Wax gourd, an annual creeping or trellis herb of the genus Wax gourd in Cucurbitaceae, has yellow-brown bristles and villous stems, ribbed petioles, coarse bristles and villous petioles, monoecious flowers, long cylindrical or nearly spherical fruits, stiff hairs and hoarfrost, and oval seeds.
Wax gourd is mainly distributed in other tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, and cultivated all over China. There are wild people in southern Yunnan (Xishuangbanna) in China, and their fruits are far smaller. It is also distributed in eastern Australia and Madagascar.
In addition to being a vegetable, wax gourd fruit can also be soaked into various candies.
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Nutritional value of wax gourd
Wax gourd includes pulp, pulp and seeds, and is rich in nutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and mineral elements.
Studies have shown that winter melon seeds are rich in vitamin B 1, which has the function of preventing and treating cancer. There are eight mineral elements such as potassium, sodium, calcium, iron, zinc, copper, phosphorus and selenium, among which the potassium content is obviously higher than that of sodium, which is a typical vegetable with high potassium and low sodium. Selenium also has many functions such as anticancer.
It contains eight kinds of essential amino acids except tryptophan, with high contents of glutamic acid and aspartic acid, as well as ornithine, γ -aminobutyric acid and histidine which are especially needed by children. Wax gourd contains no fat, with dietary fiber as high as 0.8%, rich nutrition and reasonable structure. It is a healthy and high-quality food.
People's Network-Winter Melon is actually a summer melon
People's Network-Winter Melon