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🌱 Supplier introduction: The farm is now taken over by the second-generation daughter. The owner is Cherry Kwok, who grows local organic vegetables and fruits. There is an organic certification issued by the Hong Kong Organic Resource Center. Every Sunday from 8:30am to 2pm at Lam Tei Choi Station (near Lam Tei Light Rail Station) in Tuen Mun.
supply season
The main production period is from March to September every year. Winter melon can also be produced in winter, so it is called winter melon.
Nutritional value: wax gourd clears heat and detoxifies, diureses water and reduces swelling, and must be eaten in summer to relieve heat. Sweet and light in taste, slightly cold in nature. It has the functions of diuretic water and phlegm, clearing away heat and detoxifying, removing irritability and quenching thirst. Chinese medicine believes that winter melon seeds have curative effect on lung carbuncle and intestinal carbuncle. Winter melon is rich in water, which not only replenishes water for the human body, but also has a diuretic effect, which helps to avoid the occurrence of edema. In addition, it gives people a feeling of fullness after eating, which has a certain effect on diet and weight control. Mini winter melon cultivar: "small fruit type winter melon". The fruit is small and nearly round, such as "a bunch of bells" in Beijing and "round winter melon" in Taiwan.
Cooking method: It is suitable for making soup and rice, and can also add heat-clearing and damp-dampening ingredients (mung bean, corn silk) to boiling soup.
Special attention: the peel of wax gourd reduces swelling; the seeds of wax gourd have the effect of clearing the lungs and resolving phlegm. It is recommended to eat together with the skin/seed!
storage method
It can be stored for a long time in a cool and ventilated place, but the meat will shrink if stored for a long time.
#* Taboo
Appropriate: Suitable for those who suffer from thirst and boredom, edema, beriberi, phlegm, freckles, rosacea, fish and crab poisoning, hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, cholecystitis, gallstones, whooping cough, obesity, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis , coronary heart disease, kidney disease, cancer patients.
Contraindications: People with spleen and kidney deficiency, weak stomach and easy diarrhea, chronic illness and diarrhea should not eat.
#*Food compatibility
should:
1. Winter melon and shrimp: The vitamin K contained in winter melon can promote the body to absorb calcium from shrimp, which helps to promote the growth of bones; and these two elements are involved in the coagulation of human blood at the same time, preventing the human body from bleeding a lot.
2. Winter melon and duck: The folic acid contained in winter melon and the duck meat rich in vitamin B12 are eaten together. Both are nutrients required for hematopoiesis, so they can prevent anemia.
avoid:
1. Winter melon and pig liver: The copper in pig liver will oxidize the vitamin C contained in winter melon, thus affecting its nutritional value.
cooking tips
The edible part is melon fruit. After a little rinsing with water, remove the rind and flesh of the melon and cook and eat. In order to achieve the effect of relieving summer heat and clearing heat, quenching thirst and diuresis, it is necessary to cook soup with the skin and eat it.
#Remarks
Although wax gourd likes warm and humid climates, it can also survive the winter. Winter melon can generally be stored for up to twelve months.
common dishes
Winter melon cup, red bean in winter melon soup, winter melon in old duck, winter melon with fire belly
