The efficacy of honey pomelo and the use of pomelo peel

What are the effects of honey pomelo? If you don’t know, please read the content prepared by the editor below and you will understand.

The efficacy of honey pomelo

Pomelo has another elegant name, "wendan". According to legend, in the imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty, there were people who collected pomelo flowers to extract essence and make beauty oils for the concubines to use when putting on makeup. Pomelo is produced in abundance in the south, and the pomelo produced in Fujian and Guangxi is the most famous. Mature pomelo has a strong aroma, crisp flesh, and a sweet and sour taste.

"The trees are shrouded in smoke, as if they were on fire; the mountains are shining in the sun, as if hanging gold." This is a famous poem by Zhang Tong, a poet from the Tang Dynasty, about pomelo. Pomelo matures in the golden autumn and is one of the must-have fruits for family reunion during the traditional Double Ninth Festival.

Pomelo is the largest of the autumn fruits, usually weighing more than one kilogram. It is picked from mid-August to the end of October in the lunar calendar. It has a thick skin and is durable, and can generally be stored for three months without losing its fragrance. Therefore, it is called "natural canned fruit" by Chinese and foreign fruit experts.

Nutritional value of grapefruit

Pomelo has high nutritional value, rich in protein, carbohydrates, organic acids, provitamin A, B1, B2, C, P and calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium and other nutrients. Among them, every 100 grams of pomelo flesh contains 57 mg of vitamin C, which is 10 times higher than pear, and 519 mg of calcium, which much exceeds other fruits.

effect:

According to traditional Chinese medicine, pomelo meat is sweet and sour, cold and non-toxic, and has the effects of regulating qi, moistening the lungs and clearing the intestines, nourishing blood and strengthening the spleen. Fresh pomelo meat contains insulin-like ingredients, which can lower blood sugar and is extremely beneficial for patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease. It can cure symptoms such as poor appetite, bland mouth, and indigestion. Regular consumption can help digestion, remove phlegm and quench thirst, and regulate qi and disperse knots.

In addition, grapefruit has the effects of strengthening the stomach and spleen, moistening the lungs, replenishing blood, clearing the intestines, and facilitating bowel movements. It can promote wound healing and has a good effect on sepsis. Modern medicine has also found that grapefruit has the effects of preventing cerebral thrombosis, anti-cancer, and weight loss, and is most suitable for middle-aged and elderly people to eat.

Grapefruit contains physiologically active substances such as naringin and hesperidin. Naringin can reduce the viscosity of blood circulation and reduce the formation of blood clots. For middle-aged and elderly people who suffer from cerebrovascular diseases, eating grapefruit regularly can help prevent stroke. Grapefruit contains a lot of vitamin C and calcium, which helps prevent the occurrence of intestinal cancer and gastric cancer.

The therapeutic effect of grapefruit is particularly obvious. Peel a grapefruit, scrape off the inner white pulp, cut it into pieces, put it in a covered bowl, add appropriate amount of honey, steam it in water until it is soft, take one spoonful each morning and evening, and take it orally with a little rice wine, which can cure cough and asthma in the elderly. Peel a grapefruit and leave the flesh, put the grapefruit flesh into a rooster that has been depilated and stewed in water, drink the soup and eat the chicken, once a week, it can cure chronic tracheitis. Grapefruit flowers contain volatile oils, which have the effects of promoting qi, removing phlegm, and relieving pain. The imperial doctors of the Qing Dynasty sent people to collect grapefruit flowers and extract balsam for the royal family to enjoy. Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty believed that grapefruit flowers could "grow hair and moisturize dryness."

Suitable people for honey pomelo

It is suitable for everyone. It is especially suitable for patients with heart, brain and kidney diseases and those with poor respiratory systems. It is also suitable for pregnant women.

Recommended dosage: 1 large clove (about 50 grams) per day.

Suitable time: Grapefruit tastes slightly sour, so it is not suitable to be eaten on an empty stomach. Eating it one hour before a meal can stimulate appetite.

Taboo: Who can't eat grapefruit?

Hypertensive patients should not eat pomelo, especially grapefruit, because it can interact with the drugs that hypertensive patients take daily, increase the blood concentration of the drugs, significantly reduce blood pressure, and pose a threat to health.

Pomelo is cold in nature, so people with weak constitution should not eat too much.

Patients who are taking medication, especially the elderly, should not eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice. This is because the interaction between grapefruit and the anti-allergic drug terfenadine can cause ventricular arrhythmias and even fatal ventricular fibrillation. Other drugs that have adverse reactions with grapefruit include cyclosporine, caffeine, calcium antagonists, cisapride, etc. Drinking a glass of grapefruit juice may cause the drug to interact for 24 hours.

Special note: grapefruits that are too bitter should not be eaten.

Grapefruit peel has many uses

Don't rush to throw away the peeled grapefruit peel. Grapefruit peel has many uses. It can be used for bathing, beauty and mosquito repellent. Grapefruit peel is rich in essential oils. After boiling it into soup and adding it to bath water, it not only has a beauty effect, but also prevents mosquito bites because mosquitoes don't like the smell of grapefruit. Grapefruit can also be used as a deodorant for the refrigerator. Put the peeled grapefruit peel in the corner of the refrigerator. The fragrance of the grapefruit peel can effectively eliminate the odor in the refrigerator.

Several ways to eat grapefruit

Peel and remove the core of fresh pomelo, add 50 grams each of northern apricot, Fritillaria, and unbleached snow fungus, add several bottles of honey, and stew before serving.

How to eat grapefruit peel

Selection of grapefruit peel

In terms of material selection, it is best to use the pomelo peel of Thai Golden Pomelo, because the skin of Thai Golden Pomelo is thicker, whiter, and has a strong aroma; if you use the unripe Guangxi Shatian pomelo peel, it will be even better, because the pomelo peel is thicker and has a stronger aroma, which is a rare and good material.

Grapefruit peel method

Take a grapefruit, use a fruit knife to vertically score the grapefruit peel into 5 boat-shaped petals, then peel the peel in all directions and take out the grapefruit pulp. Be careful when taking out the grapefruit pulp, and it is best not to break the grapefruit peel to keep it intact.

Grapefruit peel processing method

With the grapefruit peel, first peel off the green and yellow skin, which is hard and astringent and cannot be eaten, leaving the white "cottony" inner layer.

Next, boil the pomelo peel in boiling water for 10 minutes (until chopsticks can pierce it), then pick it out and soak it in clean water overnight. The next day, pick it out and squeeze out the water, then soak it in clean water again. Repeat this several times. After the green taste in the pomelo peel is removed, cut it into pieces.

Honey grapefruit tea

Ingredients: 500 grams of grapefruit (including skin and pulp), 100 grams of sugar (preferably sucrose), 250 grams of honey (preferably locust flower honey or other honeys with a lighter fragrance; osmanthus honey is not recommended), glass bottle: one that can hold 1000cc is best.

Preparation: Boil the grapefruit in water for 5 minutes to disinfect and set aside. Wash the grapefruit with warm water at 65 degrees Celsius. If you don't have a thermometer, you can use your hand to test the temperature. It should be hot but still touchable. Then soak it for 5 minutes. This can not only clean the grapefruit peel, but also use the water temperature to open the pores of the grapefruit peel. Okay, now that 5 minutes have passed, use a clean towel to absorb the moisture from the grapefruit. Then peel it open, and pay attention to divide it into three parts. First, the grapefruit peel, then the white flesh between the grapefruit peel and the grapefruit flesh, and finally the grapefruit flesh. Cut the peel into about 4 or 5 cm long and 0.1-0.2 cm wide, just like the potato shreds we usually cut. The white flesh is the same. After cutting, set it aside for later use. Then peel the grapefruit flesh, leaving the skin and core, put the flesh into a large container, and "squeeze" it with a spoon or other utensils. If you have a blender, you can use a blender to crush it. After processing, mix the shredded skin, white flesh, pulp, honey, and sugar. The amount mentioned above is only a reference value, and you can put more or less according to your preference. After mixing, put the grapefruit tea into the prepared glass bottle, seal it and put it in the refrigerator. It can be eaten after about 10 days, but the longer it is stored, the better it tastes.