Can balsam pear be eaten raw when it is ripe?

Balsam pear is a common vegetable, which tastes sweet and bitter and has the effect of clearing fire and detoxification. So, can balsam pear be eaten raw when it is ripe?

Can balsam pear be eaten raw when it is ripe?

Balsam pear ripe can be eaten raw, eating balsam pear raw is more conducive to the absorption of vitamin C, carotene and other water-soluble nutrients, because these ingredients are not resistant to high temperature, if cooked at high temperature, there will be a loss of some nutrients.

Second, the efficacy and function of balsam pear

1. Clearing heat and detoxification

Balsam pear can release the heat in the heart and eliminate toxins in the body. The best way to eat balsam pear is cold. Cold salad can well retain the vitamins contained in balsam pear. If the method of stir-frying is used, a large number of these vitamins will be lost in the process of stir-frying, and the content of oil after stir-frying is relatively high, so people will consume more oil after eating, which can not play the role of cooling and relieving fire.

two。 Nourish the skin and nourish the skin

Often eating balsam pear can enhance the vitality of the cortex and make the skin delicate and healthy. With fresh balsam pear juice or decoction, liver fire red eyes, epigastric pain, damp-heat dysentery are all good products for auxiliary dietotherapy; external application of fresh balsam pear can be used to treat carbuncle swelling and boils; children are easy to suffer from prickly heat in summer, and balsam pear slices try to wipe the prickly heat on the body, which can be cured as soon as possible; balsam pear boiled water or as a delicacy can dissipate heat and relieve heat.

3. Hypoglycemia

Mussel meat balsam pear soup is the best hypoglycemic product. The crude extract of balsam pear contains insulin-like substances and has obvious hypoglycemic effect. According to traditional Chinese medicine, balsam pear has a sweet, bitter and cold taste, which can clear heat, eliminate annoyance and quench thirst; clam meat is sweet and salty and cold, which can clear heat and nourish yin, quench thirst and diuresis. The combination of the two, clear heat and nourish yin, suitable for diabetes partial to stomach yin deficiency with heat.

4. Nourishing blood and nourishing liver

Balsam pear tastes bitter, raw is cold, ripe is warm. Raw food clears heat and purges fire, relieves heat and relieves annoyance; cooked food nourishes blood and nourishes liver, moistens spleen and kidney, removes evil fever, relieves fatigue, clears heart and eyesight, replenishes qi and yang. But eat balsam pear should also be careful not to damage the spleen and lung qi. Although it is hot in summer, people should not eat too much bitter food, and it is best to go with spicy food (such as pepper, pepper, spring onions, garlic), which can avoid bitterness and help tonify the lungs.

Although balsam pear has a lot of efficacy, but balsam pear is cold, eating will produce a certain chill to the body, it is not appropriate to eat more, and it is not recommended to drink every day, so as not to aggravate the cold degree of the body, the cold situation of spleen and stomach, causing gastrointestinal discomfort and other symptoms.