1, can you lose weight by eating lettuce?
(1) Can lettuce lose weight?
Lettuce can lose weight. Lettuce has high water content and high dietary fiber content, and the most prominent thing is that it contains almost no fat. Dietary fiber can reduce the absorption of lipids and sugars in food by the gastrointestinal tract, and lettuce can promote blood circulation and inhibit the absorption of macromolecules. Therefore, eating lettuce can lose weight.
(2) How to eat lettuce has a good weight loss effect.
Garlic lettuce
Ingredients: garlic, lettuce, a small amount of vegetable oil, a proper amount of dried pepper, salt.
Practice:
First, wash the lettuce, cut it into coarse sections, break it and cut the garlic, and chop the dried peppers for later use.
Second, blanch the lettuce with boiling water, drain it, and put it on a plate.
Third, add a proper amount of vegetable oil to the pot, add dried peppers and stir-fry. After stir-frying, add garlic and a small amount of salt. After stir-frying, pour it on the lettuce.
Features: It tastes delicious and has been blanched, which can effectively remove parasites and pesticide residues from lettuce.
Lettuce apple juice
Ingredients: lettuce, apple, lemon, ice cubes.
Practice:
1. Wash lettuce and cut it into pieces; Wash apples, peel them and cut them into thin strips; Wash lemon, peel and cut into pieces.
2. Add white sugar, half a cup of purified water and a small amount of ice cubes to the lettuce pieces, apple slices and lemon pieces, and put them into the juicer and mix well.
Features: Lettuce juice tastes fresh and slightly bitter, which can stimulate the secretion of digestive enzymes, stimulate appetite and promote digestion.
(3) Nutritional value of lettuce
First, lettuce contains more dietary fiber and vitamin C than cabbage, which can eliminate excess fat, so it is also called slimming lettuce.
Second, because its stems and leaves contain lettuce, it tastes slightly bitter, and has the effects of analgesia and hypnosis, lowering cholesterol and adjuvant treatment of neurasthenia.
Third, lettuce contains mannitol and other effective ingredients, which have diuretic and blood circulation promoting effects.
4. Lettuce contains an interferon inducer, which can stimulate normal cells of human body to produce interferon, thus producing an antiviral protein and inhibiting viruses.
(4) Who is not suitable for lettuce?
First, raw lettuce has a certain stimulating effect on the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, people with poor spleen and stomach function are not suitable for eating.
Second, lettuce has a certain diuretic effect, so people with frequent urination and poor renal function are not suitable for eating.
Third, lettuce is a cold food, so women with cold constitution and menstrual period are not suitable for eating lettuce.
2. Can lettuce be eaten raw?
(1) Can lettuce be eaten raw?
Lettuce can be eaten raw. In our daily life, carrots, white radishes, tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage hearts, yams, green onions, onions, garlic and other vegetables can be eaten raw, and lettuce is no exception, but it is more delicious to add a small amount of salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce and sesame oil when eating lettuce.
(2) Is raw food more nutritious?
Lettuce is more nutritious when eaten raw, but it is not well absorbed.
Although raw lettuce has a lot of nutrients and high absorption of vitamin C, the absorption effect of other nutrients is very poor. After chopping lettuce and frying it with a small amount of vegetable oil, the absorption rate of nutrients can be increased by 10 times compared with raw lettuce, so lettuce is more suitable for cooked eating.
(3) What are the risks of eating raw food?
Infected with parasites
If there is more rain in the growth process of lettuce, the probability of infection with parasites will increase a lot. It is difficult to remove parasites by ordinary cleaning, and it is invisible to the naked eye. In addition, lettuce is mainly eaten raw. The more lettuce you eat, the higher the probability of infection with parasites.
Damage the liver
Lettuce is easy to be eroded by insects during its growth. Therefore, it is inevitable to spray pesticides during the planting process, and it is difficult to clean all the pesticides when washing lettuce. Excessive consumption can damage the liver and kidney, and may even cause pesticide poisoning.
matters need attention
First, raw lettuce has a certain stimulating effect on the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, people with spleen and stomach deficiency and poor gastrointestinal digestive function are not suitable for raw eating.
Second, although raw lettuce tastes delicious, it is not very safe. Therefore, it is best to blanch lettuce with boiling water to avoid parasitic infection.
3. Nutritional value of lettuce
(1) Nutritional Value of Lettuce
Lettuce is named because it is suitable for raw food. Lettuce is crisp and tender in texture and fresh in taste. Besides frying cooked food, it can also be used to make sandwiches and barbecue, which is very popular among the public. Lettuce contains interferon inducer, which can stimulate normal cells, help produce interferon, resist virus and improve human immunity.
Protocatechuic acid in lettuce has obvious inhibitory effect on cancer cells, and has remarkable effect on resisting digestive system cancers such as gastric cancer, intestinal cancer and liver cancer.
Lettuce is rich in vitamin E, carotene and other ingredients. Eating more lettuce is beneficial to relieve eye dryness and fatigue, protect eyes and maintain normal vision.
Dietary fiber in lettuce, vitamin C
And other nutrients help to eliminate excess fat, so it has the reputation of slimming lettuce.
(2) The dietotherapy effect of lettuce
Lettuce is sweet and cool, and its stems and leaves contain lettuce, which tastes slightly bitter and has the effects of clearing away heat, benefiting gallbladder and nourishing stomach. Stir-fried lettuce has the effects of lowering cholesterol, adjuvant treatment of neurasthenia, analgesia and hypnosis; Lettuce combined with tofu can not only clear the liver, benefit the gallbladder, nourish yin and tonify the kidney, nourish the skin and lose weight, but also have certain dietotherapy uses for red eyes, swelling and pain, cough due to lung heat and abdominal distension of the spleen and stomach. Lettuce and Lentinus edodes can replenish spleen and qi, moisten dryness and eliminate phlegm, and have certain curative effect on cough with excessive phlegm, chest tightness and diarrhea.
(3) The medical efficacy of lettuce
Lettuce is rich in trace elements and dietary fibres, and also rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, sodium, magnesium and a small amount of iron, copper and zinc. Eating lettuce often can effectively improve gastrointestinal blood circulation and promote the digestion and absorption of protein and fat in human body. Eating more lettuce is also beneficial to liver health, promoting bile formation and preventing cholestasis, and preventing gallstones and cholecystitis. Furthermore, lettuce can clear the garbage in the blood, help blood disinfection, play a diuretic role, and effectively remove toxins from the stomach and prevent constipation.
(4) How to eat lettuce to lose weight
Dietary fiber and vitamin C in lettuce can effectively remove excess fat in the body, so it is also called slimming lettuce. It is a very good diet food to eat the washed lettuce mixed with salad dressing. It should be noted that although the lettuce salad is delicious to lose weight, it will fall into the trap that the lettuce salad may contain high oil if you don't pay attention to it. When eating lettuce, it is best to cut the leaves until you can eat them in one bite, so as to avoid eating more greasy because the leaves are too thin and absorb too much salad dressing.
(5) What foods should lettuce be eaten with?
Lettuce is extremely sensitive to ethylene, so remember not to put it with apples, pears and bananas to avoid inducing brown spots; Lettuce, mint, duck blood and other foods can't be eaten together. These three foods belong to cold food, and eating them at the same time is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach.
(6) What food goes best with lettuce
Lettuce+tofu: clearing liver and gallbladder, nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, losing weight and caring skin;
Lettuce+kelp: promote iron absorption and improve anemia symptoms;
Lettuce+pork liver: supplement comprehensive nutrition;
Lettuce+garlic: garlic has bactericidal and anti-inflammatory effects, and can also lower blood fat and blood pressure; Lettuce contains the most abundant vitamin C. Eating them together can effectively prevent gum bleeding, supplement enough vitamin C and clean up internal heat.