People's favorite snack food of melon seeds. It's very enjoyable to eat melon seeds and watch TV in your spare time. Melon seeds are not only delicious snacks, but also good health food. Chinese medicine believes that melon seeds are flat in nature and sweet in taste, and have a good effect of invigorating qi and kidney. Let's take a look at the nutritional value and efficacy of melon seeds with Xiaobian, and what are the taboo groups of melon seeds!
Nutritional value of melon seeds:
Taking the weight of 100g as an example, the fat content and protein content of fried sunflower seeds account for 52.8% and 22.6% respectively. The fat content and protein content of fried watermelon seeds account for 44.8% and 32.7% respectively. The fat content of fried pumpkin seeds is 46.1%, and the protein content is 36%. In addition, they all contain trace elements such as calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc and various vitamins, but the content of vitamins is very low. As nuts, these melon seeds also contain fatty acids, which is one of the reasons why we usually advocate moderate intake of nuts.
Efficacy and function of melon seeds
1. Usually, people often eat raw melon seeds. Although it is harmful to the body, eating some raw melon seeds in proper amount has many benefits to the body. After eating raw melon seeds, people can replenish qi and blood, promote blood circulation in the body and promote hair growth, and make human hair black, smooth and thick.
2. Preventing and relieving anemia is also an important benefit for people to eat raw melon seeds, because after eating raw melon seeds, people can absorb abundant trace elements such as iron and zinc, which can enhance the hematopoietic function of the human body and accelerate the synthesis of red blood cells in the body, which has obvious effects on preventing and relieving iron deficiency anemia of human beings.
Eating melon seeds during the Spring Festival is a custom in many places. In less than a month, the Spring Festival is coming again. Are you ready? Now everyone has started to prepare for the new year's goods, and melon seeds are essential. In fact, Xiaobian wants to remind everyone that not all people can eat melon seeds. Today, Xiaobian will explain to you who can't eat melon seeds.
1. Patients with hyperlipidemia
Melon seeds contain a large amount of fat, and hyperlipidemia patients will increase the lipid level in blood after eating, and the increase of blood lipid is often one of the pathogenic factors of hypertension and other diseases. The heat of melon seeds is also very large. Because melon seeds are to be stir-fried, the fat inside will be "stimulated". Therefore, some people with high blood fat had better not eat too many melon seeds, so as not to cause the blood fat to rise even more, which is not good for their health.
2. cholecystectomy
Melon seeds are greasy, and the fat they contain needs bile to digest. After cholecystectomy, the function of storing bile is lost. Therefore, if you are such a patient, you'd better not eat melon seeds, because your digestive ability is getting worse. If you eat melon seeds again, it will easily lead to indigestion, which will cause more harm to your stomach.
3. Patients with stomach and liver diseases
Melon seeds contain a lot of fat. People with spleen and stomach dysfunction such as enteritis and dysentery and patients with liver diseases will get worse after eating. Some people have poor stomach and liver disease. If so, don't eat melon seeds, and don't let the disease recur because of gluttony. This will only make the body hurt more, and it won't help the recovery of the disease much. Eating melon seeds for people with poor stomach will aggravate stomachache, and if they don't digest well, they will easily get angry. Eating melon seeds for patients with liver diseases will not help their recovery.
Although melon seeds are delicious, you can't eat more, and if you are physically unfit to eat melon seeds, you'd better not eat them. Some people say, just eat some during the Chinese New Year, and you seldom eat them at ordinary times. In fact, a small amount of melon seeds can also lead to recurrence of the disease, so if you are a patient with the above-mentioned diseases, you should eat melon seeds carefully during the Chinese New Year.