Can't eat soy sauce during confinement?

Soy sauce is a common condiment in our lives. It is an indispensable part when cooking many foods, and it can enhance flavor and remove fishy smell. However, after surgery, many doctors will advise us to avoid eating soy sauce as much as possible, otherwise it will cause pigmentation in the wound and the scar will be difficult to heal. As a relatively special group, can postpartum women consume soy sauce during the confinement period?

Soy sauce is reddish-brown in color, has a unique aroma, tastes delicious, and helps stimulate appetite. It is generally made from soybeans, wheat, and salt through oil production and fermentation processes. It contains protein, polypeptides, and various amino acids, as well as calcium, magnesium, potassium, etc.

Mothers can eat a small amount of soy sauce during the confinement period and breastfeeding period, and they can add appropriate amount of soy sauce when cooking foods with strong fishy smell such as fish and meat.

Be careful not to consume too much. Soy sauce contains salt. When cooking with soy sauce, you should use less salt. Generally speaking, 6 grams of soy sauce is equivalent to 1 gram of salt.

Will eating soy sauce make you black?

Many pregnant women and mothers who have just given birth are afraid to eat soy sauce because they see that soy sauce is black and they are worried that eating soy sauce will cause the wound to turn black and the baby to turn black. Is this true?

In fact, whether pregnant women or postpartum women eat soy sauce has nothing to do with the baby's skin pigmentation, and it will not cause the baby's skin to darken, and there is no reason for it to cause the wound to darken.

Because the color of soy sauce is related to the raw materials and brewing methods, it is generally the natural color produced during fermentation. This pigment cannot be absorbed by the blood at all, let alone enter the fetus through the placenta, and of course it will not cause the fetal skin to darken.

The color of a baby's skin is determined by many factors, including racial genetics, but it has nothing to do with eating soy sauce.

What is the difference between light soy sauce, dark soy sauce and soy sauce?

Soy sauce includes light soy sauce and dark soy sauce. Light soy sauce is mostly used for cooking and adding flavor, while dark soy sauce is generally used to color meat dishes.

Which type of soy sauce is more suitable for postpartum women? It doesn't matter much. It mainly depends on what dishes are cooked and what kind of soy sauce the mother is used to eating. Of course, it is not recommended to eat soy sauce during the confinement period, because it can easily lead to excessive salt intake. For some dishes that can be cooked without soy sauce, try not to add it.