What are the benefits and effects of summer melon, and is it a hot or cooling food?

Melon is one of the indispensable fruits on everyone's dining table and coffee table in summer. It is very popular whether in the city or in the countryside, and its nutritional value is similar to that of watermelon. But many friends cannot tell whether melon is a hot or cooling food, and they are also not very familiar with the benefits and effects of melon. Next, let us answer these questions for you one by one!

1. Dietary contraindications

1. The melon stem is toxic

The flesh of the melon can be eaten raw, and it has the effect of relieving cough and clearing dryness. It can eliminate bad breath, but the melon stem is toxic. This is also why we feel it is so bitter when we eat the melon stem. Eating too much of the melon stem can cause poisoning in the human body, so it is best not to eat the melon stem in order to ensure good health.

2. Suitable population

Except for people with bleeding and those with weakness and abdominal bloating, who should not eat it, other patients can eat it. It is best not to eat melon together with foods such as river snails, crabs, and fried oil cakes, otherwise it will affect your health, so this is something to pay attention to.

2. Precautions

1. Melon should not be eaten together with bitter melon or watermelon, otherwise people with weak constitutions will experience diarrhea. Melon should not be eaten together with iced summer drinks, because they are both cold-natured foods. Eating multiple cold-natured foods together has a very big effect on the body, and people with weak constitutions will experience diarrhea and other symptoms after eating them.

2. Melon is not suitable to be eaten together with strongly tonic medicinal meals. This has a great impact on the effects and nutritional value of strongly tonic medicinal meals, so it is best to eat them separately. Melon also should not be eaten together with durian. These two foods conflict with each other. If eaten together, they will fail to achieve their respective effects and nutritional value, and severe diarrhea will occur.

The above are the precautions and dietary contraindications for eating melon. The taste, texture, and health benefits of melon are still excellent. As long as we avoid the foods and ways of eating listed in the above contraindications when eating it, there will be no side effects or adverse symptoms. In particular, the melon stem should not be eaten much. Try not to eat its melon stem to prevent poisoning.

3. Is melon a hot or cooling food?

Muskmelon is a cooling fruit. Muskmelon tastes sweet and its nature is cold. It can quench thirst and promote diuresis. Especially in summer, its rich water content can help solve problems such as poor appetite and dry mouth. However, because muskmelon is a cooling fruit, people with weak spleen and stomach and people with weakness and blood deficiency should not eat too much of it. At the same time, pregnant women are also not very suitable for eating too much muskmelon.

4. Is melon acidic or alkaline?

Muskmelon is a weakly alkaline fruit. Usually, sugary fruits or fruits that taste sour and astringent when unripe are acidic, but muskmelon is an exception and is a weakly alkaline fruit. In fact, distinguishing alkaline foods from acidic foods requires looking at the metabolic products. Alkaline foods are classified according to whether the final metabolic products of the food in the human body contain cations such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium, which makes them alkaline foods. Those whose metabolic products contain more sulfur and phosphorus are acidic foods. The proportion of potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, and so on in muskmelon is higher than its acidic components, so it is an alkaline food.

5. What are the benefits of eating melon?

1. Clearing heat and relieving summer heat: Muskmelon contains a large amount of carbohydrates as well as citric acid, carotene, and vitamins B and C, and is rich in water. It can relieve summer heat, clear heat, promote body fluids, quench thirst, and eliminate irritability.

2. Treating kidney disease: The invertase contained in muskmelon can convert insoluble protein into soluble protein, which can help kidney disease patients absorb nutrients and is beneficial to kidney disease patients.

3. Protecting the liver: Cucurbitacin B contained in muskmelon stems can significantly increase the accumulation of liver glycogen in experiments and reduce chronic liver damage, thereby preventing fatty degeneration of liver cells and inhibiting fibrous proliferation.

4. Emetic effect: Muskmelon stems contain crystalline bitter substances such as bitter toxin and cucurbitacin, which can stimulate the gastric mucosa. Taking an appropriate amount internally can cause vomiting, but it is not absorbed by the body and has no disadvantages such as collapse or poisoning.

5. Insecticidal effect: Muskmelon seeds have the effect of expelling and killing roundworms and filarial worms, and can be widely used to treat parasitic infestation conditions.

6. Supplementing nutrition: Ripe muskmelon flesh contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, inorganic salts, and so on. It can supplement the energy and nutrients needed by the human body and help the body recover health.