Deadly mistakes when eating squash that many people make
If you eat raw squash or drink raw squash juice as a smoothie to beautify yourself, you should not because the soapy nature of raw squash will cause illness to your digestive system.
Winter melon, also known as green squash, powdery squash... is a fruit used as a fresh vegetable and is very popular for making jam. Winter melon is mostly water and does not contain lipids. Every 100g of winter melon contains 0.4g of protein, 2.4g of glucid, 19mg of calcium, 12mg of phosphorus, 0.3mg of iron and many vitamins such as Carotene, B1, B2, B3, C...
According to traditional medicine, squash has a sweet and bland taste, cool properties, has the effect of clearing heat, cooling and dissolving phlegm, cooling the intestines and quenching thirst, diuretic, eliminating edema, detoxifying and reducing fat. Often used to treat respiratory diseases with cough and phlegm due to heat, diabetes, edema due to kidney disease, liver disease, edema during pregnancy...
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Mistakes when eating squash that are harmful to health should be avoided. |
In addition to being used as a vegetable, squash is also processed into soft drinks such as "Squash Tea"... In the hot summer conditions, quenching thirst with squash juice can effectively prevent diseases.
Although it has many health benefits and uses, we must know how to use and eat squash properly, otherwise it will bring many serious consequences to the health of you and your family.
Raw squash has a very high soapy property. In the past, in weaving villages, people often took advantage of this property of squash by using raw squash juice to bleach fabrics instead of bleach. Therefore, if you eat raw squash or drink raw squash juice blended into a smoothie to beautify yourself, you should not because the soapy property of raw squash will cause illness to your digestive system.
However, when squash is cooked with wine to make squash extract or thoroughly cooked, the soapy properties are almost completely lost, so it is okay to regularly eat thoroughly cooked squash or drink boiled squash water.
Remember, in the raw vegetable dishes that our grandparents ate, there was no raw squash.
So, to have delicious and healthy dishes, you should prepare dishes from squash for your family in the most delicious and scientific way!
According to Alobacsi.vn