The efficacy and function of hawthorn and the nutritional value of hawthorn

Hawthorn, also known as small red fruit, is a fruit with bright red color and particularly sour taste. It is also an important raw material for making candied haws. Fresh hawthorn can be eaten directly after being collected, or it can be made into juice, canned food, or made into jam for people to eat. It can stimulate appetite, promote blood circulation, relieve pain, and also provide rich nutrition for the human body.

The efficacy and function of hawthorn

1. Stimulate appetite and help digestion

Hawthorn is a fruit with a particularly sour taste. It not only contains rich fruit acid, but also contains a large amount of hawthorn acid. These substances can promote the secretion of saliva, gastric juice and other digestive juices, which will make people have an appetite and a big feeling. It has a certain regulating effect on human loss of appetite. In addition, hawthorn can also remove greasiness. After people eat big fish and meat, eating some hawthorn can speed up the digestion of these greasy foods by the stomach and intestines, and can prevent fat from accumulating in the body.

2. Cleanse the intestines, detoxify and lose weight

Hawthorn is a fruit with a particularly high content of dietary fiber, which is called intestinal scavenger by humans. After people eat hawthorn and absorb these dietary fibers, they can clean out waste and garbage in the intestines, speed up the body's metabolism, and prevent fat from staying in the human body. It can not only cleanse the intestines and detoxify to prevent constipation, but also lose weight and prevent obesity.

3. Improve heart function

Eating hawthorn more often is good for the human heart. The flavonoids and triterpenoids it contains can directly act on the human heart and coronary arteries, dilate the arteries, promote blood circulation, and nourish the myocardium to enhance its contractility. It can prevent heart function decline and stabilize the prevention of myocardial infarction as much as possible. Regular consumption of hawthorn can strengthen the heart and reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease.

Nutritional value of hawthorn

Hawthorn tastes particularly sour, can stimulate appetite, help digestion, remove greasiness, and it has extremely high nutritional value. It can supplement the human body with rich vitamins and a large amount of carotene. It can also allow the human body to absorb some plant protein and amino acids. These substances can meet the normal metabolic needs of the human body. The trace elements selenium, flavonoids and triterpenes it contains can enhance the body's disease resistance, enhance the body's fitness and delay human aging after being absorbed by the human body.