Watermelon and tomato juice
Ingredients: watermelon and tomato.
Practice: Squeeze watermelon pulp juice with juicer, blanch tomatoes with boiling water, peel, chop into seeds and squeeze out juice. Mix the two kinds of juice evenly and drink at any time.
Slimming effect: Watermelon and tomato are classic slimming foods. This watermelon tomato juice contains a lot of dietary fiber, which can make MM lighter and prevent heatstroke.
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.
Slimming effect: clear away heat and relieve summer heat, accelerate abdominal fat decomposition.
Cui Yi herbal tea
Ingredients: fresh watermelon with hard skin outside the pulp, a small amount of fried Gardenia, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Rhizoma Coptidis, Radix Glycyrrhizae and sugar.
Practice: cut the jade clothes into small pieces, put them into the pot together with other raw materials, add water, simmer for 20 minutes, filter the residue to get juice, add sugar, and drink after cooling.
Slimming effect: it can accelerate the excretion of toxins in the body, make the elephant legs of meat symmetrical, clear away heat and detoxify, and has certain curative effect on sore throat and tonsillitis.
Lotus leaf tea with melon slices
Ingredients: fresh watermelon peel 1, fresh lotus leaf 30g.
Practice: cut the watermelon skin into small pieces, shred the lotus leaves, and then cook all the ingredients in boiling water for 3 minutes.
Slimming effect: it can improve constipation very well and achieve the effect of slimming the whole body.
Cold Cui Yi
Ingredients: watermelon peel, cucumber, carrot, white wine, white vinegar, sugar and salt.
Practice: remove the hard skin and pulp from the outer layer of watermelon, and cut it into strips of 1 inch with cucumber and carrot. Blanch the boiling water, cool the boiling water, take it out and put it on a plate, pour a little white wine, add white vinegar, sugar and salt, and mix well.
Slimming effect: This slimming dish is low in calories, refreshing, promoting gastrointestinal peristalsis and flattening the prominent stomach.
Watermelon skin with red pepper
Ingredients: 300g watermelon peel, 2 onions, salt, red pepper and monosodium glutamate.
Practice: Remove the red pulp and outer hard skin of watermelon, cut the skin into thin strips and add salt. Then squeeze the watermelon skin dry. Shred red pepper, add a little salt and fry in oil pan, then pour watermelon peel and fry for 2 minutes, then add monosodium glutamate and shallots, stir-fry a few times and take out.
Slimming effect: This dish is not only slimming, but also radiant and pleasing to the eye. Red pepper with light green melon skin is full of saliva.
How to choose watermelon male and female
Look at this color.
The surface of melon skin is smooth and bright, which is the mother melon, and the bottom is yellow, which is the ripe melon; The surface is fuzzy, dim, mottled and unclear, and it is an immature melon.
Playing a melon with your fingers and hearing the sound of "pengpeng" is a ripe melon; Those who hear "Dangdang" sound are immature, and those who hear "Poop" sound are ripe melons.
It is best to choose turquoise instead of white fog when picking melons.
Look at this circle.
There is a small black circle at the bottom of the melon. The big circle is a male melon and the small circle is a female melon.
The smaller the black circle, the better. If the black circle is bigger and the melon skin is thicker, it is not good.
And the two ends should be symmetrical, the navel and pedicel are deeply sunken, and the fullness around them is a good melon; Melons with big heads and small tails or thick pointed tails are inferior.
Look at these lines
Melon surface lines are neat, regular is female melon, irregular is male melon. Melons grow well and have good quality. If the melon is deformed, the growth is abnormal, and the quality is second.
Look at Guati
Watermelon head is the so-called Guati. If it is a straight line, it is a male melon with many melon seeds and a big taste. Don't choose it. If it is curly, like a beautiful woman's curly hair, it is a mother drop. The melon seeds have less kernels and a delicate and sweet taste. This is necessary. Look, Guadi is green and a mature melon. Dark brown, fluffy, fragile, curly beard tip turned yellow and withered, which is a melon picked prematurely; The handle of the melon has dried up and it is a "dead vine melon" with poor quality.
Five Health-preserving and Disease-eliminating Functions of Watermelon
Treat constipation
Watermelon has a laxative effect. When a child is constipated, the hard skin on the watermelon can be made into juice, which has a good laxative effect.
Children with constipation for too long can add some honey. However, children with yang deficiency and deficiency of both qi and blood should use it with caution, because diarrhea may occur if the laxative effect is too good.
bring down the blood pressure
Peel watermelon peel, wash, cut into pieces, and steam in a pot for 10 minutes. Soaking sugar in the morning and evening has the functions of relieving fever, quenching thirst, diuresis and lowering blood pressure.
Remove prickly heat
In hot weather, sweating is easy to get prickly heat. You can wash the watermelon skin and gently rub the affected area with the white part of the watermelon (the rubbing effect is good after bathing), which makes you feel cool and comfortable. Three times a day, usually two days later.
Relieve toothache
Chinese medicine believes that watermelon peel can mainly treat diseases such as summer heat and polydipsia. After the watermelon skin is dried, add a little borneol and rub it on the toothache to relieve the pain.
Treat oral ulcer
If the mouth is full of sores or ulcers, you can burn and grind the watermelon skin and put it in your mouth to cure the sores on your mouth. That's how watermelon frost got here. You can also cook watermelon peel and mung bean together before drinking soup as a good drink to prevent getting angry at ordinary times.
Watermelon is full of treasures.
Melon pulp/pulp
According to nutrition experts, every 100g pulp contains 94. 1g water, 1g protein, 4.2g carbohydrates, 0.3g cellulose, various vitamins and minerals, and also contains a lot of fructose, glucose, sucrase and rich malic acid, phosphoglutamic acid and carotene. Rich nutrition is also one of the reasons why people like to eat watermelon.
Sugar, protein and trace salt contained in watermelon juice can reduce blood fat and soften blood vessels, and also have certain curative effect on cardiovascular diseases. The protease contained in watermelon juice can transform insoluble protein into soluble protein, thus increasing the nutrition of patients with nephritis. Watermelon diuresis can quickly cool the human body, which is better than antibiotics for patients with fever and acute urinary tract infection.
Watermelon seed
We dry the remaining watermelon seeds after eating, which can be used as a nut snack after dinner.
It contains fat, protein, dietary fiber and minerals such as potassium, sodium, iron, manganese and magnesium.
Selenium and vitamin e are high in content. Eating watermelon seeds often can make the skin shiny and elastic, and watermelon seeds are good for people with indigestion. But because watermelon seeds contain high calories, people who lose weight should eat less.
watermelon peel
According to experts, many times we throw watermelon skin away as garbage. In fact, watermelon peel has high nutritional value. Studies have shown that watermelon peel is rich in amino acids, protein, pectin, vitamins and various trace elements. We can turn waste into treasure, make watermelon peel into various dishes, and fully absorb its nutritional value without wasting. Why not?
From this perspective, watermelon is a treasure both inside and outside. Can you let go of your stomach and eat hard food in summer? Of course not. We still have to follow the dietary guidelines of China residents. We should not eat too much. Eating too much food is not good, and so is watermelon.