Can a one-year-old baby eat winter melon?

One-year-old babies can eat winter melon, but it still depends on the actual gastrointestinal condition of their baby. Because winter melon itself is a relatively cold food. If your baby has a weak spleen and stomach, you must not eat it. Otherwise, your baby will feel symptoms of gastrointestinal pain. In addition, it cannot be eaten with foods such as red beans.

⑴ Winter melon is cold in nature. People with spleen and stomach qi deficiency, diarrhea, loose stools, and stomach cold pain should avoid eating raw and cold winter melon. People during menstruation and those with cold dysmenorrhea should avoid eating raw winter melon.

⑵Winter melon and red bean are incompatible. Eating winter melon and red beans together will cause a sudden increase in urine volume in normal people, which can easily cause dehydration.

⑶Winter melon and vinegar are incompatible. Vinegar will destroy the nutrients in winter melon and reduce its nutritional value.

⑷Winter melon and red crucian carp are incompatible. Eating them together reduces their nutritional value.

⑷ Winter melon and crucian carp are both anti-edema and diuretic ingredients. Eating them together will increase urine output. If you are not suffering from edema, it is best not to eat them together [6][7].

Winter melon tastes sweet and is cold in nature. It has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Winter melon has a low sodium content and has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on diseases such as arteriosclerosis, ascites due to cirrhosis, coronary heart disease, hypertension, nephritis, edema, etc. "Sui Xi Ju Diet" states: "If pregnant women eat it regularly, it can eliminate toxins in the fetus and keep the baby healthy."

Winter melon also has the function of detoxifying fish. The succinic acid contained in winter melon can effectively inhibit the conversion of carbohydrates into fat. In addition, winter melon itself does not contain fat and has low calories, which is of great significance for preventing the body from gaining weight and can help keep the body fit. The seeds and skin of wax gourd can also be used as medicine. The flesh and pulp of wax gourd have diuretic, heat-clearing, phlegm-resolving, and thirst-quenching effects. It can also treat edema, phlegm and asthma, summer heat, hemorrhoids and other symptoms. If winter melon is boiled with the skin on and then drunk as soup, it can reduce swelling, promote diuresis, and clear away heat and relieve summer heat[5].

Wax gourd seeds (also known as white melon seeds, wax gourd kernels, melon seeds, melon slices, and melon rhinoceros) are the seeds of wax gourd, which have the effect of clearing the lungs and reducing phlegm. The decoction of wax gourd vine has a unique effect on rectal prolapse. The fresh juice of wax gourd vine can be used for washing the face and bathing. It can whiten the skin and make it shiny, and is a cheap natural beauty product[5].

economy

Winter melon is a very good storable vegetable with low planting cost, high yield, rich nutrients, good storage and transportation resistance, strong heat resistance, white flesh, crisp and juicy. It is a good raw material suitable for modern agricultural product processing. Winter melon has been increasingly widely used in the processing of various new foods and health care products. This is a good way to increase the value of a vegetable with high yield and low price. Therefore, conducting research on comprehensive utilization technology of winter melon has certain practical significance for comprehensively improving the value of winter melon and promoting farmers' income growth.