Ham and melon, the must-have of the summer approved by the nutritionist

Delicatessen is a food consumed all year, but for convenience and taste, it is also very suitable for consumption in summer. Starting with ham and melon, a must because it brings vitamins, minerals, protein, water and few calories, as well as a pleasant and incomparable flavor. A combination, whose composition rule begins from a distance, even from Hippocrates as stated by Ivsi, Istituto Valorizo ​​Salumi Italiani (Ivsi) Luca Govoni, professor of history and of cooking culture all 'Alma – The international school of Italian cuisine based in Parma

' & # 39; & # 39; This iconic and very welcome preparation is the concrete example of the balanced combination of taste understood as knowing and taste understood as flavor. According to the ancient Hippocratic medicine, each food has its own peculiarity that must be taken into account when it is consumed and that is related to one of the four elements of Nature: water , air, fire and earth. Each of the four elements present in nature a pair of attributes – warm, dry and wet cold – that the man must balance in order to preserve health. The melon was considered, with its obvious affinity with water, a wet and cold food; Ham, on the other hand, was considered a hot, dry food because it undergoes a ripening process that "warms and dries" its "cold" nature.

Also from the nutritional point of view, the pair wins the nutritionist Evelina Flachi: "the choice of a fresh dish like raw ham and melon fully reflects, not only a need for seasonal taste, but also nutritional, indeed, during the summer, because of the heat, we have to fight against the exhaustion and the loss of fluids.By thanks to the ham we provide naturally as well as a good part of proteins also a mixture of mineral salts, first iron, calcium and phosphorus, but also magnesium and potbadium that in the summer we tend to disperse and that is why It is important to reintegrate with food, especially potbadium is essential in the summer, as it helps to overcome muscle exhaustion and counter pressure sags, we add water and introduce beta-carotene, a precursor to vitamin A, which protects the eyes and the skin against the harmful effects of the sun's rays. "