Malabar spinach is my family's favorite summer vegetable, but I heard it's not good for people with kidney stones. So should we eat it regularly and who shouldn't eat it? (Thuy, 32 years old, Hanoi )
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Malabar spinach is a delicious vegetable, a useful medicine with many uses for human health. Malabar spinach provides many important nutrients for the body such as sodium, lipids, potassium, fiber, carbohydrates, protein, calcium, iron, many vitamins in Malabar spinach leaves such as vitamins A, B6, B12, C, D.
A small bowl of cooked Malabar spinach a day provides enough vitamin A and iron for the body's needs. The ingredients in Malabar spinach promote digestion by adding mucus and soluble fiber, facilitating and reducing constipation.
According to Oriental medicine, Malabar spinach is cold, sour, non-toxic, diuretic, detoxifying, beautifying the skin, treating prickly heat, acne, supporting anemia, heatstroke. Juice from Malabar spinach can help heal burns quickly, stewing Malabar spinach with pig's feet helps treat bone and joint pain.
This vegetable is rich in nutrients but contains high levels of oxalic acid and purine, so if you eat too much, the calcium oxalate content in the urine will accumulate in the body, easily causing kidney stones. High uric acid levels increase the risk of gout. Therefore, people with kidney stones and gout should limit their intake of Malabar spinach.
Malabar spinach is used as a cooling food, to clear heat, and to prevent constipation, so people with diarrhea or loose stools should not eat it.
Note, dishes made from Malabar spinach after processing should be eaten within the day, each time should be reheated. Avoid leaving it overnight, Malabar spinach can spoil and lead to poisoning.
Doctor Huynh Tan Vu
University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Facility 3
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