Many people know that eating melon in the summer can clear the heat and dampness, but if you only know how to eat watermelon, the loss is too big!
A must-eat in summer is winter melon!
Winter melon likes to be warm and heat-resistant, ripe in summer, although with a "winter" word, but it is the best in summer.
Its water content is extremely high, and the price is relatively cheap, it does not cost much to buy a large one, and then look at its nutrition and efficacy, it is really a big loss without eating! In particular, the following categories of people —
People who are prone to edema
In the summer, people's water intake increases, but some people can't drain the water after drinking, and the accumulation in the skin becomes puffy.
Winter melon can inject excess water from the muscle surface downwards to guide them into urine and discharge, so winter melon is often called "swelling melon".
However, because the winter melon itself is cold, it is only suitable for the hot edema that appears in summer and is accompanied by a hot yellow color of urine and is not smooth and thirsty and likes cold drinks.
On the other hand, if it is edema caused by qi deficiency and spleen deficiency or heart and kidney disease, it is not suitable.
People who are prone to fire
Chinese medicine believes that winter melon has a sweet taste, cool, beneficial to water, phlegm, heat, detoxification and other effects, suitable for limb edema, summer heat thirst, urinary tract infections, hemorrhoids and other diseases.
People who are losing weight
Winter melon has a high water content and very low energy, rich dietary fiber, and a strong sense of fullness.
In addition, it also contains compounds that inhibit the conversion of sugars into fat, which can prevent the accumulation of fat in the human body, and has the effect of weight loss, lipid reduction and beauty.
People with poor resistance
Vitamin C has the effect of improving the body's immunity.
Winter melon is a vitamin C-rich food that contains 16 mg of vitamin C per 100 grams of winter melon, more than the amount found in tomatoes (14 mg/100 mg).
People with elevated blood pressure
Winter melon is high in potassium and low sodium, containing 57 mg of potassium and 2.8 mg of sodium per 100 grams of winter melon, which is a good food for patients with kidney disease and hypertension who need to eat low-salt foods.
People with dyslipidemia
Winter melon is rich in various amino acids needed by the human body, and the dietary fiber content is very high, which is good for controlling cholesterol and blood lipids.
People with elevated blood sugar
Diabetic patients can use winter melon as a daily food, because the carbohydrate content of winter melon is very low, which is 1/40 of the general rice, and has little impact on the blood sugar after meals of diabetic patients.
Do not throw away melon seeds and melon peels
Winter melon seeds and winter melon peels have good medicinal effects, can be used in combination, with two winter two soup, suitable for daily bloating, less stool, difficult stool, throat and nasal dryness, oral odor and other symptoms of stomach fever people.
Composition: winter melon peel, winter melon seeds, reed root, white grass root.
Directions: Adults, each ingredient needs to be used 30 grams, heated and boiled, can be used to remove the fire in the body.
Which kind of winter melon is good to buy?
Black-skinned winter melon
The skin of black-skinned winter melon is dark green and larger, because it is easy to transport, so the market is more common.
In order to facilitate sales, many merchants often slice it and sell it.
Its flesh is thick and hollow, and the taste is relatively crisp, suitable for stir-frying, stewing soup, and shabu-shabu.
However, due to the easy deterioration of summer ingredients, everyone should pay attention to distinguishing the quality of ingredients when buying cut winter melon slices.
White-skinned winter melon
The appearance of the white-skinned winter melon is blue-green, and its surface often carries a thick layer of white wax powder.
This winter melon is slightly smaller in size, it is characterized by thick skin and thin meat, melon meat is suitable for stir-frying, shabu-shabu, but it is not suitable for stewing soup, and it is easy to stew over time.
Both kinds of winter melon are very nutritious, and you can buy them according to the cooking method.
Delicious time - winter melon rib soup
Ingredients: 500 grams of winter melon, 50 grams of barley, 400 grams of ribs, a little fine salt, ginger to taste.
Directions: Soak the barley in water for 1 hour, cut the winter melon into small pieces (can not be peeled); After chopping the ribs, wash them, blanch the ginger slices with water to remove the fishy taste, then add barley, add water to boil, turn to low heat and cook for half an hour, then add winter melon and cook for 15 minutes, add salt to taste.
It is suitable for people who are often prone to edema after drinking water in summer, or feel that the abdomen is full after drinking water, accompanied by yellow urine and poor discharge.
People who are tired and tired, have thin stools and do not like cold food should not eat.
Edit: Mao Wenlu