Introduction: In summer, people are exposed to the scorching heat of the sky and the earth. Due to excessive sweating, nutrients such as sodium salts are lost. Coupled with reduced sleep, people experience a decreased appetite, weaker digestion, and listlessness. Therefore, focusing on dietetic health preservation in summer is extremely important.
Summer-Cooling Delicacy: Watermelon
Watermelon is sweet in taste and cold in nature. It contains sugars, minerals, and various vitamins, and has the effects of cooling off summer heat, quenching thirst, and promoting urination.
Freshly Squeezed Watermelon Juice
Sweetness After Bitterness: Bitter Melon
Regular consumption of bitter melon has the effects of clearing the heart and brightening the eyes, as well as clearing heat and detoxifying.
Dietetic Health Preservation: The pectin-like insulin component in bitter melon has the effect of lowering blood sugar and reducing fat, making it especially suitable for diabetic patients with excessive thirst and hunger. Cold-dressed bitter melon is the top choice for summer. Mashed bitter melon pulp can be applied externally to treat burns.
Stir-Fried Bitter Melon with Chili
Vine and Creeper: Loofah
Loofah is a common summer vegetable, rich in vitamins and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron. Dietetic Health Preservation: For the elderly with chronic bronchitis and cough, sugar-preserved loofah can be cooked and eaten. Eating loofah helps to reduce fever and quench thirst for patients with a fever. Fresh mashed loofah can be applied to the affected area to treat boils.
Stir-Fried Loofah
The Giant of Melons: Winter Melon
Winter melon is sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature. People in Nanjing often cook it with ham and kelp to make a delicious fresh soup.
Dietetic Health Preservation: Fresh mashed winter melon, squeezed for its juice and consumed in large quantities, can treat summer heat-induced vexation and thirst. A strong decoction of 120-180 grams of fresh winter melon rind, taken 2-3 times a day, can treat kidney disease, heart disease, and ascites due to cirrhosis. 15 grams of winter melon seeds, mixed with an appropriate amount of brown sugar, pounded, and taken with boiling water twice a day, can treat cough with excessive phlegm.
Dried Scallop and Tiger-Skin Winter Melon
Chili made bitter melons
Honey Orange Pumpkin
Cranberry cookies
mini cupcakes