The correct way to eat carambola and what not to eat with carambola

Star fruit is a delicious fruit with extremely high nutritional value. It is mostly light yellow in appearance and has a unique shape. If you cut it horizontally, it becomes a five-pointed star shape. However, many people do not know the correct way to eat it. Today I will give a detailed introduction to this and also let you know what star fruit should not be eaten with.

The correct way to eat carambola

1. Eat directly

Star fruit is a fresh fruit that can be eaten directly. When you buy fresh star fruit, you can first wash it with clean water, then use a fruit knife to peel off the hard skin on the surface, and then cut it into slices. Eat it directly with a toothpick, and you can taste its original flavor. If you feel that it makes your feet sore, you can also take an appropriate amount of white sugar and dip it directly in the star fruit pulp.

2. Stew

Star fruit can also be stewed before eating. When necessary, you can remove the skin of fresh star fruit, wash it and cut it into slices, then put it in a clean small pot, add appropriate amount of pure water, add appropriate amount of rock sugar, then heat it to boil, and then stew it with steam fire for half an hour. After stewing, take it out and eat it directly, or you can add other fruits you like during the stewing process.

3. Cook porridge

Star fruit can also be used to cook porridge. When cooking porridge with star fruit, you need to peel the star fruit in advance, wash it, cut it into pieces, put it in the porridge pot, and prepare an appropriate amount of water and glutinous rice. After washing, put it into the pot, add enough water, heat it to a boil, then simmer it on low heat for 40 minutes, and add a small amount of white sugar to season before serving.

What should not be eaten with carambola?

Star fruit is a cold fruit. In daily life, it cannot be eaten with cold ingredients such as water chestnuts and bitter gourds, otherwise it will aggravate the symptoms of human coldness and easily affect human health. In addition, star fruit cannot be eaten with bananas, mulberries and other fruits that can lubricate the intestines. Eating them together will stimulate the intestines, speed up intestinal peristalsis, and easily cause abdominal pain and diarrhea.

After reading the above introduction, everyone can understand the correct way to eat star fruit, and also know what it should not be eaten with. Then, when eating star fruit, you can follow the correct method, which can allow the star fruit to play a good health-preserving effect and avoid adverse reactions in the body after eating star fruit.