How to eat papaya best?

Sweet potato rice and papaya soup, eat more can strengthen the body.

Sweet potato, papaya and other fruits and vegetables are rich in nutrients such as iron, vitamins and amino acids, which can keep warm and beautify in winter.

According to the latest "healthy food list" published by the World Health Organization, sweet potato ranks first in the vegetable list, papaya ranks first in the fruit list, and celery ranks first in the vegetable list. These are common vegetables and fruits in daily life. What is their nutritional value, and how to make them delicious without losing nutrition? Let's listen to the advice of hotel chefs and housewives! Sweet potato is extremely nutritious, and it is most convenient to steam it in rice.

"I can say that I grew up eating sweet potatoes. In the era of poor living standards in the past, my family basically took sweet potatoes as the staple food, eating sweet potato porridge in the morning, steaming sweet potatoes at noon and eating sweet potato porridge at night. How this meal made me feel. After all these years, I still like to eat sweet potatoes. Moreover, it contains a lot of dietary fiber, which can relieve constipation and detoxify, especially for senile constipation. Now, I can't live without sweet potatoes every week. " Aunt Wang, who lives in Dongping, told reporters.

According to the classic literature of Chinese medicine, sweet potato has the functions of "tonifying deficiency and benefiting qi, strengthening spleen and stomach and strengthening kidney yin". Also known as sweet potato, sweet potato, sweet potato, sweet potato, sweet potato and so on. It is a kind of health food with homology of medicine and food. Contains dietary fiber, carotene, vitamins A, B, C, E, and potassium, iron, copper, selenium, calcium and other trace elements 10. With high nutritional value, it is called the most balanced healthy food by many nutritionists.

"There are many ways to eat sweet potatoes, such as making sugar water, cooking porridge or steaming. The most common cooking method in hotels is steaming. " Mr. Lin, a chef in a hotel near the West Lake, said that sweet potatoes must be cooked before eating, because they contain a lot of starch and are difficult to digest raw. After cooking and steaming, the tough cell membrane wrapped outside is easily digested and absorbed by the human body. In addition, it can shorten its sugar chain and increase the sweetness of sweet potato. Papaya soup is one of the favorite soups for Huizhou citizens.

Papaya has always been known for its low calorie and whitening effect. It is rich in more than 65,438+07 amino acids, calcium and iron, and also contains papain and papain ... Its vitamin C content is 48 times that of apples. It is understood that papaya topped the list of fruits in this "healthy food list" for the first time because scientists recently found that papain in papaya milk can help human body decompose meat protein. Some experts in gastroenterology suggest that eating a small amount of papaya after meals has a significant effect on preventing gastric ulcer, gastroenteritis and indigestion. , but also beauty.

In Huizhou, people can often see papaya tree as thick as a wrist planted in some people's yards and balconies, and some trees are hung with more than a dozen blue melons and fruits bigger than adult men's fists. From this, we can see how much people in Huizhou love to eat papaya. Zhang Apo, who lives in the family, is such a person. She said: "Papaya can maintain beauty and cure cough caused by heat, so my two daughters and I love papaya. The papaya planted in my yard is simply not enough to eat, so I should often go to the vegetable market to buy it. "

"Papaya can be made into many delicious foods, and papaya soup is one of the favorite soups for Huizhou citizens." Zhang Apo said that Huizhou people like to make soup with papaya. When cooking ribs, raw fish and chicken feet, the skin of papaya is usually peeled off, seeded and cut into small pieces, and then put in when stewing ribs and chicken feet. Because papaya is easy to stew, the boiled soup is just right.

"My daughter and I like steaming papaya and tremella together," Zhang Apo said with a smile. "Now people like steaming shark's fin with papaya and steaming frog with papaya in restaurants, but the economic conditions of ordinary people have not reached the level of eating shark's fin and frog with papaya every day. The daughters think that tremella is also very beautiful, so they take local materials and combine tremella and papaya at home to make a dessert of steamed tremella with papaya, which tastes quite good! "

The reporter learned that the production method of steamed white fungus with papaya is very simple. Soak the tremella in clear water first, and cut the papaya in half from one fifth. Dig out the seeds with a spoon, chop the tremella and put it in papaya, and add some rock sugar if you want to eat something sweet. Cover the other half and steam for 30 minutes. When eating, you can mix tremella with papaya meat, which will be very sweet. The iron content of celery is 20 times that of tomato, so it can replenish blood if eaten frequently.

In addition to sweet potatoes, carrots, celery, eggplant, wild vegetables, Chinese cabbage, beets, kale, asparagus, cauliflower and other vegetables have also entered the list, and celery ranked third is one of the favorite vegetables for citizens in winter.

In winter, the food is monotonous and there are few fresh vegetables, but eating more seasonal vegetable celery is beneficial to supplement nutrition and enhance human resistance. Eating celery in cold weather helps to prevent dry mouth, asthma and upset. It is understood that apigenin contained in celery has obvious antihypertensive effect. It is also a high-fiber food, which will produce an antioxidant after intestinal digestion, and can inhibit carcinogens produced by intestinal bacteria when it reaches high concentration. Its iron content is also very high, about 20 times that of tomatoes, and it is a good blood-enriching vegetable.

"Celery can be fried or eaten cold." Ms. Yuan, a citizen, told reporters that she often fried meat slices with celery or ate them with black fungus and shrimp at home. Ms. Yuan made a cold celery for the reporter on the spot. The reporter saw that Ms. Yuan first picked and washed the celery, blanched the black fungus in a boiling water pot, and then picked it up and soaked it in cold water prepared in advance. According to Ms. Yuan, this can keep celery fresh and refreshing. Cut the drained celery into one-inch long slices, break the black fungus and put it on a plate, sprinkle with a layer of fried shrimp, minced garlic and ginger rice, and then pour a proper amount of soy sauce and aged vinegar. "If you want to eat spicy food, add chopped dried red pepper." Ms. Yuan said that she put oil in the vegetable pan and poured it into the dish when the oil burned to smoke. In the hissing sound, a fragrance went straight to the reporter's nose. After mixing the vegetables evenly, the reporter put a chopstick celery in his mouth, which was sour, spicy, crisp and full of celery flavor, which made people have an appetite. Friends who love food may wish to try it themselves. Our reporter Tian Dongmei attached: WHO's latest health food list

List of vegetables: sweet potato, carrot, celery, eggplant, wild vegetables, cabbage, beet, cabbage, asparagus and cauliflower.

Fruit list: papaya, orange, orange, strawberry, kiwi, mango, apple, apricot and persimmon.

Meat list: goose, duck and chicken. Collected by this newspaper