What are the benefits of water spinach? How to cook water spinach

Water spinach is native to East Asia and is now widely cultivated as a vegetable. It is rich in crude fiber, which is composed of cellulose, lignin and pectin. This edible fiber is composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, mucilage and pectin, which has the effects of promoting intestinal peristalsis, laxative and detoxification. The chlorophyll in water spinach is known as the "green elf".

Contents of this article

1. What are the benefits of water spinach

2. How to cook water spinach

3. How to stir-fry water spinach without changing color

What are the benefits of water spinach

It tastes sweet and is slightly cold in nature. It can clear away heat and cool blood, promote diuresis, remove dampness, and detoxify. It is used for epistaxis, hemoptysis, hematemesis, hematuria, hemorrhoidal bleeding, and hematuria caused by blood heat; hot stranguria, dysuria, or damp-heat in women; mild wild mushroom poisoning, as well as sores, eczema, and snake bites.

1. Cancer prevention

Water spinach is an alkaline food and contains elements such as potassium and chlorine that regulate water balance. Eating it can reduce the acidity of the intestines, prevent intestinal flora imbalance, and is beneficial for cancer prevention.

2. Reduce fat and lose weight

The niacin, vitamin C, etc. contained in it can lower cholesterol and triglycerides, and has the effect of lowering blood lipids and losing weight.

3. Beauty products

The chlorophyll in water spinach is known as the "green elf". It can clean teeth, prevent caries, eliminate bad breath, and beautify the skin, making it an excellent beauty product.

4. Prevent heatstroke and relieve fever

It is rich in crude fiber, which is composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, mucilage and pectin, and has the effects of promoting intestinal peristalsis, laxative and detoxification. Water spinach is cool in nature, and its juice has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus, etc., and can prevent infection. Therefore, if you eat it frequently in summer, it can prevent heatstroke, relieve fever, cool blood and detoxify, and prevent dysentery.

How to cook water spinach

Heat oil in a pan, add dried chilies and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant. Then pour in the water spinach and stir-fry over high heat. Add salt and continue stir-frying. After the salt is evenly mixed, turn to low heat, then add MSG and stir-fry for a few more times. The delicious stir-fried water spinach is ready.

Prepare ingredients: water spinach, garlic, dried chili peppers, oil, salt, and MSG.

1. Wash the water spinach, smash the garlic, and cut the dried chili into sections for later use.

2. Heat oil in a pan, add dried chilies and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant.

3. Pour in the water spinach and stir-fry over high heat. After stir-frying for a while, add salt and continue stir-frying.

4. After stir-frying the salt evenly, turn to low heat, add MSG and stir-fry for a few times, and the delicious stir-fried water spinach is ready.

How to stir-fry water spinach without changing color

Before stir-frying, blanch the water spinach. Water spinach is rich in iron, which will be destroyed during stir-frying, causing the water spinach to turn black after frying. Blanching can prevent the water spinach from being oxidized and changing color after being fried, but the blanching time is only 1 minute, otherwise the nutrients will be lost.

Water spinach is native to East Asia and is now widely cultivated as a vegetable. It is commonly cultivated in central and southern China's Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Guangdong and other provinces.

Water spinach is native to the south. It likes warm and humid climate, is heat-resistant but not frost-resistant. It can grow in the provinces along the Yangtze River from April to October.

There are different varieties of water spinach in cultivation. Some are divided into water spinach varieties or large water spinach and dry water spinach according to the cultivation conditions, and some are divided into white flower varieties and purple flower varieties according to the flower color.