Cheng 'an Melon

Cheng 'an Melon is a specialty of Cheng 'an County, Handan City, Hebei Province. Cheng 'an thin-skinned melon is a pollution-free, pure natural green food, with crisp skin, good taste, high sweetness, rich pear flavor, sweet and delicious. This year, the planting area of thin-skinned melon in Cheng 'an reached 1000 mu, forming 9 professional melon planting villages. Cheng 'an thin-skinned melon is resistant to transportation and can be stored, with a daily output of 200,000 Jin. Since 2000, Cheng 'an thin-skinned melon has been exported to all parts of the country! Cheng 'an Melon has good nutritional value: (1) Clearing summer heat and relieving polydipsia. Melon contains a lot of carbohydrates, citric acid, carotene, vitamins B and C, etc., and it is full of water, which can relieve summer heat, quench thirst, relieve boredom and so on. (2) Help kidney patients absorb nutrition. Melon contains invertase, which can transform insoluble protein into soluble protein, help kidney patients absorb nutrients, and is beneficial to kidney patients. (3) protect the liver. Cucurbitacin B contained in the pedicel of melon can obviously increase the accumulation of experimental liver glycogen, alleviate chronic liver injury, thus preventing fatty degeneration of liver cells and inhibiting fibrous hyperplasia. (4) vomiting. Melon pedicel contains bitter toxin, cucurbitacin B, E and other crystalline bitter substances, which can stimulate gastric mucosa, and can cause vomiting if taken orally in moderation, but it is not absorbed by the body, and there are no drawbacks such as collapse and poisoning. (5) Insecticides. Modern research has found that sweet melon seeds have the functions of killing roundworms and filariasis, and can be widely used to treat insect accumulation diseases. (6) supplement nutrition. Melon cooked meat contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, inorganic salts, etc., which can supplement the energy and nutrients needed by the human body and help the body recover.
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