No matter what season it is, we have to eat healthily. The nutrients of men and women come from diet every day, so healthy diet is very important. There are many healthy foods in life, and lemon is one of them. Do you know the advantages of lemon?
1. Lemon is an appetizer: lemon can produce saliva, relieve heat and appetizer
Although the taste of lemon is sour and slightly bitter, it can't be eaten raw like other fruits, but lemon peel is rich in aromatic volatile components, which can produce body fluid, relieve heat, appetizer and invigorate the spleen. In summer, the heat and humidity are heavy, and many people are tired. After working or studying for a long time, they often have a bad appetite. Drinking a cup of lemon water can refresh people's spirits and open their appetite. In Western food, lemon is often used as the seasoning of seafood to remove the fishy smell. In Southeast Asian food, it is directly cooked to highlight its sour and sweet taste. Among the roast duck and roast goose that people in South China like to eat, lemon is also indispensable.
2. Lemon is a antihypertensive fruit: prevention of cardiovascular disease
Lemon is rich in vitamin C and vitamin P, can enhance vascular elasticity and toughness, can prevent and treat hypertension and myocardial infarction symptoms. In recent years, foreign studies also found that lemon contains a similar composition of insulin, which can reduce the abnormal blood glucose value.
3. Lemon is phlegm fruit: often eat lemon heat phlegm
Lemon can also remove phlegm. Lemon peel has better expectorant effect than citrus. In summer, the weather is hot and humid. If you don't pay attention to your diet, the internal humidity of the human body and the external humidity of the natural climate will react with each other, and the turbid and stagnant phlegm will be produced after a long time. Therefore, the summer phlegm, throat is not timely, lemon juice with warm water and a small amount of salt, can be the accumulation of throat sputum successfully cough up.
Lemon often appears in our life, especially in this season, lemon is a favorite of many women, can whiten, lose weight, and there are the above benefits, so women for their own health must be healthy diet, must cherish every healthy food around.