Eat melon seeds if you have nothing to do. Does it affect your health?

Melon seeds are one of the most commonly eaten nuts. Eat some melon seeds when watching the ball game. Eat melon seeds when watching cartoons. Eat melon seeds or something when brushing friends circle. It is a very common food.

However, it is precisely because it is so common that people often cannot control it. After eating one by one, I feel thirsty and have a long oral ulcer. I also thought of the rumor about melon seeds that "one or two melon seeds have two kinds of oil".

If you often eat melon seeds as snacks, is it good or bad for your health? Today, I will tell you about eating melon seeds.

The rumor is that melon seeds are high in calories. What is the calorie of melon seeds? According to the food composition table of China, the calories of sunflower seeds are 59 1 kcal, pumpkin seeds are 6 15 kcal and watermelon seeds are 550 kcal.

As can be seen from this data, no matter what melon seeds, the heat is not very low. But we need to see whether a food is nutritious, not only by its calories, but also by its other nutritional values.

Aside from the calories of melon seeds, the overall nutritional value of melon seeds is very high, rich in unsaturated fatty acids, vitamin E, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium and other nutrients. It is good for delaying aging, protecting cardiovascular health and eliminating free radicals in the body.

Especially sunflower seeds in melon seeds, the linoleic acid content can be as high as 85%. The advantage of this nutrient is that it can keep the good cholesterol content in the body and reduce the bad cholesterol content in the body, which is very beneficial to vascular health and can also reduce the probability of diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease or stroke to some extent.

Therefore, melon seeds, as a kind of nuts, still have a positive effect on health, and they are not useless. As long as you eat healthy food, choose the right melon seeds and control the delicious amount, you can still eat them as snacks.

In the latest edition of Dietary Guidelines for China Residents, it is suggested that everyone should eat 25g-35g nuts every day. On this basis, no matter what melon seeds you eat, the best choice is the original melon seeds to reduce the intake of sugar and salt. It is not recommended that you choose the following melon seeds.

1, I advise you not to choose creamy and spiced melon seeds: many people have the habit of eating melon seeds, that is, they are used to eating the whole melon seeds in their hands, so that fragrant melon seeds taste better.

But at the same time, it also consumes a lot of seasonings, which brings unnecessary threats to health. Especially for patients with hypertension, choosing melon seeds with spiced and creamy taste is easy to increase the salt intake in one day, which is not good for their own situation.