Can you eat eggplant with the skin? How to eat it properly?

Eggplant is a relatively common vegetable in our daily life. It contains a lot of nutrients and there are many ways to eat eggplant. Many people want to know whether eggplant can be eaten with the skin. Generally speaking, it is more nutritious to eat eggplant with the skin. You can fry it with the skin when cooking.

1. It’s best to eat eggplant with the skin

Eggplant peel contains a lot of nutrients, and some health-promoting compounds are also found in higher levels in eggplant peel. When eating eggplant, it is best to eat it with the skin.

In addition, when eggplant is roasted or fried, it easily absorbs oil, causing excessive fat intake. Here are two tips to prevent eggplant from consuming too much oil. One is to steam the eggplant in a steamer before roasting it, so that it will not absorb a lot of oil easily. Second, when frying eggplant, do not add oil first. Fry the eggplant over low heat. Wait until the moisture of the eggplant is fried away and the eggplant flesh becomes soft, then add oil.

2. Eggplant peel promotes vitamin absorption

Eggplant can be eaten with both vegetarian and meat methods. It can be stir-fried, roasted, steamed, boiled, deep-fried, served cold, or made into soup. It is best not to peel the eggplant when eating it, because the eggplant skin contains vitamin B. Vitamin B and vitamin C are a good pair. The metabolism of vitamin C requires the support of vitamin B. Eating eggplant with the skin helps promote the absorption of vitamin C.

3. Note

The seeds are cold in nature, so they also have a good therapeutic effect for people with high blood pressure. If you want to maximize the benefits of eggplant, then next time you eat eggplant, remember not to peel it, eat it with the skin! Because eggplant is cold and slippery in nature, people with weak spleen and stomach, slippery intestines and diarrhea should not eat too much. Other studies have shown that surgical patients should not eat eggplant one week before surgery because it contains a substance called SCAS, which will delay the patient's awakening time and affect the patient's recovery speed.