Want to know the answer to the question of whether diabetics can eat watermelon seeds, we must know what is watermelon seeds and the nutritional composition of watermelon seeds, in addition to what are the effects and functions of watermelon seeds as well as watermelon seeds side effects are what we must know.
Watermelon seeds contain fat oil, protein, vitamin B2, pentosan, starch, crude fiber, α-amino-β-(pyrazolyl-N)propionic acid. Also contains urease, α-galactosidase, β-galactosidase and sucrase. It also contains a saponin-like component called Cucurbocitrin, which has antihypertensive effect and can relieve the symptoms of acute cystitis.
①Compendium: "Clearing the lungs and moistening the intestines, harmonizing the middle and quenching thirst."
② "with the rest of the house dietary spectrum": "raw food to remove phlegm and dirt, down the gas to clear the camp; a thick decoction of a flavor, the treatment of vomiting blood, coughing for a long time."
3 There is a bone function.
Watermelon seeds have the function of clearing lungs and resolving phlegm, and have auxiliary therapeutic effects on coughing phlegm and hemoptysis.
4. Watermelon seeds are rich in fats and oils, have stomachic and laxative effect, no appetite or constipation may be consumed some watermelon seeds and other seed kernels.
5. It contains unsaturated fatty acids, has the effect of lowering blood pressure, and helps to prevent atherosclerosis, is suitable for hypertensive patients snack.
In short, in terms of efficacy, watermelon seeds have the efficacy of lowering blood pressure, and help to prevent atherosclerosis, so hypertensive patients can often eat; watermelon seeds have the role of clearing the lungs and phlegm, coughing phlegm and hemoptysis and other diseases have auxiliary effect; watermelon seeds are rich in fat, stomach, laxative effect.
Above we introduced the diabetic patients should pay attention to their own diet, know how to control the diet, diabetic patients to rationalize each day's diet, the above mentioned watermelon seeds are not only rich in nutrients and for the human body has a very good health care effect, so suitable for diabetic patients.