Bitter gourd has won people's special love for its bitter taste. The nutritional and health care characteristics of bitter gourd are as follows: First, it contains more vitamin C, vitamin B 1 and alkaloids; Secondly, it contains more galacturonic acid and pectin. Bitter taste in bitter gourd comes from quinine in alkaloid. These nutrients have the effects of stimulating appetite, promoting diuresis, promoting blood circulation, diminishing inflammation, reducing fever and refreshing the brain.
2. tomatoes:
Tomato fruit is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrate, gibberellic acid, carotene, vitamin B 1, B2, C and so on. Among them, the content of vitamin C for beauty is equivalent to 10 times that of watermelon, which is simply a vitamin warehouse. It also contains minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron that promote the growth and development of teenagers, and lycopene that inhibits the growth of bacteria. Eating more tomatoes can prevent uterine cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, bladder cancer and prostate cancer. At the same time, it can also delay the aging of some cells, lower blood pressure and prevent night blindness and gum bleeding. When eating tomatoes, you should pay attention to how to eat them. Raw food does not prevent cancer and disease, because tomatoes contain lycopene, which combines with protein and is surrounded by cellulose, so it is difficult to come out, and it will be released only when heated to a certain extent. Therefore, tomato scrambled eggs, tomato egg soup, tomato roasted tofu, tomato fried meat and tomato stir-fried dishes are all nutritious and delicious.
3. Pumpkin:
First, pumpkin is sweet and delicious; Second, pumpkin is rich in vitamin A, which can strengthen mucous membrane, prevent colds, prevent rough skin at the same time, have the effect of beauty and fitness, and also prevent keratoxerosis and night blindness. Modern medicine has found that pumpkin contains trace elements such as cobalt, zinc, copper and pectin, which can promote the normal secretion of human insulin. Therefore, pumpkin can effectively prevent and treat diabetes, hypertension, liver and kidney diseases, enhance anti-anemia and anti-cancer ability, eliminate bacterial toxicity in vivo, reduce the risk of colon cancer, and prevent and treat atherosclerosis.
4. potatoes:
About whitening vegetables, there is also the saying of "double beans", which are potatoes and peas. Potatoes are rich in B vitamins and a lot of high-quality cellulose, as well as trace elements, protein, fat and high-quality starch. These ingredients play an important role in the process of anti-aging and disease prevention, and can effectively help women detoxify. Rich in vitamin C, it can restore women's whitening skin. In addition, the crude fiber in potatoes can also play a laxative role.
5. Cucumber:
Cucumber is rich in protein, sugar, vitamin B2, vitamin C, vitamin E, carotene, nicotinic acid, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients. At the same time, cucumber also contains malonic acid, cucurbitacin, soft fine fiber and other ingredients, which can clean and whiten skin, eliminate sunburn and freckles, and relieve skin allergies. It is a traditional beauty product. Cucumber contains cucumber acid, which can promote human metabolism and excrete toxins. The content of vitamin C is five times higher than that of watermelon, which can whiten skin, maintain skin elasticity and inhibit the formation of melanin. Cucumber can also inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat, which is very beneficial to lung, stomach, heart, liver and excretory system. Summer is easy to be irritable, thirsty, sore throat or excessive phlegm. Eating cucumber helps to relieve inflammation.
6. Wax gourd:
Wax gourd is a beauty product, which has a remarkable effect on whitening skin. Wipe your face with wax gourd slices every day or often wash your face with wax gourd pulp, which can make your facial skin delicate and reduce chloasma. This may be related to the contents of histidine, urease, vitamins and trace elements in melon meat. Wax gourd has always been regarded as the top grade of slimming, and it has the reputation of "slimming melon". Modern medical circles believe that the slimming effect of wax gourd is mainly due to its rich malonic acid, which can inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat, thus preventing the accumulation of fat in the human body from producing slimming effect. In Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, it is said that winter melon is "good in color, beneficial to qi, not hungry, and long-term service makes people strong and anti-aging". Wax gourd contains trigonelline and propanol diacid, the former can accelerate the metabolism of the body, and the latter can prevent sugar from transforming into fat, thus playing a role in losing weight.