How to choose honeydew melon? What are the benefits of honeydew melon?

Because its peel is white and it grows in Lanzhou, it is named Bailang melon. The melon is sweet, juicy, fragrant, and refreshing. It is "jade-like in color and honey-like in sweetness", and is truly the best melon. Bailang melon also has high medicinal value, which is recorded in "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica" and "Compendium of Materia Medica". How much do you know about it?

Contents of this article

1. How to choose honeydew melon

2. What are the effects of honeysuckle?

3. Are there any taboos on eating honeydew melon?

How to choose white melon

method:

1. Choose ripe honeydew melons. Generally, ripe honeydew melons are spherical in shape, uniform in size, with white skin with a hint of yellow, and very beautiful in appearance.

2. Buy fresher products. Do not buy honeydew melons that feel too soft when pressed.

3. After cutting, the inside has a emerald green color, is very fragrant, and the meat is juicy.

4. The melon surface is smooth and delicate, and slightly elastic when tapped by hand. The better the melon is, the lighter the weight is.

What are the benefits of honeydew melon

1. Help digestion

It helps the secretion of gastric acid and the digestion of food, and is suitable for treating food stagnation syndrome.

It can remove toxins and excess water from the body, promote blood and water metabolism, and has diuretic and anti-edema effects.

It is mainly used to dispel wind-heat, and is suitable for wind-heat exterior syndrome with severe fever, slight aversion to cold, headache, sore throat, thirst, red tip of tongue, thin yellow tongue coating, and floating and rapid pulse.

Warms the stomach and treats stomach cold. It is suitable for treating abdominal distension, loose stools, loss of appetite, limb fatigue and other symptoms caused by spleen deficiency and inability to transport and transform.

Are there any taboos on eating white melon?

1. People with digestive system diseases, such as those with weak spleen and stomach, are not suitable for eating large amounts of honeydew melon.

2. Honeydew melon is not suitable for people who are chronically ill and weak. If these people eat honeydew melon, it will affect their health.

3. Diabetic patients are not suitable to eat honeydew melon because the sugar content of honeydew melon is very high. If diabetic patients eat honeydew melon, their condition will be aggravated.

4. People with high blood sugar should not eat honeydew melon. The sugar content of honeydew melon is as high as 15%. Eating honeydew melon will cause blood sugar to rise, which will aggravate the patient's condition.