Wax gourd is rich in ornithine, Y- aminobutyric acid, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, arginine, etc. It will turn sour when heated with salt.
In addition, the pulp may turn sour after high temperature, so it should be cleaned up.
Studies have shown that vitamin B 1, which has the effect of preventing and treating cancer, is rich in winter melon seeds, with high contents of ascorbic acid, thiamine, riboflavin and niacin.
There are 8 mineral elements such as potassium, sodium, calcium, iron, zinc, copper, phosphorus and selenium, among which 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.
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Wax gourd is sweet in taste and cold in nature, and has the effects of eliminating heat, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Wax gourd has a low sodium content, which has a good auxiliary treatment effect on arteriosclerosis, ascites due to cirrhosis, coronary heart disease, hypertension, nephritis, edema and swelling.
"Living with Interest Diet Spectrum": "If pregnant women eat regularly, it will poison the fetus and make the child disease-free." Wax gourd also has the functions of detoxifying fish poison. Propanolic diacid contained in wax gourd can effectively inhibit the transformation of sugar into fat. In addition, wax gourd itself does not contain fat and has low calories, which is of great significance for preventing human body from getting fat and can help body build.
The seeds and skins of wax gourd can also be used as medicine. The meat and pulp of wax gourd have diuretic, heat-clearing, phlegm-resolving and thirst-quenching effects. It can also treat edema, phlegm and asthma, summer heat, hemorrhoids and other diseases. If the wax gourd is boiled with skin, it can reduce swelling and diuresis, and clear away heat and relieve summer heat.
Reference Baidu Encyclopedia-Winter Melon