The Winter Melon, also called white gourd, winter gourd, or ash gourd, is a vine grown for its very large fruit, eaten as a vegetable when mature. It is the only member of the genus Benincasa. The fruit is fuzzy when young. The immature melon has thick white flesh that is sweet when eaten. By maturity, the fruit loses its hairs and develops a waxy coating, giving rise to the name wax gourd, and providing a long shelf life. Originally cultivated in Southeast Asia, the winter melon is now widely grown in East Asia and South Asia as well. It is one of the herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine.

Winter melon includes flesh, pulp and seeds, rich in protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and mineral elements and other nutrients.

The results showed that ascorbic acid, thiamine, riboflavin and nicotinic acid were high in the vitamin B1 of winter melon, which had the effect of preventing and curing cancer, and the content of vitamin B1 in winter melon seeds was very rich; mineral elements were potassium, sodium, calcium, iron, zinc, copper, phosphorus and selenium, among which the content of potassium was significantly higher than that of sodium. Potassium-low-sodium vegetables are of great benefit to kidney disease, hypertension and edema patients who need to eat low-sodium foods, among which selenium has many functions such as anti-cancer; it contains 8 kinds of essential amino acids besides tryptophan, with high levels of glutamate and aspartate, ornithine and Y-aminobutyric acid, as well as children's special. Needed histidine; wax gourd fat-free, dietary fiber as high as 0.8%, nutrient-rich and reasonable structure, nutrient quality index calculation shows that wax gourd is a good food for health.

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