Winter melon (fatmelon; white fuzzy vegetable). Botanical classification: Angiosperms, Dicotyledons, Gourd, Cucurbitaceae, Benincasa Savi annual herb. Shaped melons like pillows, also known as pillow melon, produced in summer. Why did the melons produced in the summer be named melons? This is because at the time of melon ripening, there is a layer of white powder on the surface, it is like the white frost formed in the winter. This is also the reason. The melon is also called white melon.
Melon contains protein and a lot of vitamins and minerals, and it has a non-negligible effect on skin whitening. "Compendium of Materia Medica" that using the melon scoop "washing the bath body", you can "black spots, it is pleasing to the white pimple"; melon can be "a good color Zeyi good."
Each 100 grams of wax gourd contains nutrients as follows:
Calories (11.00 kcal) • Vitamin B6 (0.03 mg) • Protein (0.40 g) • Fat (0.20 g) • Pantothenic acid (0.21 mg) • Carbohydrates (2.60 g) • Folic Acid (26.00 μg) • Dietary Fiber (0.70 g) ) · Vitamin A (13.00 μg) · Vitamin K (1.00 μg) · Carotene (80.00 μg) · Thiamine (0.01 mg) · Riboflavin (0.01 mg) · Niacin (0.30 mg) · Vitamin C (18.00) Mg) • Vitamin E (0.08 mg) • Calcium (19.00 mg) • Phosphorus (12.00 mg) • Potassium (78.00 mg) • Sodium (1.80 mg) • Magnesium (8.00 mg) • Iron (0.20 mg) • Zinc (0.07 mg Selenium (0.22 μg) · Copper (0.07 mg) · Manganese (0.03 mg)