2. Wax gourd juice and wax gourd extract can increase the urine volume of animals, reduce the degree of nephropathy caused by mercury chloride, and significantly reduce the content of serum muscle poisoning.
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Wax gourd includes pulp, pulp and seeds, and is rich in nutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and mineral elements. The nutritional components of wax gourd from different producing areas are slightly different. Take China Guangdong wax gourd as an example. Every100g of fresh winter melon contains 0.3g of protein, 0.8g of carbohydrate/kloc-0, 0.9g of dietary fiber, 65mg of potassium, 0.2mg of sodium, 5mg of phosphorus14g of magnesium, 0.0 1 mg of iron, and 0.02mg of vitamin C and vitamin E.
Studies have shown that winter melon seeds are rich in vitamin B 1, which has the function of preventing and treating cancer. There are eight mineral elements such as potassium, sodium, calcium, iron, zinc, copper, phosphorus and selenium, among which the content of potassium is obviously higher than that of sodium. It is a typical vegetable with high potassium and low sodium, which is of great benefit to patients with kidney disease, hypertension and edema who need to eat low sodium food. Selenium also has many functions such as anticancer.
It contains eight kinds of essential amino acids except tryptophan, with high contents of glutamic acid and aspartic acid, as well as ornithine, γ -aminobutyric acid and histidine which are especially needed by children. Wax gourd contains no fat and dietary fiber is as high as 0.8%. It is rich in nutrition and reasonable in structure. The calculation of nutritional quality index shows that wax gourd is a healthy and high-quality food.
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