Health kitchen god comments: The temperature is high in summer, and the human body loses more water than in other seasons, so it must be replenished in time. The moisture in vegetables is natural, clean, nutritious and biologically active water filtered by multi-layer biofilm, which is incomparable to drinking water produced by any factory. Summer is the peak season for melons and vegetables, and their water content is above 90%. The water content of wax gourd ranks first among all vegetables, reaching 96%, followed by cucumber, golden melon, loofah, fingered citron, pumpkin, bitter gourd and watermelon. That is to say, eating 500 grams of melons and vegetables is equivalent to drinking 450 ml of high-quality water. In addition, all melon vegetables have the characteristics of high potassium and low sodium, which can lower blood pressure and protect blood vessels.

Eating more cool vegetables in summer is the most important factor that affects the human body. When summer-heat and dampness invade the human body, it will lead to pore opening, excessive sweating, qi deficiency, spleen and stomach dysfunction and food indigestion. Cucumber vegetables, except pumpkin and cucumber, are warm, and others, such as bitter gourd, loofah, cucumber, vegetable melon, watermelon and melon, are cool vegetables. Tomato, eggplant, celery, chrysanthemum brain, sunflower (purple leaf), lettuce, asparagus, watercress, cold potato, etc. are also cool vegetables.

Eat more "sterilized" vegetables. The summer temperature is high, and pathogenic bacteria breed and spread quickly, which is the season of human diseases, especially intestinal infectious diseases. At this time, eating more "sterilized" vegetables can prevent diseases. This kind of vegetables include: garlic, onion, leek, green onion, chives, green garlic, garlic seedlings and so on. Among these onions and garlic vegetables; It is rich in plant broad-spectrum fungicides, which can kill and inhibit various cocci, bacilli, fungi and viruses. (If you want to know more about health care, please pay attention to WeChat public account: Health Lecture Hall (or sythealth))