The efficacy and function of jujube and how to eat jujube

Jujube, also known as red dates, is a common food in life. It is the fruit of the jujube plant of the Rhamnaceae family. When the jujube is ripe, its color will turn red. It can be eaten fresh or dried. Jujube tastes sweet and attractive, and its nutritional value is also very high. People usually eat jujube to have obvious health benefits and enhance physical fitness. The following is my detailed introduction to its effects and eating methods. Those of you who like to eat red dates can focus on it.

The efficacy and function of jujube

1. Replenish Qi and nourish blood

Tonifying qi and nourishing blood is one of the important functions of jujube. The plant protein and natural polysaccharides it contains can nourish qi and blood, and enhance human fitness. The trace element iron it contains can promote the regeneration of red blood cells in the human body, improve the body's hematopoietic function, and has an excellent regulating and alleviating effect on human qi and blood deficiency.

2. Alleviate the medicinal properties

Jujube is not only a food that can supplement the human body with rich nutrition, nourish the spleen and stomach, and replenish qi and blood, but it can also alleviate the medicinal properties of a variety of Chinese medicinal materials. After drying it, and combining it with a variety of Chinese medicinal materials, it can reduce the toxicity of these Chinese medicinal materials, and it can protect the human spleen and stomach, and reduce the damage caused by drug toxicity to them.

How to eat jujube

1. Red Date and Soybean Porridge

There are many different ways to eat jujubes. They can be eaten directly, soaked in water, or cooked into porridge with soybeans. When cooking porridge, you need to soak the soybeans in advance, soak the jujubes in warm water for half an hour, then wash an appropriate amount of rice, put the three ingredients into the pot together, add water and an appropriate amount of rock sugar and cook until it becomes porridge. It tastes tempting after cooking, can replenish qi and blood, and nourish the skin.

2. Red Date Peanut Soup

Boiling jujubes and peanuts together to make soup is also a common way to eat it. When making it, put the peanuts into the pot in advance and cook them. Each time needed, take out an appropriate amount and add jujubes, rock sugar and an appropriate amount of water to make soup. After cooking, eat the jujubes and peanuts and drink the soup. It can protect the human liver and relieve the symptoms of various liver diseases such as cirrhosis, acute and chronic hepatitis.