1. Anti-scurvy, the content of vitamin C in towel gourd is high, 8 mg per 100 g, which can be used for anti-scurvy and prevention of various vitamin C deficiency.

2. brain and beauty. The high content of vitamin B in towel gourd is beneficial to the brain development of children and the brain health of middle-aged and elderly people. The juice of towel gourd stem has the special function of keeping skin elastic, and can beautify and wrinkle.

3. Luffa contains B vitamins to prevent skin aging and vitamin C to whiten skin, which can protect skin, eliminate plaque and make skin white and tender. It is a rare beauty product, so Luffa juice is called "beauty water". It is also helpful for women to eat more loofah to regulate irregular menstruation.

4. Anti-virus and anti-allergy. Luffa extract has obvious preventive effect on Japanese encephalitis virus, and an anti-allergic substance, diarrhea alkyd, is also extracted from Luffa tissue culture solution, which has strong anti-allergic effect.

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Skills of selecting loofah

1. Look at the appearance of loofah, and don't choose loofah with uneven melon shape and protrusions.

2. Touch the skin of the loofah, pick the skin tender, not too thick, otherwise the loofah is likely to be old and have many seeds. Then put the loofah in your hand and weigh it, feeling that the whole melon should be elastic; Squeeze your fingers a little harder. If it feels hard, don't buy it. Hard loofah is probably bitter.

3. Good loofah, even if the thickness is different, is firm and tender when pinched by hand; If it is soft and brittle, it means it has existed for a long time. The color of skin is black. Either green or thick, it is old. Luffa must be peeled and eaten. Peel off the skin even if it is tender, otherwise it will taste bad.

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What is the efficacy and function of antiviral and antiallergic loofah? -People's Network