In Qiongzhong Street, I don't seem to see anyone selling real pickled melons. It's probably a unique specialty of Hainan Oriental.
When I was a child, I often heard my father say, "You can do anything after eating pickled melons." This is very famous at home, and it really makes sense, because at that time we were not picky eaters, but the taste of melons was actually good.
At that time, the raw materials for making pickled melons seemed to be different from now, and most of them were seedless yellow-hearted watermelon skins. First, dig out the excess "internal organs" of watermelon, then chop the watermelon skin into small pieces, then put it into the laundry basket, add appropriate amount of salt to mix and stir, take it out after a certain period of time, squeeze out the excess water by hand (sometimes my mother washes her feet with her feet, which we never dislike), and then put it into another sealed jar for pickling. Nowadays, sour melons are all made of small watermelon with tender skin. The flesh of this kind of melon is soft and toothless, so it doesn't need to be chewed, but it also lacks many opportunities to compete with teeth.
In those years, my mother would always pickle a lot of sour melons and put them in a big jar for about a year. Sometimes it is boiled, and sometimes it is mixed with vegetables to adjust. My favorite food is to put some trotters or dried fish in it, and I don't feel single after eating for several days. I didn't like sour melons at that time, but because I couldn't help it, she scraped the rice out of the bowl with her head down every time she ate, for fear that her father would see it. It turns out to be a little bitter to think of her distorted face at that time.
Pickled melons are never tired of eating, which is naturally conditional. Need my mother to pickle. Most people in the East know this line of work, but I think my mother has the best hands. After eating at home for many years, I still feel good. I haven't eaten since I left home. After marrying Qiongzhong, there is also a small jar at home to pickle sour melons shipped from the East. If one day there is a sour melon casserole with pork belly stewed in it, it will become my exclusive dish, because the quantity is too small, everyone dares not move chopsticks. Husband said that maybe people are tired of eating big fish and big meat now, so they start to like to eat cooked vegetarian dishes.
It seems difficult to buy tender watermelon now, but my mother always runs around the village to find some to pickle in the season when the melons are ripe. In order to have something to eat when I go home, my mother made candied melons and saved them for me to eat. Now my sister also falls in love with bitter gourd. As a result, my sister's colleague arrived in Sanya, and my mother had to entrust someone to take it to Sanya. Because it's a jar, I'm afraid it can't be checked. I just threw it away and sent it to my sister's house.
The so-called "pickled melon" mainly tastes sour. If there is a bowl of sour melon soup when eating in summer, it will be very dull and delicious. This dish seems to be more suitable for local tastes. I remember when I was a child, my family ate a bowl of sour melon soup around a basket of hot sweet potatoes. The taste and scene were unforgettable! Sour melons should not be overcooked. If the heat is too bad, they will lose their original sweetness and sweetness. If cooked with dried bamboo shoots, the taste will be more unique. Although the sour melon is also braised, it seems that the taste is slightly reduced. If the sour melon is cooked to 70% maturity, add some flour and sugar, mix well and put it in the oil pan. After ten minutes, the color of the melon will fade, so you can pick it and eat it. The cool and faint smell of pollen will linger on your tongue for a long time and you can't lick it.
I haven't eaten my mother's pickled melon for a long time. Speaking of these local goods, it is also nostalgia. It is no longer a necessity in casserole in the past, but some wild vegetables tend to go to the lobby, and they are more authentic than wild vegetables, which can be said to be value for money.
The value of watermelon
"A pool of cold cuts at the end of the month, and six bays are oblique cirrus clouds", which is a famous saying of the ancients about watermelon. In hot summer, watermelon has become a seasonal delicacy for people to quench their thirst. Watermelon is native to the desert area in southern Africa, and its image can be seen in the works of art in ancient Egypt. It can be seen that watermelon has been planted for 4000 years. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, watermelons were introduced into the Central Plains from the Middle East through the Western Regions. Because it comes from the west, it is called "watermelon". .
Watermelon is the main fruit in summer, so it is also called "summer melon"; Watermelon juice is rich in water, also called "watermelon"; Watermelon is cold and can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, so it is also called "cold melon".
In hot summer, the heat is pressing. Eating two pieces of watermelon with sweet juice will make you feel refreshed and cool to the extreme. As Fang Kui, a poet in the Yuan Dynasty, said in Eat Watermelon: "Plumes of flowered shirts are stained with saliva, and blood stains are red; The fragrance floats and laughs, and the teeth are watery and cool into the clothes. " The working people in ancient China already knew that cold watermelons can relieve summer heat and quench thirst. The indigenous method is to put the whole watermelon in a bamboo basket, dive into the well, soak for half a day and then take it out. In the poem "Ode to Watermelon", the king of Jin Dynasty described the scene of watermelon in Jingzhen: "A pool of cold air cuts the end of the month, and six bays are oblique cirrus clouds." In Taiwan Province Province, a treasure island, the climate is warm, and watermelons can be eaten all year round, and winter is no exception. As the ancient poem says, "Green jade in spring recommends watermelon, and willow shoots come first." "There are no destroyers named Xuefeng in three winters, and the weather is always warm. I want to present a sapphire melon in the new year. " "Trees and grasses compete for buds in the dead of winter, and red, yellow and bloom are all around the year. Why do you need to ruin it? In the first month, the spirit has entered the melon. " As for Xinjiang and other ethnic minority areas, people wear fur coats and tulle in the morning and eat watermelons around the stove. Watermelons eaten in winter are stored in the cellar for preservation, not in winter.
Watermelon is deeply loved by people, which is inseparable from its rich nutrition. Watermelon pulp contains almost all kinds of nutrients necessary for human body besides a lot of water. Glucose, fructose, sucrose; Vitamins a, b, c, pp, carotene; Protein and various amino acids; Fruit acid and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron are present.
In the Ming Dynasty, Wang Ying said in "Edible Materia Medica": "Watermelon is cold and antipyretic, and has the name of' natural white tiger soup'". "White Tiger Decoction" consists of gypsum, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, licorice and japonica rice. Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, founded a famous prescription for treating qi excess. Comparing watermelon with natural white tiger soup, this paper describes the magical effect of watermelon in clearing heat and relieving summer heat. Chinese medicine believes that watermelon has the effects of relieving summer heat, relieving annoyance, quenching thirst, promoting fluid production, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and is a good medicine for treating summer onset, heatstroke, hypertension, nephritis, urinary tract infection, aphtha and drunkenness.
"Daily Materia Medica" says: Watermelon "clears away heat and relieves summer heat and quenches thirst." Watermelon juice is extremely rich, with water content as high as 96.6%, ranking first among all melons and fruits. In the hot summer, eating a few watermelons, the faint fragrance and sweet juice suddenly give people a cool feeling. It's really the top grade to relieve summer heat and thirst, and it's worthy of being the "king of melons and fruits" in summer.
Watermelon is not only rich in water, but also nutritious. It contains protein, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron and various vitamins. It also contains essential amino acids. It's hot every day in summer, sweating more and eating less. Eating watermelon can not only replenish water and quench thirst, but also supplement nutrition, maintain physiological function and help prevent diseases in summer. As the saying goes: "A few melons in summer don't catch chemicals."
Watermelon, as a raw fruit, can also be cooked into delicious food. The best part of watermelon cooking is the skin, also called crispy skin or Tsing Yi. After peeling off the old skin on the surface, it can be cut into silk, slices and blocks. Cooking methods such as roasting, boiling, frying, stewing and mixing can be used to make crispy tenderloin, sweet and sour melon skin, stir-fried shredded tsing yi, cold watermelon and other dishes, all of which are fresh and refreshing. Watermelon pulp can also be used in dishes, and it is delicious to cut into pieces and stew or hang up and fry.
Watermelon, once cooked skillfully, can become a banquet dish. There is a "watermelon cup" in the imperial banquet of Qing Palace. The method is to dig out the pulp of watermelon, add diced chicken, diced ham, walnut kernel and pine nuts, cover it and stew it with slow fire. The "double Feng Haichao" in Shandong cuisine is to put two chickens in a seasoned watermelon and then steam it in a retort. The famous dish "Watermelon Duck" in the south of the Yangtze River is made of ducks with good fat and tender, and cooked in watermelons. Guangdong's "Fruit Watermelon Cup" and Yunnan's "Assorted Watermelon Cup" are both fine products in summer beet, with different flavors, which are talked about by diners.
Watermelon is a good fruit in summer and a good medicine for treating diseases. Watermelon pulp, peel and melon seeds can all be used as medicine. Watermelon skin also has a very vivid drug name-watermelon Cui Yi. In the medical books of past dynasties, there are records of watermelon used as medicine, which has many functions, such as relieving summer heat, quenching thirst, diuresis, treating bloody dysentery, throat obstruction, hangover and so on. Modern research also proves that watermelon has many medicinal values.
1, China medicine thinks that watermelon tastes sweet, and its taste is out of date. Has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, relieving vexation, quenching thirst, and inducing diuresis to relieve stranguria. It can treat summer heat, polydipsia, excessive heat, unfavorable urination, laryngitis and aphtha.
2, "Life Taste Diet Spectrum" said that watermelon: "Sweet and cold, clearing lung and stomach, relieving summer heat and thirst, sobering up and cooling camp, treating laryngitis, aphtha, fire poison and seasonal diseases." Herbs in southern Yunnan say that watermelon can "treat all heat, phlegm and qi stagnation." "This wax meets the original" said: "The heat of pericardium can be discharged from the small intestine and bladder, which can relieve the thirst of the sun and Yangming and the thirst of fever, so it is called" natural white tiger soup ".
3. Sugar, salt and nicotinic acid contained in watermelon can improve the symptoms of nephritis and hypertension. These patients eat more watermelon in summer, which is very beneficial.
Watermelon can sober up, so it is very effective for drunken patients to drink watermelon juice often.
5. Watermelon juice stopping brown sugar can cure bloody dysentery.
6. Watermelon has diuretic and cardiotonic effects. After eating watermelon, the water of watermelon is filtered by the kidney, and the excess part becomes urine and is excreted. Therefore, eating watermelon in summer can prevent excessive water loss, prevent collapse and relieve summer heat.
7. Patients with chronic nephritis and ascites due to cirrhosis at home can take watermelon black paste. The production method is as follows: take watermelon 1 piece, cut the pedicel, remove the pulp, fill garlic cloves, cover the pedicel with mud, stew the watermelon on the fire for 1 day, take out the black skin and grind it into fine powder, which is the watermelon black paste. The method of taking watermelon black cream is 3-5g each time, and it is taken with warm boiled water twice a day.
8. People with aphtha can also take watermelon frost, 3-5g each time, twice a day, and can be used externally at the same time.
For the treatment of acute and chronic nephritis, the pulp and peel of melon can be made into concentrated watermelon juice for drinking, or 30 grams of dried watermelon peel and 60 grams of fresh lalang grass rhizome can be decocted in water to induce diuresis and reduce swelling. To treat acute urethritis, palpitation and pyelonephritis, it is also advisable to eat watermelon raw, and take 30 ~ 60 grams of watermelon peel every day, which can relieve symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency and pain. For patients with hypertension, eating watermelon is also beneficial, such as lowering blood pressure with watermelon seeds. Taking 9 ~ 15g of watermelon kernel, decocting it, or eating it raw or frying it and chewing it, all have certain antihypertensive effect.
Watermelon frost sold in Chinese medicine shops is a white crystal made of watermelon peel and mirabilite. Blowing on the affected area can clear away heat and reduce swelling. It is suitable for acute pharyngitis and acute tonsillitis, and also has a certain curative effect on mouth sores. Folk also chopped watermelon skin, dried in the shade and ground into fine powder, and then mixed with salt water and wine, 9 grams each time, for the treatment of sprained low back pain. In addition, the shell and kernel of watermelon seeds have certain effects of repelling roundworms and tapeworms.
Watermelon can also relieve itching. Itching is inflammation around sweat glands caused by sweat staying in sweat gland tubes and squeezing into surrounding tissues, which can produce small vesicular red papules and have a certain impact on summer life. Chinese medicine believes that itching is caused by high temperature in summer, poor sweating and moisture accumulation in the skin in summer. Because watermelon has a good effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat similar to Baihu decoction, it can effectively prevent malnutrition.
Applying watermelon skin to the face can increase the nutrition of the skin from the outside, promote the metabolism of the facial skin, help the skin to be moist and tender, and prevent facial pigmentation caused by too much sunshine in summer. The method is to wash your face with warm water first, and then gently rub the leftover watermelon skin on your face in turn along the muscle direction. 15 minutes later, wash the watermelon peel juice with warm water, 1-2 times a day.
Watermelon seeds can be processed into spiced melon seeds, creamy melon seeds and multi-flavor melon seeds. It not only tastes delicious, but also has many medical effects such as moistening lung, moistening intestine, stopping bleeding, invigorating stomach and lowering blood pressure. If you take 50 grams of watermelon seeds, mash them with shells, decoct them in water to remove residues, and add rock sugar for oral administration, you can cure pulmonary tuberculosis hemoptysis and hematochezia. Mashing watermelon peel, decocting in water to remove residue, and adding brown sugar to take it have obvious curative effect on hematemesis, hemoptysis and blood under intestinal wind.
In addition to eating watermelon pulp, watermelon juice and peel can also be used to make healthy diets and dishes. Examples are as follows.
① Watermelon tomato juice: the ripe watermelon pulp is seeded and squeezed with clean gauze; Peel red ripe tomatoes, remove seeds, and squeeze juice with gauze. Drink the two kinds of fruit juices after mixing, make them on the same day, and finish them on the same day, about 100 ml per day.
(2) Cold watermelon skin: First, peel off the red pulp and the thinnest layer of hard skin from the leftover watermelon skin, wash it, cut it into thin strips, marinate it with refined salt for a while, squeeze out the excess salt water, and then add a proper amount of garlic paste, soy sauce, sugar, monosodium glutamate and ground sesame oil. You can also fry the pickled watermelon skin (strips) in an oil pan with seasoning to make fried watermelon skin.
③ Watermelon peel and lotus leaf tea: 250g fresh watermelon peel or dry watermelon peel 100g and 30g fresh lotus leaf are used for decoction instead of tea and drinking on the same day.
Treat tracheitis
Eating watermelon in dog days can cure tracheitis and asthma. The specific method is as follows:
Buy a watermelon of about 2000g in summer, cut off the lid and cut off the middle, leaving a pulp about 3cm thick. Put150g honey,150g sesame oil,100g sliced fresh ginger and10g red dates. Then cover the melon and put it in the pot for fixing. Add water to the pot to 1/3 of the melon and stew for one and a half hours. Eat the dew in the melon while it is hot, eat some ginger slices a little, and don't eat jujube. It is best to sleep for half an hour after dinner. It is best to eat it all at once; If you eat it twice, you still have to stew it the second time. This prescription is usually used only once a year, and it will only be effective in winter that year; Eat it in the dog days of the following year to consolidate. Children's consumption can be reduced as appropriate. Avoid smoking and spicy food during diet therapy.
Eating watermelon and grapes can increase sperm production.
Researchers in India have recently discovered that fruit can treat infertility. Lycopene found in some fruits, such as watermelon, grapes, tomatoes and some shellfish, can increase the sperm count of infertile men.
Researchers from the National Medical Association of India investigated 30 infertile men. After the experiment began, 6 couples were successfully pregnant. The researchers said: "We found that the number of sperm and the ability to exercise have been significantly improved. Oral lycopene therapy seems to have a good effect on unexplained infertility. "
The researchers said: "In infertile men, the content of lycopene is low." The men surveyed are between the ages of 23 and 45. During the experiment, they took two milligrams of lycopene orally twice a day for three months. The results showed that the lycopene index was directly related to infertility.
After taking lycopene orally for three months, doctors found that the sperm status of 67% patients had improved significantly. 73% patients have more active sperm activity, and 63% patients have improved their sperm structure.
Among all melons and fruits, watermelon juice is the most abundant, with a water content of over 96%. Watermelon juice is rich in malic acid, glutamic acid, arginine, glucose, fructose, lysine, carotene, vitamins A, B, C and protein, as well as minerals beneficial to human health such as calcium, phosphorus and iron, which are easily absorbed by human body. Chinese medicine believes that watermelon is sweet and cold, and has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, diuresis and relieving annoyance.
Interestingly, American scientists found that watermelon can also replace Viagra. People with sexual dysfunction may wish to eat more watermelons. It turns out that watermelon contains a lot of citrulline, and pharmacologists believe that this natural amino acid has similar pharmacological effects with Viagra (chemical name sildenafil citrate). Citrulline can also increase the blood flow into the corpus cavernosum and promote the release of nitric oxide from blood vessels. However, although Viagra takes effect quickly, it will have some side effects on human body, while "natural Viagra" takes effect slowly, but there are no side effects. However, it takes three watermelons to eat a viagra.
Using this research result, Arizona Natural Vitamin Company developed a new product called stimulant. One tablet of this medicine contains citrulline equivalent to three watermelons. It is reported that this product is made of watermelon pulp, so it is absolutely safe for human body. It is said to be the first natural medicine that can promote male sexual function.
However, although watermelon is delicious, it is not suitable for everyone. People with renal insufficiency should not eat more, so as not to increase the burden on the kidneys. Watermelon polysaccharide should not be eaten by diabetics. Middle-aged and elderly people with weak spleen and stomach, severe cold and dampness, and children with underdeveloped gastrointestinal function must not be greedy for the moment and eat too much to damage the spleen and stomach.
How to choose watermelon
1, voice:
It is roughly divided into four tones, with fingers bouncing on the head as the force, indicating that the watermelon is immature, and the voice is loose, indicating that the melon is ripe and suitable for eating. The sound of patting the bottom is soft, indicating that it is too ripe to eat, and the sound of patting the ground with your fingers is dumb, indicating that the melon is broken and cannot be eaten at all.
2. Appearance:
It must be perfect, and the pedicle is flush with the melon skin. Otherwise, it has the following disadvantages: the circumference is triangular and hollow, and the pedicle is very thin, but it is ripe and trapped under the melon skin. Those with large pedicels and prominent melon skins are immature. The head is big and the tail is small, and the tail is small or half. A few are immature, and most may be too mature.
3, color:
Although there are various colors due to different varieties, they will never leave below. The part facing the sun is green, and the part facing the floor is yellow. The sun shines evenly on some parts of the color, otherwise it is a melon with defective leaves, and its sweetness is poor or even bad. If the sun doesn't shine on some immature parts, it will be white, and it will turn yellow when it is mature.
Special watermelon
Fragrant Watermelon "Fragrant Watermelon" successfully developed and cultivated by Henan Agricultural College has thin skin and thick flesh, which is 4 ~ 6 times sweeter than ordinary watermelon. Put it in the house, it smells attractive and has the reputation of "the queen of melons".
Two-season Watermelon "Two-season Watermelon" planted in Zhangyan Township, Jinshan County, Jiangsu Province, is listed earlier in the first season and later in the second season, just at the time of the most scarce supply, so it has high economic benefits.
Mini Watermelon A kind of watermelon introduced from Japan, which can be lifted with one hand and weighs about 1. 5 ~ 2kg, the meat is red and thin, and the juice is sweet, which is most suitable for small families.
Seedless Watermelon "Seedless Watermelon" cultivated by Watermelon Group of Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences weighs 3 ~ 3.5 kg, with an average yield of about 2,250 kg per mu. It is one of the varieties with large domestic export volume at present, and has strong competitiveness in the international market.
Wine-flavored watermelon comes from American gardener's "wine-flavored watermelon". The cultivation method is very special. One end of a wick is soaked in wine, and the other end is connected to the cut of the melon vine and sealed with plaster. When the watermelon is ripe, the wine smells good and has a unique flavor.
Square Watermelon "Square Watermelon" planted in Japan is cultivated by putting watermelon into a square mold shell just before it bears fruit, and it will become a cube when it matures.
Rubber Watermelon "Rubber Watermelon" cultivated by agricultural technicians in zhongmou county, Henan Province for 8 years has the advantages of storage resistance and transportation resistance. This kind of watermelon will not go bad if it is stored indoors for 3 months and will not go bad if it is transported for more than 2,000 kilometers.
Assorted Watermelon "Assorted Watermelon" cultivated in Arkansas, USA, weighs 90kg, has three pulp colors when it matures, and its sugar content is 3-5 times higher than that of ordinary watermelon, so it is known as "the king of watermelon".
Milk-flavored watermelon is a new hybrid variety successfully cultivated by Zheng Yixing, a watermelon breeding expert in China. Now it has been named Jingza 5 12, which is a big fruit variety with sweet taste and rich milk fragrance.
The shelf-mounted watermelon "shelf-mounted watermelon" cultivated by Vegetable Science and Technology Station of Getang Xincun, Nanjing Factory, Jiangsu Province, is early-maturing and its yield is higher than that of ordinary watermelon 1 times.
Storage-resistant watermelon There is a kind of watermelon in Thailand, which has the characteristics of hard skin, ripe skin and no boiling. It can be stored indoors naturally, and it can be put into the Spring Festival from August, which is fresh and sweet.
Taboos for eating watermelon
Watermelon is rich in nutrition and contains water, protein, sugar, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene and other ingredients. Chinese medicine believes that watermelon is cold and sweet, and has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, quenching thirst and diuresis. Watermelon is a good food, but it also has taboos.
Eating watermelon should not be too much.
Watermelon is a cold product, and eating too much is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. Therefore, people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, indigestion and thin stool should eat less. Eating too much will lead to abdominal distension, diarrhea, loss of appetite, accumulation of cold and dampness, leading to autumn disease. Eating too much watermelon at a time will dilute gastric juice, cause indigestion and decrease gastrointestinal resistance. Eating a large number of watermelons frozen for too long will also hurt the spleen and stomach and cause pharyngitis.
Avoid eating watermelon at the beginning of a cold.
Both wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds belong to exterior syndrome in the early stage, and they should be treated by divergent methods to solve the disease from the exterior. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that exterior and interior are not attacked, otherwise exterior evil will enter the interior, and the condition will be aggravated. In the early stage of a cold, eating watermelon is equivalent to eating drugs that clear away heat from the interior surface, which will lead to the entry of pathogenic factors, aggravate the cold or prolong the cure time. However, when the cold gets worse and there are fever symptoms such as high fever, thirst, sore throat and yellow urine, you can eat some watermelons while taking normal drugs, which is helpful for the recovery of the cold.
Watermelons that bloom for too long are not suitable for eating.
Pay attention to choosing ripe fresh watermelons when eating watermelons, and don't eat spoiled watermelons and watermelons that have been in bloom for too long, because the temperature of watermelons is too high when they are on the market, which is suitable for the reproduction of germs. Eating spoiled watermelon contaminated by germs will lead to intestinal infectious diseases.
Eat less watermelon in five cases
Early stage of cold. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that divergent treatment should be taken in the early stage of cold to solve the pathogenic factors from the outside, whether it is cold or hot cold. If you eat watermelon in the early stage of a cold, it will not only not dispel the evil spirits, but will promote the evil spirits to enter the body, aggravate the illness or prolong the cure time because of its heat-clearing and detoxification effect.
Physical weakness, stomach cold, loose stool, dyspepsia. Eating too much watermelon can cause symptoms such as bloating, diarrhea and loss of appetite. People with poor gastrointestinal digestion, nocturia and frequent nocturnal emission should not eat more watermelons.
People with renal insufficiency. Eating a lot of watermelon in a short time will increase the water in the body, which exceeds the physiological endurance of the human body. In patients with renal insufficiency, the ability of kidney to regulate water is greatly reduced, and too much water entering the body cannot be regulated and excreted, resulting in a sharp increase in blood volume and easy death due to acute heart failure.
People with oral ulcers. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the main causes of oral ulcers are internal heat due to yin deficiency, disturbance due to deficiency of fire, and burning flesh and blood veins. Watermelon has diuretic effect. If people with oral ulcer eat more watermelon, the water normally needed in the body will be discharged through the diuretic effect of watermelon, which will aggravate the state of insufficient vaginal fluid. Yin deficiency will increase internal heat and aggravate oral ulcer.
Diabetic patients. The sugar content of watermelon is about 5%. If diabetics eat too much watermelon, it will also lead to high blood sugar, increased urine sugar and other consequences, and even severe ketoacidosis coma. If you eat 25 to 50 grams of watermelon at a time, it will have little effect on diabetics, so diabetics should pay attention to the right amount of watermelon.
There are four taboos for eating watermelon.
Watermelon is rich in nutrition and delicious, but it is cold, weak in stomach and full of abdominal distension. loose stool and other patients should not eat more, and diabetic patients should eat less because of its high sugar content.
Second, avoid unclean watermelons. After washing, cut them with a clean knife Never cut the melon without washing the knife. Don't eat melon pulp bitten by mosquitoes, flies, etc. Beware of illness from the mouth.
Third, don't eat it with cutting, and don't eat it for hours or even overnight after opening. According to the test, bacteria and viruses will breed after watermelon is cut for a few days and hours. Rotten melons are full of bacteria and must not be eaten.
Four bogey ice watermelons, especially sliced melons, will inhale a lot of cold air when put into the refrigerator, which will paralyze people's tongue and make it difficult to taste the delicious melon. Eating frozen melons for a long time will not only affect appetite, but also hurt the spleen and stomach and cause diseases.
Watermelon frost's wonderful use
Watermelon frost is commonly used in throat and stomatology. Taking it can clear away heat and toxic materials, reduce swelling and relieve pain, clear the voice and moisten the throat, relieve sore throat and remove rot. Generally used to prevent and treat aphtha, sore throat, acute and chronic pharyngolaryngitis, tonsillitis, stomatitis, etc. In recent years, pharmacological studies have found that watermelon frost tablet contains many kinds of trace elements needed by human body, such as iron, manganese, copper, etc. 10, and many antibacterial and anti-inflammatory components, which is really a rare external medicine.
Watermelon frost tablets are ground into powder, used for burns and scalds, and externally applied to burn wounds, which can reduce wound exudation, dry and scab, and have a good effect on first-degree burns. For second-degree burns, watermelon frost powder can be mixed with honey and applied to the affected area.
Old rotten legs are chronic ulcers that occur in the legs. It belongs to a skin disease caused by bacterial infection, which is called "scabies" in medicine. Watermelon frost has good effects of removing putrefaction, promoting granulation, removing toxin, expelling pus and renewing sore surface. When in use, the local part is disinfected first, and then the ground watermelon frost powder is evenly applied to the affected part.
Pustular disease is a purulent skin disease. Watermelon frost has good antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, astringent and scab-fixing effects. Watermelon frost tablets are ground into powder and applied to the affected area after local disinfection, preferably without bandaging.
Bedsore patients who are bedridden all the year round, due to local compression, blockage of meridians, and poor circulation of qi and blood, over time, local malnutrition is easy to rub and fester, and they can't keep their mouths shut for a long time, becoming bedsores. Watermelon frost has good effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, removing putrefaction and promoting granulation, and nourishing sore surface. Watermelon frost tablets can be ground into fine powder and evenly applied to the affected area, once a day/kloc-0.
Frostbite Frostbite is common in hands, feet, ears, face and other parts. External application with watermelon frost also has a good effect. For the second degree chilblain wound, the blister epidermis of the affected area should be removed first, and watermelon frost grinding powder should be used for external dressing. Generally, after taking the medicine, the exudate decreases, the itching and burning sensation are alleviated, the swelling gradually disappears, the wound gradually dries and scabs, and the dressing is changed/kloc-0 times a day.
In addition, watermelon frost Tablet Powder can also treat abrasions, stab wounds, knife wounds, lacerations and purulent infections of various wounds. It can be seen that watermelon frost can be used not only orally, but also externally.
Comprehensive utilization of watermelon
Watermelon has been a popular summer product since ancient times. Its melon juice contains a lot of glucose, carotenoids, vitamin C, minerals, Lycium barbarum and various amino acids, which often has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, quenching thirst, diuresis and lowering blood pressure. But at present, a large number of watermelons rely on fresh food, which not only has low utilization rate, but also hinders the development of watermelon industrialization. The following are several development methods for the reference of producers:
1. Watermelon Cui Yi Select the green seed, wash the melon, scrape off the waxy green layer with blue skin with a planer, and dry in the sun to get the watermelon Cui Yi (or watermelon green). Sweet and cool in nature, using decoction instead of tea can cure summer heat, polydipsia, edema, sore mouth, heatstroke, dry throat, chronic cough caused by dry climate in autumn and winter.
2. Use thick skin seeds to make watermelon sauce. After removing the surface green peel, cut it, peel off the pulp, wash the middle layer of melon peel, cut into pieces, and put it into a meat grinder to grind (the aperture of winch is 9 ~ 1 1cm). Add sugar to the ground pulp in time to cook and concentrate. Cooking technology: watermelon peel 10 kg, sugar 15 kg, starch syrup10.2 kg, onion10 g, citric acid 72 g, lemon essence 12 mg and lemon yellow pigment 0.5 g. Firstly, sugar is mixed with 65%-72% sugar solution, and half of it is poured into a stainless steel steam jacketed pot. Then pour the minced melon skin into the pot and cook for 10- 15 minutes. Then the remaining sugar solution and starch syrup are added together, and when the soluble solid content reaches 69%-70%, the melted and filtered onion solution is added to continue cooking. You can add citric acid, pigment and essence, stir them evenly, take them out of the pot, quickly put them into a four-screw glass jar, tighten the lid while it is hot, then sterilize them in hot water at 80℃-85℃ for 12 minutes, and then take them out and cool them in hot water at 60℃ and 40℃ for 10 minutes, which is the bottled watermelon jam.
3. Put the pulp of watermelon juice into a clean cloth bag, juice it, add sugar in time, and adjust the acidity. Adjust sugar content to 10%- 12% with white sugar, and adjust acidity to 0.3-0.5% with citric acid. Then, add 0.2-0.5 of onion or modified starch or thickener used in fruit juice beverage, stir evenly, heat and boil, put it in a clean and sterilized beverage glass bottle while it is hot, seal it, and boil it in boiling water at 65438 000℃.
4. Squeeze watermelon soda, add the same amount of white sugar, and pour it into a stainless steel steam jacketed pot for heating and boiling. The processing method is the same as that of ordinary soda production.
5. Squeeze watermelon sparkling wine and pulp, add half of 95% edible alcohol, stir well, then filter, and take the filtrate as the ingredient of sparkling wine. The processing method is the same as general sparkling wine production.
6. Watermelon peel vinegar (1) Ingredients: 6 kg of watermelon peel, 0 kg of sorghum sugar 10 kg (grain sugar is also acceptable), 4 kg of salt and 50 kg of vinegar. (2) Production method: firstly, wash watermelon peel, cook it, air-cool it, put it in a jar, add distiller's yeast, mash it evenly, ferment it for 5 days, mix sugar once a day, add salt after 4-5 days, take it out after 6 days, then put 1/3 blank in a fumigation jar for 4 days, add raw water, filter and boil it, add smoked blank, and filter to get delicious food. In order to make vinegar fragrant without deterioration, alcohol can be added dropwise to vinegar or ordinary soju according to the ratio of 0.5 kg vinegar and 2 ~ 3 drops of alcohol.
Seven, processing watermelon seeds
(1) sugar salt melon seeds take 350g of salt and appropriate amount of saccharin. Dissolve saccharin in salt water first. Wash 5 kg of melon seeds, drain them, pour them into a frying pan, treat them with salt water, stir-fry them with slow fire, and spray 5 g of essence after taking them out of the pan.
(2) Wash 5 kilograms of watermelon seeds, drain them, stir-fry, add 50 grams of cooked oil, 75 grams of salt and appropriate amount of saccharin, stir-fry until they are nearly ripe, then add the same amount of oil, salt water and saccharin, and continue to stir-fry until dry; Spray 5 grams of essence from the pot.
(3) removing impurities from soy sauce melon seeds, soaking in lime water for 5 hours, removing the sub-membrane, and cleaning. Put melon seeds, salt, fennel and cinnamon in a pot according to the ratio of 10: 18, add water to the melon seeds, and cook over high fire (add soy sauce, the salt can be reduced appropriately). 1.5 ~ 2 hours can be cooked. Then change to low heat, bake slowly, slowly add100g sesame oil, and stir well.
(4) fry melon seeds with salt. 5 kg of melon seeds are washed and drained, and 0.75 kg of refined salt is sprinkled, with a layer of melon seeds and a layer of salt. After air separation, stand for 3 hours, dry in the sun, and then fry in a wok until cooked.