Chilled watermelon cubes

I believe that ice-cold diced watermelon is one of the must-have cold drinks in summer. Let us learn some knowledge about this cold drink.

Chilled watermelon cubes

Chilled watermelon cubes

Ingredients for iced watermelon cubes

Ingredients: 1000g watermelon,

Accessories: 50g apple, 50g orange, 50g pineapple, 20g lychee, 30g melon,

Seasoning: 200g white sugar, 50g rock sugar

How to make cold watermelon cubes

1. Cut the watermelon, dig out the flesh, remove the seeds, and cut into small dices; wash the apples, orange segments, pineapple, lychee, and melon, and cut into small dices.

2. Put the pot on the fire, add an appropriate amount of water, put in sugar and rock sugar and boil until it deepens. Pour it into a large bowl, let it cool and then put it in the refrigerator to freeze.

3. Place diced watermelon, apple, pineapple, lychee and melon on a plate and pour in the cooled sugar water.

Watermelon is the main fruit in summer, so it is also called "summer melon"; watermelon is juicy and contains a lot of water, so it is also called "water melon"; watermelon is cold in nature and can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, so it is also known as "cold melon".

Watermelon is a treasure from head to toe. Watermelon pulp and watermelon juice can supplement the nutritional needs of human skin, muscles, and hair in the hot summer. In particular, the vitamins, enzymes, amino acids and other nutrients contained in watermelon can nourish the skin and promote appetite. For people with thin bodies, dry skin, and haggard faces, watermelon is a rare oral beauty agent. Eating a moderate amount of watermelon every day and eating less food can help lose weight and promote a healthy body.

Watermelon can prevent and treat itching. Itching is caused by sweat accumulation in the sweat gland ducts and squeezed into the surrounding tissues, causing inflammation around the sweat glands. It can produce small red blister-like papules, which have a certain impact on summer life. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that itching is caused by high temperatures in summer, poor sweating, and summer dampness accumulating in the skin. Since watermelon has a good effect of clearing away summer heat similar to Baihu Decoction, it can effectively prevent and treat prickly heat.

Applying watermelon peel on the face can increase the nutrition of the skin from the outside, promote the metabolism of the facial skin, help the skin to be moisturized and tender, and prevent facial pigmentation caused by excessive sunlight in summer. The method is to wash the face with warm water first, and then gently rub the remaining watermelon peel on the face along the direction of the muscles. After 15 minutes, wash off the watermelon peel juice with warm water. Do this 1-2 times a day.

Watermelon seeds can be processed into five-spice seeds, cream seeds, multi-flavor seeds, etc. They are delicious and have medical effects such as benefiting the lungs, moistening the intestines, stopping bleeding, strengthening the stomach, and lowering blood pressure. For example, if you take 50 grams of watermelon seeds, crush them with the shell, boil them in water, remove the residue, and take them orally with rock sugar, it can cure tuberculosis hemoptysis and blood in the stool. Crush the watermelon seed shells, boil them in water, remove the residue, and take them with brown sugar, which has a significant effect on vomiting blood, hemoptysis, and intestinal wind bleeding.

In addition to eating the flesh of watermelon, the juice and rind can also be used to make health foods and dishes. Examples are given below.

Remove the seeds from the ripe watermelon and squeeze out the juice with clean gauze; peel and remove the seeds from the ripe red tomato and squeeze out the juice with gauze. Mix the two juices and drink them on the same day. Make and drink them on the same day, about 100 ml per day.