Bitter gourd is very effective in lowering blood pressure and helping digestion and eliminating fat, and there are many ways to do it. Cold salad, grabbing, frying and steaming are all nutritious without losing nutrition. Bitter gourd is not only a good summer vegetable, but also a good medicine. According to nutritionists, if you eat100g bitter gourd every day, you can get the vitamin C you need all day. It is often used to treat heatstroke, cold, enteritis, dysentery, dysuria, impotence, malnutrition and other diseases.

2 How to eat bitter gourd has a good blood pressure lowering effect. Stir-fried bean sprouts with bitter gourd Ingredients: 200g bitter gourd, 200g mung bean sprouts, vegetable oil, salt and rice vinegar.

Practice: Wash bitter gourd, cut the capsule into filaments, wash mung bean sprouts and drain. Put vegetable oil in the pot, add bitter gourd and stir fry after the oil is hot, add mung bean sprouts and stir fry until the bean sprouts are soft, then add salt and white vinegar and stir fry evenly.

Efficacy: light and refreshing, removing fire and appetizing. . It is suitable for hypertensive patients with excessive liver fire.

Bitter gourd, laver and cuttlefish soup Ingredients: Bitter gourd 100g, laver 20g, cuttlefish 100g. Vegetable oil, onion, ginger, garlic and salt.

Practice: soak laver, peel cuttlefish, wash bitter gourd, slice and remove capsule, slice onion, ginger and garlic. Heat vegetable oil to 60% heat, add onion, ginger and garlic until fragrant, and add appropriate amount of water. After boiling, add cuttlefish, bitter gourd and laver and cook for half an hour.

Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, calming the heart and strengthening the kidney. It is suitable for patients with hypertension due to kidney yin deficiency.

People who can't eat bitter gourd 1. People with low blood pressure and hypoglycemia have the effect of lowering blood sugar and clearing fire. It is a suitable food for people with greasy diet and high blood sugar. However, if you blindly pursue the health benefits of bitter gourd, excessive intake may hurt your heart and have a negative impact on your heart health. Bitter gourd can lower blood pressure and blood sugar. If people with low blood pressure or blood sugar can't eat bitter gourd, then normal people who eat too much bitter gourd can. Bitter gourd can not only be eaten in large quantities!

2. People with deficiency of spleen and stomach should not eat more, and eat bitter gourd raw. Liao Hui reminded that bitter gourd is a cold product. Usually, people with loose stool, excessive urine, loss of appetite, fear of cold, pale complexion, pale tongue and heavy pulse are mostly yang deficiency or spleen and stomach weakness. Such people should not eat bitter gourd often, otherwise they are prone to stomach discomfort, abdominal distension and abdominal pain, and even vomiting and diarrhea.

3. People who need calcium supplements. Oxalic acid in bitter gourd will hinder the absorption of calcium in food. Therefore, before eating, the bitter gourd should be blanched in boiling water to remove oxalic acid. People who need a lot of calcium supplement should not eat too much bitter gourd.

4. Children preschool children should not eat too much bitter gourd. Children are the body of pure yang, and the stomach is often surplus and the spleen is often insufficient; In addition, children's self-control ability is poor, so overeating bitter gourd is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach.

5. Pregnant women should be careful when eating bitter gourd. Bitter gourd contains quinine, which can stimulate uterine contraction and cause abortion. So some people advocate that pregnant women should not eat bitter gourd. Although the content of quinine in bitter gourd is very small, it is not serious for pregnant women to eat it in moderation, but for the sake of prudence, pregnant women still eat less bitter gourd.