The efficacy and nutritional value of kumquat

Kumquat is very watery and many people like to eat it, especially in winter. Many people eat it every day. Let us learn about the benefits of kumquat.

Kumquat contains a lot of vitamin C. Eating more kumquats can help protect your skin. And kumquats are also good appetizers. When you are anorexic, eating some can increase your appetite.

Effects of Kumquat:

Regulates Qi, relieves depression, resolves phlegm, quenches thirst, helps digestion, and sobers up. Kumquat can enhance the body's resistance to cold, prevent colds, and lower blood lipids. It is suitable for people with chest tightness, loss of appetite, or fullness, drunkenness and thirst; suitable for people with acute and chronic tracheitis, hepatitis, cholecystitis, hypertension, and sclerosis of the rectum. People with weak spleen and qi should not eat too much, and diabetics should avoid eating it. People with mouth and tongue pain and swollen gums should avoid eating it.

Kumquat is not only beautiful, but its fruit is rich in vitamin C, kumquat glycosides and other ingredients, which have a certain effect on maintaining cardiovascular function and preventing diseases such as vascular sclerosis and hypertension. As a dietary health product, kumquat candied fruit can stimulate appetite, kumquat juice can quench thirst, and adding radish juice and pear juice can cure cough. Kumquat has a sweet and warm nature, and can regulate qi, relieve depression, and resolve phlegm. Its medicinal methods include: for treating chronic bronchitis, use kumquat and rock sugar to stew in water. For treating indigestion, use kumquat, scorched malt, and scorched hawthorn to decoct in water. For treating chronic hepatitis, kumquat and Scutellaria barbata can be boiled into a thick juice and taken with sugar. For cold stomach pain, kumquat and Evodia rutaecarpa can be decocted in water. Using kumquat, Patchouli, and ginger together to treat cold nausea, and using kumquat and Codonopsis pilosula decoction instead of tea can stabilize the fetus.

The role of kumquat:

Kumquat fruit is rich in vitamin A, which can prevent pigmentation, enhance skin luster and elasticity, slow down aging, and prevent skin sagging and wrinkling. It can also prevent civilization diseases such as vascular disease and cancer, and can regulate qi and relieve cough, strengthen the stomach, reduce phlegm, and prevent asthma and bronchitis. Kumquat also contains vitamin P, which is an important nutrient for maintaining blood vessel health. It can strengthen the elasticity of microvessels and can be used as an auxiliary conditioning food for hypertension, vascular sclerosis, and heart disease. 80% of the vitamin C in kumquat is stored in the peel. The peel is very effective in detoxifying the liver, maintaining the eyes, and maintaining the immune system. In addition, the peel of kumquat is sweeter than the flesh.

Kumquat taboos:

Do not drink milk one hour before or after eating kumquats, because the protein in milk will coagulate when it meets the fruit acid in kumquats, making it difficult to digest and absorb, and will cause abdominal bloating and discomfort; it is also not advisable to eat too many kumquats before meals or on an empty stomach, because the organic acids they contain will irritate the gastric mucosa and cause stomach discomfort; when you have a sore throat, itchy throat, or cough, you should not add sugar when drinking kumquat tea, as too much sugar will easily produce phlegm.

Kumquat is characterized by the peel and pulp being eaten together. After chewing, you will feel the throat moist and the mouth full of fragrance. 80% of the vitamin C in kumquat is concentrated in the peel, up to 200 mg per 100 grams. In addition to fresh food, kumquat can also be used to make tea. One of the major uses is to process it into sugar kumquat cake, licorice kumquat cake, jam, orange peel wine, kumquat juice, etc. Aromatic oil can also be extracted from the peel. Kumquat has high medicinal value. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that kumquat peel "tonic, laxative, ascending, and descending with ascending medicines." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kumquat raw food has the effects of regulating qi, replenishing the middle, relieving depression, digesting food, dispersing cold, resolving phlegm, and sobering up. It can be used to treat chest tightness, drunkenness and thirst, indigestion, loss of appetite, cough and asthma. Patients with cholecystitis, hepatitis, stomach disease, tracheitis, hypertension, and vascular sclerosis often eat kumquat or kumquat cakes, which has an auxiliary therapeutic effect. According to a Japanese medical journal, kumquat can enhance the body's resistance to cold, prevent colds, lower blood lipids, and is beneficial for preventing and treating senile diseases. Kumquat seeds can cure eye diseases, lymphatic tuberculosis, pharyngitis, etc. Kumquat roots have the effect of promoting qi and dispersing nodules, and can cure stomachache, vomiting, hernia, lymphatic tuberculosis, etc.

Kumquat not only contains a variety of vitamins and carbohydrates, but also has the highest nutritional value among citrus fruits, and is a favorite fruit for people. Kumquat also has anti-inflammatory, expectorant, anti-ulcer, digestion-promoting, blood pressure-lowering, heart-strengthening, and cough-relieving effects, and has a significant therapeutic effect on bronchitis.

TCM perspective

The characteristic of kumquat is that the peel and the flesh are eaten together. After chewing, you will feel the throat moist and the mouth is full of fragrance. 80% of the vitamin C in kumquat is concentrated in the peel, up to 200 mg per 100 grams. In addition to being eaten fresh, kumquat can also be brewed into tea. A major use is to process it into white sugar kumquat cakes, licorice kumquat cakes, jams, orange peel wine, kumquat juice, etc. Aromatic oil can also be extracted from the peel. Kumquat has high medicinal value. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that kumquat peel "tonic with tonic medicine, purgative with laxative medicine, ascending with ascending medicine, and descending with descending medicine." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kumquat raw food has the effects of regulating qi, replenishing the middle, relieving depression, digesting food, dispersing cold, resolving phlegm, and sobering up. It can be used to treat chest tightness, drunkenness and thirst, indigestion, loss of appetite, cough and asthma. Patients with cholecystitis, hepatitis, stomach disease, tracheitis, hypertension, and vascular sclerosis often eat kumquats or kumquat cakes, which have an auxiliary therapeutic effect. According to a Japanese medical journal, kumquat can enhance the body's resistance to cold, prevent colds, lower blood lipids, and is beneficial for preventing and treating senile diseases. Kumquat seeds can cure eye diseases, lymphatic tuberculosis, pharyngitis, etc. Kumquat roots have the effect of promoting qi and dispersing nodules, and can cure stomachache, vomiting, hernia, lymphatic tuberculosis, etc.

Kumquat not only contains a variety of vitamins and carbohydrates, but also has the highest nutritional value among citrus fruits, and is a favorite fruit for people. Kumquat also has anti-inflammatory, expectorant, anti-ulcer, digestion-promoting, blood pressure-lowering, heart-strengthening, and cough-relieving effects, and has a significant therapeutic effect on bronchitis.