At the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, it is the season when chayote goes on sale in large quantities. Chayote is crisp, juicy, delicious, and has high nutritional value. It can be used as a dish or eaten raw as a fruit. In addition, the shape of the melon is like two palms together, which means Buddhist blessings and is deeply loved by people! .
Chayote, also known as mate , tiger melon , etc. It is cucurbitaceae chayote is a perennial edible climbing root plant. It is planted in the Jiangnan area of China, with Yunnan, Guizhou, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Sichuan, and Taiwan having the most. Chayote is divided into white varieties and green varieties, and most people see green varieties in the vegetable market. The chayote grows strong and bears many fruits. A vigorously growing chayote can bear five or six hundred chayote. The largest one can weigh a pound. If you look at its shape, the tightly held five fingers are like Buddha's. palm. Mr. Li, who lives in the Jinyuan district of Yangzhou in his 60s, especially loves chayote. He said that chayote is full of nutrients in melons and vegetables. Frequent eating of chayote can enhance the body's ability to resist diseases and alleviate the vision loss of the elderly. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chayote belongs to the spleen, stomach, liver, and lung meridians. "Minnan Folk Chinese Herbal Medicine" records: " soothes the liver and regulates qi, resolving phlegm in the species, promoting qi and relieving pain, opening the chest and quickening the diaphragm." Therefore, chayote can be used for liver and stomach qi stagnation and blood stasis, chest and hypochondriac pain, stomach and wrist Sickness, food stagnation and vomiting. It has certain therapeutic effects on indigestion, thick and greasy tongue coating, chest tightness, bloating, vomiting, coughing, and stomachache . Often eating chayote can diuretic and excrete sodium, dilate blood vessels and lower blood pressure. Modern research has also shown that chayote contains plant fiber and vitamin A, vitamin B, and vitamin C, which can nourish and relieve dryness, help stomach digestion, and can cure indigestion. Because of its high potassium content and low sodium content, it is beneficial to obesity and For those who do not eat sodium salt, it is an excellent health vegetable.
There are many ways to eat chayote, fresh melon can be sliced, shredded, fried, vegetarian, cold, soup, hot pot, dumpling filling,Common home cooking methods include chayote scrambled eggs , cold chayote, fried chayote , chayote fried chicken, etc. However, because chayote is a mild food, all of them are yin and body heat. People with weak physique should eat less.
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