What are the benefits of eating winter melon in autumn

Winter melon is a vegetable with great nutritional value. Eating it in summer can help clear away heat and detoxify. Moreover, winter melon contains a variety of trace elements, which can eliminate edema, beautify the skin, and resist aging. It is the choice of many women who love beauty. In short, winter melon has many benefits. So what are the benefits of eating winter melon frequently in the dry autumn? Let’s learn about it together.

1. Winter melon has a good effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat. Eating more winter melon in autumn can not only quench thirst, relieve heat and promote diuresis, but also prevent people from getting carbuncles. Because it is a diuretic and contains very little sodium, it is an excellent product for reducing edema caused by chronic nephritis, malnutrition, and pregnant women.

2. It contains a variety of vitamins and trace elements necessary for the human body, and can regulate the body's metabolic balance. Winter melon is cold in nature, can nourish the stomach, clear away stomach fire, reduce people's food intake, and promote the conversion of starch and sugar in the body into heat energy instead of fat. Therefore, winter melon is an ideal vegetable for obese people.

3. Winter melon has anti-aging effects. Long-term consumption can keep your skin as white as jade, moisturized and smooth, and keep your body fit. It is said that Japanese Queen Michiko often uses winter melon to make winter melon cream for beautification.

4. Winter melon is cold in nature, so it is not suitable to be eaten often in autumn and winter, otherwise it is easy to accumulate cold, which is not good for the spleen and stomach. To avoid the accumulation of coldness in the body, you should not eat winter melon more than three times a week. If you make winter melon soup, you should not drink too much, just 200 grams each time. At the same time, in order to neutralize the coldness, you should pay attention to the combination when cooking. When stir-frying, you can pair it with warm beef, or add garlic, ginger, onion, fermented black beans and other warm ingredients; when stewing soup, you can add bones and warm ginger and scallion; when cooking porridge, you can cook it with warm sweet potatoes, all of which can warm the stomach. When buying winter melons, choose those with a regular body, firm skin, white frost, no scars, and thick flesh.

5. In addition, since winter melon is cold in nature, people with spleen and stomach qi deficiency, stomach cold and pain should eat less of it. People with long-term illness and yang deficiency and cold limbs should avoid eating it.