What are the nutritional values ​​of watermelon?

Watermelon is a fruit that people like to eat very much in summer, and it also contains certain nutritional value. So today I will tell you about the nutritional value of watermelon:

Summer natural "white tiger soup"

Watermelon, known as the natural "Baihu Soup" in traditional Chinese medicine, has a good effect of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, and is especially suitable for consumption in summer.

Watermelon is not only good at relieving heat and quenching thirst, but also very nutritious. Its juice contains many nutrients needed by the human body. It is indeed a good product for summer. It is especially beneficial for those who can't eat and are malnourished in the summer.

After eating watermelon, people often throw away the rind and seeds. In fact, they also contain many nutrients. The rind contains invert sugar, and the seeds contain a lot of fatty oil, most of which is linoleic acid.

The watermelon pulp, rind and seeds can all be used as medicine.

In the medical books of past dynasties, there are many records about the use of watermelon as medicine, which is believed to have many functions such as relieving summer heat, relieving thirst, promoting urination, curing bloody dysentery, curing throat paralysis, and detoxifying alcohol. Modern research has also proved that watermelon does have many functions such as relieving summer heat, promoting urination, lowering blood pressure, and expelling insects, and has a wide range of medical uses.

In summer, if you have heat stroke, fever, irritability, thirst, and oliguria, or other acute fever, high fever, sweating, thirst, irritability, urination pain, etc., watermelon is suitable for auxiliary treatment. You can eat the pulp directly, drink the juice, or boil the rind in water. If you have acute fever in other seasons, boiling the dry rind is also effective.

For patients with hypertension, eating watermelon is also good because watermelon seeds have a blood pressure lowering effect. Take 9 to 15 grams of watermelon seeds and boil them in water for oral administration, or eat them raw, or fry them and chew them, all of which have a certain blood pressure lowering effect.