Can Horse Melon Sober You Up? The Benefits, Effects and Ways to Eat the Annual Herbaceous Plant Horse Melon

Horse melon, also known as little wild melon or horse treasure, is a common wild plant found in mountainous areas and fields. Because it has effects such as fighting tumors and delaying aging, it is widely eaten. Many people now like to dry it and brew it in water to drink. So can horse melon sober you up? What benefits and effects does it have? How should you eat it to get the best results?

1. Can horse melon sober you up?

Sobering up and preventing drunkenness is also one of the important effects of horse melon. Horse melon contains a variety of amino acids, with relatively high levels of substances such as alanine and glutamic acid. They can improve the liver's detoxification ability, reduce alcohol's damage to the liver, and at the same time break down alcohol toxins and expel them from the body, thereby producing a good sobering effect.

2. What benefits and effects does horse melon have?

1. Preventing alcohol poisoning

The arginine, alanine and glutamine in it provide supportive treatment for liver patients and patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, and can prevent alcohol poisoning.

2. Weight loss and body strengthening

The tartronic acid in it can inhibit the conversion of carbohydrates into fat. Cellulose promotes the removal of putrefactive substances in the human intestinal tract, lowers cholesterol in the body, and can strengthen the body.

3. Fighting tumors

The cucurbitacin C in it can improve human immune function and also has an anti-tumor effect, while also being able to treat chronic hepatitis.

4. Lowering blood sugar

The fructose and glucoside in it generally do not participate in normal glucose metabolism, so many diabetic patients now use cucumber instead of starchy foods to satisfy hunger, and their blood sugar will not rise; in some cases it may even drop.

5. Preventing aging

The vitamin E in it can prevent aging and prolong life; the cucumber enzyme in it can promote metabolism. Pounding horse melon into juice and applying it to the skin surface has the effect of smoothing the skin and reducing wrinkles.

3. What ways are there to eat horse melon?

1. Eating it fresh directly

Horse melon has many different ways to be eaten. After it naturally ripens, it can be eaten fresh directly. When eating horse melon fresh, wash it clean with water, remove the stem and then remove the inner pulp, then cut it into pieces. You can eat horse melon just like eating melon, which lets people taste the original flavor of horse melon and also allows the body to absorb and use all the nutrients it contains.

2. Eating it as a cold dressed dish

(1) Horse melon can also be made into a cold dressed dish to eat, especially those horse melons that are not fully ripe. They do not taste good when eaten directly, so at this time you can wash them clean, remove the skin and pulp, then cut them into shreds, blanch them in boiling water for two minutes, take them out, and cool them in cold water.

(2) Take out the cooled horse melon and drain off the water, add fragrant vinegar and light soy sauce as well as a small amount of edible salt and white sugar, then add an appropriate amount of sesame oil. After mixing well, a sour, fragrant and tasty cold dressed horse melon is ready to eat.

3. Juicing

Juicing horse melon is also one of its main ways of being eaten. Usually you can wash fresh horse melon clean with water, remove the pulp, and cut it into pieces. Prepare a juicer, put the cut pieces of horse melon into it to extract the juice, add an appropriate amount of honey or white sugar for flavor, and after mixing well it can be drunk directly. In addition, when juicing horse melon you can also add an appropriate amount of apple or orange, which will make the resulting juice taste even more appealing.