Eggplant, also known as "eggplant" and "Luosu", is one of the few purple vegetables and a very common home-cooked vegetable on the dining table. People in some areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui are called Luosu, and people in Guangdong and Guangxi are called dwarf melons, which belong to panicum miliaceum of Solanaceae and are perennial in the tropics. Its fruit is edible, mostly purple or purple-black, and there are light green or white varieties, and there are also various shapes such as round, oval and pear.

Benefits of eating eggplant:

Eggplant can be eaten in both vegetarian and vegetarian ways. It can be fried, burned, steamed and boiled, fried, cold and made into soup. It is best not to peel eggplant, because eggplant skin contains vitamin B, which is a good partner with vitamin C. Vitamin B is needed in the metabolism of vitamin C. Eating eggplant with skin helps to promote the absorption of vitamin C.

Eat with bitter gourd, bitter gourd has the functions of relieving fatigue, clearing away heart fire, improving eyesight, invigorating qi and strengthening yang, and delaying aging. Eggplant has the effects of relieving pain and promoting blood circulation, clearing away heat and swelling, relieving pain and diuresis, preventing blood vessel rupture, lowering blood pressure and relieving cough and blood. The combination of the two is an ideal dish for cardiovascular patients.

Preventing purpura and eating with meat can enrich blood, stabilize blood pressure and prevent purpura.

The disadvantages of eating eggplant:

Eat in large quantities:

There is a substance called solanine in eggplant, which has the functions of anti-oxidation and inhibiting cancer cells, and is one of the sources of eggplant health care; However, it has a strong stimulating effect on the gastrointestinal tract and an anesthetic effect on the respiratory center, and poisoning will occur when the intake of human body is high.

Solanine is basically insoluble in water, so it can't be removed by blanching, boiling and other methods. Adding vinegar to cooking helps to destroy and decompose solanine.

The best way to prevent solanine poisoning is naturally to control intake. However, under normal circumstances, eating about 250 grams of eggplant for a meal will not cause any discomfort, so there is no need to be too alarmed.

Raw food:

Solanine is high in old raw eggplant. If you eat tender eggplant and eat less, you may not have obvious acute poisoning symptoms. However, it cannot be asserted that eating raw eggplant will not be poisoned. When there is a feeling of numbness in the lips, you need to be alert.

Eggplant diet taboo:

1 Because eggplant is a cold vegetable, pregnant women with indigestion, diarrhea, spleen and stomach deficiency and loose stool symptoms should not eat more.

2. Pregnant women should also choose fresh eggplant when choosing eggplant. It is best not to choose old eggplant, especially after autumn, which contains more solanine, which is harmful to human body and should not be eaten more.

3, avoid eating with crab meat. Eggplant and crab meat are both cold foods. Eating them together will often make the stomach feel uncomfortable, and in severe cases, it will lead to diarrhea, especially for people with spleen and stomach deficiency.

4, eggplant is cold, you can eat more for people who are prone to prickly heat and sores, but people with spleen and stomach deficiency and asthma should not eat more.

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