What is Luffa? The nutritional value of different ingredients is different. Luffa is a very common dish on the table, which has high nutritional value. Luffa is a vegetable that many people like to eat. There are different varieties of Luffa. So what is Luffa?

What is Luffa cylindrica 1 1? Luffa cylindrica, the scientific name is bergamot, also known as pear melon, fist melon and longevity melon. It is native to Mexico, Central America and the West Indies, and was introduced to China in 19 15. It is planted in the south of China, with Yunnan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan Province as the most.

Luffa is crisp and rich in nutrition. Luffa can be used as both cooking and raw fruit. In addition, melons are shaped like palms together and have the meaning of Buddhist blessing, which is deeply loved by people.

2. Luffa is a perennial herbaceous vine with massive roots. Unlike ordinary melon beans, it only has a short life of less than one year. If it is not bitten by insects and rats, it will live for at least ten years. Luffa likes temperature and heat resistance, and is easy to transplant and survive. Stems climbing or artificial, ribbed. Petiole slender, glabrous, 5- 15 cm long;

Leaf blade is membranous, nearly round, with larger lobes in the middle, smaller lateral ones, tapering at the apex, small teeth at the edge, heart-shaped at the base, deep bending, nearly round, deep 1-3 cm, wide 1-2 cm; Dark green above, slightly rough, light green on the back, pubescent, and dense on the veins. Tendrils stout, furrowed, hairless, 3-5-pronged. Monoecious.

Male flowers 10-30 flowers are born on the upper part of the total pedicel 8-30 cm long to form a raceme, the inflorescence axis is slightly stout and hairless, and the pedicel length is 1-6 mm; Calyx tube is short, lobes spread, subglabrous, 5-7 mm long and 1- 1.5 mm wide; Corolla radial, wide 12- 17 mm, divided to the base, lobes ovate-lanceolate, 5-veined; Stamens 3, filaments united, anthers separated, anthers inflected.

The female flower is solitary, and the pedicel is 1- 1.5 cm long; Corolla and calyx are male flowers; Ovary obovate, 5-ribbed, sparsely hairy, 1 room, with 1 pendant ovule, style 2-3 mm long, stigma 2 mm wide.

The fruit is light green, obovate, with sparse short bristles, 8- 12 cm long and 6-8 cm in diameter, with 5 longitudinal grooves on the upper part and 1 seed. The seeds are large, up to 10 cm, 7 cm wide, oval and compressed. The flowering period is July-September, and the fruiting period is August 8- 10/October.

What is a foreign loofah? 2 There are many names of foreign loofah, also called Heshou melon, Fushou melon, Fingered citron and so on, which are found in many places, but the names are not uniform. Although its name is very special, I think it is very expensive. In fact, this melon is not expensive at all. One tree is planted every year, and nearly 300 fruits are hung.

Almost every family in the countryside grows them, and they can't eat them all. They don't need to buy them at all, so the price is naturally not expensive. Although the towel gourd is worthless, people still love to eat it. It is crisper than cucumber, juicier than pumpkin, and has even and comprehensive nutrition. It is a good food supplement for regulating qi and resolving phlegm, soothing the liver and strengthening the spleen, stopping vomiting and relieving bloating, and strengthening the stomach in traditional Chinese medicine.

Therefore, in our country, this kind of melon, which is the most common in winter, should be eaten at both ends once every three days to improve the resistance and not get sick all winter.

In Yunnan, towel gourd is often used for cooking, but in other places, it is eaten as a fruit, which is crisp and watery. However, the favorite practice of small cooking is still used to make soup, which warms the stomach and drives away the cold. If you don't know how to eat this melon in winter, it is both a fruit and a vegetable. Picking a box can keep it for 2 months, but the price is only 1 yuan a catty, which is the most delicious for cooking soup.

Luffa bacon soup

foodstuff

Luffa 1 piece, bacon 1 piece, ginger 1 piece.

Seasoning: salt.

menu

Step 1, take out a piece of old bacon at home, cut off the lean meat, rinse it, and cut it into pieces with uniform thickness. Then, take out the cooking pot, put in lean slices, pour in half a pot of clean water, and start cooking 10 minutes. Cooking 1 time first can remove the excessive spicy taste on the surface of bacon and reduce the salinity, so it is best not to omit this step.

Step 2, take out the cooked lean meat slices and rinse them with cold water 1 time for later use. Next, pick 1 medium-sized towel gourd, wash it with clear water and cut it into squares. Wash half a piece of ginger and pat it flat.

Step 3, wash the boiling pot with water, add a little more water, add lean meat slices and ginger pieces, and cook over high fire until boiling.

Step 4: After the water boils, add all the loofah pieces, stir them, bring them to a boil with high fire, turn on low heat, cover them and simmer for half an hour.

Step 5, when the soup becomes milky white and the towel gourd can be easily punctured by chopsticks, start adding a little salt to taste. After the taste is adjusted, turn off the fire and serve. The sliced bacon added to this dish is salty without soaking in advance, so it can be cooked for a long time, so the salty taste of the sliced meat will be dissolved in the soup, and it tastes good even without salt.

What is towel gourd 3 supplementary nutrition?

100 g of luffa is only 19 kcal, which is very low. Moreover, the content of protein and calcium in luffa is ` 2-3 times that of cucumber, and the content of vitamins and minerals is also significantly higher than that of other melons. Eating luffa can not only supplement nutrition for human body, but also avoid the risk of gaining weight.

Improve intelligence

According to medical research reports, zinc has a great influence on children's intelligence, and children with zinc deficiency tend to have a certain degree of mental retardation. Eating sponge gourd with more zinc often plays a certain role in mental retardation, and at the same time, it is beneficial to male and female infertility caused by nutritional reasons, especially to male sexual decline.

protective cell

The content of selenium in melon seedlings of Luffa cylindrica is as high as 53.0 1 microgram per100g, which is unmatched by many vegetables. Modern medicine has proved that selenium is an indispensable trace element in human body, which has strong antioxidant effect and can protect the structure and function of cell membrane from damage. Adults should take 30-50 micrograms of selenium every day, so it is a good supplement to eat some Luffa cylindrica.

Reducing blood pressure and diuresis

Luffa is not only low in calories, but also a low-sodium food, which is a good health-care vegetable for patients with heart disease and hypertension. Eating Luffa regularly can play a certain role in diuresis and sodium excretion, dilating blood vessels and balancing blood pressure, which is also very beneficial to the body.

How to eat towel gourd.

dress cold food with sauce

1. Prepare 300 grams of towel gourd, 30 grams of persimmon pepper, 20 grams of green pepper, appropriate amount of sugar, monosodium glutamate and soy sauce. Wash and shred the bergamot first.

2. Wash the red and green peppers, remove the pedicels, seeds, cut into shreds, then blanch them in boiling water with the shredded towel gourd, scoop them up and let them cool down.

3. Drain the water and put it in a bowl, add soy sauce, sugar and monosodium glutamate, and all the ingredients can be eaten after being evenly stirred.

Matters needing attention of towel gourd

Suitable crowd: suitable for the general population.

Taboo crowd: people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not eat.

Not suitable for eating together: there is no special taboo for eating together.