It's a technical job to pick a watermelon with thin skin and sweet flesh. Have you ever heard of watermelon divided into "male" and "female"? Is the male delicious or the female delicious? I didn't expect that the watermelon is also exquisite.
1. Look at the color
Ripe melon is yellow on the bottom; immature melon is dark and hairy on the surface, with unclear spots or lines. It's better to pick green melons instead of white ones.
2. Listen to the voice
If you play melon with your fingers and hear the sound of "bang", it's ripe melon; if you hear the sound of "Dangdang", it's not mature enough; if you hear the sound of "puff", it's over ripe melon.
3. Circle
The bottom of the melon has a melon navel, which is a small black circle.
Circle big is male melon, circle small is female melon. The smaller the circle, the better. The larger the circle, the thicker the melon skin.
4. Look at the lines
Melon surface lines neat and regular is the mother melon, otherwise is the male melon.
The melon body is well proportioned, with normal growth and excellent quality; the melon body is deformed, with abnormal growth and the next highest quality.
5. Look at Guardi
The melon head is the melon head. If it's a straight line, it's a male melon, with many seeds, thick and light taste; if it's curled up, it's a female melon, with few seeds, thin and sweet taste, which is the best choice.
So much attention has been paid to watermelon selection. Not only is the watermelon delicious, but the watermelon skin is also a 'medicine'. Can you use it?
Using watermelon skin to relieve hypertension
In summer, eating watermelon has a first-class function of relieving summer heat. Don't lose watermelon skin after eating watermelon. It's not only a good product for relieving summer heat, but also a good product for refreshing thirst and diuresis:
It has health care effect on hypertension, heart and kidney edema.
The green part of watermelon skin, which contains citrulline and arginine, can promote the formation of urea, so it has diuretic effect;
The sugar body has the function of reducing blood pressure, so it can relieve hypertension by boiling water with watermelon skin or eating cold mixture.
Two ways to eat watermelon peel to reduce blood pressure
Boiled water of watermelon peel
raw material
Watermelon skin, sugar, water
practice
1. Remove the red pulp from the watermelon skin, wash it, and cut into strips for use.
2. Add some water into the pot, pour in the watermelon skin, boil over high heat, turn to medium heat, boil for 30 minutes first.
3. After cooking for 30 minutes, add in the rock sugar, and then cook for 5 minutes in low heat, turn off the heat. Pour out the water, you can drink it. It tastes better after cold storage.
Watermelon skin in cold sauce
raw material
Watermelon skin, garlic, chicken essence, sugar, salt, sesame oil.
practice
1. Leave a little red flesh on the watermelon skin, peel off the green hard skin of the watermelon and cut into small pieces.
2. Add minced garlic, chicken essence, sugar, salt and sesame oil, and mix well.
In addition to relieving hypertension, watermelon peel has many other functions:
① remove prickly heat
In summer, sweating is easy to produce prickly heat. Wash the rind and rub the white part of the rind to feel cool and comfortable. Three times a day, usually two days later.
② repair after sun exposure
Watermelon skin is sliced and applied to the sunburned skin, which can play an auxiliary therapeutic role. If the sunburn is serious, you can put the melon skin into the refrigerator for freezing for a while, then apply ice for about a week, the effect is obvious.
③ heatstroke prevention
Wash the watermelon skin, cut off the thin green skin, add water and boil for half an hour, remove the residue and add some white sugar or crystal sugar, cool and drink to prevent heatstroke. Children in outdoor heatstroke, you can also use watermelon skin for its body, accelerate the temperature drop.
④ relieve toothache
According to traditional Chinese medicine, watermelon peel can be used to treat summer heat, thirst and other diseases. After sun dried melon skin, add a little ice, rub in toothache place, can alleviate symptom.
⑤ treatment of oral ulcer
Watermelon skin is burnt and grinded, which can be contained in the mouth to cure mouth and tongue sores; watermelon skin and mung bean can also be used to cook soup together as a good drink to prevent fire at ordinary times.
⑥ dealing with cough and sore throat
"Food herbs" said that watermelon can "cure throat obstruction". Watermelon skin also has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving fever, relieving throat pain.
⑦ dealing with constipation
Watermelon has a cathartic effect. When children are constipated, they can beat the green skin on the outside of watermelon into juice and drink it. The effect of defecation is good. For people with severe constipation, you can also consider adding appropriate honey. However, people with deficiency of Yang and Qi and blood may cause diarrhea.
Smart cut melon method
Just cut the big watermelon in half, and then cut the pulp at different angles. In this way, the watermelon skin becomes a bowl, and the watermelon juice will not drop out. If you can't finish it, seal it and put it in the refrigerator.
After reading this article, you must remember to choose the mother of watermelon in summer. At the same time, it's a pity that you don't take such cheap antihypertensive medicine. Let's tell your friends in need to try it.