plum

Everyone knows that plums are delicious fruits, but do you know more about plums ? Let me introduce them to you.

Nutrition of plums

Plums are rich in nutrients, containing a variety of organic acids, vitamins, flavonoids, alkaline minerals and other essential health substances for the human body. The threonine and other 8 kinds of amino acids and flavonoids contained in them are very beneficial to the normal protein composition and metabolism of the human body, and can prevent the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases, so they are known as health foods.

The production process of plums

1. Salting: Take 7.5 kg of table salt and 250 g of alum, add clean water (the amount should be enough to immerse the fruit) to make a solution, then immerse the plums in the solution, and salt for 48 hours until the color of the plums turns yellow.

The therapeutic value of plums

1. Broad-spectrum antibacterial effect: Experiments have shown that the decoction of black plum has an inhibitory effect on anthrax bacillus, diphtheria and diphtheria-like bacilli, staphylococci, pneumococci, etc. It is also effective against intestinal pathogens such as Escherichia coli, Shigella sonnei, Proteus, Salmonella typhi and paratyphoid, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Vibrio cholerae, etc.; its ethanol extract has a significant antibacterial effect on some Gram-positive and negative bacteria, and human tuberculosis bacillus; the decoction of black plum has an inhibitory effect on pathogenic skin fungi such as tinea mentagrophytes, Epidermophyton floccosum, and Microsporum gypseum in vitro;

2. Anti-allergy: Wumei decoction and its mixture can reduce the death rate of guinea pig protein shock animals, and also have a significant inhibitory effect on isolated rabbit intestines, proving that Wumei can resist protein allergy;

3. Promote bile secretion: Wumei can make the gallbladder contract, promote bile secretion and excretion, and is a good medicine for treating biliary ascariasis;

4. Relieve heat and promote body fluids: Plum pulp contains more potassium. Plum soup made from black plums can prevent hypokalemia caused by excessive sweating, such as fatigue, weakness, and drowsiness. It is a good product for cooling down and relieving heat and promoting body fluids.

5. Anti-cancer: In vitro tests show that black plums have an inhibitory effect on human cervical cancer, with an inhibition rate of more than 90%. Regular consumption of plum flesh can prevent cancer, fight cancer, and prolong life. Plums are alkaline foods. Pairing with acidic foods can improve the body's pH value and achieve the purpose of health preservation.

The role and efficacy of plums

Plum is warm in nature, sweet and sour in taste, and enters the liver, spleen, lung, and large intestine meridians; it has the effects of astringing the lungs and relieving cough, astringing the intestines and relieving diarrhea, relieving restlessness and calming the mind, promoting fluid and quenching thirst, killing insects and calming ascaris, and relieving pain and bleeding; it is mainly used to treat chronic cough, false heat and thirst, chronic malaria, chronic diarrhea, hematuria, metrorrhagia, abdominal pain caused by ascariasis, vomiting and other symptoms.

How to identify the quality of plums?

Choose plum varieties with large fruit, small core, green color, crisp texture, neat shape, full fruit, round thorns, small core, juicy and sweet taste. Generally, plums with plump and full filling, dry surface, no water marks, bald hairs on the surface, shiny, and formed but not full kernel are considered high-quality fresh plums. If the flesh is soft, it is overripe. If the flesh is too hard, it is overripe, sour and astringent, and the taste is not good.

Now everyone knows about plums.