How to cook sweet oranges? How to eat sweet oranges?

Everyone knows that sweet orange is a delicious fruit, but do you know how to cook sweet orange? Let me introduce it to you.

Sweet Orange-Healthy Recipes

1. Orange Cake: 1000g each of fresh oranges (half yellow and undamaged) and sugar. Wash the oranges, cut them into edges with a knife, soak them in clean water to remove the sour taste (change the water every day), take them out after they soften (about 1-2 days), and squeeze out the core. Soak them for another 1-2 days and take them out; insert a three-edged needle into the edges to crush the inner pulp, then put them into a pot and cook them with clean water until they are 70% to 80% rotten, then take them out; mix them with sugar while they are hot and dry them in the sun. When the sugar is eaten up, mix them with sugar and dry them in the sun again. Slightly flatten them and bottle them for later use. Eat 1-2 pieces a day. This cake has the effects of widening the chest and regulating qi, harmonizing the stomach and stimulating appetite, and promoting body fluid and quenching thirst. It is suitable for coughing and expectoration, nausea and loss of appetite, dry throat and dry mouth, etc.

2. Orange Soup 1500g orange, 250g ginger, 10g roasted licorice powder, 25g sandalwood powder. Wash the orange, cut it with a knife, squeeze out the core, and cut it into slices with the skin; wash and peel the ginger, cut it into slices; put both into a clean sand pot and mash them into a paste, then add licorice powder and sandalwood powder, knead and knead them into cakes, bake and grind them into fine powder, take 3-5g each time, add a little salt, and drink with boiling water. This soup has the effect of widening the chest and sobering up. It can be used to treat chest tightness, abdominal distension, and drunkenness.

3. Orange and rice wine juice 2 fresh oranges, 1-2 tablespoons of rice wine. Wash the oranges, cut them with a knife, squeeze out the core, put them in a juicer with the skin, and then add rice wine to drink. Take it 1-2 times a day. This juice has the effect of regulating qi and reducing swelling, promoting breastfeeding and relieving pain. It is suitable for those who are in the early stage of acute mastitis, breast swelling and pain, and milk obstruction.

4. Smoked oranges: Take a few oranges (dried the previous year). Put the oranges in a bucket and smoke them until they are cooked. Eat half an orange 4 times a day. This orange has the effects of anti-inflammatory, hemostatic, swelling and pain relief, and is effective as an auxiliary treatment for hemorrhoid swelling and pain.

5. Summer orange juice 100g summer orange, 1 tablespoon honey, 100ml soda water. Wash and peel the summer orange, squeeze the juice with a juicer and put it into a blender, add honey and stir slightly, then add appropriate amount of ice, stir for 20-30 minutes, slowly add soda water and it is ready. Drink it at will every day. The water has the effect of clearing away summer heat and promoting body fluids. Drinking it in summer can relieve restlessness and thirst, and can also help eliminate fatigue.

6. 4 fresh oranges, 4 eggs, and appropriate amount of sugar. Cut the oranges in two-thirds, keep the shells as containers, and cut the edges for later use (the edges of these four oranges were carved by LG with a knife, although the carving is a bit rough); take out the pulp and squeeze the juice; add eggs and white sugar to the pulp juice and mix evenly; sieve and pour into the orange bowl (the amount of white sugar can be increased or decreased according to your taste); cover the orange bowl with plastic wrap and poke a few holes in the plastic wrap with a toothpick; bring the steamer to a boil over high heat, steam the pot for 12-15 minutes, use a chopstick to support the lid during steaming, and simmer for ten minutes before opening the lid. It can promote intestinal peristalsis, help clear the intestines and relieve constipation, and eliminate harmful substances in the body. It also has a repairing effect on liver tissue damage.

Sweet Orange- Sweet Orange Essential Oil

Sweet orange essential oil has the characteristics of dazzling and warm sunshine, and its mellow and sweet aroma can drive away tension and stress, and improve insomnia caused by anxiety. Since sweet orange contains a large amount of Vc, it can prevent colds, balance the acidity and saltiness of the skin, and help the formation of collagen.

Aromatic smell

Fresh and refreshing sweet orange flavor.

Main Benefits

Beauty: It has moisturizing effect on the skin, can balance the pH value of the skin, and helps collagen formation. Do not expose to sunlight after use.

Physical aspects: It can prevent colds, has a good effect on the growth and repair of body tissues, and can promote sweating, thus helping blocked skin.

It helps to expel toxins from the skin and is helpful for people with oily, acne-prone or dry skin.

Psychological aspect: Sweet orange is one of the few essential oils proven to have a calming effect. Sweet orange essential oil with a sweet orange scent can dispel tension and stress and improve insomnia caused by anxiety.

With essential oils

Cinnamon, coriander, cloves, cypress, frankincense, geranium, jasmine, juniper, lavender, orange blossom, nutmeg, bitter orange, rose, rosewood

Sweet Orange Essential Oil Formula

1. Fall asleep with fragrance: When you can’t fall asleep due to depression, use sweet orange aromatherapy to help you fall asleep in a good mood.

3 drops of sweet orange essential oil, 3 drops of ylang-ylang essential oil, 2 drops of grapefruit essential oil

Usage: Add all essential oils into the aromatherapy device and diffuse in the bedroom half an hour before going to bed.

2. Detoxifying and worry-relieving bath: When taking a bath, add sweet orange essential oil to the shower gel to improve your mood and help detoxify!

3 drops of orange essential oil, 1 drop of neroli essential oil, appropriate amount of unscented shower gel

Usage: Mix the essential oil and shower gel, and wash according to the normal bathing procedure (note that it is best to use it when bathing at night to avoid photosensitivity when going out into the sun after bathing)

3. Xiangxiang Home Furnishing: It has deodorizing and antibacterial effects. Apply it on furniture to make it clean and fragrant.

10 drops of orange essential oil, 1 basin of water

Usage: Drop some sweet orange essential oil in a washbasin, soak a rag in it, wring it out, and then apply it to the furniture.

How to use

Beauty/massage use: For facial beauty, you need to use base oil to dilute the essential oil to less than 1-3%. It is best to use 3-5 drops of diluted essential oil after cleansing at night, apply evenly on the face, and gently massage until absorbed. After use, if you feel greasy, you can use a warm towel to apply to the face to promote the absorption of essential oils and relieve greasy feeling.

Body/Massage Use: When used for body massage, you need to use base oil to dilute the essential oil to less than 1-5%. After cleaning the body, it is best to have a professional aromatherapist follow the aromatherapy techniques and procedures for massage. After the massage, it is best to wait 30 minutes before cleaning the body to facilitate the effectiveness of the essential oil. The effect will be better if you match the five senses with the environment. When massaging the elderly and children, you need to follow the advice of the aromatherapist.

Psychological/Aromatherapy Use: Use with an aromatherapy instrument, combined with relaxing music, taste warm and refreshing herbal fruit tea, relax your body and mind to meditate, let go of worldly troubles, let your mind fly freely, and give yourself a feeling of rebirth

Sweet Orange - Pharmacological Actions

1. Reduce capillary fragility Hesperidin contained in fresh orange fruit can reduce capillary fragility and prevent microvascular bleeding. The rich vitamin C, P and organic acids have a significant regulating and inhibitory effect on human metabolism and can enhance the body's resistance.

2. Sweet orange can soothe the liver and regulate qi, and promote the flow of milk. It is a food for treating milk obstruction and breast redness, swelling and pain.

3. Effects on the digestive system: The decoction of sweet orange peel can inhibit the movement of gastrointestinal (and uterine) smooth muscles, thereby relieving pain, vomiting, and diarrhea. The pectin contained in the peel can promote intestinal peristalsis, accelerate the passage of food through the digestive tract, and make fecal lipids and cholesterol excreted with feces faster, and reduce the absorption of exogenous cholesterol, prevent gastrointestinal distension and gas, and promote digestion.

4. Effects on the respiratory system Orange peel has the effects of widening the chest, lowering qi, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. Experiments have shown that orange peel contains 0.93% to 1.95% orange peel oil, which is effective for chronic bronchitis and is easily accepted by patients. The sweet orange fruit contains narcotine, which has a similar antitussive effect to codeine, but has no central nervous system inhibition phenomenon and is not carcinogenic.

5. Detoxify fish and crabs, sober up: The flesh and skin of sweet oranges can detoxify fish and crabs, and have a good sobering effect on drunk people.

Prescription Records

[Source] From the revised edition of "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica".

【Pinyin name】Tián Chénɡ

【English name】fruit of Sweet Orange

[Alias] Yellow fruit, orange, Xinhui orange, Guang orange, snow orange, seal orange, Guang orange.

Medicinal material source: The fruit of sweet orange, a plant of the Rutaceae family.

Latin plant, animal and mineral name: Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck

Harvesting and storage: Pick the fruits when they are ripe in November and December, and use them fresh or dry them for later use.

【Nature and flavor】Spicy; sweet; slightly bitter; slightly warm

[meridian] Jueyin Liver Meridian

[Functions and indications] Soothe the liver and promote qi circulation; dissipate stagnation and promote lactation; relieve alcohol. It is used to treat flank pain caused by liver qi stagnation; abdominal distension; breast milk obstruction; breast lumps and pain; drunkenness

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: grind the dry product into fine powder, 6g; or take appropriate amount of fresh product and mash it into juice.

[Additional prescription] Treats breast congestion, redness, swelling, hardness, pain, chills and fever in women: 2 qian of dried orange peel. If fresh, mash the juice and add water to drink. (The following is from "Yunnan Materia Medica")