Can chicken broth be used during flu and colds — Health
In Ukraine, any soups, including chicken broths, are considered one of the main dishes. You can even often find the opinion that they help to cure the symptoms of a cold. Is it really so?
It is interesting that, for example, in Great Britain, the attitude towards soups is completely different. Many people in this country consider them to be the real cure for the flu. And according to the US National Library of Medicine, chicken soup began to be used to treat cold symptoms as early as the 12th century.
A study by Ken Albala, a food historian at the University of the Pacific in California, which was published in the journal Studies in history and philosophy of science, found that eating soup during the flu is based on “common knowledge and informal intuition.”
Albala believes that soup can be considered as the main dish for the treatment of colds, because it…
