What does eggplant mean?

Eggplant stands for a vegetable, and eggplant is its name.

Eggplant branches vertically from herbs to subshrubs, with a height of 1 m. Branchlets, petioles and pedicels are all branched by 6-8-(65,438+00) and have flat or short-stalked stellate villi. Branchlets are mostly purple (wild ones often have thorns), and when they get older, their hair gradually falls off.

The leaves are large, oval to oblong-oval, 8-18cm long or longer, 5- 1 1 cm wide or wider, with blunt tips, unequal bases, shallow or deep wavy rounded edges, short and flat stellate villi and 3-7-(8) branches;

The lower part is densely covered with 7-8 long and flat stellate villi with 4-5 lateral veins on each side. The upper part is sparsely covered with stellate villi, and the lower part is dense. The coat of midvein is the same as that of lateral vein (there are small spines on both sides of midvein and lateral vein in wild species), and the petiole is about 2-4.5 cm long (there are thorns in wild species).

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nutritive value

1, eggplant is rich in nutrients, including protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients.

2. The content of vitamin P in eggplant is high. Every 100g contains vitamin P750. It can enhance the adhesion between human cells, enhance the elasticity of capillaries, reduce brittleness and permeability, and prevent microvascular rupture and bleeding.

3. Eggplant also contains trace elements such as phosphorus, calcium and potassium, and various alkaloids such as choline, fenugreek, stachydrine and solanine. Especially purple eggplant has higher vitamin content. It can inhibit the proliferation of tumor cells in digestive tract.

4. Vitamin C and saponin contained in eggplant fiber can reduce cholesterol. Foreign scholars put forward "12 method to reduce cholesterol", and eating eggplant is one of the methods.

5. The B vitamins contained in eggplant also have a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on dysmenorrhea, chronic gastritis and nephritis edema.

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