Winter melon is a must-eat dish in summer. Wax gourd is rich in vitamin C, high in potassium salt and low in sodium salt. Patients with hypertension, kidney deficiency and edema can achieve the effect of reducing swelling without damaging vital qi after eating.

Wax gourd has low planting cost, high yield, rich nutrition, storage and transportation resistance, strong heat resistance, white meat, crisp and juicy, and is a good raw material suitable for modern agricultural products processing. Wax gourd has been widely used in the processing of various new foods and health care crystals, which is a good way to increase the value of vegetables with high yield and low price.

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Edible taboo

(1) Winter melon is cold, spleen and stomach qi deficiency, diarrhea loose stool, people with stomach cold pain should not eat cold winter melon, and people with dysmenorrhea and cold dysmenorrhea should not eat raw winter melon.

② Wax gourd and adzuki bean. Eating melon and adzuki bean together will make normal people's urine suddenly increase, which is easy to cause dehydration.

(3), melon vinegar. Vinegar will destroy the nutrients in wax gourd and reduce its nutritional value.

(4) Winter melon and red crucian carp. Eating together reduces the nutritional value.

(4) Wax gourd and crucian carp are ingredients for detumescence and diuresis. Eating together will increase urine output. If it is not edema, it is best not to eat together.

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