Can eggplant be eaten raw?

Eggplant is better to eat raw or cooked. Eggplant is one of the many favorite foods. People used to cook eggplant with roasted eggplant, but recently it has been reported that eating eggplant raw is more nutritious. So how on earth do we eat eggplant the most nutritious?

Eggplant is cheap, nutritious and contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients. Especially the content of vitamin P is very high. It contains vitamin P720 mg per 100 grams, which is unmatched by many fruits and vegetables.

Can you really lose weight by eating eggplant raw?

Losing weight has nothing to do with eggplant. Some data show that eggplant is cold in nature and cannot be eaten raw. Eating raw may cause abdominal pain and diarrhea, because eggplant is alkaline, and eating raw will have a sense of astringency. Therefore, diarrhea caused by eating raw eggplant is not proof that eating raw eggplant is good for weight loss.

Experts say eggplant is just a common vegetable, but it's not as magical as it is supposed to be. The saying that eggplant can be deoiled when eaten raw is scientifically groundless and inaccurate. Because eggplant can absorb oil when cooking, it absorbs oil at high temperature. If you put eggplant in 37 ℃, even if you soak it in oil, it won't absorb that much oil at all-and people's gastrointestinal temperature is 37 ℃, not more than 100 ℃ for cooking. Therefore, it is incorrect to say that eating raw eggplant can remove fat in the human intestine, and losing weight has nothing to do with eating raw eggplant.

Eat eggplant healthily

Generally, Solanum nigrum is partially decomposed in case of heat, so eggplant usually adopts cooking methods such as steamed eggplant, roasted eggplant and Yu-Shiang Eggplant en Casserole （Sautéed with Spicy Garlic Sauce） to decompose Solanum nigrum and get rid of toxicity.

Experts also suggest that eggplant can be pickled, boiled, roasted, steamed and braised. It is delicious with and without meat, but try not to eat it raw.

Vitamin P is a flavonoid, which can enhance the adhesion between human cells, enhance vascular elasticity, reduce capillary permeability, prevent capillary rupture, and maintain normal cardiovascular function.

Foreign research results show that eggplant is still a strong anti-cancer hand, and its Solanum nigrum can inhibit the proliferation of digestive system tumors and has a certain effect on the prevention and treatment of gastric and rectal cancer. Eggplant is rich in vitamin E, which is of positive significance in delaying human aging.

Eggplant has a variety of cooking methods, but eggplant has a strong ability to absorb oil, so "boiled eggplant", "pan-fried eggplant", "braised eggplant" and other "oiled eggplant" will make people eat a lot of fat and cause a lot of vitamin P loss. Therefore, in order to ensure the nutrition of eggplant, steaming is the best way to eat.

What is the effect of eggplant?

1. It has the effect of clearing heat and stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and relieving pain.

2. For heat-toxic carbuncle, skin ulcers, mouth and tongue sores, blood under hemorrhoids, hematochezia, bleeding in stool, etc.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, eggplant is a kind of cold food. Therefore, eating in summer helps to clear heat and relieve summer heat, especially for people who are easy to grow prickly heat and boils. People with indigestion and diarrhea should not eat more, as Li Shizhen said in the Compendium of Materia Medica: "eggplant is cold and sharp, eating too much will lead to abdominal pain." Southern Yunnan Materia Medica records that eggplant can disperse blood, reduce swelling and widen the intestines. Therefore, easy to knot, hemorrhoid bleeding and people suffering from damp-heat jaundice, eat more eggplant, also helpful, you can choose purple eggplant with rice porridge to eat. According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, eggplant with pedicel is roasted, ground into fine powder, and mixed with wine to treat intestinal blood under wind. Southern Yunnan Materia Medica advocates that it should be mixed with rice soup, which is more appropriate, because it is not suitable to use wine for intestinal wind blood and hemorrhoid bleeding. Bake the eggplant with stalks and grind it into fine powder for external use more often.

3. To treat chilblain. Take two or three eggplant seedlings (even roots) in winter and fry them in water and boil for another 20 minutes. Wash the affected area with this blister and scrub the affected area with eggplant seedlings for two or three times.