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What are the nutritional values of okra and how to make it delicious?
Hello, everyone, we are Red Sun Health Science, trying to answer this question. Okra, also known as okra, is native to Africa and belongs to Malvaceae. Okra belongs to the genus Panicum. Vegetables, medicines and flowers are widely used.

Because its tender pods, leaves, flowers and buds all have certain effects, it is called? Viagra? ,? Green ginseng? ,? Planting gold? Wait a minute. Its fruit has high nutritional value and health care effect, and it has been popular in China recently. First, introduce its nutritional value, and analyze it from both medicinal and edible aspects.

Let's take a look at the medicinal nutritional value of okra first.

1, TCM records

Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica recorded okra. The roots, stems, flowers and seeds of okra can be used as medicine, which is sweet, cold and slippery. Entering the heart, lung, kidney, stomach, liver and bladder, it can treat spleen deficiency, fatigue, constipation, malignant sores and carbuncle. Its roots promote diuresis and detumescence. Treatment of gonorrhea and galactorrhea: removing blood stasis and detoxifying. Treating carbuncle, mumps and hemorrhoids; Clearing lung and relieving cough, etc.

2. Hypolipidemic effect

The reason why the liver can synthesize cholic acid and secrete it into the digestive tract is that as long as cholic acid is combined with food, it will prevent cholic acid from being reabsorbed into the blood, promote the decomposition of cholesterol into cholic acid in the body, and thus reduce the blood lipid level.

At present, in vitro experiments show that the isolated and purified okra polysaccharide can bind to cholic acid and inhibit the adsorption of Helicobacter pylori on human gastric mucosa. This binding ability is related to the polysaccharide content and its complex structure.

In addition, another study compared the cholic acid binding ability of vegetables such as okra, beet, asparagus and green beans in vitro, and found that only okra has the ability to bind cholic acid.

3. Anti-fatigue effect

What is the main source of energy needed for exercise? After aerobic decomposition and excessive exercise of glucose, when the energy can not meet the needs of the body, it will produce some energy through anaerobic glycolysis, which will also lead to the increase of blood lactic acid content.

The results showed that mice were fed with water extract of okra 15 days, and then swimming and hypoxia tolerance experiments were carried out. The results show that the water of okra can obviously improve the hypoxia tolerance, cold tolerance and heat tolerance of mice, and reduce the blood lactic acid level of mice after strenuous exercise, so it has anti-fatigue effect.

At present, the research shows that the flavonoids in okra have anti-fatigue effect on mice, and this effect has a dose effect, and the effect of middle and high dose groups is equivalent to that of sun-dried ginseng (sun-dried ginseng is a commercial ginseng, which is the product of washing and sun-drying ginseng roots).

Let's take a look at the nutritional value of okra.

1. The fresh and tender fruit of okra is rich in vitamin C, protein, vitamin A and calcium, which can effectively protect the retina, ensure good eyesight and prevent cataracts.

2. The fresh and tender fruit of okra is high in potassium and low in sodium, which is beneficial to water balance in human body, strengthening urination, enhancing vasodilation function and improving cardiac contraction function. It has good curative effect on patients with hypertension, heart disease and kidney disease, and can also improve symptoms such as neurasthenia and insomnia.

3, okra is low in fat and sugar, and it is a good weight loss product. Regular consumption of okra can enhance human endurance, protect gastric mucosa, benefit intestines and strengthen spleen, recover patients with gastritis and gastric ulcer, and have obvious curative effect on spleen deficiency, weakness and constipation.

Finally, introduce how to eat okra.

Okra is an important ingredient on people's table. It is of great significance to understand the migration law of nutrients during cooking and choose scientific and reasonable cooking methods for giving full play to the health care function of okra. At present, the edible methods of okra have also been introduced in China, such as frying, cold salad and frying.

1, direct cold salad: remove the pedicels of washed okra and directly mix with various seasonings such as soy sauce, sesame oil, salt and monosodium glutamate. It can not only maintain nutrition to the maximum extent, but also has its unique fragrance and crisp and juicy round taste, which is incomparable to other ordinary vegetables;

2. Slice or silk salad: blanch okra with boiling water, then cut it into thin slices or silk, and mix with various seasonings to eat.

3. Stir-fried okra with sliced meat: Slice the lean pork, stir-fry it in an oil pan, add okra slices, add seasoning, and stir-fry it quickly to serve.

4. Stew ribs with okra: Stew ribs with slow fire until they are 70% mature, and add appropriate amount of cooking wine, sugar and salt. Then add the tender fruit with pedicle and stew it and eat it together. The soup is very strong and delicious.

5, fried okra: take a proper amount of flour, add an egg, with a little salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate, mix it with water to make a paste, wrap the washed pedicled okra in a paste, and fry it in an oil pan until it is light yellow, that is, delicious.

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