Replenish moisture and purify the body on hot days with fruits

1. Watermelon:

Master Truong Thuy Vinh, Head of the Examination Department, National Children's Hospital, said that watermelon is 90% water, adding moisture, purifying the body and improving the skin. Watermelon also contains antioxidants, vitamins, anti-cancer lycopene compounds and many other substances that help strengthen the immune system.

2. Mangosteen:

Mangosteen is a summer fruit rich in nutrients, minerals, vitamins, especially xanthones that help strengthen the immune system, protecting the body from health problems caused by weakened immune system.

In Oriental medicine, mangosteen is cool, helps purify the body, cool down and relieve stress.

3. Oranges, tangerines, grapefruits:

Citrus fruits, tangerines, and grapefruits are rich in vitamin C, which boosts the body's immune system and prevents dehydration on hot days.

4. Strawberries:

Strawberries contain 90% water, fiber, and vitamin C, which helps increase blood flow to the skin, reduce sensitivity to light, and improve the structure and texture of the skin. Strawberries can be eaten or juiced to drink to cool down.

5. Pineapple:

Physician Bui Dac Sang said that pineapple has a sweet, sour taste, neutral properties, and the effect of clearing heat, diuresis, benefiting the spleen and stomach, treating heatstroke, sobering up, aiding digestion, preventing intestinal cancer, and lowering blood pressure.

You can eat the whole fruit, squeeze it for juice or cook it into soup. Pineapple juice treats coughs and sore throats caused by heat. If you feel an itchy tongue when eating, you should stop using it.

Eating pineapple after meals helps with digestion and reduces fat absorption into the blood. Eating pineapple has a diuretic effect, which helps treat high blood pressure and reduce swelling. Therefore, pineapple is a very good food for people with cardiovascular disease.

6. Dragon fruit:

Dragon fruit contains many nutrients and trace elements that help increase metabolism in the body, enhance detoxification, improve skin and make skin smooth.

This fruit is high in fiber and low in sugar, helping to treat diabetes and obesity.

7. Guava:

The benefits of eating guava include its antioxidant content. One guava provides about 6% DV of vitamin A, which is important for eye health, immune support, and healthy skin.

Guava is also rich in vitamin C, which is essential for the subcutaneous tissue. Vitamin A, vitamin C acts as a powerful antioxidant in the body, helping to protect cells from damage caused by various chronic diseases.

8. Apple:

Physician Bui Dac Sang said that apples are sweet, slightly sour, and neutral. They have the effect of clearing heat, eliminating annoyance, generating body fluids, nourishing the heart, calming the mind, moistening the lungs, and strengthening the spleen and stomach. Apples can treat gastritis, high blood pressure, insomnia, anxiety, etc.