Winter melon is a great product for weight loss! Low fat and low sodium helps reduce swelling

English name: Wax gourd.

Other names: white melon, pillow melon, water moss.

Family: Cucurbitaceae, Melon genus.

【Low-fat and low-sodium weight loss product】

Winter melon contains a lot of water, with every 100g of fresh product containing up to 96.6g of water. Therefore, it can effectively regulate the water content in the human body and has a laxative effect. In addition, winter melon contains a large amount of succinic acid, which plays an important role in preventing human body obesity and improving body fitness.

Therefore, winter melon has been known as a wonderful product for weight loss since ancient times. "Compendium of Materia Medica for Food Therapy" said when mentioning winter melon: "If you want to be slim, light and healthy, you can eat it often; if you want to be fat, don't eat it." Modern medicine has discovered that, unlike other vegetables, winter melon does not contain fat and has a very low sodium content, and has a diuretic and dehumidifying effect. Therefore, eating winter melon regularly has an obvious effect on weight loss and slimming, has an effect on reducing swelling in patients with nephritis edema, and is also an ideal vegetable for patients with diabetes and hypertension.

[Nutrition survey of winter melon (taking 100g as an example)]

Calories 1 2kcal, dietary fiber 0.7g, vitamin A 1 3μg, carotene 80μg, calcium 1 9mg, potassium 78mg.

【Nutritionist’s advice】

1. Suitable for people with kidney disease, edema, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, cancer, vitamin B₁ deficiency, hypertension, diabetes, coronary artery heart disease, and obesity.

2. Winter melon is cold in nature. People with weak spleen and stomach, cold kidneys, incontinence due to long-term illness, and cold limbs due to yang deficiency should avoid eating it.

3. Winter melon should not be eaten raw, and women should not eat it during menstruation or dysmenorrhea.

4. Winter melon is an effective daily vegetable for relieving fever and promoting diuresis. The effect will be more obvious if you cook it into soup with the skin.

【Tips for choosing winter melon】

When choosing winter melon, you should choose one with green skin with white frost, regular shape, no spots or external injuries on the surface, and the skin is not soft or rotten. When selecting, you can pinch it with your fingernails. The winter melons with hard skin and firm flesh taste better.

【Approaching Winter Melon】

Wax gourd peel: Wax gourd peel has a diuretic effect.

Wax gourd seeds: Wax gourd seeds have the effects of strengthening the spleen and beauty, relieving cough and reducing phlegm.

Winter melon leaves: Winter melon leaves can be mixed with flour pancakes and eaten, which has the effect of removing heat and stopping diarrhea.

Winter melon vine:

The decoction of wax gourd vine has a unique effect on rectal prolapse. Winter melon vine juice can be used for washing face and bathing to whiten skin

Skin, makes the skin shiny, is a cheap natural beauty agent.

【Rules for doubling nutrition】

★Winter melon and Tremella soup

Ingredients: 250g winter melon, 30g white fungus.

Seasoning: salt, MSG, and rice wine in appropriate amounts.

practice:

1. Peel and remove the wax gourd, then cut into slices. Soak the white fungus in water.

2. Heat oil in a pan, add winter melon slices and stir-fry for a while, add a small amount of water and salt, and cook until the winter melon is almost cooked, then add white fungus, MSG and rice wine and mix well.

effect:

It can clear away heat, promote the production of body fluid, and promote diuresis and reduce swelling. It is suitable for patients with hypertension, heart disease, nephritis edema and other diseases.

★Winter melon stewed pork ribs

Material:

400g winter melon, 300g spare ribs, 30g Pseudostellaria heterophylla, 10g honeysuckle.

Seasoning: appropriate amounts of MSG and chopped green onions.

practice:

1.Blanch the ribs in hot water.

2. Cut the winter melon into thin slices.

3. Boil Pseudostellariae Radix and Honeysuckle together in water until the Pseudostellariae Radix is ​​soft. Take out the Honeysuckle and discard it. Clarify the medicinal juice and set aside.

4. Add water to the ribs and winter melon and cook until done. Add the cooked Pseudostellaria heterophylla, a small amount of MSG, chopped green onion, and a small amount of clarified medicinal juice and bring to a boil.

★Winter melon meatball soup

Material:

250g each of winter melon and minced pork, 1 egg, and appropriate amounts of onion, ginger, pepper, coriander, and cornstarch.

practice:

1. Slice the winter melon and set aside.

2. Add chopped green onion, chopped ginger, beaten eggs, appropriate amount of salt, chicken powder, pepper and cornstarch to the minced pork, and stir in one direction to make it sticky.

3. Pour water into the pot, turn to low heat after the water boils, use a small spoon to make small meatballs from the minced meat and carefully put them into the pot.

4. When the meatballs change color, add the winter melon slices, cook until done and sprinkle with chopped coriander.

【Tips】：

How to choose winter melon? There are generally three types of winter melons on the market: green skin, gray skin, and white skin. The gray skin winter melon has thick flesh and a higher edible rate; the white skin winter melon has thin flesh, loose texture, and easy to absorb flavor; the green skin winter melon is in between the two. When choosing, you can choose according to your needs. In addition, generally speaking, winter melons with heavier bodies are of better quality, while those with lighter bodies may have deteriorated.

【Winter melon recipe】

Fish and crab poisoning: Mash 300g of fresh winter melon and drink the juice.

Cough: 15g winter melon seeds and appropriate amount of brown sugar, mash and grind into powder, take with boiled water, twice a day.

Chilblains: Boil 250g of winter melon peel and 250g of eggplant root in water and use it to wash the affected area.

Edema due to kidney disease: Boil 250g of winter melon peel and appropriate amount of broad beans with water, remove the residue and drink the soup.

Diabetes: Take appropriate amount of winter melon pulp and winter melon seeds and boil them into juice for oral administration.

Colds in hot weather: Cook porridge with 150g fresh winter melon and 100g rice, twice a day.

Chronic nephritis: 1000g of winter melon and 1 carp, cook into soup without adding salt.

This article comes from the Human Think Tank "Healthy Vegetable Nutrition Recipe"