Introduction: As the hot summer quietly approaches, nutritionists believe that the following three types of vegetables are most suitable for people, especially the elderly.
The first type is gourd vegetables. The water in vegetables is natural, clean, nutritious, and biologically active, filtered through multiple biological membranes, which cannot be compared or replaced by any factory-produced drinking water. Summer is also the peak season for gourd vegetables, and their common feature is that they contain over 90% water. Winter squash leads all vegetables in water content, reaching as high as 96%. Next are cucumber, golden melon, loofah, chayote, pumpkin, bitter gourd, etc.
The second type is cool-natured vegetables. After entering summer, the most influential factor on the human body is the summer heat and dampness. Therefore, eating some cool-natured vegetables helps to promote the production of body fluids to quench thirst, relieve restlessness and summer heat, clear heat, reduce fire, and detoxify and promote bowel movements. Among the vegetables available in summer, which ones are cool-natured? For example, bitter gourd, loofah, cucumber, vegetable melon, watermelon, muskmelon, etc., are all considered cool-natured vegetables. Tomatoes, eggplant, celery, lettuce, asparagus, watercress, yam, etc., are also cool-natured vegetables and can be eaten frequently.
The third type is sterilizing vegetables. In summer, due to the high temperature, pathogens breed and spread rapidly, making it a season with a high incidence of human diseases, especially intestinal infectious diseases. At this time, eating more sterilizing vegetables can help prevent diseases. This type of vegetables includes garlic, onion, chives, scallions, green onions, garlic sprouts, etc.