Kelp and white gourd soup

1. Kelp is rich in carbohydrates, less protein and fat.2. Compared with spinach and rape, kelp contains several times to dozens of times more crude protein, sugar, calcium and iron except vitamin C.3. Kelp is a kind of seaweed with high iodine content. Cultured kelp generally contains iodine of 3% ～Wax gourd is a kind of vegetable with both medicine and food, which has a variety of health effects. According to traditional Chinese medicine, wax gourd tastes sweet, light and cool, and enters the lung, large intestine, small intestine and bladder meridian; It has the effects of moistening the lungs and generating fluid, resolving phlegm and thirst, diuresis and detumescence, clearing away heat, detoxifying and discharging pus; It can be used for the treatment of summer heat thirst, phlegm heat cough and asthma, edema, beriberi, fullness, thirst, acne, facial spots, anal prolapse, hemorrhoids, etc,

Main Ingredients

• Wax gourd 200 g
• Kelp knot 200g

Auxiliary Ingredients

• Chicken essence appropriate amount
• Cooking wine appropriate amount
• ginger appropriate amount
• oil appropriate amount
• salt A moderate amount of

1. Don't drink tea immediately after eating kelp (tea contains tannic acid), and don't eat sour fruit immediately (sour fruit contains vegetable acid). Because kelp is rich in iron, the above two foods will hinder the absorption of iron in the body.2. Patients with hyperthyroidism should not eat kelp, because the iodine content in kelp is rich, which will aggravate the disease.3. Pregnant women and nursing mothers should not eat more kelp. This is because iodine in kelp can enter the fetus and infants with blood circulation, causing thyroid dysfunction.4. winter melon is cold, and people with weak spleen and stomach, kidney deficiency, long-term illness and slippery discharge, and yang deficiency and cold limbs should not eat it.