1, whitening vegetables
(1) white radish
Chinese medicine believes that white radish can "benefit the five internal organs, make people white and clean muscles."
White radish is a common vegetable, which can be eaten raw or cooked. It tastes slightly spicy. Has the effects of promoting digestion, stimulating appetite, accelerating gastrointestinal peristalsis, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. So can white radish turn white? Because white radish is rich in vitamin C, vitamin C is an antioxidant, which can inhibit melanin synthesis, prevent fat oxidation and prevent lipofuscin deposition. Therefore, eating white radish often can make the skin white and delicate.
(2) peas
Eating more peas can dispel spots and raise beauty. Compendium of Materia Medica claims that peas have the effect of "removing dark spots and making the face shiny".
Modern research has found that peas are rich in provitamin A, which can be converted into vitamin A in the body, and vitamin A has the function of moistening the skin, and is taken from general food without toxic side effects. Eating peas can also reduce swelling and stretch the skin, which can tighten the wrinkles around the eyes.
(3) 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.
(4) carrots
Carrots are called "skin food" and can moisturize the skin. It contains beta carotene, which can resist oxidation and whiten skin, remove excess cutin from skin, and also has calming and soothing effects on oily acne skin. Egg yolk and honey have moisturizing effect. In addition, carrots are rich in pectin, which can combine with mercury, thus eliminating harmful components in the human body and making the skin look more delicate and ruddy.
(5) Mushrooms
Mushrooms are nutritious, rich in protein and vitamins, low in fat and free of cholesterol. Eating mushrooms can make women secrete more estrogen, prevent aging and make skin gorgeous. In addition, mushrooms contain crude fiber, semi-crude fiber and lignin, which are difficult for human body to digest. They can keep intestinal water balance, absorb residual cholesterol and sugar, and excrete them, which is very beneficial to prevent constipation, intestinal cancer, arteriosclerosis and diabetes.
(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.
(7) 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.
(8) Asparagus
Asparagus is rich in selenium, which can resist aging, prevent and treat various diseases related to excessive oxidation of fat, and make skin white and tender.
(9) Sweet potato
Sweet potato contains a lot of mucin, vitamin C is also very rich, and the content of provitamin A is close to that of carrot. Eating sweet potatoes often can lower cholesterol, reduce subcutaneous fat, tonify deficiency and qi, strengthen spleen and stomach, and benefit kidney yang, thus contributing to skin care and beauty.
(10) tomatoes
Tomatoes are rich in natural antioxidants. Besides vitamin C, they also contain lycopene. These natural antioxidants are "natural enemies" of excessive superoxide radicals in the body. Eliminating excess superoxide radicals in the body can reduce melanin production. Components such as oligosaccharides contained in tomatoes can also effectively reduce the enzymes that form melanin.
2, the practice of vegetable mask
(1) cucumber mask
Ingredients: a fresh cucumber.
Practice: Wash and slice the cucumber and stick it directly on your face. /kloc-After 0/5 minutes, take out the cucumber slices and clean the face.
Beauty function: This mask has the functions of moistening skin, whitening skin and removing wrinkles.
(2) carrot mask
Ingredients: carrots, flour.
Practice: First take fresh carrots, wash them and mash them. In the mashed carrot and its juice, add flour and mash it, and apply carrot paste to your face. Once every other day, 10 minutes is enough.
Beauty function: This mask can eliminate acne and resist facial wrinkles.
(3) Tomato Mask
Ingredients: tomato, honey
Practice: Wash the prepared homemade tomato fruit with water, cut it into pieces, filter the juice, add a little honey, smear it on the parts with wrinkles and freckles, and wash it gently with water after about 15 ~ 20 minutes.
Beauty function: Tomato juice can not only eliminate wrinkles and freckles, but also whiten skin. Rub it on the face with acne and acne, and it can also remove greasy and prevent infection.
(4) Potato Mask
Ingredients: 1 potato, 3 tablespoons milk, proper amount of flour.
Practice: wash the potatoes, peel and cut into pieces, and put them into a juicer for juicing; Pour potato juice, milk and flour into a mask bowl; Fully stir with mixing chopsticks, and blend into a thin, moderate and easy-to-apply mask cream for later use.
Beauty function: the main function is to replenish water and moisturize, which is suitable for all skin types, especially dry skin. At the same time, because the fresh juice of potato has anti-inflammatory, astringent, calming and freckle-removing effects.
3. The misunderstanding of eating vegetables
Myth 1: lasting vegetables
Office workers usually like to do big shopping once a week, and store the purchased vegetables at home and eat them slowly. Although this is time-saving and convenient, you should know that vegetables lose a lot of nutrients every 1 day, such as spinach. Under normal circumstances (20℃), vitamin C will lose as much as 84% every day. Therefore, the storage time of vegetables should be minimized. If you store it, you should also choose a dry, ventilated and dark place.
Myth 2: Cut vegetables first and then wash them.
Chefs in the canteen often cut vegetables first and then rinse them together, which saves trouble. Many people don't agree. In fact, doing so will also make a lot of vitamins flow into the water in vain.
Myth 3: throw away the part with the most vitamins.
Some people's accustomed vegetable processing methods also affect the nutrients in vegetables. For example, some people throw away watercress in order to eat the sprouts of bean sprouts. In fact, the vitamin C content of watercress is 2 ~ 3 times more than that of bean sprouts. For another example, squeezing out vegetable juice when making dumplings will lose more than 70% of vitamins. The correct way is to cut the vegetables and mix them with oil, then add salt and seasoning, so that there is not so much soup in the oily dumpling stuffing.
Myth 4: small fire cooking
Vitamin c and B 1 are both afraid of heat, so avoid stewing with low fire and frying with high fire when cooking. And adding a little vinegar is also beneficial to vitamin preservation. Some vegetables are more suitable for cold dishes, such as cucumbers and tomatoes.
Myth 5: Eat vegetables without soup.
When cooking, many nutrients in vegetables are dissolved in soup. It's a pity not to drink.
Myth 6: I prefer cooking.
Many dieters believe that frying meat and vegetables together can reduce fat intake. In fact, vegetables absorb oil more easily.
Myth 7: Don't eat the food immediately when it is ready.
Many people like to heat the cooked food in a pot or put it in an insulated bucket and eat it for a while, which will also lose a lot of nutrients. Think about it, it's a pity that the food you finally cooked is not nutritious because you don't eat it right away.
Myth 8: Vegetarians don't eat meat.
Nowadays, there are more and more vegetarians. Although it is beneficial to prevent arteriosclerosis, vegetarianism is wrong. First, people must take a certain amount of cholesterol from meat every day, and a proper amount of cholesterol is also beneficial to cancer prevention. Second, a simple vegetarian diet will lead to insufficient intake of protein, which is easy to cause digestive tract tumors. Third, vitamin B2 intake is insufficient. Fourth, because of the widespread zinc deficiency in vegetables, vegetarians are also prone to serious zinc deficiency. A better way is to eat according to your own physical characteristics, which can not only achieve the effect of vegetarianism, but also avoid the harm of vegetarianism to your body.