Dietary Recommendation: Multi-Flavor Soybean Puree. Steam potatoes until cooked, then blend them into mashed potatoes. Next, add soybean pulp to the mashed potatoes and mix well. Finally, sprinkle the resulting soybean puree with ingredients that also have slimming benefits, such as American almonds, sunflower seeds, peanuts, and oatmeal.

▲Black fungus

Dried black fungus contains more than 30 times the calcium of meat, and is an important component of enzymes needed by the human body to break down fat. Therefore, consuming black fungus helps synthesize lipase, increasing the rate of fat breakdown and promoting the complete metabolism of fat in the body. Furthermore, black fungus broth helps cleanse the intestines and purify the body of toxins, making it a very healthy food for weight loss.

Dietary Myth: Pickled Black Fungus. Many office workers buy pickled black fungus directly from supermarkets for convenience. In fact, these types of store-bought foods not only lack health benefits and weight-loss advantages, but also introduce unhealthy additives and preservatives into the body.

**Dietary Recommendation:** Black Fungus and Scallion Soup. Adding scallions to black fungus soup can help detoxify and promote metabolism, making it a healthy choice for those trying to lose weight.

Brown rice

Brown rice is a health and weight loss "star" repeatedly recommended by health and nutrition experts and celebrities in Taiwan. It is rich in fiber, which has the effect of absorbing water and fat, and can also absorb toxins remaining in the folds of the intestines, helping to cleanse the intestines and remove oil. It is an essential food for healthy weight loss.

**Dietary Myth:** Brown Rice Cakes. Brown rice cakes are not only high in calories, but also contain food additives and preservatives, which are detrimental to health and weight loss.

**Dietary Recommendation:** Brown Rice and White Fungus Porridge. Soak brown rice and white fungus in water for 3 hours, then cook into a thick porridge. This porridge has health benefits such as moisturizing the lungs, cleansing the intestines, and aiding weight loss.

▲ Onion

Onions contain compounds such as cycloalliin and thiosulfinates, which can lower blood lipids and promote the absorption of oxygen from the blood by epidermal cells, enhancing the skin's repair capabilities. Furthermore, the pungent aroma of onions can promote intestinal peristalsis, expel intestinal waste, and lower cholesterol levels, thus offering health benefits such as fat reduction and weight loss.

**Dietary Myth:** Fried Onions. While fried onion rings are delicious, they destroy many of the onion's beneficial nutrients, making them not only unsuitable for weight loss but also likely to cause weight gain.

**Dietary Recommendation:** Onion Salad. Wash the onions, slice them, and eat them with other fruits in a salad.

▲Sour plum

Sour plums contain a large amount of anthocyanins, which can help the body effectively eliminate fat and toxins. Medical research also shows that drinking a glass of sour plum juice daily can increase the digestibility of food by more than 11%. At the same time, drinking a glass of sour plum juice can also have a cleansing effect on the intestines.

**Dietary Misconception:** Pickled plums. Pickled plums contain a lot of sugar and salt, which not only fails to provide the health benefits of weight loss and fat reduction, but also increases the body's calorie intake.

**Dietary Recommendation:** Consume plum juice. Soak fresh plums in salt water for about a week, then remove one plum and mix it with honey and water to make plum juice.

**Second Lesson in Weight Loss: Listening to Health Experts on Weight Loss**

The British Health and Beauty Association points out that consuming more seaweed and other seafood can not only promote the elimination of excess water from the body, but also have a beautifying effect by repairing cellulite in obese areas.