After the Little Summer, it became hotter and hotter! Experts suggest eating more melons, especially these 4 kinds of melons.

 7:39am, 5 September 2025

Yesterday (7th) the light summer heat, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter. The season is that you can’t eat anything. Nutritionists recommend eating more melons, especially the four types of melons, winter melons, bitter melons, and gua, which clears heat, diuretics, and relieves kidneys. It is very suitable for eating in hot summers.

Silk melon

According to the introduction of the Agricultural Committee's Agricultural Knowledge Portal Network, Silk melon contains vitamins A, C, protein, sugar and a lot of water. It is a fruit and vegetable with nutritional value. It has a very low heat, with only 17 calories per 100 grams. You won't be afraid of getting fat in summer. Hong Ruopu, a nutritionist at Zhongxiaoyuan District, Taipei City United Hospital, once interviewed by the "United News" and pointed out that squid has low GI and low calorie characteristics, which are suitable for diabetics and people who want to control their weight.

{9 Winter melon soup and winter melon tea are both good drinks, but it is recommended that you cook it yourself, wash it clean and cook it with the skin and belt, do not add sugar, so that it is effective in promoting diuresis and moisture removal. If the commercially available winter melon tea is too sweet, be careful to take over the sugar content.

Gua

Gua is cucumber. A cucumber mixed with raw food is a table cooling dish that can be seen in summer. According to the data of the Executive Yuan Agricultural Committee, cucumber has high moisture content, low heat content, and contains rich cabbage, which can promote the removal of internal waste and salt; vitamin C has a whitening effect; the most special thing is that it contains propylene diacid, which can inhibit the transformation of sugar into fat. In addition, the standard quality and high moisture can promote internal environmental protection and tract peristalsis of the body. Fat is not easy to stay, and it is a good ingredient for reducing weight. Large cucumber (thorn melon) is commonly used to cook soup. It has high moisture content and low sugar content. It is a high-foot-sensing vegetable with low heat and high quality.

Bitty melon

Bitty melon that many people dare not eat is high in vitamin C, which can prevent atrophic diseases and prevent sclerosis of porridge. In recent years, studies have pointed out that bitter melon can also lower blood sugar, especially mountain bitter melon. It is hot in summer. Chinese doctors recommend that the first diet should be light and "bitter" foods, which can clear heat and reduce fire. Bitter melon is a very good summer ingredient. Bitter melon can be eaten raw or cooked. If you are afraid of bitterness, Taipei Medical University Nutritional Teacher Wu Qianru teaches several methods in his book "All-round Good Food Code: The Most Complete 100 Vegetables and Fruits" to help reduce the bitterness: remove seeds, scrape off the inner membrane; add heat and blanch; soak it in vinegar or salt water before cold.

Melons are good ingredients in summer, but doctors also remind that eating cold foods such as fruits and bitter tea can make people with abdominal distension and cold spleen and stomach should eat them appropriately; having a lot of ion leaves, patients with chronic kidney disease should be careful.