Can eggplant be eaten raw?

It is popular to eat eggplant raw, because some health experts believe that eating raw eggplant can not only absorb the fat in the stomach, but also lose weight, lower blood pressure and lower blood lipids. But is it really so effective to eat eggplant raw? Let's listen to what the experts have to say.

Eating eggplant raw may lead to poisoning

Experts believe that eating eggplant raw is not good, because eating eggplant raw is easy to be poisoned.

Raw eggplant contains a toxin called solanin, which is found in germinated potatoes, so eating sprouted potatoes can be poisoned. However, Solanum nigrum is found not only in potato sprouts, but also in raw eggplant, so its name is also called eggplant. Some people may refute this argument by citing the fact that they are not poisoned by eating eggplant raw. However, it should be noted that eating a very small amount of solanum nigrum may not necessarily show obvious harm to the human body. If you take 200 milligrams of solanum nigrum at a time, you will have itching in the mouth and throat, pain in the upper abdomen, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms after 15 minutes to 3 hours. in severe cases, there will be symptoms such as pupil dilation, fear of light, tinnitus, convulsions, dyspnea, falling blood pressure and so on. A very small number of people may die from respiratory paralysis.

In addition, pregnant women should not eat eggplant raw. It has been reported that pregnant women who eat too much solanine may cause deformities in the fetus.

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.

4. Eggplant has a good effect on reducing hyperlipidemia and hypertension. The specific methods are as follows:

Choose dark strips, cut into segments or shreds, mixed with sesame sauce and soy sauce, can effectively reduce and self-heal at dinner.

5. Protect cardiovascular system and ascorbic acid: eggplant is rich in vitamin P, which can enhance the adhesion between human cells, enhance the elasticity of capillaries, reduce the brittleness and permeability of capillaries, prevent microvascular rupture and bleeding, and maintain normal cardiovascular function. In addition, eggplant has the effect of preventing and treating scurvy and promoting wound healing.

It is popular on the Internet to eat eggplant raw:

Cut the eggplant into shreds, then add shredded green pepper, shredded cucumber and shredded lettuce according to your preferences, stir with soy sauce, vinegar and sesame sauce and serve. It is rumored on the Internet that if you eat this method every day, it can have the effect of clearing intestines and can treat constipation. Is eating eggplant raw to lose weight really effective?

Wang Changjun, a vegetable expert at the Provincial Ecological Association, said that eggplant is cold in nature, and eggplant contains eggplant, so it is not suitable for people who are physically poor or allergic to these foods to eat more eggplant, otherwise they will feel uncomfortable. In addition, eating eggplant raw may cause abdominal pain and diarrhea. Some people who eat eggplant will also have numbness in their lips, so we need to be vigilant at this time, because it may be a sign of poisoning. Wang Changjun said that eating raw eggplant to lose weight is not correct.