What fruits and vegetables are good for summer?

Summer sweats more, with the discharge of sweat, losing more nutrition, eat more fruits and vegetables, not only make up for lost water, but also increase nutrition. In addition to the rich nutrition of fruits and vegetables, the summer fruits and vegetables have the following characteristics:

First of all, the moisture in fruits and vegetables is natural, clean, nutritious, and biologically active water that is filtered through multiple layers of biofilms. It is unmatched by drinking water produced by any factory. The moisture content of fruits and vegetables is generally above 90%. Eating 500 grams of fruit and vegetables equals 450 milliliters of good quality water.

Second, summer vegetables except pumpkin, gourd are warm, the rest such as bitter gourd, loofah, cucumber, melon, watermelon, melon, etc., are cold vegetables. Tomatoes, eggplants, celery, chrysanthemum brains, alfalfa (purple leaves), lettuce, asparagus, watercress, cold potato, etc., are also cold vegetables. Cold fruits and vegetables are very good for cooling. Summer is the peak season for melons and vegetables, and the best choice for summer heat is fruits and vegetables.

1. Watermelon

When it comes to summer fruits, the first thing that comes to mind is watermelon. The watermelon is sweet and cold, and it has the effect of eliminating summer heat and irritating the body and quenching thirst and diuretic effect. It is the best product for the summer season and has a reputation of “natural white tiger soup”. Wherever summer heat and thirst, thirst and upset, adverse urination, heat injury and alcohol and other evidence, are suitable for consumption.

When summer heatstroke, fever, upsetness, thirst, or other acute fever occurs, watermelon should be used as an adjunctive treatment. Studies have shown that people who have alcohol and tobacco habits and people who like to eat salty foods suffer from esophageal cancer. Eating watermelons can reduce the risk of developing esophageal cancer. In addition, watermelon rind is still a very good cosmetic agent, wipe the facial skin with watermelon rind, then wash with water, can increase skin elasticity, reduce wrinkles, add luster.

2. Tomatoes

Contains a large amount of lycopene and various trace elements, which have a good sunscreen effect. Therefore, rather than smear a thick layer of sunscreen, it is better to eat more tomatoes.

Note: Immature tomatoes are unfit for human consumption. Unripe tomatoes contain solanine, which has a bitter taste and can easily cause poisoning. When green tomatoes turn red, they will not contain solanine. In addition, tomatoes should not be eaten after being heated for a long period of time because the tomatoes lose their original nutrition and taste after being heated for a long time.

3. Bitter gourd

Chinese medicine believes that it is easy to get angry in the summer and the bitterness can release heat and dry heat. Appropriate bitter food in summer can restore spleen and stomach function and increase appetite.

The bitter taste of bitter gourd is more difficult to accept. The following methods can reduce bitterness:

(1) Salting: Sprinkle the cut melon slices with salt for a while, and then stir-fry. This will not only reduce the bitter taste, but also the flavor of the bitter gourd.

(2) Otter: Bitter gourd cuts are boiled in water and then soaked in cold water, so that bitterness can be removed but the bitter gourd flavor is lost.

(3) Drifting: cut the bitter gourd, go to the child, cut into filaments, then rinse with cold water, gently pinch by hand while washing, wash for a while after changing the water and then wash, so repeatedly rinsed three or four times, bitter With the loss of water, the treated bitter gourd is delicious and has a bitter taste.

(4) Add some honey to the bitter gourd juice or mix it with other better-flavored juices to improve the taste.

4. Cucumber

Cucumber is the best beauty slimming vegetable in summer. Regular consumption of cucumber can effectively resist skin aging, reduce wrinkles, and prevent cheilitis and angular cheilitis. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records, Sugua has the effect of heat, thirst, diuresis, swelling.

Note: When cucumbers are eaten raw, they should not be too much. Stomach weakness, abdominal pain, diarrhea, cold cough should eat less cucumber.

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