What a surprise! Don’t throw away the eggplant stems, they can lower cholesterol and blood pressure

Some ingredients are valuable all over, but it is easy to accidentally discard some important nutritional parts without realizing it. For example, many people throw away the eggplant skin and stem when eating eggplant, which is a pity. Elderly people all like to eat the dish "Fried Eggplant Stems". It is said that eggplant stems contain multiple vitamins and can lower cholesterol and blood pressure. Is this true? Let’s hear what nutritionists have to say.

The eggplant stem has a "shrinking" effect, helping the ulcer surface to heal quickly

Eggplant and eggplant stems are both good food therapy, and each has its own benefits. Eggplants can be "melted" and eggplant stems can be "harvested". The stalk of eggplant has the function of "harvesting". What does it harvest? Constrict wounds. For example, if you have mouth ulcers, eating eggplant stems can help the ulcers heal as soon as possible. When there is too much dampness and toxins in the human body and they cannot be discharged, they will easily go up and come out of the mouth, causing sores in the mouth and on the tongue. Eggplant stems can remove dampness and detoxify. Eating them regularly can prevent the accumulation of dampness and toxins, which can harm the oral cavity. It is especially effective in preventing and treating oral ulcers.

Eggplant can "dissolve" mainly hematomas in the large intestine and stomach

Eggplant can "transform", but what can it transform into? To dissolve blood swelling, such as prickly heat and carbuncle on the skin, eating more eggplant can help. Inside our body, eggplant mainly treats hematomas in the large intestine and stomach. Because the medicinal properties of eggplant mainly enter the stomach meridian and large intestine meridian, it has a better preventive effect on intestinal polyps, hemorrhoids, intestinal hematomas, and gastric cancer.

The ancients once joked that of the five biggest regrets in life, the first three are related to food: one is that shad has too many bones, two is that kumquats are too sour, and three is that water shield is cold in nature. However, Chen Yunbin, a fourth-generation inheritor of traditional Chinese medicine and nutritionist, said in his new book "How You Eat Determines How You Live 2 - Changing Illness and Bad Physical Condition" that when he read this section as a child, he really wanted to add one more: Four is that the eggplant stem is too small.

Eggplant stems have a "closing" effect. For example, if you have mouth sores, eating eggplant stems can help the ulcers heal as soon as possible.

Eggplant has the ability to dissolve various substances, mainly hematomas in the large intestine and stomach.

There is just a tiny bit of stem on the top of the eggplant. It has four petals under a head and looks inconspicuous, so people usually throw it away. Some people save trouble and just cut off the eggplant stem and the eggplant head together with the peel. However, fried eggplant is truly a delicacy. In particular, eating fried eggplant stems can remove dampness and detoxify, which is good for health.

【Fried eggplant】:

practice:

1. Use five or six eggplant stems and a fresh chili pepper.

2. Tear the tomato stem in half, remove the hard stem in the middle, and cut the thick part of the head into thinner slices; cut the pepper into dice. Place the tomato stems and chili peppers on two separate plates.

3. Put some oil in the wok and stir-fry the eggplant stems first. After it is cooked, serve it on a plate. Add more oil to the pan, add chili peppers and stir-fry until cooked, sprinkle with a little salt and serve.

4. Add the tomato stems again, sprinkle with salt, then add the chili peppers, stir-fry together for a few times and remove from the pan.

Why do we need to fry the tomato stems and chili peppers separately? Because peppers are easier to cook and eggplant stems are drier, they need to be fried for a longer time. If you fry them together, the eggplant stems will be mixed with the chili peppers and will not be easy to cook through.

【Note 2 tips】:

1. Eggplant stems and chili peppers absorb salt to different degrees, so do not add salt when frying the eggplant stems first. If there is salt in the pan, the peppers will not be easy to fry.

2. Add only a little oil each time.

Be careful when eating eggplant. Eggplant is cold. Unlike other cold foods, its coolness goes directly into the stomach and causes a cold stomach. Therefore, eggplant is best eaten with garlic.