Melon in various regions and melon, mainly melon flavor is very sweet to this name, in the summer time is one of our most common summer fruits, in addition to the flavor, melon itself also has a high nutritional value, but also melon in many cases can not be eaten, the next we will look at the effects of melon and dietary taboos description.

2, diuretic water

melon potassium content is very high, 100g melon contains more than 300mg of potassium, can play a role in regulating osmolality, water diuretic, can promote the body's excess water excretion, eliminating water retention, suitable for patients with liver and kidney disease caused by edema.

3, weight loss

melon contains vitamin A, protein and other substances beneficial to the human body, reasonable consumption can also supplement the human body in the weight loss period of the required nutrients, help to lose weight. In addition, melon is also rich in nutrients and dietary fiber. Dietary fiber can accelerate intestinal peristalsis, help digestion and absorption of food, thus promoting defecation, the body of the toxin discharge, so as to achieve the effect of weight loss, at the same time, it is rich in a variety of vitamins can also be supplemented with the human body's required nutrients.

4, enhance heart function

melon contains more sugar, which is mainly fructose, glucose, sucrose, these sugars are simple monosaccharide or disaccharide, can be quickly converted into energy, especially suitable for the morning consumption, the enhancement of myocardial function has excellent results.

5, laxative

melon in the water content is very high, and also contains a large amount of dietary fiber, after consumption of dietary fiber can be a large amount of water in the stomach expansion, increase the degree of wetness of the food residue, dietary fiber is also stimulating the intestinal tract, can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, accelerate the elimination of feces, suitable for patients with consumption. It is suitable for patients with constipation.

6, beauty

Melon in the antioxidant material content is very high, to SOD and vitamin C-based, can play the removal of free radicals in the body, to alleviate the aging, but also has a certain anti-ultraviolet efficacy, to reduce the formation of pigmentation and precipitation, can play a very good beauty efficacy, suitable for summer out of the women's consumption.

7, the treatment of toothache

A lot of domestic folk remedies are used to melon, the medicinal parts of melon skin and melon, mainly melon, melon skin boil water gargle can play a role in the treatment of toothache, mainly the use of melon in the phytochemical acid sterilization and its cold to fire effect.

8, promote protein absorption

melon in the protein content is not high, but melon in the protein converting enzyme content is very high, many insoluble proteins have the effect of conversion, can promote its dissolution, enhance the digestion and absorption of protein, therefore, and some protein food can play a very good complementary role.

9, protect the liver

melon is not only meat nutrient-rich. The melon tip is also rich in vitamin B, which can protect our liver and reduce chronic liver damage, so friends with a bad liver or drinking a lot of alcohol can use it to boil water to drink.

10, beneficial to the kidneys

melon is rich in nutrients, such as B vitamins, can promote digestion, to protect the liver and prevent fatty liver has an important physiological role. In addition, melon contains protein converting enzyme, which can convert insoluble proteins into soluble proteins, which can help kidney disease patients absorb nutrients, which is very beneficial to kidney disease patients.

11, supplemental nutrition

melon is rich in protein, fat, inorganic salts, vitamin C, β-carotene, etc., can be supplemented with the body's energy and nutrients, to help the body to restore health.

12, used to induce vomiting

Melons contain bitter toxins, cucurbitacin E and other crystalline bitter quality, can stimulate the gastric mucosa, the right amount of internal service, can cause vomiting, to help induce vomiting, but not absorbed by the body, without the drawbacks of defecation and poisoning.

Contraindications to the consumption of melon

1, contraindications to the crowd:

The general public can eat, especially suitable for the summer heat and thirst, mouth and nose sores, sunstroke and other symptoms of human consumption. But melon cold, on the postpartum cold and acute and chronic gastrointestinal diseases are not suitable; where the spleen and stomach cold, abdominal distension and loose food.

2, contraindicated food:

melon can not be and Huanglian or have the same effect of drugs eat together, eat will appear serious diarrhea. Melon should not be eaten together with durian, the two are mutually exclusive, eat together to achieve their respective effects. Also, melon can not be eaten with bitter melon and watermelon, weak people will eat diarrhea. Melon should not be eaten with snails, crabs, oil cakes and other ****. Melon can not eat with chilled summer drinks, because the same cold food, eat the body is not good, weak people eat will have diarrhea. Melon should not be eaten with the big complementary medicinal diet or first or later, will affect the efficacy of the medicinal diet.

3, can not eat the melon:

melon to eat when the melon must be cut off, melon melon melon is cold and bitter taste and poisonous, eating too much will be poisoned, so you can not eat. But it can be used as an external medicine for external application, external treatment of acute jaundice infectious hepatitis, rhinitis, nasal deflated meat.

4, can not be eaten in excess:

(1) melon cold, eat too much will be cold stomach, will lead to abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. Despite the flavor of melon, but also must control the amount, itself is weak stomach cold people should pay attention to. Similarly, melon can not be eaten every day. People with gastrointestinal discomfort or cold stomach eat every day will only aggravate the condition, not good for the body. Moreover, even healthy people can not eat every day, because melon water enough to eat too much will dilute the concentration of gastric juice, injury to the stomach caused by indigestion or abdominal pain and diarrhea.

(2) The daily intake of nutrition must be balanced and diverse. Although melon is rich in nutrients and contains energy and many vitamins that the human body needs, but eating too much of it affects the intake of other nutrients, resulting in an imbalance of human nutrition.

(3) melon, after all, some of the sugar content is high, eat a lot of easy to get fat.

1, eat raw. Wash clean and cut directly to eat raw. The fresh taste of nature is invigorating.

2, melon can be eaten as a dessert, with some salad and other fruits, is also very delicious. It can also be made into a delicious melon chicken dish with chicken, or cooked into a watermelon porridge with rice.

Can you eat the skin of the melon

Theoretically, you can. If you make sure that the skin is washed and free of pesticides and other ingredients, the skin of cantaloupe can naturally be eaten. In our country's traditional Chinese medicine prescription there are a lot of use to the skin and the tip of the melon, which shows that the skin of the melon can be eaten, and the skin of the melon is rich in nutrients, with the skin to eat more can supplement the nutrients.

The skin of the melon in the vitamin, fiber and mineral content is very high, eating can alleviate the lack of nutrients in the body, to alleviate skin aging, promote defecation, alleviate anemia and osteoporosis, etc. are very effective, and with the skin of the melon boiled water to drink as well as the skin of the melon to want to burn the ashes and blowing into the nasal cavity can be the treatment of inflammation of the pharynx.

Why cantaloupe rarely eat with skin

Although the cantaloupe skin can be eaten theoretically, but we can find that life people are rarely eat with skin together with cantaloupe because:

1, cantaloupe in the late stages of maturity is very easy to be insect pests, so cantaloupe are required to spray some pesticide to ensure that Its maturity, pesticide residues on the outer skin more, to avoid intake of pesticide residues people try not to eat the skin.

2, melon skin texture is relatively hard, the taste is not how good, especially the white skin melon, more hard, not suitable for consumption. When the melon skin and pulp are eaten together, the taste of the pulp will be reduced, and some people do not like it.

3, part of the melon due to the lack of maturity, Guo Ruo sweet, but there are also a lot of bittersweet on the outer skin, consumption is very bitter, which is also one of the reasons why many people do not eat it.

The skin of the melon can be how to eat

1, squeeze melon juice

Ingredients: fresh melon.

Practice:

(1) melon wash, to cut, remove the melon flesh and melon seeds, cut small pieces.

(2) put into the juicer, add the right amount of cold water, stir for 5 minutes.

(3) Adults can consume it directly, and for children to make supplemental food, you need to leave the melon juice to settle the residue, and take the upper layer of the juice can be.

2, green pepper fried cantaloupe peel

You can also take the cantaloupe skin off, and then remove the outer layer of the old skin, and then cut it into a thin wire like, and then in the pot of oil, add a small amount of pepper wire, after frying cantaloupe pepper peel into the frying pan before adding salt and soy sauce for seasoning can be.