The efficacy and function of orange peel and how to eat it

Every winter, people like to eat fresh oranges with tempting taste, but when people eat oranges, they usually remove the skin and eat the flesh directly, but they don’t know that the skin also has high utilization value and can be eaten. Today I will give a detailed introduction to orange peel, not only telling you what its functions are, but also how to eat orange peel.

The efficacy and function of orange peel

1. Regulate the spleen and stomach

Orange peel contains a large amount of natural aromatic substances, which can regulate qi and digest food, and can also regulate the spleen and stomach. It can not only eliminate inflammation caused by fatigue, but also promote the secretion of digestive juice. It can quickly improve people's common chest and abdominal distension, abdominal pain or indigestion symptoms.

2. Protect your heart

Orange peel also has a significant protective effect on the human heart. After being absorbed by the human body, the alcohol components it contains can improve the contractile function of the myocardium, promote blood circulation, and reduce the occurrence of adverse symptoms such as myocardial infarction and myocardial ischemia. In addition, the natural pectin contained in orange peel can also remove cholesterol accumulated on the walls of human blood vessels, soften blood vessels, and prevent arteriosclerosis.

How to eat orange peel

1. Pickling with sugar

Fresh orange peel can be pickled with white sugar and then eaten. When taking the orange peel, you need to wash it with clean water, take out the pulp inside, and then remove the white silky substance inside. Then cut the orange peel into shreds, put it in a glass bottle, add an appropriate amount of white sugar to marinate. It will take about ten days to marinate. After marinating, you can take it out and eat it directly, or you can take out an appropriate amount of orange peel and soak it in water to drink directly.

2. Cook porridge

The orange peels you usually take off can also be used directly to cook porridge. The best way is to clean the fresh orange peels, cut them into thin strips, and place them in a cool place to ventilate and dry. Then, when cooking the porridge, take 3 to 5 grams of orange peel each time, wash them together with the porridge ingredients, and then put them into the pot to cook into porridge. This will not only allow the human body to absorb the nutrients in the orange peels, but also make the cooked porridge have a rich orange aroma.