Why are there no melons? Many people actually have this question. We have heard a lot about winter melon, watermelon and pumpkin, but we have hardly heard of north melon. In fact, there are beigua, but we just changed our name. So I'll tell you why there is no pumpkin!
Why is there no pumpkin 1? Why are there no melons?
In fact, there are also North Melons, but there are many places without this name. North Melon has many nicknames, such as: Jade Melon, Sunflower Melon, Foreign Melon, East Pumpkin, Stir Luffa, and Indian Pumpkin. Speaking of these names, you may not be familiar with them. Then, "zucchini" is always known to everyone. Yes, the so-called north melon is zucchini.
Fu Xuan Town Records, the earliest record of pumpkins in Jiajing forty years, also recorded pumpkins in the north. In 1 18 pumpkin local chronicles, there are as many as 25 species of south pumpkin and north pumpkin.
"Beigua" is a semi-wild plant. Because the yield is low, it is not as sweet as watermelon, the fragrance of wax gourd and the high yield of other pumpkins, so people don't know much about it. Beigua originated in Bolivia, Chile, Argentina and other countries in South America, and is cultivated all over the world. China's Sunsquash may have been imported from India, so it is also called "Indian Pumpkin".
We often eat zucchini, which goes well with scrambled eggs. Refreshing and delicious, especially suitable for dining. Moreover, zucchini has high nutritional value and high calcium content. 100g Every edible part contains 22-29mg of calcium, so eating more zucchini can supplement calcium, and it is particularly easy to absorb.
The difference between pumpkin and pumpkin.
Cucurbitaceae Cucurbitaceae is an annual creeping herb. There are translucent coarse hairs on the stem. Tendrils bifurcate. Leaves papery, triangular or ovate. Flowers monoecious, solitary, yellow. The shape of fruit varies with varieties, and the seeds are white.
Pumpkins also belong to Cucurbitaceae. In Shandong, it is called hanging melon, and in Northeast, it is called pumpkin. Edible, there are two kinds of orange and cyan, which are oblate or irregular gourd-shaped. Immature fruits are crispy and dense, and can be used as side dishes and fillings. Mature fruits include sweet noodles and porridge.
The handle of pumpkin has obvious five stare blankly, and the handle of north melon is round. At the joint between the handle and the melon, the pumpkin will swell into a hat, while the pumpkin is clean. The top of pumpkin melon is a bowl mark of falling flowers, while the north melon is just a dot, or just a ring formed by shrinking stigma and calyx.
The difference between pumpkin and pumpkin is also the shape. Pumpkins are mostly oblate, while northern melons are mostly gourd-shaped. More importantly, the color. Mature pumpkins are yellow or red, while northern melons are mostly dark green, blue-black or watermelon-like stripes when they are mature.
Efficacy and function of north melon
1, prevent diabetes, pumpkin contains trigonelline, which can make insulin secrete more, thus improving diabetes and preventing diabetes.
2. clear away heat and detoxify. The unique substance in pumpkin can effectively remove the heat toxin in the body and moisturize your lungs. Pumpkin can effectively improve these conditions and can be used as a good medicine for adjuvant treatment of certain diseases. Pumpkin can clear away heat and diuresis, moisten lung and relieve cough, and the effect is very remarkable, especially for edema and abdominal distension.
3, enhance liver and kidney function, wax gourd can prevent kidney or liver lesions, often eat some can make liver and kidney function better, but also make cells more energetic.
4, slimming, pumpkin contains a lot of cellulose, which can make the gastrointestinal peristalsis faster, and can also make the metabolism faster, and the weight loss effect is very good.
5, anti-cancer, anti-cancer, there is interferon in melon, which can make the body produce more interferon and improve immunity. The anti-cancer and anti-virus effect is very good.
6, beauty beauty, wax gourd is rich in vitamins, which can make skin cells more active, skin color can become more uniform, and it can also provide nutrients needed by the skin, and the dull situation can be alleviated.
Beigua practice daquan
Now that we know that pumpkin is zucchini, we also know the efficacy and function of pumpkin, so what should we do to make it delicious? The following is a summary of the practices of Beigua, including frying Beigua, using Beigua as vegetable soup and using Beigua as staple food. Let's have a look.
1, vinegar sweet potato
Ingredients: pumpkin, garlic, ginger, dried pepper, salt, chicken essence and balsamic vinegar.
Practice: wax gourd is seeded and sliced, and ginger and garlic are also sliced; Put oil in a hot pan, cool, add dried Chili, stir fry, add garlic slices and ginger slices; Pick out dried peppers, add wax gourd and stir-fry until transparent, and pour in appropriate amount of balsamic vinegar and stir-fry evenly to serve.
2. Mushrooms and Beigua in Oyster Sauce
Ingredients: appropriate amount of pumpkin, a little fresh mushrooms, appropriate amount of red pepper (both sweet and spicy), a little garlic slices, a little oyster sauce and a few drops of sesame oil; A little salt
Practice: Wash and slice wax gourd and red pepper; Clean fresh mushrooms, remove pedicels, quickly blanch in boiling water, take out, rinse and drain, and slice; Add oil to the pot, heat it, stir fry the garlic slices, and then stir fry the wax gourd; Later, add mushrooms and red peppers and stir-fry for a while; Add appropriate amount of oyster sauce, drop a few drops of sesame oil, add a little salt and stir well.
3, Beigua egg shrimp skin jiaozi
Material: north melon; Eggs; Shrimp skin; Chopped green onions
Practice: shred the melon and sprinkle a little salt in the container, leave it for a while to drain the water of the melon itself and squeeze it dry for later use; Beat the eggs into the container and break them. Chop chopped green onion and peel shrimps. Remove the oil pan, add the eggs, dried shrimps and chopped green onion, stir fry, and shovel the eggs out; Mix the processed pumpkin and eggs together, drop a little sesame oil and a little salt (put salt before); You can keep jiaozi.
4. Vegetarian fried melon
Ingredients: half a melon; A tomato; Xiaomi spicy; Shredded onion
Practice: Slice the melon meat, cut the tomato into pieces, shred the millet with hot sauce, and shred the onion for later use; Put a little olive oil in the pot, it will be 80% hot. Add shredded onion and pepper to make it fragrant. Stir-fry pumpkin and tomato pieces in a pot, add salt and seasoning, and wait until cooked!
5, cold zucchini silk
Ingredients: half a pumpkin, dried red pepper, pepper, cooking oil, soy sauce, salt, aged vinegar, sesame oil and sugar;
Practice: Wash and shred the zucchini, prepare dried red pepper and pepper, heat the wok with oil, and then stir-fry the dried red pepper and pepper; Pour the hot oil on the chopped pumpkin; Mixing soy sauce, aged vinegar, sesame oil, sugar and salt, and stirring to obtain paste; Pour the sauce on the shredded zucchini, remove the pepper, and mix well to serve;
In addition, Beigua has the following practices:
Baked pumpkin with garlic, stewed tomato with pumpkin, fried pumpkin with tomato juice, fried pumpkin with edible fungus eggs, fried pumpkin with celery eggs, pumpkin cheese bone soup, pumpkin egg cake, stewed pork with pumpkin, fried bacon with pumpkin buckwheat, fried steamed bread with pumpkin chicken, fried beef with pumpkin tomato and barbecued pumpkin. Stir-fried pumpkin with mushroom and crab stick with garlic, stir-fried pumpkin with sand tea, fried pumpkin with seaweed at night, fried pumpkin with coriander and cauliflower, fried pumpkin with gourd and melon, pumpkin pancake, fried pork root with gourd and melon ribs soup, fried bacon with shrimp skin, fried pumpkin with zucchini, fried pumpkin with tomato, fried pumpkin with Yunnan pumpkin, fried pumpkin with meat stuffing and fried pumpkin with minced garlic pepper. Shrimp gourd and melon wide powder pot, Pugua clam, Yunnan Beigua fried beef, meat dragon porridge, clam gourd cake, fresh shrimp and vegetable cake, vegetable barley mixed soup with meat, chocolate pumpkin cake, vegetable meatball soup, ham and shrimp baked tofu and so on.
Why do people often eat a kind of food without pumpkins, but people eat less and don't know much? In fact, pumpkin is a variety of pumpkin, and it is also an edible melon food, and its meat is tender and nutritious, but after eating pumpkin, it will not only be good for the body, but also have some disadvantages.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of eating beigua?
1, nourishing skin
Nourishing the skin is an important benefit for people to eat beigua. It can provide rich nutrition for human skin, promote skin cell regeneration, moisturize skin and skin moss to prevent wrinkles and spots, keep human skin smooth and tender, and slow down skin aging.
Step 2 lose weight
Beigua is also the time to lose weight healthily. After people use it, it can accelerate human metabolism and inhibit the absorption of heat. Moreover, the cellulose and pectin it contains can accelerate the metabolism of harmful substances in the human body, clear the intestines, detoxify and relax the bowels, and can also make people lose weight obviously.
3. Improve immunity
Improving human immunity is also an important benefit for people to eat Beigua, because people can absorb natural interferon inducer after eating Beigua, which can promote the production of interferon in human body, improve human immune function, reduce virus damage to human cells, prevent human cells from becoming cancerous, and enhance human body's own disease resistance.
The disadvantages of eating beigua
There is no harm for people to eat Beijing melon, but if they don't pay attention to the intake of other foods for a long time, they will be easily malnourished, and they will get sick because of the lack of some nutrients. In addition, people who eat beigua will not have any adverse effects on their health.
The above has introduced the advantages and disadvantages of eating North Melon for everyone, which can let everyone know that North Melon has two sides. In the future, everyone can pay more attention when eating North Melon, which can make it play a good health care role, but it will not cause adverse effects on human health.
The seed of Cucurbitaceae is the mature seed of Cucurbitaceae. This is a variety of pumpkin. When mature, the appearance is mostly oblate and orange. After people cut it, they can take out the mature seeds inside. These seeds are melon seeds. So what are the functions and functions of North melon seeds? What are the taboos when people eat?
Efficacy and function of north melon seeds
1, supplement nutrition
Supplementing rich nutrition for human body is the most important function of pumpkin seeds, because pumpkin seeds are rich in linoleic acid, linolenic acid and plant protein, and also contain some dietary fibers, carbohydrates and vitamins beneficial to human body. After these nutrients are absorbed by the human body, they can improve the function of multiple organs and slow down the aging speed of the human body.
2. Protect the cardiovascular system
Melon seeds have obvious protective effect on human cardiovascular system, because the seeds of this plant contain a lot of unsaturated fatty acids, especially linolenic acid sulfite, which can promote vasodilation, purify blood, accelerate blood circulation and prevent cardiovascular diseases.
3, improve sperm activity
Melon seed is also a kind of health food especially suitable for men, because it is rich in trace element zinc. After being absorbed by men, it can promote the secretion of adrenal hormones, promote sperm production, improve sperm motility, and relieve male sexual dysfunction, poor sperm motility, oligospermia and azoospermia to some extent.
Taboo of melon seeds in North China
For those words with the highest nutritional value and excellent health care effect, patients with gastric ulcer can simply use them, otherwise it will aggravate the symptoms of gastric ulcer. In addition, people with beriberi and damp-heat jaundice are also prohibited from eating melon seeds, which is not good for their recovery.
The above introduces the efficacy, functions and taboos of melon seeds, which can give you a deeper understanding of melon seeds. However, when eating melon seeds, it is best to fry them before eating. Eating raw will increase the burden on the stomach and intestines, and it will also cause abdominal pain and diarrhea.