Wax gourd is a relatively large vegetable. We buy winter melon in the market, and the merchants will cut it into small pieces according to everyone's requirements. Eating wax gourd regularly is very helpful for eliminating moisture in the body, losing weight, beautifying and lowering blood pressure. Wax gourd meat is thick and delicate, and there are many cooking methods. Can be used for soup, stew, braise in soy sauce, stuffing, etc. Stewed meatballs with wax gourd are especially popular in winter.

The method of stewed meatballs with wax gourd

Ingredients: pork, wax gourd and carrot.

Production steps:

Wash melon and carrot, peel and cut into pieces for later use. Chop ginger and mix with chopped pork, add proper amount of flour and mix well. Add a proper amount of water to the pot, boil the water and add ginger, wax gourd and carrot. Cook the meatballs directly in the pot. Add salt, pepper and appropriate amount of oil to serve.

Efficacy and function of wax gourd

1. Lose weight

Wax gourd contains trigonelline, malonic acid and B vitamins, which can inhibit the transformation of sugar substances into fat in human body, thus preventing the accumulation of fat in human body, and can also promote the consumption of excess fat in human body and excrete it. Wax gourd is also rich in dietary fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal motility and promote the excretion of toxins. The calorie of wax gourd is very low, even if it is eaten, it will not increase much calories, so wax gourd is a kind of diet food with particularly good weight loss effect.

2. Detoxify and fight cancer

The content of dietary fiber in wax gourd is very high. 100 g of wax gourd contains about 0.9 g of dietary fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and excrete wastes (including carcinogens) accumulated in intestinal tract, so wax gourd has the function of detoxification and anticancer.

3. Prevention of coronary heart disease

Wax gourd contains natural plant fat, which becomes unsaturated fatty acid after ingesting into human body. Unsaturated fatty acid can inhibit the deposition of cholesterol and triglyceride in blood, thus reducing blood lipid and bad cholesterol and promoting blood flow. In addition, wax gourd also contains malonic acid and dietary fiber, which is also helpful for lowering cholesterol and blood lipid in human body and preventing atherosclerosis.

bring down the blood pressure

The content of vitamin C in wax gourd is relatively high. 100g wax gourd contains 18mg of vitamin C, 78mg of potassium and 1.8mg of sodium, so the high potassium content is helpful to excrete excess sodium in human body, so eating wax gourd can reduce the blood pressure of patients with high sodium and hypertension. Wax gourd contains malonic acid, which can prevent and treat hypertension.

reduce the blood sugar

Wax gourd is rich in dietary fiber, and according to medical research, foods with high dietary fiber content can improve the blood sugar level of human body, and the blood sugar index of human body is negatively correlated with the dietary fiber content in food, so eating wax gourd can lower blood sugar.

6. Eliminating dampness and reducing swelling

At the beginning of the article, it is mentioned that wax gourd has the effect of eliminating dampness, which generally means diuresis. Therefore, wax gourd is beneficial to patients with renal edema, with high potassium content and low sodium content, which helps the human body to excrete excess sodium. Wax gourd contains a lot of glutamic acid, aspartic acid, arginine, ornithine and γ -aminobutyric acid, while wax gourd peel and wax gourd