1. Anti-scurvy, the content of vitamin C in loofah is high, 8 mg per 100 grams, which can be used for anti-scurvy and prevention of various vitamin C deficiency.

2. Brain-nourishing and beauty-caring. The content of vitamin B in towel gourd is high, which is beneficial to the brain development of children and the brain health of middle-aged and elderly people; The juice of the stem of Luffa has the special function of keeping skin elastic and can beautify and wrinkle.

3. Luffa contains B vitamins to prevent skin aging and vitamin C to whiten skin, which can protect skin, eliminate plaque and make skin white and tender. It is a rare beauty product, so Luffa juice is called "Beauty Water". It is also helpful for women to eat more loofah to regulate irregular menstruation.

4. Anti-virus and anti-allergy, the extract of Luffa has obvious preventive effect on Japanese encephalitis virus, and an anti-allergic substance, diarrhea alkyd, is also extracted from tissue culture solution of Luffa, which has strong anti-allergic effect.

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Skills of selecting loofah

1. Look at the appearance of loofah, and don't choose loofah with uneven melon shape and protrusions.

2. Touch the skin of the loofah, and pick the skin that is tender, not too thick, otherwise the loofah is likely to be old and have many seeds. Then take the loofah in your hand and weigh it, feeling that the whole melon should be elastic; Squeeze your fingers a little hard. If you feel hard, don't buy it. Hard loofah is very likely to be bitter.

3. A good loofah, even in thickness, is firm and fresh when pinched by hand; If it's soft and crumbly, it's been there for a long time. The color of the skin is dark. If it is not green and thick, it is old. Luffa must be peeled and eaten. Even if it is tender, the skin should be peeled off, otherwise it will be difficult to eat.

References:

What are the effects and functions of anti-virus and anti-allergic loofah?-People's Network