The health benefits and functions of grapefruit

Pomelo is large, juicy, sweet and delicious. Many people like to eat it, especially during traditional festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Chinese New Year.

Health Benefits

1. Grapefruit contains potassium, a natural trace element necessary for patients with hypertension, and contains almost no sodium. Therefore, it is the best therapeutic fruit for patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and kidney diseases.

2. Pomelo contains a lot of vitamin C, which can lower blood cholesterol.

3. The pectin in grapefruit can not only lower the level of low-density lipoprotein, but also reduce the damage to the arterial walls.

4. Grapefruit also has the effect of strengthening the physical body. It helps the body absorb calcium and iron more easily. The natural folic acid it contains can prevent anemia symptoms and promote fetal development for pregnant women.

6. Fresh grapefruit flesh contains chromium, a component that acts similarly to insulin and can lower blood sugar.

7. According to traditional Chinese medicine, grapefruit pulp is cold in nature, sweet and sour in taste, and has the medical effects of relieving cough and asthma, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, strengthening the spleen and digestion, and relieving alcohol and restlessness.

8. Pomelo peel is also known as orange peel. It is warm in nature, bitter and spicy in taste, and has the effects of regulating qi and resolving phlegm, strengthening the spleen and digestion, and dispersing cold and dampness.

9. Pomelo leaves contain volatile oils, which have anti-inflammatory, analgesic and diuretic effects.

10. Grapefruit also has the effects of strengthening the stomach, moistening the lungs, replenishing blood, clearing the intestines, and facilitating bowel movements. It can promote wound healing and has a good auxiliary effect on sepsis.

Storage method

The taste of freshly picked grapefruit is not the best. It is best to leave it indoors for a few days, usually two weeks, until the moisture in the fruit gradually evaporates. At this time, the sweetness increases and it tastes better.

Food precautions

1. Grapefruit cannot be taken with certain medicines. Medicines that may have adverse reactions with grapefruit include: cyclosporine, caffeine, calcium antagonists, cisapride, etc.

2. Women who take birth control pills should avoid eating grapefruit, as it will hinder women's absorption of birth control pills.

3. Grapefruit is cold in nature. People with spleen deficiency and diarrhea will have diarrhea if they eat grapefruit, so people with weak constitution and cold body should not eat too much grapefruit.

4. Hypertensive patients should not eat grapefruit while taking medication, otherwise it may cause serious toxic and side effects such as a sudden drop in blood pressure.

5. Grapefruit is especially suitable for people with stomach problems, indigestion, chronic bronchitis, cough, sputum and asthma, and patients with heart, brain and kidney diseases.

6. Do not eat grapefruit that is too bitter.

Food

Stewed Chicken with Pomelo and Pork

Ingredients: 1 green pomelo, 1 little rooster.

practice

1. Kill the chicken and clean it as usual;

2. Peel the grapefruit and put the meat into the chicken. Add an appropriate amount of water and steam until cooked. Drink the soup and eat the chicken.

Directions: Take once a week, for 3 times in a row.

Efficacy: It has the effects of warming the middle, replenishing qi and tonifying the lungs, lowering qi, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough. It is suitable for babies with lung deficiency cough and paroxysmal asthma.

Bodybuilding Tips

Grapefruit weight loss recipe

Preparation: In the morning, eat high-protein and high-nutrition food, and add 1/3 of a grapefruit; eat 1/3 of a grapefruit before and after lunch; eat the same as at noon.

Note: Control the intake of starch and fat appropriately. Ensure that you consume about one grapefruit per day. During the weight loss period, do not diet excessively, which will affect the body's basic metabolism. If you have a cold constitution, the daily grapefruit intake can be appropriately reduced.

Grapefruit peel water can detoxify

Ingredients: grapefruit peel, without the white flesh (one grapefruit peel is enough). 2000 ml of water, an alloy pot (for boiling water, iron pots and aluminum pots are prone to chemical reactions with grapefruit peel, affecting the effect.)

practice:

1. Clean the grapefruit peel and cut it into small pieces, set aside.

2. Add water to a pot and bring it to about 50 degrees Celsius. Add the grapefruit peel and simmer over low heat for about half an hour until the water turns light yellow and has a grapefruit flavor.

3. After cooling, pour the grapefruit juice into the warm water prepared in advance and stir until the color is uniform.

Directions:

1. Take a full body bath and massage various parts of the body with grapefruit peel.

2. Use a small steam machine or humidifier, retain a little grapefruit water, atomize it, and spray it on the body.

3. You can keep about 500 ml of grapefruit juice and add sucrose to drink.

Remedies for curing diseases

Remedies for curing diseases

1. Treat senile cough and asthma

Ingredients: grapefruit peel.

Method: Soak the grapefruit peel in boiling water and drink it instead of tea.

2. Treat lung heat cough

Ingredients: 100 grams of grapefruit, 100 grams of large raw pear, and a little honey.

Preparation method: Wash and cook all the above ingredients until soft, then add honey or rock sugar to taste.

3. Treat cough with phlegm

Ingredients: grapefruit, wine, honey.

Method: Peel and core the grapefruit, cut into slices and soak in wine overnight. Boil until soft, mix with honey and swallow from time to time.

4. Treat frostbite

Ingredients: 50 grams of grapefruit peel.

Method: After boiling in water, use it to soak the frostbite area several times a day.

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