First, the advantage of eating raw wax gourd is that you can make full use of vitamins and other nutrients in wax gourd; The harm is that winter melon is cold. If you eat cold winter melon raw, your stomach will get cold, causing human discomfort.

As a common vegetable, we'd better cook wax gourd, not eat it raw.

Third, wax gourd is rich in nutrition. Studies show that vitamin B 1, which has the effect of preventing and treating cancer, is rich in vitamin B, thiamine, riboflavin and niacin in wax gourd. Mineral elements include potassium, sodium, calcium, iron, zinc, copper, phosphorus, selenium, etc. Among them, the potassium content is significantly higher than the sodium content, and it is a typical high-potassium and low-sodium vegetable, which is of great benefit to patients with kidney disease, hypertension and edema who need to eat low-sodium food. Among them, selenium also has many functions such as anticancer. It contains 8 kinds of essential amino acids except tryptophan, with high contents of glutamic acid and aspartic acid, as well as ornithine, Y- aminobutyric acid and histidine specially needed by children. Wax gourd contains no fat, and dietary fiber is as high as 0.8%. It is rich in nutrition and reasonable in structure. The calculation of nutritional quality index shows that wax gourd is a healthy and high-quality food.

4. Wax gourd has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting diuresis and eliminating phlegm, relieving vexation and thirst, eliminating dampness and relieving summer heat, and losing weight and strengthening the body. It can be eaten by decocting soup, cooked food, or wringing juice. However, due to its cold nature, those who are prone to diarrhea due to spleen and stomach deficiency should use it with caution; Those who have been ill for a long time and have cold limbs due to yang deficiency should not eat.