Do you know? The scorching summer is a great time to eat vegetables and fruits to nourish the skin, such as: eating lychees can drive away dull skin, eating cucumbers can detoxify and beautify, eating tomatoes can whiten and protect from the sun, eating kiwis can prevent aging... Let the vegetable and fruit therapy that satisfies your cravings and beautifies your skin help you thoroughly achieve perfect skin.
One, Lychee - Drive Away Dull Skin
Lychee has a sweet and sour taste, warm in nature, with the efficacy of replenishing the spleen and benefiting the liver, quenching thirst, detoxifying and stopping diarrhea. Li Shizhen said in "Compendium of Materia Medica": Eating lychees regularly can replenish the brain and maintain fitness... "Sui Shen Ju Diet Spectrum" records: Lychee is sweet and warm, fragrant, invigorating the mind and enhancing intelligence, replenishing essence and filling liquid, repelling odors and relieving pain, nourishing the heart camp, nourishing liver blood, a fine product among fruits, fresh ones are especially good.
Modern medicine believes that lychees contain vitamins A, B1, C, pectin, free amino acids, proteins, and various elements such as iron, phosphorus, and calcium. Modern medical research has proven that lychees have the effects of replenishing the kidneys, improving liver function, accelerating toxin elimination, promoting cell generation, making the skin delicate, and are ideal fruits for driving away dull skin during the hot summer.
Two, Cucumber - Accelerate Detoxification for Your Skin
Cucumbers are also known as green melons, Hu melons, Wang melons, and prickly melons. They are the fruits of the cucumber plant from the gourd family, an annual vine or climbing herbaceous plant, with slender stems, longitudinal ridges, covered with short bristles, brought back by Zhang Qian during his mission to the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty.
Cucumbers contain cucurbitacin, which can promote human metabolism and expel toxins; they also contain abundant vitamin C, which can whiten the skin and inhibit melanin formation... The flesh of cucumbers is crisp and tender, making them rare foods for detoxification and beauty. If eaten raw, it's best to eat the skin together to accelerate the detoxification process.
The skin of cucumbers contains more bitter substances, which are the nutritional essence of cucumbers. The nutritional advantages of cucumbers are mainly determined by the sweet and neutral nature of the cucumber skin, so they can clear heat and detoxify, quench thirst, especially detoxify, clean the intestines, and beautify the skin.
Therefore, when eating cucumbers raw, it's best to eat the skin together, not only for the above benefits, but also to fully absorb vitamin C, promote human metabolism, and thus accelerate the detoxification process. However, when eating with the skin, make sure to wash it thoroughly with salt water. Since cucumbers contain high levels of vitamin C, it's best not to eat them raw with other vegetables, as this may reduce their nutritional value.
In addition, cucumbers also have the effect of lowering blood sugar, making them good food for diabetics, being both vegetable and fruit, but those with weak spleen and stomach, abdominal pain and diarrhea, cold lungs and cough should not eat too much.
Three, Tomato - Pure Natural Sunscreen for the Skin
Tomatoes are also known as small golden gourds, triple happiness, red fruits, western plums, golden oranges, foreign tomatoes, and western tomatoes. They are the new fruits of the tomato plant from the nightshade family.
They have a sweet and sour taste, cool and slightly cold in nature, able to clear heat and quench thirst, nourish yin, cool blood, and belong to the liver, stomach, and lung meridians. They have the effects of quenching thirst, strengthening the stomach and aiding digestion, clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and harmonizing the liver, replenishing blood and nourishing blood, and increasing appetite; they can treat thirst and loss of appetite.
Tomatoes contain carotene and vitamins A and C, with effects of removing freckles, beautifying, anti-aging, and skincare, treating fungal and infectious skin diseases. Niacin can maintain normal gastric juice secretion, promote red blood cell formation, help maintain vascular wall elasticity, and protect the skin. Another study shows that tomato juice has some effect on eliminating body odor.
In the hot summer, tomatoes are pure natural sunscreen. Because tomatoes are rich in antioxidant lycopene, ingesting 15 milligrams of lycopene daily can reduce the risk of sunburn by 40%.
Four, Kiwi - The Immortal Pill for Beautiful Skin
Kiwifruit, also known as hairy peach, vine pear, white-haired peach, hairy pear, furry pear, monkey pear, wood seed, hairy wood fruit, Budong (folk name in Guizhou), starfruit, goatfruit, fox peach, and kiwifruit.
Kiwi fruit has a sweet and sour taste, cold in nature, with the effects of relieving fever, quenching thirst, promoting urination, and strengthening the stomach. Li Shizhen described the shape and color of kiwifruit in "Compendium of Materia Medica", saying: Its shape is like a pear, its color is like a peach, and monkeys like to eat it, hence the various names.
Kiwifruit has anti-aging effects. Tang dynasty medical expert Chen Zangqi introduced the effects of kiwifruit as regulating the middle energizer, reducing qi, treating bone joint wind, paralysis, and long-term white hair. Modern medical research analyzes that kiwifruit contains carbohydrates, proteins rich in amino acids, twelve kinds of proteases, vitamins B1, C, beta-carotene, and various components such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, sodium, potassium, magnesium, chlorine, pigments. Its vitamin C content is five to six times that of equal amounts of citrus fruits.
Five, Chili - Regulate Your Endocrine System for Beauty from Within
Chili, also called pepper, sea pepper, spicy seeds, spicy angles, Qin pepper, etc., is a kind of plant from the Solanaceae family Capsicum genus.
Chili has a dry and hot nature, dispelling evil and cold, brightening the eyes and killing insects, warm but not fierce, entering the heart and spleen channels.
Chili contains the highest amount of vitamin C among vegetables. Chili can promote hormone secretion and improve skin condition. Many people think eating spicy food causes acne, but it's not actually the chili's fault. Only those who are prone to acne will exacerbate the problem after eating chili.