When cooking eggplant, it is best not to remove the eggplant skin, not only because the iron in the pulp will turn black soon after peeling, but also because the eggplant skin, especially the purple eggplant skin, is rich in vitamin E and vitamin P. Vitamin E has excellent antioxidant capacity and plays an important role in anti-cancer and anti-aging. Vitamin P can enhance human cell adhesion, soften blood vessel wall, enhance capillary elasticity and prevent microvascular hemorrhage, so it has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on cardiovascular diseases and septicemia. Therefore, it is best not to peel eggplant.

What kind of eggplant has the highest nutritional value?

Purple eggplant has the highest nutritional value, the purple skin is rich in vitamin E and vitamin P, and the choice of eggplant should choose the newly harvested tender fruit. There is a light band where the eggplant sepals are connected with the fruit. The wider this band is, the more obvious it is, indicating that the eggplant fruit grows faster without aging. If the band is not obvious, it means that the eggplant has stopped growing at harvest. At this time, the pulp has begun to be rough and the seeds have hardened, which affects eating.

Eating fried eggplant is unhealthy.

When cooking roasted eggplant, if the cut eggplant is fried, it is "over-oiled". At this time, the oil temperature is very high, generally reaching about 180℃. At such a high temperature, the loss of flavonoids is serious, and the health care function of eggplant has lost more than half. There is a "synergistic effect" between vitamin C and flavonoids, because flavonoids can prevent vitamin C from being destroyed by oxidation, and vitamin C can promote the disease prevention effect of flavonoids. However, when making roasted eggplant, I am afraid that vitamin C in hot eggplant will be lost in hot oil. In fact, fried eggplant not only degrades vitamin C, but also causes a great loss of vitamin B 1 and vitamin B2, which greatly reduces the overall nutritional value.