Shallots can be eaten in all seasons, a variety of varieties, their nutritional value varies. Fresh green onion leaves in the carotene and vitamin C content are quite high, the leaves of young green onions in the nutrient content than the leaves thrown away onions is understandably high. Shallots are superior both in terms of vitamin C and carotenoids and are considered a highly nutritious vegetable. When we eat scallions, don't just pay attention to the white, tender whites and just throw the leaves away.
The health value of green onion is more prominent than its nutrient content. According to traditional Chinese medicine, green onions can sweat and relieve epidemics, and folk commonly use green onions with ginger and brown sugar in soup to treat the first signs of a cold. Scallions have stomachic properties that can improve appetite and strengthen the body. Eat more raw onions, can also warm the body, improve the body's resistance, prevent respiratory infectious diseases. It turns out that the green onion contains volatile oil, of which the onion pigment is capable of sterilization, can kill the bacteria in the mouth and respiratory tract.
Scallions, like garlic, can prevent elevated blood cholesterol and atherosclerosis, lower blood pressure, protect blood vessels and reduce the occurrence of blood clots. Therefore, green onions are particularly beneficial to less physical activity, brain overworked, prone to cardiovascular disease of the brain workers.
Summer ginger has the following benefits:
Enhance appetite: Because of the summer heat, the human body by the summer heat, sweating too much, digestive fluid secretion is reduced, coupled with the habit of people greedy for cold, easy to produce summer dampness, affecting the spleen and stomach. Therefore, people have poor appetite in summer, less food and greasiness. The curcumin in ginger can stimulate the taste nerve on the tongue, stimulate the receptors on the gastric mucosa, enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis through the nerve reflex, promote the secretion of digestive juices, and enhance the digestive function. Ginger can also stimulate the small intestine, so that the absorption function of the intestinal mucosa enhancement, so as to play the role of appetizer spleen, promote digestion, enhance appetite. Therefore, eating ginger in summer can significantly enhance appetite.
Detoxification and sterilization: summer people like to eat cold drinks, ice lollies, ice cream and cold products such as gazpacho, these foods are susceptible to contamination by external pathogens, eaten improperly will cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc., and the volatile oils contained in the ginger has a sterilization and detoxification effect. In addition, summer fish, meat, etc. should be put some ginger, can be flavored, but also detoxification.
Expelling wind and dispersing cold: because people are easy to be cold in summer, often appear spleen and stomach cold and other diseases, ginger has a warm, dispersal of cold, pain, can avoid the above phenomenon occurs. The volatile oil in ginger can promote blood circulation, the cerebral cortex, heart, vasomotor center has an excitatory effect. Add some ginger in the diet, can refresh the brain, wind dispersal of cold, to prevent the spleen and stomach cold and cold.