Summer temperatures are high, the body loses more water, which must be replenished in time. The water in vegetables is natural, clean, nutritious and biologically active water filtered through multiple layers of biofilm. Melon vegetables water content are more than 90%. Winter melon water content of all vegetables, up to 96%, followed by cucumber, golden melon, squash, Buddha's hand melon, pumpkin, bitter melon, watermelon and so on. Eating 500 grams of melons and vegetables is equal to drinking 450 milliliters of high-quality water. All melon vegetables have the effect of lowering blood pressure and protecting blood vessels.
Eat more cool vegetables:
The most important factor affecting the human body in summer is the poison of summer dampness. Eat some cool vegetables, is conducive to the production of water to quench thirst, in addition to the annoyance of summer heat, heat diarrhea, detoxification and laxative. Melon vegetables in addition to pumpkin, golden melon is warm, the rest, such as bitter melon, squash, cucumber, watermelon, watermelon, melon, etc., are cool vegetables. Tomato, eggplant, celery, chrysanthemum brain, drop sunflower (purple horn leaf), lettuce, asparagus, bean curd, cold potatoes, etc., also belong to the cool vegetables.
Eat more "sterilization" vegetables:
Summer is the season of human diseases, especially intestinal infections. Eat more "sterilization" vegetables, can prevent disease. These vegetables include: garlic, onions, leeks, scallions, shallots, green garlic, garlic and so on. These onions and garlic vegetables, rich in plant broad-spectrum bactericides, on a variety of cocci, bacilli, fungi, viruses have killing and inhibiting effect. Among them, the most prominent role is garlic, the best raw food.
Raw food and health
A kind of "raw food" fashion is gradually popular at the table, raw food is first vegetables, followed by fish. Raw fish is expensive, but it still attracts a lot of people. Raw food, you can retain the original flavor of food nutrition, especially food vitamins from destruction.
Nutrition researchers believe that all vegetables that can be eaten raw, it is best to eat raw; vegetables that can not be eaten raw, do not fry too cooked to minimize the loss of vitamins. For example, cucumber, vitamin A in the skin in high content, some people in order to clean, do not eat the skin, in fact, most of the vitamin A thrown away, too bad; eat celery in general do not eat the leaves, but the leaves contain calcium, iron, potassium, vitamin A, vitamin C is more, people should be eaten together with the stem and leaves; persimmon pepper should be eaten raw as well, because it is rich in vitamin C, according to the test, per 1000 grams of persimmon pepper Containing 70 to 120 mg of vitamin C, containing vitamin A up to more than 40 international units, if you eat persimmon peppers 50 grams a day, you can meet the human body one day of vitamin C needs.
Vegetables are not only nutritious, many of them also have medicinal and health care value. There are a variety of nutrients and aspartic alkaloids, protein amino acids and other nutrients, is to remove blood stasis to promote the product.
The radish, raw and cooked food are suitable. Raw taste pungent and cold, cooked taste sweet and slightly cool, because of the high nutritional value and medicinal value, so the folk have "autumn and winter radish race ginseng" said. Clinical practice of Chinese medicine let Ming, radish has heat detoxification, stomach and digestion and other effects. Carrot rhizome is rich in carotene, volatile oil, can help digestion, often eat to prevent diseases caused by vitamin A deficiency. Carrots eaten raw can also prevent pediatric night blindness, eye chancre.
Cabbage contains protein, vitamin A, B, C, D, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals. The medicinal value of cabbage is also quite a lot, can promote intestinal peristalsis, laxative, decongestant, wide chest to remove annoyance, and benefit from the water under the gas. Cabbage washed and twisted juice to sugar service, can cure peptic ulcer bleeding