Nutritional Value of Extra-small Watermelon
Extra-small watermelon is rich in water, sugar, protein, crude fiber, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus and iron, which can clear away heat and reduce fire. Extra-small-abundant watermelon contains a lot of water, which can relieve dry mouth symptoms, induce diuresis, improve kidney inflammation and improve the nutrition of patients with nephritis. Fresh watermelons can also increase skin elasticity and reduce wrinkles, beauty beauty.
What's the difference between yellow watermelon and red watermelon?
1, yellow pulp watermelon has high sugar content.
Yellow flesh watermelon is a new watermelon product introduced from Taiwan Province province. This kind of watermelon is relatively small, mostly about 3 kilograms, and it has a particularly high sugar content and a short growth period. The pulp tastes tender and smooth, and melts in the mouth, which can quickly replenish energy for the human body and reduce the occurrence of adverse symptoms such as fatigue and weakness.
2. Both red watermelon and yellow watermelon can fight cancer.
Although the nutritional components of red watermelon and yellow watermelon are different, they all have anti-cancer effects, because lycopene in red watermelon and lutein in yellow watermelon are natural anti-cancer components and natural antioxidants, which can not only improve human immunity, but also play an important role in delaying aging.
Red watermelon is more delicious than yellow watermelon.
Although yellow watermelon looks good and has high nutritional value, its taste is not as good as that of red watermelon, and its water content is less. Eating in summer is not as good as preventing dehydration as red watermelon. Having said that, everyone should understand that red watermelon and yellow watermelon have their own advantages, and everyone can do it.
Matters needing attention in eating watermelon
1, don't eat too much, otherwise it will hurt the spleen and stomach and cause pharyngitis.
Watermelon is a cold product, and eating too much is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. Therefore, people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, dyspepsia and loose stool should eat less, while eating more will lead to abdominal distension, diarrhea, loss of appetite, accumulation of cold and dampness, leading to diseases. Eating too much watermelon at a time will dilute gastric juice, cause indigestion and decrease gastrointestinal resistance.
Don't eat watermelon at the beginning of a cold.
Don't eat watermelon at the beginning of a cold, otherwise it will aggravate the cold or prolong the cure time. Whether wind-cold cold or wind-heat cold belongs to exterior syndrome at the initial stage, it should be treated by divergent methods to solve the disease from the exterior. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that exterior and interior are not attacked, otherwise exterior evil will enter the interior, and the condition will be aggravated. In the early stage of a cold, eating watermelon is equivalent to eating drugs that clear away heat from the interior surface, which will lead to the entry of pathogenic factors, aggravate the cold or prolong the cure time. However, when the cold gets worse and there are fever symptoms such as high fever, thirst, sore throat and yellow urine, you can eat some watermelons while taking normal drugs, which is helpful for the recovery of the cold.
Don't eat watermelons that have been open for too long.
When the temperature is high, watermelon is easy to deteriorate after being opened for a long time, which will breed germs and lead to intestinal infectious diseases. Therefore, when eating watermelon, we should pay attention to choosing ripe fresh watermelon.
4, people with renal insufficiency should not eat.
Eating a lot of watermelon in a short period of time will increase the water in the body, which exceeds the physiological capacity of the human body. In patients with renal insufficiency, the ability of kidney to regulate water is greatly reduced, and too much water entering the body can not be regulated and excreted, resulting in a sharp increase in blood volume and easy death due to acute heart failure.
5, oral ulcers do not eat.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the main causes of oral ulcers are internal heat due to yin deficiency, disturbance due to deficiency of fire, and burning flesh and blood veins. Watermelon has diuretic effect. If people with oral ulcer eat more watermelon, the water normally needed in the body will be discharged through the diuretic effect of watermelon, which will aggravate the state of insufficient vaginal fluid. Yin deficiency will increase internal heat and aggravate oral ulcer.
6. Diabetic patients need to eat watermelon in moderation.
Watermelon contains about 5% sugar, mainly glucose, sucrose and some fructose, which means eating watermelon will increase blood sugar. Normal people can keep their blood sugar and urine sugar at a normal level because they can secrete insulin in time. People with diabetes are different. Eating too much watermelon in a short time will not only increase blood sugar, but also lead to acidosis and even life-threatening due to metabolic disorder. The daily intake of carbohydrates (carbohydrates) by diabetics needs to be strictly controlled. Therefore, if you eat watermelon many times a day, you should reduce the amount of meals and flour products (carbohydrates) accordingly, so as not to aggravate your illness. If you eat 25-50 grams of watermelon at a time, it will have little effect on diabetics, so diabetics should pay attention to the right amount of watermelon.
7. Mothers should not eat more watermelons.
Maternal physique is relatively weak, Chinese medicine believes that eating more watermelon will be too cold and damage the spleen and stomach. Watermelon should not be eaten before and after meals, because a large amount of water in watermelon will dilute the digestive juice in the stomach and affect the digestion and absorption of food, and eating watermelon in large quantities before meals will occupy the volume of the stomach and greatly reduce the intake of various nutrients, especially for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers. For people who want to lose weight by dieting, eating watermelon before meals is a good way to reduce their food intake.
8. Eat less iced watermelons.
Although eating iced watermelon on a hot day has a good effect of relieving summer heat, it is very irritating to the stomach and is easy to harm the spleen and stomach, so we should pay attention to grasping the delicious temperature and quantity. Watermelon is best placed on the lowest floor of the refrigerator, where the temperature is about 8- 10℃, and the temperature is also the best. Don't eat more than 500 grams of watermelon at a time. Chew slowly. For people with dental caries (tooth decay) and tooth allergies, they will feel sour and painful after catching a cold, and people with poor gastrointestinal function are not suitable for eating iced watermelons.
How much is a catty of yellow watermelon?
Yellow watermelon is not as common as red watermelon, and its yield is scarce, so the price will be more expensive. Most of the yellow watermelons sold in the market are extra small watermelons imported from Taiwan Province Province. Generally, the highest market price of extra-small watermelons is 7.00 yuan/kg, and the lowest is 3.00 yuan/kg.