Health Kitchen God comments: The temperature is high in summer, and the human body loses more water than other seasons, so it must be replenished in time. The water in vegetables is natural, clean, nutritious and bioactive water filtered by multi-layer biofilm, which is incomparable to drinking water produced by any factory. Summer is the peak season for melons and vegetables, and its water content is above 90%. The water content of wax gourd ranks first among all vegetables, reaching 96%, followed by cucumber, melon, loofah, bergamot, pumpkin, bitter gourd and watermelon. In other words, eating 500 grams of melons and vegetables is equivalent to drinking 450 ml of high-quality water. In addition, all melon vegetables have the characteristics of high potassium and low sodium, which can lower blood pressure and protect blood vessels.

Eating more cool vegetables in summer is the most important factor affecting the human body. When summer-heat and dampness invade the human body, it will lead to pore opening, hyperhidrosis, qi deficiency, spleen-stomach dysfunction and food indigestion. Cucumber vegetables, except pumpkin and cucumber, are warm, and others, such as bitter gourd, loofah, cucumber, vegetable melon, watermelon and melon, are cool vegetables. Tomato, eggplant, celery, chrysanthemum brain, sunflower (purple leaf), lettuce, asparagus, watercress, cold potato, etc. It is also a cold vegetable.

Eat more sterilized vegetables. Summer is a season with high temperature and rapid propagation of pathogenic bacteria, which is a frequent season for human diseases, especially intestinal infectious diseases. At this time, eating more "sterilized" vegetables can prevent diseases. This kind of vegetables include: garlic, onion, leek, green onion, leek, green garlic, garlic sprout and so on. Among these onions and garlic vegetables; Rich in plant broad-spectrum fungicides, it can kill and inhibit a variety of cocci, bacilli, fungi and viruses. (To learn more about health care, please pay attention to WeChat WeChat official account: Health Lecture Hall (or sythealth))