Winter melon: It is a vegetable used for both medicine and food. It has multiple health effects. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that wax gourd is sweet, light and cool in nature. It enters the lungs, large intestine, small intestine, and bladder meridians. It has the effects of moistening the lungs and promoting fluid, resolving phlegm and quenching thirst, diuretic and swelling, clearing heat and dispelling heat, detoxifying and discharging pus; it can be used for the treatment of summer heat, thirst, phlegm heat, asthma, edema, beriberi, flatulence, diabetes, acne, facial spots and other diseases.
The propanoic acid contained in wax gourd can effectively inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat. In addition, wax gourd itself does not contain fat and is not high in calories. It is of great significance in preventing the human body from getting fat and can also help build a body.
Clam not only tastes delicious, but also has comprehensive nutrition. It is a cheap seafood. It contains various ingredients such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, iron, calcium, phosphorus, iodine, vitamins, amino acids and taurine. It is an ideal food with low calorie, high protein, and can prevent and treat chronic diseases in the elderly.
Applicable population:
Winter melon is suitable for people with kidney disease, edema, liver cirrhosis and ascites, cancer, beriberi, hypertension, diabetes, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, obesity, and vitamin C deficiency. Winter melon is cold and cold, weak in the spleen and stomach, kidney deficiency, chronic disease, slippery diarrhea, Yang deficiency and cold limbs should not be eaten.
Seafood and white gourd soup
Recipe Recommendations
- winter melon 500 grams
- clams 200 grams
- fresh shrimp 6 rats
- refined salt appropriate amount
- cooking oil appropriate amount
- ginger appropriate amount
- pepper appropriate amount
- pepper appropriate amount
- salty and fresh
- cook
- an hour
- ordinary
Steps for Seafood and white gourd soup

1
Soak the clams in sea salt and water for a day to let the clams spit out the sand.
2
Peel the wax gourd and cut the ribs into pieces.
3
Add a little oil to the pan, add ginger slices, pepper saute fragrant.
4
Add the wax gourd pieces and stir fry.
5
Pour the wax gourd into the casserole and pour in clear water.
6
After boiling over high heat, remove the pepper grains and skim off the floating foam.
7
Wait until the wax gourd is boiled until it changes color, add clams and fresh shrimp.
8
After boiling over high heat for 10 minutes, add refined salt, sprinkle with pepper and serve out.