1. diuresis and detumescence
Wax gourd contains more vitamin C, higher potassium salt content and lower sodium salt content, which can be eaten by patients with hypertension, kidney disease, edema disease, etc., and can achieve the effect of detumescence without hurting healthy qi.
> 02. lose weight
Propanolic diacid contained in wax gourd can effectively inhibit the transformation of sugar into fat. In addition, wax gourd itself contains no fat and has low calories, which is of great significance for preventing people from getting fat and can also help to build a strong body.
> 03 clearing away heat and relieving summer heat
Wax gourd is cold and sweet, clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, and it is especially suitable for taking in summer.
> 04. Hypoglycemic and hypotensive effects
Because wax gourd contains more Vc, high potassium and low sodium salt, it is most suitable for patients with hypertension, kidney disease and edema who need low sodium food.
Step 5 protect the kidney
Wax gourd juice and wax gourd extract can increase the urine output of animals, reduce the degree of nephropathy caused by mercuric chloride, and significantly reduce the content of serum muscle intoxication. Folk people have the effect of using winter melon skin, broad beans and water to decoct and drink water, which can treat edema of kidney disease and heart disease. Boiled soup of wax gourd and carp can treat chronic nephritis.
Winter melon can be regarded as a must-eat ingredient in summer. Wax gourd contains more vitamin C, higher potassium salt content and lower sodium salt content. Not only that, the propanol diacid contained in wax gourd can effectively inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat, so it has the effect of losing weight, so adults and children may wish to eat more ~ In hot summer, a wax gourd dish, even if it is stir-fried, tastes particularly being relaxed and free. The weather is so hot, add "wax gourd" to today's menu-this kind of god-class summer food!
Winter melon and barley sparerib soup
500g pork chop, 400g wax gourd, 20g coix seed, 20g Euryale seed, 5g salt, ginger 1 block, 2 tablespoons cooking wine and appropriate amount of water.
1. Wash the wax gourd after removing the seeds (don't remove the wax gourd skin)
2. Soak Coicis Semen and Euryale Semen in clear water.
Step 3 slice ginger
4. Boil a pot of water, add 2 tablespoons of cooking wine, and immediately pour in the ribs.
5. Take out the ribs as soon as the color changes, and then rinse them with cold water.
6. Pour the ribs, coix seed, gordon euryales and ginger slices into the soup pot together, and then inject a proper amount of water (about 4-5 bowls of water) to boil.
7. After the pork ribs are boiled, pour in the wax gourd, then simmer on medium heat 1 hour, and season with salt.
Winter melon with soy sauce
500g of wax gourd, half of sweet pepper, half of pepper, vegetable oil 1 spoon, 2 cloves of garlic, 3 dried peppers, white sugar 1 spoon, steamed fish and soy sauce 1 spoon, salt 1 spoon, a little chicken essence and a proper amount of water.
1. Peel the wax gourd, remove the pulp, wash it, and cut it into squares with even size.
2. Remove the pedicels and seeds of sweet pepper and pepper, wash and cut into small particles.
3. After the wok is heated, pour a proper amount of vegetable oil and stir-fry garlic.
4. Add the wax gourd pieces and stir fry evenly.
5. Pour a proper amount of water, and then add 2-3 dried peppers.
6. When the wax gourd is juiced, add appropriate amount of sugar.
7. Add steamed fish and soy sauce and stir well.
8. When the wax gourd is almost ripe, add the sweet pepper and the sharp pepper.
9. Add a proper amount of salt and chicken essence, stir-fry evenly, and turn off the heat.
Fried wax gourd with bacon
200g of wax gourd, 0/00g of bacon/kloc-0, 5g of ginger, 3 peppers (red and small), 50g of garlic moss, 0/2 spoon of salt 1 spoon of vegetable oil, and appropriate amount of chicken essence1spoon.
1. Peel wax gourd, slice it, slice bacon, slice garlic moss and pepper, and shred ginger for later use.
2. Take the oil pan, heat the oil for seven minutes, add pepper and shredded ginger and saute until fragrant.
3. Add bacon and stir-fry over medium heat until oil overflows on the surface of bacon.
4. Add garlic moss and stir fry quickly 1 min.
5. Add wax gourd, add appropriate amount of salt (the bacon has been salted, so put less) and stir-fry until the wax gourd becomes discolored.
6. Add chicken essence and serve.
Braised meatballs and winter melon
White gourd 1 chunk, pork stuffing 200g, edamame 1 00g, dried bean curd 1 00g, salt 1 0g, onion 1 tree, 2 tablespoons of cooking wine, 2 tablespoons of soy sauce/kloc-.
1. Peel edamame one by one, and peel wax gourd and cut into large pieces.
2. Dice the dried bean curd and cut the onion with an oblique knife.
3. Heat the oil in the pot, and the onion will smell fragrant.
4. Stir-fry dried beans
5. Add edamame and wax gourd, add appropriate amount of sugar, more soy sauce and a little soy sauce.
6. Add boiling water without ingredients, cover, boil over high heat, and turn to low heat for stewing.
7. Make meatballs at this time. The meat stuffing is three points and seven thin. Add a little sugar, ginger powder, chopped green onion, cooking wine, salt and appropriate amount of starch. Stir in one direction and stick it.
8. Scoop it with a spoon and squeeze it by hand. Squeeze the meatballs into the pot.
9. Cover and continue to simmer until the meatballs are ripe. Season with salt and take out.
Steamed melon with minced meat
200g pork stuffing, 300g wax gourd, 3g salt, 5g ginger, 5g cooking wine, 5g light soy sauce, 5g oyster sauce, appropriate amount of vegetable oil, 3g pepper, 5g chives and 0g beef sauce10g.
1. Slice the wax gourd, put it on a plate, and sprinkle some salt on the surface to taste at the bottom.
2. Boil boiling water and steam the wax gourd in the pot for eight minutes.
3. Add appropriate amount of Jiang Mo, oyster sauce, salt and pepper and cooking wine to the meat stuffing, and stir in one direction.
4. Heat the pan, add the appropriate amount of vegetable oil, and stir-fry the minced meat.
5. Stir-fry minced meat, add beef sauce and stir-fry together.
6. Add a small amount of water and light soy sauce and cook together for two minutes.
7. Add water starch and thicken until thick, and pour the cooked minced meat with juice on the steamed wax gourd.
8. Finally, sprinkle some shallots and take out the pot.
Wax gourd with pickled peppers
500 grams of white gourd, 50 grams of pork belly, 2 teaspoons of salt 1/soy sauce, 2 tablespoons of vinegar 1 spoon, 2 tablespoons of ginger1small pieces, 2 tablespoons of water starch, 2 tablespoons of chopped pepper, 6 pickled peppers, 2 teaspoons of white sugar 1/2 teaspoons of vegetable oil and water.
1. Prepare two pieces of old wax gourd.
2. Prepare pork belly, ginger, pickled peppers and chopped peppers
3. Wash the wax gourd, peel and remove seeds, and cut into thick slices; Thin slices are not delicious.
4. Slice the pork belly into slightly thicker silk, and cut it into pieces in frying.
Step 5 prepare water starch
6. Start the wok, cool the oil in the hot wok, and stir-fry the fragrant red chopped pepper until the red oil comes out.
7. Add shredded pork belly and ginger slices and stir-fry until the shredded pork changes color.
8. Add wax gourd, turn to high heat and stir fry evenly.
9. Add soy sauce and stir well.
10. Add a proper amount of boiling water, not too much. If the wax gourd 1/3 is about half, the wax gourd will come out.
1 1. At the same time, add pickled mountain pepper, boil over high heat, spread it over low heat, cover the pot, and stew until the wax gourd is cooked.
12. Finally, slightly thicken with water starch until the soup is thick.
Duck, nepotism and winter melon soup
2 duck legs, Undaria pinnatifida (dried)10g, wax gourd 300g, salt 1.5 teaspoon, and appropriate amount of water.
1. Wash the duck leg, then put it in the pot with cold water and boil it over high heat.
2. Cook until a chopstick can be easily inserted, then turn off the fire, remove the duck leg, and skim off the oil and foam in the soup for later use.
3. Remove the duck skin from the cooled duck legs and tear the duck meat into strips for later use.
4. Take10g of dried Undaria pinnatifida, and soak in water for10min.
5. Wash it after soaking, and peel and cut the wax gourd for later use.
6. Pour the duck leg soup into the casserole, put the wax gourd pieces in it, boil it over high fire and cook it over medium heat for 10 minute until the wax gourd turns translucent.
7. Add Undaria pinnatifida, cover with low heat and cook for 10 minute.
8. Finally, pour in the duck and boil it, then add a little salt to taste.
Braised winter melon with dried seaweed
Appropriate amount of wax gourd, shrimp, salt, onion, ginger, cooking wine and pepper.
1. Wash the dried seaweed, soak the dried seaweed in warm water for 5 minutes, and cut the onion and ginger into powder.
2. Wash the wax gourd and dig out the wax gourd balls with a ball digger. Then, in order to make the dishes look good, the balls I use can actually be cut into large pieces and fried. In addition, the remaining wax gourd with skin is put in a keel soup or boiled water to clear away heat and lose weight. It can be seen that there is no place for this melon to be cheap.
3. Put the oil in the pan, stir-fry the chives, stir-fry the rice in the sea and cook a little Shao wine.
4. Add the winter melon balls and stir fry.
5. Add a little water soaked in dried seaweed, cover and change to medium heat 1-2 minutes.
6. Add a little salt until the wax gourd becomes transparent, because the dried seaweed has a certain salty taste, and the salt should be put less.
7. When the kitchen is full of the delicious taste of dried seaweed and wax gourd, add a little salt to taste, and the juice can be collected from the fire. 8. Sprinkle a little chives.
Winter melon, lotus seed and mung bean porridge
80g of mung bean, 80g of lotus seed, 0g of wax gourd100g, 80g of rice, proper amount of rock sugar and water.
1. Wash lotus seeds and soak them in advance. If there are lotus plumule, don't remove them.
2. Wash the wax gourd, peel it and cut it into dices.
3. Remove impurities from mung beans, wash them, and boil them in water.
4. Add mung beans after the water boils.
5. After boiling again, boil over high fire for about 1 min, without covering.
6. Turn off the fire and serve most of the mung bean soup.
7. After taking out most of the mung bean soup, cover the pot and stew for about 30 minutes.
8. Add a proper amount of boiling water again. After the fire boils, add the washed rice.
9. At the same time, add the soaked lotus seeds. After the fire is boiled, turn to medium heat and cook until the rice porridge is thick.
10. Add wax gourd and crystal sugar, and continue to cook for 5 or 6 minutes until the crystal sugar melts and the wax gourd is cooked and soft.
There is a saying among the people: you often eat melons in summer, but you don't have to catch Chinese medicine. And this melon, in addition to watermelon, of course, there are winter melon.
Why? I don't know if I don't look at it. Wax gourd is so powerful:
① Clearing away heat and toxic materials
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, wax gourd is sweet, light and cool, and has the medicinal effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, inducing diuresis and resolving phlegm. It is a health food for patients with infection and edema.
② lose weight
"Dietotherapy Materia Medica" describes wax gourd in this way: "If you want to be decent, healthy and thin, you can eat it often; If you want to be fat, don't eat it. "
In vernacular Chinese, that is, wax gourd is a wonderful product to lose weight!
③ Lipid-lowering beauty
The heat of wax gourd itself is extremely low, even lower than that of ordinary green leafy vegetables.
In addition, it also contains a compound that inhibits the conversion of sugar into fat, which can avoid the accumulation of body fat and is a good fruit and vegetable for people with hyperlipidemia and hypertension.
④ Reduce fatigue.
Wax gourd is rich in minerals such as magnesium and potassium, which can reduce the influence of meat and grains on human body, slow down physical fatigue and enhance resistance.
⑤ Replenish water
Wax gourd has high water content, and eating wax gourd in summer can replenish water.
For diabetics, wax gourd can be used as a daily diet because of its low carbohydrate content and little influence on postprandial blood sugar.
The most important thing is that winter melon can not only be eaten, but also be held to cool off the heat! Don't you think so?
Winter melon, although it is winter, has nothing to do with winter. It is named because when it matures, it has a layer of white powder on its surface, just like frost in winter. Although winter melon has nothing to do with winter, it is indeed a delicious summer product. This is because the washed melon feels cool, and the water content of the melon is super high, which is one of the reasons why the melon has the function of relieving summer heat.
Nutritional value and benefits of wax gourd: wax gourd is rich in vitamin C and potassium, the contents of which are 18mg/ 100g and 78mg/ 100g respectively. Although it is not high among vegetables, there are two kinds of wax gourd that are incomparable among other vegetables.
The first point is that the water content is extremely high, and the water content per 10g of wax gourd can reach 96.6g Don't say that women are made of water in the future, wax gourd is really made of water, so wax gourd can relieve summer heat and replenish water, especially suitable for summer.
The second point is that the energy and fat content of wax gourd is extremely low. Every 100g wax gourd contains 12kcal energy and 0.2g fat. This is the real low-calorie food, and a little fat can be completely ignored, so wax gourd is also called diet food.
In addition, wax gourd has diuretic effect and contains very little sodium. Therefore, wax gourd is a good detumescence product for patients with hypertension, chronic nephritis edema, malnutrition edema and pregnant women edema.
Practice of wax gourd:
Wax gourd is very suitable for soup because of its high water content. For example: kelp ribs and winter melon soup
Prepare ingredients: ribs, wax gourd, dried kelp, ginger, oil, salt and rice vinegar.
Practice:
1. Put cold water into the pot, blanch and drain for later use.
2. The kelp is soaked in warm water for about 20 minutes.
3. Peel and seed the wax gourd and cut it into pieces.
4. blanched ribs are put into the pot, rice vinegar is added, and ginger slices are added.
5. Put it into the sea, boil over high fire and turn to the minimum fire for 60 minutes.
6. Add wax gourd.
7. Cook for half an hour, and add salt to taste according to personal taste.
Besides kelp ribs, wax gourd can also be made into soup with pork balls, shrimp, shrimp skin, laver, chicken and duck.
Author: Chong Shanshan
National second-class public nutritionist/national senior health manager/third-phase student of Professor Wang Xingguo's special nutrition training class.
According to China medical science, wax gourd is sweet in taste and cold in nature, and has the effects of diuresis, detumescence, clearing away heat and toxic materials, clearing stomach, reducing fire and diminishing inflammation, and has a good therapeutic effect on diseases such as arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, hypertension, edema and abdominal distension. Wax gourd also has the function of detoxifying fish poison and alcohol poison. Regular consumption of wax gourd can remove excess fat in the human body. Because of its low sugar content, wax gourd is also suitable for diabetics to "satisfy their hunger". In hot summer, such as heatstroke and polydipsia, eating wax gourd can receive remarkable curative effect.
Wax gourd is an annual vine plant of Cucurbitaceae, which is one of the traditional autumn vegetables of the people. Wax gourd is native to China. It is characterized by its large volume, high moisture content and low calorie. It can be fried, made into soup, pickled or pickled into strips. According to China medical science, wax gourd is sweet in taste and cold in nature, and has the effects of diuresis, detumescence, clearing away heat and toxic materials, clearing stomach, reducing fire and diminishing inflammation, and has a good therapeutic effect on diseases such as arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, hypertension, edema and abdominal distension. Wax gourd also has the function of detoxifying fish poison and alcohol poison. Regular consumption of wax gourd can remove excess fat in the human body. Because of its low sugar content, wax gourd is also suitable for diabetics to "satisfy their hunger". In hot summer, such as heatstroke and polydipsia, eating wax gourd can receive remarkable curative effect.
Wax gourd is one of the foods commonly used by weight management coaches, because its most special function is to promote the discharge of wastes and toxins in the body, and it can also solve the problem of constipation. For sub-healthy people with edema obesity, it can also lose weight.
Nutritional components of wax gourd (100g): energy1kcal, protein 0.4g, fat 0.2g, carbohydrate 2.6g, insoluble cellulose 0.7g, vitamin C 18mg, calcium 19mg and potassium 78mg.
Function of wax gourd: wax gourd is rich in nutrition. In addition to the above functions, it is also often used to clear away heat, resolve phlegm and quench thirst.
Wax gourd is a very common food in our life. Wax gourd is sweet, light and slightly cold. Wax gourd is rich in water, and also contains protein, sugar, dietary fiber, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, carotene and other nutrients.
The benefits of eating wax gourd to human health are:
1, wax gourd has the function of diuresis and detumescence. Wax gourd is rich in vitamin C, potassium salt and sodium, which can reduce swelling for patients with hypertension, nephropathy and edema.
2. Wax gourd is a good food for weight loss, because it contains a substance called propanedioic acid, which can inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat, and at the same time, its own wax gourd has low energy and rich dietary fiber content, so it is a good vegetable choice for dieters.
3, wax gourd has the effect of eliminating heat and relieving summer heat, and now the temperature is high. Eating some wax gourd in moderation can clear away heat and produce fluid, which is a suitable food for summer consumption. However, it should be noted that people with cold melon and weak spleen and stomach should eat carefully, especially in winter, which is easy to cause spleen and stomach discomfort.
When it comes to wax gourd, we think of the three brothers who lost weight: wax gourd, cucumber and bitter gourd. Why is wax gourd suitable for losing weight? Just look at its nutritional components. 100g wax gourd has only1kcal, which is the bottom of many foods. 100g wax gourd has only 0.7g fat content. Because the water content in wax gourd is very rich, eating more wax gourd can promote diuresis, moisten the lungs, promote fluid production and quench thirst.
100g wax gourd can provide 78mg of potassium, 12mg of phosphorus, 19mg of calcium, 8g of magnesium, and a small amount of iron, manganese, zinc, copper, selenium and other elements. Although these trace elements are not prominent compared with many other common vegetables, they are more or less complete. Wax gourd can also provide a lot of vitamin C, and it also contains vitamin E and vitamin A. Wax gourd is rich in a variety of amino acids, among which amino acids are essential for human body, with high aspartic acid content and high histidine content. The dietary fiber in wax gourd is quite rich, so eating wax gourd properly can also help to relax the bowels. Wax gourd is high in potassium and low in sodium, which is very suitable for patients with hypertension. It can stabilize extravascular osmotic pressure, induce diuresis and reduce swelling for patients with nephropathy and hypertension.
Wax gourd has many effects in traditional medicine. It is sweet and cold, but sweet can strengthen the spleen and stomach. Wax gourd is light in taste, which helps to relieve oil and greasy, and eliminates anorexia caused by greasy. Wax gourd is cold and rich in water, which has the effect of eliminating heat and benefiting water. It is mentioned in the diet spectrum of seclusion with interest that if pregnant women often eat wax gourd, it will also help to protect the fetus and avoid many congenital diseases of the fetus. The reason why wax gourd is used as a diet ingredient is also because it contains a special ingredient "propanol diacid", which has an inhibitory effect on excessive sugar intake and fat conversion, so it helps to lose weight; The pulp of winter melon also helps to eliminate phlegm and relieve cough, which is beneficial to the symptoms such as going out in the hot summer, annoying heat and hemorrhoids. However, winter melon is cold, which is not suitable for people with stomach deficiency and cold to eat too much. Friends who are prone to diarrhea and abdominal pain should eat it properly.
Winter melon is a common dish on the table, such as braised winter melon, winter melon meatball soup and so on. Everyone loves winter melon so much. What are the benefits of winter melon?
What are the benefits of eating melon?
1. Prevention of coronary heart disease, wax gourd is rich in nutrients, such as protein, saponins, B vitamins, etc. It also contains fat, but the fat contained in it is unsaturated fatty acid, and the main component contained in its unsaturated fatty acid is linoleic acid, which can reduce cholesterol and triglycerides in blood and effectively reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.
2. Defecation to lose weight, wax gourd does not contain fat, and wax gourd can facilitate urination, because wax gourd contains a substance called propanol diacid, which can prevent people from getting fat, and another vitamin B family contained in wax gourd can accelerate the conversion of sugar and starch into heat energy, which can reduce body fat and help lose weight.
3. Clearing away lung heat and detoxifying, the skin of winter melon can promote diuresis and reduce swelling, clear away heat and relieve summer heat, and can also be used for lactation, while winter melon seeds have the symptoms of clearing lung heat and resolving phlegm, promoting diuresis and expelling pus, cough due to lung heat, and winter melon meat can also promote diuresis, eliminate phlegm and detoxify, such as alcohol poisoning and fish poisoning.
4. Beauty and hair care. The pulp of winter melon contains a substance called trigonelline, which can promote metabolism and inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat.
What kind of wax gourd is a good wax gourd?
There are three types of wax gourd in vegetable market: green skin, black skin and white skin. White-skinned wax gourd is thin, loose and easy to taste; Black-skinned wax gourd is thick and dense, and has the best edible quality. Green melon is somewhere in between. It is better for the public to buy black melon. This kind of wax gourd is shaped like a cannonball (long stick), so choose the one with symmetrical melon strips and no hot spots (sunburn spots).
Wax gourd is common in daily diet, and it is good for your health if you eat it regularly.
Benefits of eating wax gourd: 1, the fat in wax gourd is mainly unsaturated fatty acid, and the component is linoleic acid, which can reduce blood cholesterol and glycerate, and can prevent coronary heart disease.
2, there is a lot of water in the melon, you can add more urine, which has the effect of protecting the kidney.
3, the winter melon pulp has trigonelline, which can be beneficial to metabolism and inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat. Therefore, wax gourd can play the role of losing weight and fat. Oleic acid in wax gourd core can effectively inhibit melanin deposition, moisturize and beautify. Unsaturated fatty acids make skin rosy and tender, and make hair black.
4. Calcium, iron and other elements in wax gourd can strengthen human immune function. Eating more wax gourd can resist the cold and prevent colds.
5, there is no fat in melon, sodium, low calorie, and propanol diacid in melon can inhibit people from getting fat, so it is very suitable for weight loss.
6, winter melon skin can reduce swelling, clear heat and relieve summer heat. Can be used for edema, physical weakness and other symptoms, but also has a prolactin effect. Winter melon seeds can clear lung, remove phlegm and discharge pus, and have a good effect on lung heat and cough.
7, wax gourd meat can benefit water and detoxify, etc., which has a good effect on treating cough, asthma, diarrhea and other diseases, and can relieve alcohol poisoning.
8. Wax gourd is rich in nutrition and moisture, especially in winter. Eating more wax gourd for the elderly and children can promote water absorption and is not easy to get angry.
9, melon Levi C is rich, can diuretic, help others and promote endocrine circulation, increase human metabolic activities.
10, white gourd carotene is rich and easy to absorb, so eating more white gourd can detoxify, eliminate phlegm, prevent dryness and whiten skin.
1 1, wax gourd can reduce blood fat, and there are many dietary fibers in wax gourd, which can reduce cholesterol very well.