1, eating watermelon can lose weight.
When summer comes, girls who love beauty will consider eating watermelon instead of staple food to lose weight. 20 12 June, the saying that "eating a watermelon is equal to eating six bowls of rice" was circulated in Weibo, which surprised them, claiming that eating watermelon not only failed to lose weight, but also made them gain weight easily. After calculation, nutrition experts said that this formulation lacks premise and is not accurate enough. For comparison, eating 1 5 Jin of watermelon is equivalent to 3 bowls of rice. Although watermelon is a fruit with low calorie, it will accumulate fat if eaten too much.
In watermelon, of course, active acid can convert ammonia in your body into urea and excrete it, but it only plays an antioxidant role, keeping you young and radiant forever. What really plays a slimming role is tannic acid. When we consume excess carbohydrate, it is not the energy to maintain your daily flow, but becomes neutral fat, such as subcutaneous fat, visceral fat and so on. Through the intake of tannic acid, neutral fat can be quickly decomposed and burned to achieve the effect of losing weight. Watermelon also contains potassium, which can solve the problem of tissue swelling caused by excessive liquid accumulation, that is, swelling reduction. In a big way, fruit watermelon is rich in crude fiber, which can promote the peristalsis of your large intestine and solve your constipation problem.
Nutrition slimming experts pointed out that compared with other fruits, watermelon contains no fat and more than 94% water, which helps to expel excess water, eliminate edema, expel toxins from the body and improve the new generation. Rich plant fiber also helps to detoxify. Low-calorie watermelon,100g only 3 1 kcal. Eating more watermelons can reduce the intake of staple food and help to lose weight. And eating watermelon in summer can relieve the heat, killing two birds with one stone.
However, everything has two sides, and slimming watermelon is still a big taboo. Even if you lose weight, eating improperly will be counterproductive.
2. How to eat watermelon to lose weight
(1) sweet and sour watermelon peel
Ingredients: watermelon peel, salt, white vinegar and sugar.
Exercise:
1) Cut off the green peel from the watermelon peel, cut it into squares with a square of about 1m, put it in a bowl, add salt and mix well, then let it stand for 5 minutes.
2) Filter the watermelon peel, add white sugar and white vinegar, mix well and marinate for 10 minutes to taste.
(2) Crystal sugar watermelon cup
Ingredients: tremella, watermelon, rock sugar.
Exercise:
1) Soak tremella in clean water 1 hour, then rinse and tear it into small flowers;
2) separating the watermelon pulp from the skin, cutting the watermelon pulp into small pieces and putting them in the refrigerator for later use; Wash watermelon skin and cut into small pieces.
3) Put the tremella and watermelon peel into the soup pot at the same time, add water and crystal sugar, bring to a boil with high fire, and turn to low fire to cook until the tremella is soft and rotten and the soup is thick.
4) After cooling slightly, remove the watermelon skin and put it in a small cup; Add the frozen diced watermelon pulp.
(3) Honey watermelon fishing
Ingredients: watermelon, glutinous rice flour, salad oil, sugar, water and honey.
Exercise:
1) Mix glutinous rice flour with white sugar, then add water and knead into dough.
2) Dip a little salad oil in your hand and knead the kneaded dough into small dumplings; After the small pot is boiled, put the kneaded dumplings in water and cook them.
3) Take out the boiled dumplings and drain them in cold water for later use. Dice a small portion of watermelon pulp, beat the remaining watermelon pulp into watermelon juice, and mix the watermelon juice with glutinous rice balls evenly.
4) When eating, put watermelon pulp and pour honey.
(4) Watermelon smoothies
Ingredients: watermelon, spicy juice, ice cubes.
Exercise:
1) Dig watermelon pulp into small pieces and remove seeds.
2) Put the watermelon in a big bowl and take some ice cubes.
3) Pour all watermelons and ice cubes into a cooking machine and beat them into smoothies.
4) Put the sand ice into an ice cup, then throw two pieces of ice and decorate with mint leaves.
(5) orange juice, lotus root and watermelon peel
Ingredients: 250g of lotus root and 250g of watermelon peel. Seasoning: orange juice, salt, sugar.
Exercise:
1) Peel off the green skin outside, remove the red pulp inside and cut into strips.
2) Wash the lotus root, scrape off the skin, cut it into pieces and soak it in a cold water basin.
3) Blanch the melon strips and lotus root slices with boiling water, remove them and drain them.
4) Add an appropriate amount of orange juice, salt and white sugar to the melon strips and lotus root slices, mix well until the color is light yellow, and serve on a plate.
(6) Guatiao Egg Flower Soup
Ingredients: 200g watermelon peel, 2 eggs, tomato 1 piece. Seasoning: salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil and a little onion.
Exercise:
1) Peel off the green skin outside, remove the red pulp inside and cut into thin strips.
2) Cut the tomatoes into pieces.
3) the eggs are broken up.
4) Add water to the pot, add melon strips to boil, then add tomato slices and egg liquid in turn, add salt and monosodium glutamate, take out and pour in sesame oil.
(7) Watermelon black tea
Ingredients: 5 grams of black tea and appropriate amount of watermelon.
Practice: put the black tea in a teacup, brew it with hot water, and then add the diced watermelon.
Weight loss effect: clear away heat and relieve summer heat, accelerate abdominal fat decomposition.