Eating eggplant at the beginning of autumn to remove internal heat

　　Eating some eggplants during this season can reduce "fire" and eliminate autumn dryness. The eggplant just harvested in autumn is called "candel". It has a unique fragrance and a delicate taste, so its flavor is better than ordinary eggplant.

　　Fu Jinru, honorary chairman of the Tianjin Nutrition Society, said that eggplant is not only a cheap and high-quality popular vegetable, but also a good food therapy product. In addition to being rich in vitamins and trace elements, it is also different from other vegetables in that it is rich in vitamin P. Vitamin P is a flavonoid compound that helps maintain normal cardiovascular function. Therefore, eggplant is beneficial to arteriosclerosis, hypertension, coronary heart disease Very beneficial to patients with scurvy and scurvy. In addition, foreign research results show that eggplant is also an "anti-cancer powerhouse" among vegetables. The solanine component it contains can inhibit the proliferation of digestive system tumors, which is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of tumors. stomach cancer It has a certain effect.

　　The most common ones we see on the market are long eggplants and round eggplants. What are the differences between them? Cui Yanling, a researcher at the Vegetable Research Center of the Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, said that there is not much difference in nutrition between long eggplants and round eggplants, but the taste is slightly different. The skin of long eggplants has more water content and finer fibers, so it has a soft texture. The round eggplant skin has less water, thicker fiber, and a relatively hard texture. Therefore, when cooking, round eggplants are mostly stir-fried and stewed, while long eggplants are best served cold.

　　Fu Jinru said that there are many ways to cook eggplant, including frying, stir-frying and deep-frying to make it delicious, but you need to choose. healthy How to eat. When making eggplant, many people like to fry or "over-oil" it. Although it is delicious, high temperature will cause serious loss of nutrients in eggplant, which greatly reduces its health care effect. Moreover, high-calorie and high-fat intake is also harmful to the body. Therefore, among all the ways to eat eggplant, cold eggplant puree is the healthiest.

　　First of all, the heating time of the mixed eggplant puree is the shortest, and it only needs to be steamed over high heat, so the nutritional loss is the least. Secondly, use the least amount of oil when mixing the eggplant puree. After the eggplant is steamed and mashed into puree, you only need to drizzle a little sauce on it. Finally, the best way to absorb nutrients is the way of eating mixed with eggplant puree, because it does not require peeling, and the eggplant skin contains a lot of biologically active substances. The best sauce for tomato puree is olive oil, sesame paste, minced garlic and a little salt. It should be noted that eggplant is a cool food. If you have gastrointestinal discomfort recently, you should eat less, otherwise it will increase the burden on your gastrointestinal tract.