summer cooling vegetables
Vegetables that provide cooling effect in summer: It is important to include quickly digestible foods in your diet in summer. Give preference to water-rich vegetables like bottle gourd and zucchini. These vegetables hydrate the body, provide electrolytes and maintain balanced body temperature. They are beneficial when added raw to salads, to cold soups (gazpacho) or to lightly steamed and grilled dishes.
Cool natured vegetables like cucumber, zucchini, bottle gourd and white bottle gourd provide coolness to the body and are light for digestion.
Dairy Products: Curd and buttermilk are great choices for intestinal health, as they provide cooling effect.
Light grains: Moong dal, khichdi and dalia (broken wheat) are good options.
Bottle Gourd: Perfect for reducing stomach heat and easy to digest.
Ridge Gourd: Rich in calcium, iron and potassium, beneficial for digestion.
Cucumber: Keeps the body hydrated due to high amount of water.
Tinda (Apple Gourd): A cool vegetable that reduces stomach heat.
Bitter Gourd: Despite being bitter, it is cooling and helpful in reducing acidity and sugar.
Spinach: Rich in iron and vitamins, with cooling effect.
Pumpkin: Provides coolness.
Mint & Coriander: Having cold nature, it gives coolness to the stomach in the form of chutney.
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