Wax gourd is a relatively large vegetable. When we buy wax gourd in the market, the merchants will cut it into small pieces according to everyone's requirements. Eating wax gourd regularly is very helpful for removing moisture from the body, losing weight, beautifying and lowering blood pressure. Wax gourd meat is thick and delicate, and there are many cooking methods. It can be used to cook soup, stew, braise in soy sauce and make stuffing, etc., especially stewed meatballs with wax gourd, which is particularly popular in winter.

Practice of stewed meat balls with wax gourd

Ingredients: pork, wax gourd and carrot.

Production steps:

Wash wax gourd and carrot, peel and cut into pieces for later use. Chop ginger and mix with chopped pork, add appropriate amount of flour and mix well. Add a proper amount of water to the pot, boil the water and add ginger, wax gourd and carrot. Put the meatballs directly into the pot and cook them. Add salt, pepper and appropriate amount of oil to serve.

Efficacy and function of wax gourd

1. Lose weight

Wax gourd contains trigonelline, propanedioic acid and B vitamins, which can inhibit the transformation of sugar substances into fat in human body, thus preventing the accumulation of fat in human body, and can also promote the consumption of excess fat in human body and excrete it. Winter melon is also rich in dietary fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and promote the excretion of toxins. The calorie of wax gourd is very low, even if it is eaten, it will not increase much calories, so wax gourd is a particularly good diet food with good weight loss effect.

2. Detoxify and fight cancer

The content of dietary fiber in wax gourd is very high,100g of wax gourd contains about 0.9g of dietary fiber, and dietary fiber can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, so that waste (including carcinogens) accumulated in intestinal tract can be excreted, so wax gourd has the effect of detoxification and anticancer.

3. Prevention of coronary heart disease

Wax gourd contains natural plant fat, which becomes unsaturated fatty acid after ingesting into human body, and unsaturated fatty acid can inhibit the deposition of cholesterol and triglyceride in blood, thereby reducing blood lipid and bad cholesterol and promoting blood flow. In addition, wax gourd also contains propanedioic acid and dietary fiber, which are also helpful to reduce cholesterol and blood lipid in human body and prevent atherosclerosis.

Step 4 lower blood pressure

The content of vitamin C in wax gourd is relatively high, and100g of wax gourd contains18mg of vitamin C, 78mg of potassium and1.8mg of sodium, so the high content of potassium helps to excrete excess sodium in human body, so eating wax gourd can reduce the blood pressure of patients with hypertension due to high sodium. Wax gourd contains propanedioic acid, which can prevent and treat hypertension.

Step 5 lower blood sugar

Wax gourd is rich in dietary fiber, and according to medical research, foods with high dietary fiber can improve the blood sugar level of human body, and the blood sugar index of human body is negatively correlated with the dietary fiber content in food, so eating wax gourd can lower blood sugar.

6. Eliminating dampness and reducing swelling

At the beginning of the article, it was mentioned that wax gourd has the effect of eliminating dampness, which generally means diuresis, so wax gourd is beneficial to patients with renal edema, and its potassium content is high and sodium content is low, which helps the human body to excrete excess sodium. Wax gourd contains a lot of glutamic acid, aspartic acid, arginine, ornithine and Y- aminobutyric acid, while wax gourd peel and wax gourd