Just at the beginning of summer, another year's summer is coming unconsciously. The high temperature continues in these two days. In this hot weather, it must be a very enjoyable way to relieve the heat with watermelon. So, what kind of nutritional value and efficacy does watermelon have? What are the benefits of eating watermelon in summer? Is watermelon suitable for everyone? These three kinds of people should pay attention to eating watermelon.
The nutritional value of watermelon is as follows
Watermelon is popular because of its sweet and juicy taste. In addition, it is also a kind of fruit with high nutritional value. Nutrition research found that watermelon contains a lot of water, glucose, malic acid, fructose, and rich vitamin C, among which the sugar content increases with the increase of maturity, generally about 5% to 12%.
A large amount of water and glucose can supplement the energy needed by the human body, help the function to restore physical fitness, and at the same time achieve the effect of producing body fluid to quench thirst. Rich vitamin C can improve the body's immunity, and make the skin white at the same time.
Indications of watermelon:
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that watermelon is cold and sweet in nature. It has the functions of clearing away heat, relieving heat, generating fluid and diuresis. Clinically, it can be used for the symptoms of summer heat, thirst and adverse urination.
Moreover, in addition to gourd meat, watermelon skin also has medicinal value. Studies have found that citrulline contained in watermelon skin can promote the formation of urea, resulting in diuretic effect, so it can be used in the treatment of nephritis, edema, liver disease, jaundice and other disease symptoms.
Although watermelon is good, three kinds of people should not eat more
Although eating watermelon in summer can not only relieve summer heat, but also has good nutritional value, we should also pay attention to the appropriate amount, and should not eat too much, especially for the following three groups of people. Eating too much watermelon is easy to cause negative effects on the body
1. People with deficiency of spleen and stomach
Because watermelon is cold and has a bad spleen and stomach, people who are prone to diarrhea when they encounter cold food must pay attention to eating less watermelon, especially iced watermelon, so as to avoid stomach discomfort.
2. People during cold
Whether it is wind heat cold or wind cold cold, during the cold period, because the body is still in a weak stage, and the cold nature of watermelon will cause certain damage to the body, during this period, eating a lot of watermelon, but it is easy to make the body recover longer.
3. Special groups
For people with diabetes, they can eat some watermelon in moderation, but they should not eat too much. It is advisable to eat 25~50 grams at a time. In addition, for women in menstruation, it is best not to eat watermelon, so as not to aggravate the cold.