Okra belongs to low-energy food. People like it very much because it can not gain weight and keep balanced nutrition for a long time. There are many ways to eat okra. How to cut okra properly? What should we pay attention to when eating okra?
How to cut okra properly
Water chestnut
There are water chestnut around the okra. There are more lignin in water chestnut. If not, it will affect the taste seriously. Therefore, it is necessary to use a knife or peeler to remove the lignin in water chestnut after cleaning the fluff on the surface.
Segment
The cutting method of okra has a lot to do with the loss of nutrition caused by cooking afterwards, especially okra is a kind of quite nutritious health-care vegetable, especially the seeds and gum liquid in okra has a good health-care effect, so okra is suitable for whole or half cooking, the most appropriate is to cut a ten character knife and section, never cut into silk, so the nutritional effect will be greatly reduced.
What kind of okra can't be eaten
Variegated taste
Normal okra has a kind of smell of okra green. If there is a smell of alcohol, rotten, stink, etc., it is generally a sign of serious deterioration, so don't eat such okra.
Discoloration
The normal color of okra is red, green and dark green. If it turns black, brown and soft, it is mostly parasitized by bacteria, so it can't be eaten.
What to pay attention to when eating Okra
1. Okra is a kind of cold food. It is not recommended to eat other cold food, which will increase the cold degree of the spleen and stomach and reduce the function of the spleen and stomach.
2. Okra contains a large number of glial ingredients, which can nourish the intestines and have the effect of defecation. In addition, the cold and slippery nature of okra may lead to diarrhea.
3. People with diarrhea or deficiency cold can't eat okra with cold nature, which will aggravate the cold degree of intestines and body, and easily lead to serious diarrhea and indigestion.