Can I drink soy milk while taking Chinese medicine?

It is best not to drink too much soy milk while taking Chinese medicine, but a little is okay. It is also best to take Chinese medicine and soy milk at some intervals to prevent some ingredients in the soy milk from hindering the body's absorption of Chinese medicine. Soy milk is very nutritious. Drinking a cup of soy milk every day has many benefits to the body. It can prevent disease and improve the body's immunity, which is no less than milk. But many people think that eggs cannot be eaten with soy milk, but in fact it can.

Soybeans (including yellow beans and black beans) do contain trypsin inhibitors, which can inhibit the activity of trypsin in the human body, thereby affecting the digestion and absorption of protein. However, trypsin inhibitors are unstable when exposed to heat. During the processing of soy milk, more than 85% of them can be destroyed by boiling for 8 minutes. Although there are still a small amount of heat-stable protease inhibitors in soy milk, their activity is low and not enough to interfere with the digestion and absorption of egg protein.

What's more, even if the soy milk is not fully heated, the trypsin inhibitor in it will first affect the digestion of protein in the soy milk. Don't forget that soy milk is a protein-rich food (with a content comparable to that of milk), so there is no way that eggs, an "outsider", can be affected.

Therefore, soy milk and eggs can be eaten together. The so-called "incompatibility" is completely unreasonable. It is just necessary to note that in addition to trypsin inhibitors, soybeans also contain anti-nutritional factors such as lectin and lipoxygenase. Regardless of whether it is paired with eggs or not, soy milk needs to be fully cooked. Otherwise, affecting the digestion and absorption of protein is just a small matter, but severe cases may cause poisoning, and gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, bloating and diarrhea. At present, both commercially available soy milk and homemade soy milk made by qualified household fully automatic soy milk machines have been fully heated and can be consumed with confidence.

In fact, from the perspective of nutrition and health, soy milk can not only be eaten with eggs, but it is also a good combination. Nutritionally, they can complement each other and bring out the best in each other. Although soy milk protein is high-quality protein, its disadvantage is that it contains less methionine, while eggs are high in methionine. If consumed together, the rich methionine in eggs can make up for the lack of methionine in soybeans, thereby improving the nutritional value of the overall protein.

From the above knowledge, we can know that soy milk can not only be eaten with eggs, but also the nutritional value of soy milk combined with eggs is higher. Compared with eating eggs alone, regularly consuming soy milk with eggs can prevent coronary heart disease. For patients who already have coronary heart disease, this combination can also prevent the onset of coronary heart disease.