Sunflower seeds are indispensable snacks in people's lives, and sunflower seeds are the best among melon seeds. Sunflower seeds can be used not only as snacks, but also as raw materials for making cakes. Because sunflower seeds are plant seeds and contain a lot of oil, sunflower seeds are still important raw materials for oil extraction. Sunflower seed oil is a high-grade healthy oil highly praised by nutrition circles in recent years.

Sunflower seeds are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, of which linoleic acid, which is essential for human body, accounts for about 50% ~ 60%. Linoleic acid can not only reduce human serum cholesterol, but also inhibit the deposition of cholesterol in blood vessels. Therefore, eating sunflower seeds can prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Sunflower seeds are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, but also contain a variety of vitamins, folic acid, iron, potassium, zinc and other essential nutrients. Sunflower seeds contain a lot of edible fiber, and every 7 grams of sunflower seeds contain 1 gram, which is much higher than the proportion of edible fiber in apples. The American Cancer Institute has proved in related experiments that dietary fiber can reduce the incidence of colon cancer. The iron content in sunflower seeds is twice that of raisins and peanuts, so it can also prevent anemia. Another point is that protein of sunflower seeds contains arginine. Arginine is an indispensable component in semen production. Therefore, it is very beneficial for men in reproductive period to eat some sunflower seeds every day.

The content of vitamin E in sunflower seeds is very high. Everyone can meet the daily vitamin E requirement by eating only one handful of sunflower seeds every day. People with normal body, eating more sunflower seeds every day is good for supplementing vitamins in the body. People with normal health can meet the needs of vitamin supplementation by eating about 50 grams of sunflower seeds every day.

Nutritional analysis: sunflower seeds are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, high-quality protein, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, selenium, vitamin E, vitamin B 1 and other nutritional elements; Its rich potassium has a protective effect on the heart and is conducive to the prevention of hypertension. Sunflower seeds are rich in vitamin E, which can prevent aging, improve immunity and prevent cardiovascular diseases. Phytosterols and phospholipids contained in sunflower seeds can inhibit the synthesis of cholesterol in human body, prevent excessive plasma cholesterol and prevent arteriosclerosis; Sunflower seeds can also regulate the metabolism of brain cells and improve their inhibitory function, so they can be used for hypnosis. Suitable for people:

The general population can eat it.

1, suitable for cancer patients; Suitable for people with hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis and hypertension; Suitable for insomnia caused by neurasthenia; Suitable for pinworm patients;

2, warm and dry after frying, eating too much is easy to cause dry mouth, aphtha, toothache and other symptoms.

Dietotherapy function:

Sunflower seeds are flat and sweet; Has the effects of tonifying deficiency, reducing blood lipid and resisting cancer.

Taboo: Peel the shell by hand as much as possible, or use a sheller, so as not to often bite the melon seeds with your teeth and damage the enamel. Peeling the shell with the mouth is easy to make the tongue and mouth erosion, and when spitting the shell, it will take away a lot of body fluids and dull the taste. Hepatitis patients had better not eat sunflower seeds, because it will damage the liver and cause cirrhosis.

How to choose:

From the production method, for example, sunflower seeds are fried in a large pot, and the ingredients are put in the pot and then fried. The flavor of the seasoning is all on the sunflower seed skin. So, you can try this: put melon seeds on your hands and rub them hard, and you will see a lot of residue on your hands. Here are some spices and some ashes from the street. And some sunflower seeds, first of all, look from the appearance, its color is brighter. Its production process is to put all the materials together by a soaking method, and then put the melon seeds in. After soaking, all the flavors are integrated into the melon seeds, and then dried, so it can be said that the flavors are all inside. Generally speaking, there are only two ways to produce sunflower seeds.

Professional processing plants generally adopt fully enclosed production technology. No one will touch sunflower seeds from raw materials entering the production line to finished products off the production line, thus ensuring food hygiene. In addition, there are strict requirements on material selection and ingredients. Another thing to remind everyone is that if sunflower seeds are stored for too long, the oil in them will affect the normal metabolism of human cells after oxidation, thus causing harm such as aging and cancer. Generally, the shelf life of sunflower seeds in bulk on the street cannot be confirmed, so it is recommended that you buy products marked with shelf life, preferably within the shelf life. Haiguazi is a special product of seawater, which is mostly produced in mudflats with frequent tides. Sea melon seeds are named after the shape and size of melon seeds, and the scientific name is Mei Clam, also known as "Rainbow Bright Cherry Clam" and "Flat Clam". The shell of sea melon seeds is oval, only 2 cm long. The shell is extremely thin and fragile, and its surface is grayish red, often lurking in the mud for about 5 to 6 cm. The meat is fat and beautiful, and it is rich in plum season. Basic information:

Variety name: Rainbow Sakura

Chinese Name: Rainbow Cherry Clam, Rainbow Cherry Clam, Plum Clam, Flat Clam, Sea Melon Seed.

Latin scientific name: rainbow cherry clam

Benson naming, 1842

Classification of families and genera: mollusks, mollusks, bivalves, clams, Cyperaceae.

Harvest season:

1. Harvest time: Generally speaking, from July to August, that is, before the breeding of adult mussels, the gonads are fully developed, and the fullness reaches the highest value in July, with the best fresh meat rate. After the end of August, the sperm eggs are exhausted and the fatness is very low.

2. Capture method: Grasp the owner by hand. If you use a net bag with a diameter of 60 cm, a bottom net of 0.3 cm and a side net of 0.7 cm to dredge the soil, it will greatly improve the work efficiency, but it is easy to cause damage and affect the product quality.

Food processing:

1. Sea melon seeds contain a lot of sediment when fishing, so they must be soaked in light salt water for half a day and then washed for later use. After the water is drained, add a small amount of cooking oil to the pot, stir-fry over high fire, add a little chopped green onion, ginger slices, salt or soy sauce, stir-fry until the thin shell of melon seeds bursts, and then take out the pot. The meat is tender and delicious, and it is a good accompaniment.

2. Ingredients for fried sea melon seeds: 300 grams of sea melon seeds, green peppers, monosodium glutamate, oil and chopped green onion. Zanthoxylum oil and sesame oil are suitable.

3. Wash the sea melon seeds; Put oil in the pan, heat it and add chopped green onion and melon seeds. When the melon seeds are eight ripe, add green pepper and stir fry. Add monosodium glutamate, pepper oil and sesame oil when opening, and take out. Introduction:

The seed of Trichosanthes kirilowii, whose real name is Trichosanthes kirilowii, has the functions of clearing away lung-heat, resolving phlegm, relieving cough, moistening intestines and relaxing bowels according to Compendium of Materia Medica and major Chinese medicine dictionaries. Cooked melon seeds are refined by traditional formula and modern technology, with unique taste and rich fragrance. They are fashionable gifts for leisure tasting and giving to relatives and friends. After frying, the melon seeds taste moist, crisp and fragrant, with brown and gorgeous appearance and full melon seeds. They are known as the "king of melon seeds" and the top grade of edible melon seeds.

Efficacy:

Modern medical research has proved that pumpkin contains 16.8% unsaturated fatty acids and 5.46% protein, and contains 17 kinds of amino acids, saponins, vitamins and 16 kinds of trace elements such as calcium, iron, zinc and selenium. In particular, it is rich in vitamin E (100 g of melon seeds contains 249 mg of vitamin), which can nourish the skin, eliminate wrinkles, regulate the body and delay aging. Eating melon seeds can also dilate the coronary artery of the heart and increase the coronary flow; It has obvious protective effect on acute myocardial ischemia; It has strong resistance to the proliferation of choriocarcinoma cells in vitro and HIV; It has a certain therapeutic effect on diabetes; It has auxiliary curative effect on hypertension, hyperlipidemia and hyperviscosity. Can improve the immune function of the body; And has the effects of slimming and beautifying.

Nutrients:

Rich in oil, the content of fatty oil is about 26%, and it also contains a variety of amino acids, especially glutamic acid, arginine, aspartic acid and leucine.

Pharmacological action:

Antidiarrheal, platelet aggregation inhibition, anti-cancer and other effects-Trichosanthes kirilowii and winter melon seeds have the effect of dilating the coronary artery of isolated guinea pig heart. Plant lectin purified from Trichosanthes kirilowii seeds does not promote mitosis of human lymphocytes. Introduction:

Pumpkin seeds (white melon seeds) can be eaten directly after frying, or they can be made into multi-flavor melon seeds, which are delicious. It can also be used as an auxiliary material for cakes. White melon seeds are rich in protein, fat and vitamins. Traditional Chinese medicine uses white melon seeds as an insect repellent for intestinal parasites, which not only has good effect, but also has no side effects of chemicals.

Therapeutic effect:

Pumpkin seeds can kill parasites (such as pinworm and hookworm) in human body and treat prostate diseases. It also has a good killing effect on schistosomiasis and is the first choice for schistosomiasis diet. Nutritionists also believe that the zinc and phosphorus contained in pumpkin seeds are also helpful to women who lack sexual desire, and the formation and growth of female eggs also need a lot of zinc. In addition, white melon seeds

"Zinc" element can also promote the rapid healing of external wounds of human body. Eating pumpkin seeds regularly can not only prevent the occurrence of kidney calculi, but also promote the discharge of existing stones. More importantly, the active ingredients and rich zinc in pumpkin seeds have health care effects on prostate. Eating a handful of pumpkin seeds every day can prevent prostate hypertrophy. Pumpkin seeds are rich in phosphorus, which is also good for male prostate. Some prostate diseases are caused by phosphorus deficiency. Nutritionists also believe that the zinc and phosphorus contained in pumpkin seeds are very helpful to the reproductive system of adult men and can improve sexual desire.

Nutritional components:

Pumpkin seed contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, dietary fiber, carotene, retinol equivalent, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, vitamin E, potassium, sodium, selenium, copper, zinc, manganese, iron, magnesium, calcium and phosphorus. It is also rich in amino acids, unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins, carotene and other nutrients.

Dietary taboos:

Another view is that it is advisable to eat 50 grams of white melon seeds once a day, and don't eat too much at a time, because there have been reports that eating too many pumpkin seeds causes dizziness. Patients with stomach heat should eat less, otherwise they will feel bloating and stuffy. In addition, if you eat too much white melon seeds, the salty taste on the shell will increase the chance of getting gastric cancer, unless you drink one or two glasses of water to dilute it. Eating too much white melon seeds will still aggravate the elm blanket in the throat and cause colitis or gastritis, so it is better to eat it intermittently several times. If you take too much, you must remember to drink more warm water to avoid tongue allergy and taste failure, and prevent the onset of colitis and gastritis.

Applicable people:

Most people can eat it. People living in areas with poor sanitation can often eat it to repel insects.

Men are suitable for regular consumption.

Applicable amount:

50 grams each time. Latin scientific name: loofah. (original plant luffa) three-thirds luffa. (Guangdong Luffa)

Textual research on the name of "Wu Niuzi"

Source: Dry mature seeds of Cucurbitaceae plant Luffa. Harvest in autumn, wash and dry.

Tropism of nature and taste: slightly sweet and flat.

Indications: clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, moistening dryness and expelling insects. Used for cough with excessive phlegm, ascariasis and constipation.

Usage and dosage: 2 ~ 3 yuan. Seed alias:

White melon seeds, melon seeds, melon petals, wax gourd kernels, melon rhinoceros.

Seed source:

That is, the dried mature seeds of wax gourd. Wash and dry (some people soak in alum water 1 genius wash and dry).

Character recognition:

The seeds are ovoid or ovoid, flat, with a length of 1-1cm, a width of 0.5- 1cm and a thickness of about 0.2cm. The surface is yellowish-white, slightly rough, with smooth edges (single-sided winter melon seeds) or with1rings on both sides (double-sided winter melon seeds). One end is slightly sharp, with two small protrusions, the larger protrusion has a micropyle, the smaller one is a hilum, and the other end is blunt. The seed coat is slightly hard and fragile. Peeling off the seed coat, you can see two cotyledons, white, plump and short. Light weight and rich in oil. No gas, slightly sweet. The granules are full and the white color is better.

Physical and chemical identification:

Take 65438 0 g crude powder of this product, add 20ml water, boil for 65438 00 minutes, cool and filter. Take the filtrate, put it in a test tube with a plug and shake it violently to produce continuous foam (saponin).

Treatment method:

Stir-fry wax gourd seeds, wash wax gourd seeds, stir-fry with slow fire until slightly yellow, take out and let cool.

Specifications of firearms products:

After frying, the surface is yellow, partially swollen or burst, and has a fragrance.

Treatment effect:

It is sweet and not cold after frying, and is suitable for water swelling and body weakness.

Sexual taste orientation:

Sweet and cold.

Chemical composition:

The oil content of winter melon seeds is 14%, of which the acyl glycerol content is between 72% and 96%, and the main fatty acids are linoleic acid, oleic acid, stearic acid, palmitic acid, octadecadienoic acid and octadecatrienoic acid. It also contains lipids, including phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylinositol, sphingomyelin and cerebroside. It also contains sterol compounds: beta sitosterol, campesterol, stigmasterol, 24- hexylcholesterol -7,25-dienol, 24- hexylcholesterol-7,22,25-trienol, 24- hexylcholesterol -7- enol and 24- hexylcholesterol-7,22-dienol. Also contains triterpenoids; Sticky pollen, rhododendron simi 5,24-cucurbituril. The seeds after fat removal contain protein cooling components and inorganic elements, such as selenium and chromium.

Pharmacological action:

1, immune promotion effect After hot water extraction of wax gourd seeds, dialysate was obtained by dialysis, which had a concentration-dependent effect on mitogenic activity of mouse lymphocytes. The dialysate is B cell mitogen, which has PBA (clonal B cell activator) activity and adjuvant activity, significantly increases the number of PFC (plaque-forming cells) and shows immune promotion.

2. Inhibit trypsin. Trypsin inhibitors were isolated and purified from wax gourd seeds, and four components with trypsin inhibitory activity were obtained, of which two were small molecular trypsin inhibitors.

Indications: clearing away heat, clearing lung-heat, resolving phlegm, expelling pus and promoting diuresis. It is suitable for cough due to lung heat, lung abscess, intestinal carbuncle, lung abscess, appendicitis and leucorrhea.

Usage and dosage:

Oral administration: decoction,10-15g; Or ground into powder. External use: appropriate amount, coated with paste.

Storage:

Put it in a ventilated and dry place to prevent insects from eating.

Precautions:

Serving in the cold for a long time. Alias: harisu Hanyu Pinyin: Cucumber Seed

Latin plant and animal mineral name: cucumissatiuus L.

Chemical composition of traditional Chinese medicine: Cucumber seeds contain fatty oil, including oleic acid 58.49%, linoleic acid 22.29%, palmitic acid 6.79% and stearic acid 3.72% [1].

Efficacy: Cucumber seeds are mainly used to treat rheumatic lumbago and leg pain and traumatic injury. Bake 30 grams of cucumber seeds and grind them into fine powder, add 3 grams of snake slough powder, and take them after mixing.

Classification of families and genera: Cucurbitaceae

Indications: fracture, tendon injury; Rheumatalgia; Senile phlegm and asthma

Harvest and storage: harvest mature fruits in summer and autumn, cut open, take out seeds, wash and dry. Efficacy classification: bones and muscles drugs; Qufeng medicine; Phlegmatic

Basic source: Cucumber seeds of Cucurbitaceae.

Administration and dosage: oral: grinding, 3-10g; I still took the pills and dispersed them. External use: take appropriate amount, grind it into powder and apply it.