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Some uses of Watermelon seeds
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19/06/2014
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Melon seeds are a sip dishes in Tet of Vietnam, this dish is the guest host New Year. The main material of simple dish that only melon seeds from the seeds of melons but mainly watermelon. Watermelon seeds are extracted and toasted nine grain in the interior. When enjoying, people will use the teeth (incisors usually) bite at the beginning of melon seeds melon seeds and split in half to eat yellow inner core called chips or cup melon seeds melon seeds. Diners sip tea drinking melon seeds, helping to chat more lively festival atmosphere.
The kernel of the fatty melon, pineapple pretty typical. Also watermelon seeds are also mostly pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds. Seeds usually take laced red or black exterior, red melon seeds symbolize good luck . Pink watermelon seeds dyed red with food coloring often bring fresh petal pink lips. This is a unique culture of Vietnam . Not just holidays, days of the year has to eat cantaloupe seeds. In the cup of tea shops along the street also dish melon seeds, the restaurant also dishes melon seeds. Birthdays, weddings, people still hang melon seeds.
Some uses
Melon seeds are a nutrient-rich foods and very useful for people with hepatitis, blood lipid disorders ... Eating watermelon seeds often help improve memory and brain function, neurological, power restoration work fast of brain cells. Melon seeds contain many nutrients as protid glucide, lipid, vitamin B1, B2, E, PP, calcium, iron, zinc, phosphorus, selenium ... In particular, melon seeds protid of protein is indispensable for nerves, muscles, blood services, internal organs, bones and joints. Glucid quality in melon seeds are the main ingredient composition and nerve cells
According to Oriental medicine, sweet melon seeds, roasted without cooling properties, has calculated average after roasting, the effect of cooling, diuretic, hypotensive, enhance vitality. If the user uses healing better boiled melon seeds roasted melon seeds. Traditional medicine that lung cooling melon seeds, disperse, regulate the digestive system. The lung-heat cough, phlegm much, poor diet should be used. There are studies that melon seeds help to stabilize the effects of liver enzymes and serum lipids are useful for people with hepatitis and those with dyslipidemia (high cholesterol), helps prevent atherosclerosis. Studies also showed that melon seeds help improve memory, enhance brain function, neurological, rapid rehabilitation of brain cell activity. Fat in melon seeds, mostly unsaturated fatty acid, helps in the prevention of arteriosclerosis, coronary artery disease, high blood fat evidence ...
Risk
Although melon seeds are delicious and fun dishes in Tet however there are also many warnings about the risk of eating watermelon seeds as a place where the lower carcinogen melon, melon seeds positive - carcinogens letter in industrial food coloring. According to nutrition experts, in the color industry is poisoning toxins can cause cancer or if long-term use should be banned from use in food.
Low cost, helping bright colors, vivid, durable color caused the melon seeds production base color selected toxic products. For profit, the production facilities were chilled foods with chemicals rhodamine B to minimize costs. The chemical mixing dilution can seep into the coconut husks. Users just need to bite melon seeds, rind exposed adhesive chemicals were also very dangerous. The long buildup in the body of this first cause liver damage, kidney, long gradually cause cancer. And those poor liver, the liver excreted less can cause allergic instant, expressed as skin rash, congestion.
A watermelon seed processing is recognized as cantaloupe seeds are dyed with food coloring dye industrial use votive, foot odor. According to medical experts, toxic chemicals in food coloring can cause long-term effects on health, even leading to cancer. Many items cantaloupe seeds are present in all the confectionery stall from north to south during Tet. Most of us are not goods labels, address, were sold by the ounce weight. Even some owners do not know their red melon seeds sold where production. Vietnam today is a market for Chinese melon seeds whish are laced with toxic chemicals.
Source: http://vi.wikipedia.org/
