What food is good to eat in June?
Summer is the season when all kinds of melons are on the market. Eating more melon at this time can quench thirst and relieve summer heat, reduce fire and dryness, and has many dietetic effects. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that winter melon is cool and sweet, and enters the lungs, large intestine and bladder meridian, which has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat and reducing fire. It is a very good summer product.
Moreover, the coldness of wax gourd is not as strong as bitter gourd and white radish, so even pregnant women don't have to avoid eating. Patients with gout, hypertension, heart disease, liver disease and beriberi edema may have ascites and dysuria. Winter melon can be cooked and eaten, which is helpful for diuresis and eliminating edema. When cooking winter melon soup, don't peel and remove seeds in a hurry. It's best to wash the skin of wax gourd and put it in a pot for soup. Removing the skin and melon seeds when cooking can play a diuretic role.
2, bitter gourd
It is hot every day in summer, and people easily get angry. Eating bitter gourd can relieve summer heat, stimulate people's appetite, increase appetite, help digestion and improve immunity. It is the most suitable melon vegetable in summer. Bitter gourd tastes bitter and cold, and has the function of clearing away heat and purging fire. The weather is hot, and everyone began to deliberately eat more bitter gourd to clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Bitter gourd tastes bitter, but in fact, the more bitter it is, the more bitter it is. Because of bitter bitter bitter gourd, the more the content of momordicin, the higher the nutritional value.
In fact, it is not impossible to alleviate the bitter taste of bitter gourd. You can sprinkle the sliced melon with salt for a while, then filter out the water and cook it. Bitterness will be reduced a lot, and you can make bitter gourd dishes that are not too bitter.
Step 3: cabbage
Cabbage is rich in vitamin C, vitamin E, carotene and so on. The total vitamin content is more than three times that of tomato, so it has strong antioxidant and anti-aging effects. Cabbage is rich in folic acid, which has a good preventive effect on megaloblastic anemia and fetal malformation. Therefore, pregnant women, children and adolescents should eat more during their growth and development.
Chinese cabbage is rich in radish sulfur. This substance can stimulate human cells to produce enzymes beneficial to the body, and then form a protective film to resist the erosion of foreign carcinogens. Radish sulfur is the strongest anticancer component in vegetables found at present.
4.loofah
Luffa, also known as hanging melon, originated from the ocean and was introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty, becoming a common vegetable for people. Luffa has high medicinal value and can be used as medicine in an all-round way. In summer and autumn, a large number of green loofahs are on the market. Chinese medicine believes that loofah tastes sweet and cool, and enters the liver and stomach. Has that effect of clearing away heat and phlegm, relieve cough and asthma, cooling blood and removing toxic substances. Luffa is rich in nutrients, including protein, fat, sugar, calcium, iron, phosphorus, carotene, vitamins and other nutrients.
Not only fresh loofah is effective, but Chinese medicine believes that old loofah is similar to human meridians. With the help of the qi of the old loofah, the meridians and collaterals of the human body can be unblocked, and the qi and blood can be unblocked. Luffa is rich in juice, so it should be cut and cooked now to avoid the loss of nutrition with the juice.
5. tomatoes
Summer is the season for tomatoes. Many MMs like tomato and egg soup very much, which is appetizing and nutritious, not only good for the mouth, but also good for the body. It can prevent and improve all kinds of physical diseases, and at the same time, it can eliminate fat and detoxify, so that your obesity constitution can be changed. It is an indispensable diet food!
Tomato is rich in lycopene, its anti-acidification effect can effectively inhibit the activity of active oxygen, and its anti-cancer ability is very high! In addition, vitamin K can prevent osteoporosis to a certain extent, which can be said to be the savior of female bones! Vitamin E is a good helper to maintain liver function and improve hangover.
6.asparagus
Asparagus is sweet, cold and has the effect of clearing heat and diuresis. Therefore, eating asparagus is a good choice in hot summer. In addition, the tip of green asparagus is rich in vitamin A, which is also very good for eyesight.
Asparagus is rich in flavonoids and has antioxidant effect. Regular consumption has good anti-aging and anti-tumor effects. In hot summer, a cold asparagus should be good.
7.cucumber
Cucumber has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, detoxicating, reducing swelling, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Can be used for adjuvant treatment of body heat, polydipsia, sore throat, wind-heat eye diseases, damp-heat jaundice, and dysuria. Propanoic acid contained in cucumber can inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat. In addition, the cellulose in cucumber can promote the excretion of putrefactive substances in human intestine and reduce cholesterol, which can strengthen the body.
Cucumber is rich in vitamin E, which can prolong life and resist aging. Cucumber enzyme in cucumber has strong biological activity, which can effectively promote the metabolism of the body. Rubbing the skin with cucumber juice has the effect of moistening skin and stretching wrinkles.
8.eggplant
Summer is also the season for eggplant to go on sale. Do you know the efficacy of eggplant? The purple skin of eggplant is rich in vitamins, which is incomparable to other vegetables. Among them, vitamins have the functions of increasing capillary elasticity and improving microcirculation, and have certain preventive effects on patients with hypertension, arteriosclerosis and scurvy. The special substances contained in eggplant fiber have the function of lowering cholesterol.
Melon originated in Southeast Asia and was introduced to China in the Jin Dynasty. There are white eggplant, purple eggplant, green eggplant, black-purple eggplant and green-white eggplant. White eggplant was not common in the past. With its popularity in recent years, it has been gradually accepted by people. Compared with the common purple eggplant, white eggplant skin has medicinal value, which can be used to remove spots and beautify and treat rheumatic joint pain.
9. Green beans; Beans; green soya bean
Green beans are "frequent visitors" on the table. Although green beans do not contain too much calcium, they contain a lot of vitamin K. The research of online consulting experts in men's hospitals shows that vitamin K can increase the bone density of osteoporosis patients and reduce the risk of fracture.
Mung beans include bean powder, beans and lentils. Beans are big, thick and big, and it is not easy to cook them thoroughly. So pay more attention to cooking. The method of preventing kidney bean poisoning is very simple, as long as all kidney beans are cooked and stewed thoroughly. In addition, be careful not to buy or eat old green beans, and remove both ends and pods of green beans, because these parts contain more toxins.
10, bergamot
Pumpkin is rich in nutrients in melons and vegetables, and regular consumption can enhance the body's resistance. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the effects of expelling wind and reducing fever, invigorating spleen and appetizing, and diuresis. In particular, the high content of zinc in Hezhang melon has obvious curative effect on children's intellectual development, male and female infertility, especially the decline of male sexual function, and can also alleviate the vision decline of the elderly.
Chayote is suitable for raw and cooked food. When eaten raw, it is as sweet and refreshing as cucumber. When cooked, it can be fried, salted, boiled and made into soup. For example, fried chicken with bergamot, cold shredded pepper with bergamot, bergamot beef soup and bergamot bean sparerib soup are all easy dishes for ordinary families to cook.
1 1, celery
Celery contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, cellulose, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. Among them, the contents of vitamin B and P are more. The content of mineral elements calcium, phosphorus and iron is higher than that of ordinary vegetables. Celery is not only nutritious, but also has medicinal value. Celery is also a cool vegetable, which can be eaten properly according to dietary preferences in summer.