Watermelon is "very busy"
Watermelon is very busy this summer! With the large number of watermelons on the market, one big watermelon has entered thousands of households, busy quenching thirst and relieving summer heat. At the same time, they have to deal with lazy people's creative eating methods, turn them into helmets, shorts and other clothing, and even use round bodies to satisfy the public's creative desire and turn them into various watermelon sculptures for people to enjoy. As a fruit, people are under great pressure! Are your watermelons busy, too? Friendly reminder, watermelon is still to be eaten, don't waste it!
Nutritional value and health care function of watermelon
Brief introduction of watermelon
Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus, English: Watermelon) belongs to Cucurbitaceae and is native to Africa. Watermelon is a dicotyledonous flowering plant, which is shaped like a vine and has feathery leaves. The fruit it bears is a fake fruit, which belongs to what botanists call a fake berry. Fruit skin is smooth, green or yellow with patterns, and pulp is juicy, red or yellow (rare white).
Nutritional value of watermelon
People think that watermelon is a cold food, which is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, so people with spleen and stomach deficiency and chronic gastritis. Or loose stool had better eat less. Normal people should not eat more, otherwise it will damage the spleen and stomach and cause indigestion or diarrhea. Need to be reminded that in summer, patients often resort to eating watermelon to reduce fever, but because watermelon is a sweet and cold food, it is not suitable for eating at the beginning of a cold, especially those with symptoms such as chills and no sweat. Modern medical research shows that the sugar, salt, acid and other substances contained in watermelon can treat nephritis and lower blood pressure. This is because there is a proper amount of sugar to diuretic; Appropriate amount of potassium salt can eliminate renal inflammation; Among them, enzymes can transform insoluble proteins into soluble proteins, which can increase the nutrition of patients with nephritis; The sugar conjugate in melon can lower blood pressure.
Efficacy and function of watermelon
1. Watermelon can clear away heat, relieve summer heat and quench thirst: Watermelon contains a lot of water. When you have acute fever, thirst, sweating and irritability, eat a piece of sweet, sandy and hydrated, and the symptoms will improve immediately;
2. Sugar and salt contained in watermelon can induce diuresis and eliminate kidney inflammation, and protease can transform insoluble protein into soluble protein, thus increasing the nutrition of patients with nephritis;
3. Watermelon also contains substances that can lower blood pressure;
4. After eating watermelon, the urine volume will increase obviously, which can reduce the content of bile pigment and make the stool unobstructed, which has a certain effect on treating jaundice;
5, fresh watermelon juice and fresh melon skin increase skin elasticity, reduce and increase luster.
All kinds of watermelons
1. Is watermelon really a diet food?
Not exactly. Watermelon is extremely low in fat, but contains sugar. The sugar content of sweet watermelon is about 6-8. Calculated by 7%, the sugar content of 500 grams of watermelon meat is 35 grams, while the sugar content of half of watermelon meat exceeds 1500 grams, and the sugar content is as high as 105 grams, which is equivalent to eating a bowl of piled rice. How can I eat an extra bowl of rice every day without making people fat?
In fact, you can't blame watermelon itself, mainly because people eat too much in summer. If you eat watermelon in the amount of 1 apple, it is not easy to produce obvious fattening effect. So is beer. According to the calculation of 100g, the energy of beer seems to be relatively low, but the energy of two bottles of beer (1500mg) is equivalent to a bag of sliced toast (120g).
Lesson: Without * * *, you can't eat low-energy food, and many a mickle makes a mickle.
2. Why don't you feel full when you eat watermelon?
However, there is no way to avoid a question here: why do you feel full when you eat more than one bowl of rice, and seldom when you eat more watermelon? Even if you eat a full meal, you are still in high spirits when you eat watermelon. When you eat it, it is many pieces. Are there any secret factors in watermelon that can induce people's appetite?
It is no secret that there are factors that deceive appetite. Watermelon is different from apple in that its sweetness mainly comes from fructose. How can I know the sweetness of fructose? It's simple. Fructose is sweet, cool and refreshing, and has the characteristics of liking cold. In other words, the lower the temperature, the greater the sweetness of fructose, which is loved by all kinds of cool drinks. Studies have long found that fructose does not significantly increase blood sugar, but it also bypasses the mechanism of controlling appetite. In other words, drinking glucose water and sugar water makes people feel full, but drinking fructose-containing drinks does not make people feel full. Because watermelon contains a lot of fructose, it also has the characteristic of not feeling full. Therefore, it is difficult for people to control their appetite when eating watermelon, just as it is difficult to stop drinking a large bottle of coke.
Lesson: Refreshing sweetness comes at a price, whether it's watermelon or cold drink.
3. What is the way to eat watermelon that is not fat?
Under normal circumstances, it is good to eat two or three watermelons a day, and there is no need to eat several kilograms at a time. At this time, it played the role of fruit. Every day, all kinds of food have their own share, such as grain is about half a catty to eight ounces, fish is 1-2 ounces, about a catty, and fruit is more than half a catty.
If you really want to eat more watermelons, you have to take up the share of other kinds of food. For example, because watermelon will bring sugar, and the metabolism of sugar and starch in the body is similar, it is necessary to reduce some staple foods to make up for it. However, watermelon contains less protein and B vitamins than the staple food, and needs to be supplemented with milk, eggs or fish. In this way, you can keep the nutritional balance unchanged.
Another plan is to add and consume an extra bowl of sugar. Due to the unbearable heat in summer, people often lack the physical ability to sweat outdoors, or worry about sweating too much during exercise and getting heatstroke. Therefore, when the temperature is as high as 35℃, people are not encouraged to go out for exercise for a long time, unless it is cooler in the morning and evening, or they are confident in their physical fitness.
If you don't choose exercise, you should avoid eating too much fruit after meals, because it will only make you fat. This kind of weight gain is definitely not to increase muscles, and the upper body is full of fat.
Lesson: Every food has its share, and there is nothing to eat more.
What kind of people are not suitable for eating watermelon?
1, diabetic patients
The sugar content of watermelon is about 5%, mainly glucose, sucrose and some fructose, which means that eating watermelon will increase blood sugar. Normal people can keep their blood sugar and urine sugar at a normal level because they can secrete insulin in time. People with diabetes are different. Eating too much watermelon in a short time will not only increase blood sugar, but also lead to acidosis and even life-threatening due to metabolic disorder. The daily intake of carbohydrates (carbohydrates) by diabetics needs to be strictly controlled. Therefore, if you eat watermelon many times a day, you should reduce the amount of meals and flour products (carbohydrates) accordingly, so as not to aggravate your illness.
I suggest that it is very important for diabetics to control their diet.
2. Renal insufficiency.
In patients with renal insufficiency, the function of expelling water from the body is greatly reduced, so edema of lower limbs or whole body often occurs. If this kind of patients eat too much watermelon, they will consume too much water and can't discharge excess water in time, which will lead to too much water storage in the body and an increase in blood volume, which will not only aggravate edema, but also easily induce acute. Therefore, patients with renal insufficiency should eat less or not eat watermelon.
3. Early cold
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that both wind-heat cold and wind-heat cold belong to exterior syndrome in the early stage, and should be treated according to syndrome differentiation and exterior syndrome. It is believed that the attack will aggravate the condition before the surface is solved. Watermelon has the function of clearing away heat. Eating watermelon at this time will aggravate the cold or prolong the course of disease.
4. Patients with oral ulcer
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that oral ulcer is caused by internal heat due to yin deficiency and disturbance of deficiency fire. Because watermelon has diuretic effect. If people with oral ulcers eat more watermelons, the water needed for the recovery of oral ulcers will be discharged too much, which will aggravate the internal heat due to yin deficiency, lengthen the course of disease and make it difficult to heal.
Step 5 get pregnant
Maternal physique is relatively weak, Chinese medicine believes that eating more watermelon will be too cold and damage the spleen and stomach.
6, should not be eaten before and after meals.
Because a lot of water in watermelon will dilute the digestive juice in the stomach, eating it before and after meals will affect the food, and eating a lot of watermelon before meals will occupy the volume of the stomach, which will greatly reduce the intake of various nutrients during meals, especially for children and lactating mothers. For people who want to lose weight by dieting, eating watermelon before meals is a good way to reduce their food intake.
7. Watermelon should not be eaten more.
Because watermelon belongs to "cold food", anyone who eats too much will hurt the spleen and stomach, leading to poor appetite, indigestion, decreased gastrointestinal resistance and diarrhea.
8. Eat less iced watermelons.
Eating iced watermelon on a hot day has a good effect on relieving summer heat, but it is very harmful to the stomach and easily harms the spleen and stomach, so we should pay attention to the delicious temperature and quantity. Watermelon is best placed on the lowest floor of the refrigerator, where the temperature is about 8- 10℃, and the temperature is also the best. Don't eat more than 500 grams of watermelon at a time. Chew slowly. For people with dental caries (tooth decay) and tooth allergies, they will feel sour and painful after catching a cold, and people with poor gastrointestinal function are not suitable for eating iced watermelons.
Let me teach you a new way to eat watermelon.
One,
Ingredients: watermelon peel, garlic, chicken essence, sugar, salt and sesame oil.
Exercise:
1. Leave a little red pulp on the watermelon skin, peel off the green hard skin of the watermelon and cut it into small pieces.
2. Add minced garlic, chicken essence, sugar, salt and sesame oil to watermelon skin and stir well.
Second, the green leather tenderloin
Ingredients: watermelon skin, tenderloin
Seasoning: egg white, cooking wine, salt, wet starch.
Production process:
1. Peel fresh watermelon skin, shred, add a little salt and mix well. After curing for a period of time, squeeze out the salt water.
2. Slice the tenderloin into filaments, put it in a bowl, add cooking wine, salt, egg white and wet starch, mix and size.
3. Add oil to the wok. When the oil is heated to 60% over medium heat, add shredded pork and spread it out. Remove and drain the shredded pork after it turns white.
4. Boil the remaining oil in the original pot with a small amount of clear soup, add shredded watermelon skin and shredded pork, turn the pot over a few times, and thicken it with wet starch.
Tip: Before frying the shredded pork in the pan, you can keep it fresh and tender by sizing it with egg white, wet starch, cooking wine and salt.
Third, melon and egg soup
Ingredients: watermelon skin, eggs, tomatoes.
Seasoning: salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil.
Production process:
1. Peel off the green husk outside, remove the red pulp inside and cut into thin strips.
2. Cut the tomatoes into pieces.
3. The eggs are scattered.
4. Add water to the soup pot, add the melon strips to boil, then add the tomato slices in turn, pour the egg liquid, and add salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil to taste.
Tip: Before pouring the egg liquid, you can add a small amount of starch liquid to the soup, so that the poured egg liquid will not come loose.
Fourth, orange juice, lotus root and watermelon peel.
Ingredients: lotus root and watermelon peel
Seasoning: orange juice, salt, sugar.
Production process:
1. Peel off the green husk outside, remove the red pulp inside and cut into strips.
2. Wash the lotus root and scrape off the skin. Cut into pieces and soak in a cold water basin.
3. Blanch the melon strips and lotus root slices with boiling water, remove and drain.
4. Add proper amount of orange juice, salt and sugar to the melon strips and lotus root slices and mix well. When the color is light yellow, you can put them on a plate.
Tip: Don't blanch watermelon peel and lotus root at the same time, because the texture is different. Lotus root and watermelon skin will be easily blanched.
Five, watermelon skin fried edamame
Ingredients: watermelon peel and edamame
Seasoning: salt and pepper.
Production process:
1. Peel off the hard skin outside and the red pulp inside the watermelon skin, cut it into cubes and marinate it with a little salt for a while.
2. Clean the edamame, put it in a boiling pot, add pepper and salt to cook it, then take it out and drain it for later use.
3. Pour out the water in the pickled diced melon.
4. Add oil to the wok. When the oil is 80% hot, add the diced melon and stir fry, then add the cooked edamame and stir fry together. You can add sour, sweet and spicy condiments according to your personal taste.
Tip: when cooking edamame, cut off the sharp corners at both ends, so that the beans are easier to taste.
Six, watermelon skin lotus leaf jellyfish soup
Ingredients: soaked jellyfish skin and watermelon skin 250g, fresh loofah 500g, fresh lentils and lotus leaves 100g, fresh bamboo leaves 25g, and a little salt.
Preparation: Wash jellyfish skin, watermelon skin, lentils and loofah and cut into pieces. Wash the lotus leaves and bamboo leaves. Boil a proper amount of water in a pot, add jellyfish skin, watermelon skin, lentils, lotus leaves and bamboo leaves, boil over high fire, and change to slow fire 1 hour, then add loofah, cook for a while, and season with salt.
Usage: Take with meals, 1-2 times a day, each time 150ml-200ml.
Efficacy: clearing heat and relieving summer heat, clearing lung and relieving cough. It is suitable for head and face edema, body heat and thirst, and red eyes and loose stool caused by dampness in summer.
Summary: After reading these introductions about watermelon, we know that watermelon has great efficacy and function. You might as well follow these practices to make a watermelon meal, which is very healthy!