After the beginning of autumn, the weather is gradually dry, and with the afterglow of the autumn tiger, many people will have symptoms of getting angry at this time. Do you eat eggplant to reduce the fire? How to eat eggplant can effectively reduce the fire and be more healthy? There is a saying in the folk saying 'plant eggplant in summer and eat eggplant in autumn'. According to traditional Chinese medicine, eggplant has the functions of clearing heat, hemostasis, detumescence and pain relief, dispelling wind and unblocking collaterals, broadening intestines and promoting qi. Therefore, eating some eggplant in this season can reduce 'fire' and eliminate autumn dryness. The eggplant just harvested in autumn is called 'autumn eggplant'. It has a unique fragrance and delicate taste, so its flavor is better than ordinary eggplant.
Fu Jinru, honorary president of Tianjin nutrition society, told reporters that eggplant is not only a cheap and high-quality popular vegetable, but also a good food therapy. In addition to rich in vitamins and trace elements, there is a point different from other vegetables, is rich in vitamin P. Vitamin P is a flavonoid that helps to maintain normal cardiovascular function. Therefore, eggplant is very beneficial to patients with atherosclerosis, hypertension, coronary heart disease and scurvy. In addition, foreign research results show that eggplant is also a 'strong anti-cancer' in vegetables. Solanine can inhibit the proliferation of digestive system tumor and has certain effect on the prevention and treatment of gastric cancer.
Long eggplant and round eggplant are the most common ones in the market. What's the difference between them? Cui Yanling, a researcher at the vegetable research center of Beijing Academy of agricultural and Forestry Sciences, said that long eggplant and round eggplant don't have much difference in nutrition, only slightly different in taste. Long eggplant skin is rich in water content, fiber is also thin, so the texture is soft. However, the eggplant skin has less moisture, coarse fiber and relatively hard taste. Therefore, when cooking, round eggplant is mainly fried and stewed, while long eggplant is better with cold mixed eggplant.
Fu Jinru said that there are many ways to cook eggplant, frying and frying can cook delicious, but you need to choose a healthy way to eat. When making eggplant, many people like to fry or burn eggplant in oil. Although it is delicious, high temperature will cause serious loss of nutrition in eggplant, and its health care effect will be greatly reduced. Moreover, the intake of high calorie and high fat is also harmful to the body. Therefore, of all the ways to eat eggplant, cold mixed eggplant paste is the most healthy.
First of all, the heating time of eggplant mash is the shortest, and it only needs high-temperature steaming, so the nutrition loss is the least. Secondly, mixing eggplant paste with the least oil, steamed eggplant mashed, just a little drizzle some sauce can. Finally, eggplant puree is the most complete nutrient absorption method, because it does not need to peel, and eggplant skin contains a lot of bioactive substances. The best sauce for mashed eggplant is olive oil, sesame paste, garlic paste and a little salt. It should be noted that eggplant is a kind of cool food. If the stomach and intestines are not feeling well recently, you should eat less, otherwise it will increase the burden on the stomach and intestines. A kind of