Can you really lose weight by soaking in balsam pear? What are the efficacy, effects and taboos?

In summer, a kind of heat-clearing and detoxifying green vegetable-balsam pear appears on the dinner table. Balsam pear has different names in different places, such as leprosy grape, cool melon, brocade litchi and mangy melon. Many people who lose weight will be the first choice. Can you really lose weight by soaking in water with balsam pear? What are the effects and taboos? Let's take a closer look at it.

Can you really lose weight if you drink balsam pear?

1. In fact, balsam pear water can achieve the goal of weight loss, this is because balsam pear can not only promote digestion, so that toxins in the body out of the body, at the same time, it can also discharge excess fat in the body, it can be said to be the first choice for healthy weight loss.

two。 However, some people who drink bitter gourd running water can not achieve the effect of weight loss, this is because people's obesity is caused by a variety of reasons, such as do not like exercise but like to eat high-calorie, high-sugar food, there are genetic causes or familial obesity. Such as this, it is impossible to lose weight only by soaking in water with balsam pear. If you want to lose weight successfully, you have to make a weight loss plan and drink balsam pear in order to lose weight.

3. How to drink with balsam pear?

(1) now there are ready-made balsam pear tea on the market, you can go to the store or buy it online and brew according to the written instructions.

(2) in addition to buying ready-made balsam pear tea, you can also make it yourself and then brew it. The specific methods are as follows:

a. Go to the market or supermarket to buy fresh and intact balsam pear

b. Wash the balsam pear in good condition, cut it into thin slices and dry it in the sun.

c. After drying, you can keep it in a ventilated and cool environment. If you need to brew, take out a few tablets (according to the degree you can accept) and brew them with boiling water. If you feel too bitter, you can also add a little honey or rock sugar.

What are the effects and taboos of balsam pear?

1. The efficacy of balsam pear

(1) balsam pear can clear away heat and detoxification: balsam pear can excrete 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.

(2) balsam pear can nourish the skin: eating balsam pear often 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) balsam pear can lower blood sugar and blood lipids in dogs: making a mussel meat balsam pear soup is the first choice for lowering blood sugar. The crude extract of balsam pear contains insulin-like substances, which has obvious hypoglycemic effect. According to traditional Chinese medicine, balsam pear has a sweet, bitter and cold taste, which can clear away heat and is suitable for people with diabetes who are prone to stomach yin deficiency. It also has the effect of improving human immunity and health care.

(4) balsam pear can nourish blood and nourish liver: balsam pear tastes bitter, raw is cold, and 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.

(5) balsam pear can fight cancer: some active ingredients in balsam pear can inhibit the carcinogenesis of normal cells and promote the recovery of some mutated cells.

two。 The taboos of balsam pear and who can't eat it.

(1) people with low blood pressure and hypoglycemia: balsam pear has the effect of lowering blood sugar, clearing heat and relieving fire, if the usual diet is relatively greasy, people with high blood sugar are more suitable food. However, if you blindly pursue the health benefits of balsam pear and eat too much, it may hurt the heart and have a bad effect on the health of the heart. Balsam pear can lower blood pressure and blood sugar, if blood pressure or blood sugar is relatively low people do not eat balsam pear, so including balsam pear a lot of food can not be eaten in large quantities!

(2) people with spleen and stomach deficiency cold: if they are spleen and stomach deficiency cold people, do not eat more balsam pear. Because balsam pear is cold food, taste stool is relatively thin, urine is relatively long, more afraid of cold, pale, these people do not often eat balsam pear, otherwise prone to epigastric discomfort, abdominal distension and abdominal pain, and even vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms.

(3) people who need calcium supplements: the oxalic acid in balsam pear will hinder the absorption of calcium in food. Before eating, you should blanch balsam pear in boiling water to remove oxalic acid. If you need to supplement a lot of calcium, you can't eat too much balsam pear.

(II) pregnant women and children

Preschoolers should not overeat balsam pear. Children are pure yang body, the stomach is often more than, spleen is often insufficient; in addition, balsam pear contains quinine this substance, and quinine will stimulate the contraction of the female uterus, easy to cause pregnant women miscarriage, so it is better not to eat balsam pear.

What is the price of balsam pear?

1. Prices vary from place to place, and the prices of balsam pear are also different. the following table shows the prices of balsam pear in some urban markets in China:

Product

Price

Market

Bitter gourd

3.0 yuan / kg

Xiyuan vegetable Wholesale Market in Hengyang, Hunan

Bitter gourd

2.0 yuan / kg

Hunan Yueyang Huabanqiao Wholesale Market

Bitter gourd

0.7 yuan / kg

Ganlu Temple vegetable Wholesale Market in Changde, Hunan Province

Bitter gourd

1.9 yuan / kg

Jishou vegetable and Fruit Wholesale Market in Hunan Province

Bitter gourd

3.5 yuan / kg

Dayang Road Agricultural Wholesale Market, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Bitter gourd

2.8 yuan / kg

Jinzhong vegetable Market, Dongli District, Tianjin

Bitter gourd

7.0 yuan / kg

Beijing Changping Shuitun Agricultural and sideline products Wholesale Market

Bitter gourd

2.8 yuan / kg

Jinzhong vegetable Market, Dongli District, Tianjin

two。 Balsam pear tea on the market is mostly sold in boxes or bags, the prices of different manufacturers and brands are different, friends who want to buy can go to the physical store to inquire or check in the online mall.

How do you cook balsam pear?

1. Make balsam pear dried shellfish soup to eat

Make ingredients: balsam pear, edible salt, some rotten bamboo, a small bowl of water

The production methods are as follows:

(1) first soak balsam pear in water for 120 minutes, then wash balsam pear and cut it into thin slices and soak it in light salt water.

(2) put the right amount of cold water into a casserole, bring it to a boil over high heat, boil for five minutes, put the soaked balsam pear slices and tofu together into the pot, after the water is boiled, add salt and cook it.

two。 Make fried balsam pear

The materials needed are: balsam pear, edible salt, fresh green pepper, light soy sauce, water, garlic

Practice:

(1) first cut balsam pear into sections and blanch it in boiling water to remove the bitterness.

(2) after taking out the balsam pear, cut it into 3-5 cm long pieces, heat the oil and fry the balsam pear until both sides are yellow, then put in the chopped garlic and stir-fry.

(3) after stir-frying, put in the chopped chili peppers, stir-fry the chili peppers, then pour in light soy sauce, a little water, add salt, and then you can come out of the pot.

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