4hw.com.cn: in summer, many people especially like to eat watermelon to cool down and relieve summer heat. But not everyone can eat watermelon. Some people have a cold constitution. Can people who are cold eat watermelon? Can they eat watermelon if it is too ripe?
Is watermelon too ripe to eat
Watermelon that is too ripe can be eaten as long as it doesn't go bad, but its taste is poor.
Nutritional value of watermelon
1. Watermelon contains 93% water and low in calories. It is a good product to quench summer thirst.
2. Except for fat and cholesterol, watermelon contains almost all kinds of nutrients needed by human body, such as glucose, fructose, sucrose, dietary fiber, calcium, phosphorus, glutamic acid, citrulline, etc., especially vitamin A.
3. Watermelon is rich in protein, amino acid, lycopene and vitamin C. It is a kind of nutritious, pure and safe food.
How about watermelon for those who are cold
Can eat, watermelon belongs to raw and cold food, should be moderate consumption.
1. People with deficiency of stomach and intestines
As watermelon belongs to "raw and cold food", it is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach when eating too much, resulting in poor appetite, indigestion, abdominal distention and diarrhea.
2. People with renal insufficiency
This kind of person discharges the function of water inside the body to reduce greatly, often can appear lower limbs or systemic oedema. The water content of watermelon is nearly 95%, which will not only aggravate the edema, but also induce the acute heart failure.
3. Early stage of cold
Cold and fever patients often rely on watermelon to replenish water and reduce fever, but it belongs to sweet and cold food, not suitable for cold and early cold, especially those suffering from chills, no sweat and other symptoms should eat less.
4. Diabetic patients
Watermelon Sugar content is about 5%, diabetes patients should not eat more. And try not to eat after meals, or increase the burden of pancreas, the most appropriate between meals.
5. Senior citizen
As people get older, most of them have the problems of cold spleen and stomach, poor heart and kidney function. Eating too much watermelon is easy to cause spleen and stomach damage.