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What are the seasonal fruits and vegetables in August?
1 and seasonal fruits in August:

(1) Peaches: Peaches are seasonal fruits in August. They are sweet in taste, rich in nutrition, rich in vitamins, minerals, fruit acids and other effective components, which are beneficial to people's health care.

(2) Watermelon: Watermelon is a fruit that people often eat in summer, and it is also one of the seasonal fruits in August. It is rich in juice, sweet and delicious. Eating in summer can relieve summer heat, clear away heat and quench thirst, which is beneficial to people's health.

(3) Longan: Longan, also known as longan, is also a seasonal fruit in August. It is sweet and delicious, and also rich in vitamins, trace elements and minerals. Eating longan can replenish qi and blood and keep healthy, but eating longan in summer is easy to get angry, so everyone should pay attention to eating it in moderation.

(4) Grapes: Now is the season when grapes mature normally and are on the market in large quantities, and many grapes are on the market. Black grapes are sweet and crisp, and Kyoho grapes are big and thick, with plenty of juice.

2. Seasonal vegetables in August:

(1) pumpkin

Pumpkin, also known as wheat melon, pumpkin, pumpkin and golden wax gourd, is planted all over China and is one of the main vegetables in summer. Pumpkin has complete nutrients and high nutritional value. Pumpkin is rich in protein, fat, inorganic salts, nicotinic acid, vitamin C, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, carotene and other nutrients. Eating pumpkin regularly in summer can make the stool smooth and eliminate toxins. The best way to eat pumpkin in summer is to mash it and cook it into porridge.

(2) Cucumber

Cucumber has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, detoxicating, reducing swelling, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Can be used for adjuvant treatment of various common discomforts. In addition, the crude fiber in cucumber can promote the excretion of harmful substances and cholesterol in the body, and malonic acid can inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat, which is a healthy vegetable to lose weight. Eating cucumbers in summer is definitely a good choice. In addition, women who love beauty can not only eat cucumbers, but also mash them into juice and apply them to their faces, which can moisturize and wrinkle.

(3) tomatoes

Lycopene contained in tomatoes can inhibit bacteria, and malic acid, citric acid and sugar can help digestion. In addition, tomatoes are rich in vitamins A, C, B 1, B2, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, iron, zinc, copper and iodine, and also contain protein, sugars, organic acids and cellulose. It can be seen that the nutritional types of tomatoes are still relatively complete. Moreover, tomatoes are sour and sweet, which can also relieve loss of appetite.

(4) celery

Celery is called a negative calorie vegetable because it contains less calories and more crude fiber. Chewing celery and digesting celery consume far more calories than eating celery, and you don't have to worry about getting fat when eating celery. In addition, celery itself has a faint fragrance, which can play the role of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, relieving summer heat and relieving annoyance, especially with bitter gourd juice.

(5) Bitter gourd

Bitter gourd has the functions of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat and detoxifying, which is very in line with the requirements of summer diet; Bitter gourd is known as the fat killer, which can reduce the body's intake of fat and polysaccharide, thus playing a role in losing weight.

6.spinach

Spinach is one of the most suitable vegetables to eat in summer. It has a good effect of moistening intestines and quenching thirst, but the only drawback of spinach is that it contains oxalic acid. We know that when oxalic acid enters the human body, it will form an insoluble substance-calcium oxalate with calcium, which will affect the absorption of calcium. Therefore, when eating spinach, we must pay attention to blanching first, so as to remove most of oxalic acid and reduce the influence of oxalic acid on calcium.

(7) wax gourd

Although winter melon is called "winter" melon, it is the most suitable for summer. Wax gourd is rich in vitamin C, high in potassium salt and low in sodium salt, which is suitable for patients with hypertension, nephropathy and edema. At the same time, wax gourd is sweet in taste and cold in nature, and has good effects of clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, relieving summer heat and relieving annoyance. It's really good to make soup with it in summer.

(8) kelp

Kelp is rich in nutrition, containing iodine, iron, calcium, protein fat, fat, starch, mannitol, carotene, vitamin B 1, B2, nicotinic acid, alginic acid and other minerals, and it is a very popular food. Kelp and wax gourd can be described as a perfect match for relieving summer heat. Cooking soup with them can relieve summer heat, quench thirst and reduce swelling. Kelp can be mixed with wax gourd or cold, and it tastes good.