What is a loofah? Different ingredients have different nutritional values. Luffa is a very common dish on the table, with high nutritional value. Luffa is a vegetable that many people like to eat. There are different varieties of loofah. So what is a loofah?

What is Luffa 1 1? Luffa, the scientific name of bergamot, is also called pear melon, fist melon and longevity melon. Native to Mexico, Central America and the West Indies, 19 15 was introduced to China and planted in southern China, with Yunnan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan Province provinces as the most.

Luffa is crisp and nutritious. Luffa can be cooked or eaten raw. In addition, melons are shaped like palms together, which means Buddhist blessing and are deeply loved by people.

2. Luffa is a perennial herb vine with thick roots. Unlike ordinary melon beans, it has a short life span of less than one year. If it is not bitten by insects and mice, it can live for at least ten years. Luffa likes temperature and heat resistance, and is easy to transplant and survive. Stems climbing or artificial, ribbed. Petiole slender, glabrous, 5- 15 cm long;

Leaf blade is membranous, suborbicular, with larger middle lobe, smaller side lobes, tapering apex, small teeth on the edge, heart-shaped base, deeply curved, suborbicular, deep1-3cm, and wide1-2cm; Dark green above, slightly rough, light green on the back, pubescent, dense veins. Tendrils stout, furrowed, hairless, 3-5 furcated. Monoecious.

The male flower 10-30 is born on the upper part of the total pedicel and is 8-30 cm long to form a raceme. The inflorescence axis is slightly stout and hairless, and the pedicel is 1-6 mm long. Calyx tube is short, lobes spreading, subglabrous, 5-7mm long and1-1.5mm wide; Corolla radial, 12- 17 mm wide, divided to the base, lobes ovate-lanceolate, 5-veined; Stamens 3, filaments connate, anthers separate, anthers inflexed.

The female flower is solitary, and the pedicel length is1-1.5 cm; Corolla and calyx are male flowers; Ovary obovate, 5-sided, sparsely hairy, 1 locule, 1 ovule pendulous, style 2-3mm long, stigma 2mm wide.

The fruit is light green, obovate, with sparse bristles, 8- 12 cm long and 6-8 cm in diameter, with 5 longitudinal grooves in the upper part and seeds 1 grain. The seeds are large, long 10 cm, wide 7 cm, oval and oblate. The flowering period is July-September, and the fruiting period is 8-65438+1October.

What is a towel gourd? There are many names of foreign loofah, also called Heshougua, Fushougua, Chayote, etc., which are found in many places, but the names are not uniform. Although its name is very special, I think it is very expensive. Actually, this melon is not expensive at all. Plant a tree every year and hang nearly 300 fruits.

Almost every family in the countryside grows them and can't eat them all. They don't need to buy it at all, so the price is naturally not expensive. Although loofah is worthless, people still like it. Crisp than cucumber, more than pumpkin juice, and even and comprehensive nutrition. It is a good tonic for regulating qi and resolving phlegm, soothing the liver and strengthening the spleen, stopping vomiting and relieving bloating, and strengthening the stomach.

Therefore, in our country, this kind of melon is the most common in winter. Eat it once every three days at both ends to improve resistance and not get sick all winter.

In Yunnan, loofah is often used for cooking, but in other places, it is eaten as a fruit, crisp and watery. However, the favorite practice of small cooking is still to make soup, warm the stomach and drive away the cold. If you don't know how to eat this melon in winter, it is both a fruit and a vegetable. You can eat a box for two months, but the price is only 1 yuan a catty, which is the best for making soup.

Luffa bacon soup

food

Luffa 1, bacon 1, ginger 1.

Seasoning: salt.

menu

Step 1, take out a piece of old bacon at home, cut the lean meat, rinse it, and cut it into pieces with uniform thickness. Then, take out the cooking pot, add lean meat slices, pour half a pot of water, and start cooking for 10 minutes. Cooking 1 time first can remove the excess spicy taste on the surface of bacon and reduce the salt content, so it is best not to omit this step.

Step 2: Take out the cooked lean meat slices and rinse them with cold water 1 time. Then, pick 1 medium-sized towel gourd, wash it with clear water and cut it into cubes. Wash half a slice of ginger and pat it flat.

Step 3: Wash the boiling pot with clear water, add a little water, add lean meat slices and ginger slices, and cook over high fire until it boils.

Step 4: After the water is boiled, put in all the loofah pieces, stir, bring to a boil with high fire, turn to low heat, cover the pot, and simmer for half an hour.

Step five, when the soup turns milky white and the loofah can be easily punctured by chopsticks, start adding a little salt to taste. After adjusting the taste, turn off the fire and serve. The sliced bacon in this dish is salty without soaking in advance and can be cooked for a long time, so the salty taste of the sliced meat will be dissolved in the soup, and it is delicious even without salt.

What is loofah 3 supplementary nutrition?

100 grams of loofah has only 19 calories, which is very low. Moreover, the content of protein and calcium in towel gourd is 2-3 times that of cucumber, and the content of vitamins and minerals is also significantly higher than other melons. Eating loofah can not only supplement nutrition for human body, but also avoid the risk of getting fat.

Improve intelligence

According to medical research reports, zinc has a great influence on children's intelligence, and children with zinc deficiency often have a certain degree of mental retardation. Eating towel gourd with more zinc often has a certain effect on mental retardation, and it is good for male and female infertility caused by nutritional reasons, especially for male sexual decline.

protective cell

The selenium content in Cucurbita moschata seedlings is as high as 53.0 1 microgram per100g, which is unmatched by many vegetables. Modern medicine has proved that selenium is an indispensable trace element in human body, which has strong antioxidant effect and can protect the structure and function of cell membrane from damage. Adults should consume 30-50 micrograms of selenium every day, so proper consumption of loofah is a good source of selenium supplement.

Lowering blood pressure and diuresis

Luffa is not only low in calories, but also a low-sodium food, which is a good health vegetable for patients with heart disease and hypertension. Eating loofah regularly can play a certain role in diuresis and sodium excretion, dilating blood vessels and balancing blood pressure, which is also very beneficial to the body.

How to eat loofah?

Season cold food with sauce.

1. Prepare 300g of loofah, 30g of persimmon pepper, 20g of green pepper, and appropriate amounts of sugar, monosodium glutamate and soy sauce. Wash bergamot and shred for later use.

2. Wash the red and green peppers, remove the pedicels and seeds, cut them into shreds, then blanch them in boiling water with the loofah shreds, remove them and let them cool.

3. Drain the water and put it in a bowl, add soy sauce, sugar and monosodium glutamate, and mix well before serving.

Matters needing attention of loofah

Suitable for people: suitable for ordinary people.

Taboo crowd: people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not eat.

Not suitable for eating together: there are no special taboos for eating together.