1, a beautiful sentence describing wax gourd:
(1) wax gourd, although fat, but the flesh inside is crystal clear, sweet and delicious. It can also play a role in cooling down and reducing fire, and it can also play a role in losing weight!
(2) Wax gourd is like a fat doll, lying on the ground. If you want to touch it, it will refuse you with its hairy and prickly frost-like shyness.
2. Articles describing wax gourd:
(1) from Liu Hongjiang's Winter Melon.
The original skin color of wax gourd is turquoise, and the whole body is covered with fine fluff. Only with the growth of age, it is as white as powder, like a layer of frost condensed in winter. Perhaps it is for this reason that the name "wax gourd" was given.
Wax gourd, like pumpkin, is huge and lies underground. In spring, a small melon seed is planted in the soil. In summer and autumn, such a round pillow-like big guy actually grows on a long melon vine. It's incredible!
(2) from Xu Mingdong's "wax gourd".
When I was a child, for a long time, I was puzzled by this name-this wax gourd was born in spring and summer and harvested in summer and autumn, which seemed to have nothing to do with winter. The well-informed Chinese teacher explained: "When the wax gourd is mature, it will have a layer of frost similar to snow on its surface, hence its name. Melons are shaped like pillows, and some are called pillow melons. "
The main value of wax gourd:
1, nutritional value
Wax gourd, including pulp, pulp and seeds, is rich in nutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and mineral elements.
Wax gourd contains no fat and dietary fiber is as high as 0.8%. It is rich in nutrition and reasonable in structure. The calculation of nutritional quality index shows that wax gourd is a healthy and high-quality food.
2. Medicinal value
Wax gourd is sweet in taste and cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Wax gourd has low sodium content, which has a good auxiliary treatment effect on arteriosclerosis, ascites due to cirrhosis, coronary heart disease, hypertension, nephritis and edema. Wax gourd also has the function of detoxifying fish poison. The seeds and skins of wax gourd can also be used as medicine. The meat and pulp of wax gourd have diuretic, heat-clearing, expectorant and thirst-quenching effects.
3. Economic value
Wax gourd has low planting cost, high yield, rich nutrition, storage and transportation resistance, strong heat resistance, white meat, crisp and juicy, and is a good raw material suitable for modern agricultural products processing. Wax gourd has been widely used in the processing of various new foods and health products.