Nutritional Value
1, lowering blood pressure. Eggplant is rich in vitamin P, a flavonoid compound, has the effect of softening blood vessels, can lower blood pressure.
2, lower cholesterol. Eggplant contains fenugreek alkaloids and choline, in the small intestine can be combined with excessive cholesterol, discharged from the body to keep the body's blood circulation normal, lower cholesterol.
3, weight loss. Eggplant can also absorb fat, play a role in weight loss.
4, heat relief. In the summer, eggplant can clear heat, for the summer prone to prickly heat, sores and boils of people, especially suitable.
Dietary efficacy
Eggplant + bitter melon = cardiovascular patients ideal dish bitter melon has to lift fatigue, clear the mind and eyesight, beneficial to the yang, slow aging effect. Eggplant has the effect of removing pain and activating blood, clearing heat and swelling, relieving pain and diuretic and preventing blood vessel rupture, leveling blood pressure and stopping cough and blood. The two with consumption, is the ideal dish for cardiovascular patients.
Eggplant + meat = stabilize blood pressure, prevent purpura eggplant and meat eaten together, can supplement blood, stabilize blood pressure. In addition, eggplant is rich in vitamin P, which has a good effect on preventing microvascular rupture, effectively preventing cardiovascular disease, and is also helpful in the prevention and treatment of purpura.
Anti-aging
Eat eggplant anti-aging. Vitamin E 150 mg per 100 grams of eggplant, 8 times as much as peanuts and 7 times as much as bananas. Vitamin E can strengthen the antioxidant effect of the cell membrane, resist the destruction of harmful free radicals on the cells, prevent and control atherosclerosis and hypertension, promote gonads and gastric secretion, regulate the central nervous system, prevent cataracts. This period of time about the scientists found that vitamin E can protect the body and aging-related proteins, so that the oxidation in the body is inhibited, so that the aging process slows down.
Each 100 grams of eggplant containing vitamin P up to 700 mg, is 10 times the citrus, apricot 15 times. Vitamin P can enhance cell adhesion, promote cell metabolism, maintain the normal physiological function of the muscle, protect the vascular circulatory function, prevention and treatment of pigmentation and skin dryness, stomatitis and so on.
Facial freckles, we can also choose fresh eggplant, cut the eggplant into small slices with a knife, rub the face with freckles location, until rubbed red.
Dietary taboos
1, eggplant eating meat and vegetarian. Both can be fried, burned, steamed, boiled, can also be fried, cold, do soup. Eat eggplant is best not to peel, because the eggplant skin contains vitamin B, vitamin B and vitamin C is a pair of good partners, vitamin C metabolic process requires vitamin B support, with skin to eat eggplant to help promote vitamin C absorption. Eggplant should not be eaten raw to avoid poisoning.
2, although the eggplant eating a lot of ways, but most of the eating method cooking temperature is higher, longer, not only greasy, nutritional loss is also great. Fried eggplant vitamin loss of up to 50% or more. Of all the ways to eat eggplant, mixed eggplant puree is the healthiest.
3, eggplant and crab meat are cold food, eaten together will often make the intestines and stomach feel uncomfortable, serious diarrhea, especially the spleen and stomach cold people should avoid eating.
4, raw eggplant is toxic. Raw eggplant contains a toxin called lobelia (also known as lycopene), in the sprouted potatoes lobelia more toxic! Lobelin is not only found in potato sprouts, but also in raw eggplant, which you can see is even called "lycopene".
5, pregnant friends in the choice of eggplant, should also choose fresh eggplant. It is best not to choose the old eggplant, especially after the fall of the old eggplant, contains more eggplant alkaloids, harmful to the human body, should not eat more.
Medicinal value
Taste: sweet; cool.
The attributed meridian: into the spleen, stomach, large intestine meridian.
Functions and Indications: Clearing heat, activating blood circulation, relieving pain and swelling. Treating intestinal wind and lowering blood, heat and poisonous sores, skin ulcers.
①Monchon: main cold and heat, five Tibetan labor. It is also used to apply vinegar to swellings and poisons.
②Cui Yuxi "food scripture": the main skin, beneficial to energy, foot.
3 "Rihuazi Materia Medica": the treatment of warm disease, the transmission of body labor.
4 "Yunnan Materia Medica": blood dispersal, stop breast pain, swelling and intestines, burned ash and rice soup drink, the treatment of intestinal wind more than blood and hemorrhoids.
5 "Medical Forest Compendium": broaden the middle, disperse blood, quench thirst.
6 "With the rest of the house dietary spectrum": blood, pain, carbuncle, kill insects, malaria, impediment hernia and other diseases.
Use and dosage: pounded or powdered to apply. Internal use: in pills, powder or wine.
Not suitable for people
1, because the eggplant is a cold nature of the vegetable, therefore, the body has indigestion, easy diarrhea, spleen and stomach cold, loose symptoms of pregnant women should not eat more.
2, pregnant friends in the choice of eggplant, should also choose fresh eggplant. It is best not to choose old eggplant, especially after the fall of the old eggplant, contains more eggplant alkaloids, harmful to the human body, it is not advisable to eat more.
3, the eggplant contains a very low calorie, the elderly and obese people may often eat. Eggplant cold, for easy prickly heat, sores and boils of people can eat more, but the spleen and stomach cold, asthma should not eat more.
4, after the fall of the eggplant has certain toxins, its taste bitter, it is best to eat less, especially diabetic patients to eat less before surgery also try not to eat eggplant.