? Bitter gourd scrambled eggs can't be eaten? This is a ballad with a history of thousands of years, but there are two different reasons to study it carefully. Let's break them one by one.

1.？ Bitter gourd is cold, and eggs are cold, so you can't eat them together.

Chinese medicine believes that bitter gourd, also known as cold melon, is bitter, non-toxic and cold, and has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, quenching thirst, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipid and blood sugar. Eggs are sweet and flat, and have the effect of benefiting qi and removing annoyance. Is the egg yolk warm and the egg white cold? .

However, the classification of foods with different tastes and functions (such as cold, hot, warm, cool and flat) in Chinese dietotherapy is based on experience and perceptual cognition, which has certain reference and guidance in daily life, but it can never be used as a standard.

Different growing environments and different processing methods of plants may change this gender and taste difference. So what? Bitter gourd is cold, and eggs are cold, so you can't eat them together? This argument is too arbitrary.

2.？ Calcium in eggs reacts with oxalic acid in bitter gourd to produce calcium oxalate, which affects human health.

Oxalic acid is ubiquitous in vegetables, but its content varies greatly. For example: coriander 1.70%, purslane 1.3 1%, amaranth 1.09%, and spinach oxalic acid content of 0.97% (all the above data are measured by USDA). Even if oxalic acid in bitter gourd combines with calcium in eggs to produce water-insoluble calcium oxalate, it is difficult to be absorbed by the intestine and directly excreted. If the bitter gourd is scalded with hot water when cooking, and oxalic acid is dissolved in water, the oxalic acid content left in the dish is even less, not to mention worrying.

How to eat bitter gourd?

Bitter gourd is native to tropical Asia and is not afraid of cold or heat, so it is very common in southern China.

The nutritional components of Momordica charantia are (extracted from Applied Nutrition edited by Chen): 94% water, 0.9% protein, 0.2% fat, 3.2% carbohydrate, 0/.1.0% crude fiber, 0/8 mg calcium/kloc-0, 29mg phosphorus and 0 iron per 100 grams. Nicotinic acid 0.3 mg, vitamin C 84mg, potassium 200 mg, sodium 12 mg, magnesium 19 mg, chlorine 9.4 mg, and also contains momordicin, momordicin, pectin, trypsin inhibitor, 5- hydroxytryptamine, quinine, etc.

Bitter gourd can be roughly divided into three categories according to its appearance: white bitter gourd, green bitter gourd and mountain bitter gourd.

White bitter gourd is also called white jade bitter gourd. The scales on the body surface are large, and the body shape is generally large. The color is white and bright, and the flesh is soft.

White bitter gourd is light in bitterness and suitable for juicing.

Green bitter gourd is very big and spindle-shaped. Usually, the stronger the green color, the heavier the bitterness and the more vitamin content. Green bitter gourd pulp tastes more brittle and tough than white bitter gourd.

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Green bitter gourd contains more vitamins.

Bitter gourd can be divided into wild species and cultivated species. Wild bitter gourd, small and bitter, mostly occurs in low-altitude mountainous areas in the south. The fruit ripens from April to September, and its color changes from green to dark green. The shape of the fruit is changed from olive to rectangle, and the surface of the fruit has ribs and some thorns.

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In fact, bitter gourd scrambled eggs are home-cooked dishes, and some bitter taste of bitter gourd can be neutralized with the mellow taste of eggs, and the bitter taste will not enter the eggs. The two are a relatively happy combination.

Who is not suitable for eating bitter gourd?

Bitter gourd, like other natural foods, may have adverse reactions to the body due to personal physical reasons. According to the clinical experience of traditional Chinese and western medicine, it can be concluded that the following types of people are not suitable for eating bitter gourd, and eating too much may have side effects:

○ Patients with severe gastrointestinal diseases such as gastric ulcer.

Patients with gastric ulcer should avoid eating bitter gourd, because its rich dietary fiber can not be digested and absorbed by the human body, which will aggravate gastric ulcer.

Broad bean disease

Studies have found that people with silkworm disease (glucose -6- phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency) eat bitter gourd, which may lead to hemolytic anemia. Therefore, at present, the clinical nutrition experiments of Momordica charantia avoid the patients with silkworm bean disease.

Any food has its positive and negative effects, and excessive consumption may cause physical discomfort. The correct approach should be to understand the properties of each food and diversify the intake? A balanced diet is the way to health.

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References:

1 Annual Production Technology of Bitter Melon, edited by Luo Haibo, 20 13.

"If you eat bitter gourd like this, you won't be afraid of diabetes", Yu Wenjing, 20 15.

3 "Can Bitter Melon Scramble Eggs? Yan Ying Taizhou Daily 2065438+04165438+1October 20th.

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