The role and efficacy of carambola

Carambola is a very festive fruit. In many places in the south, during traditional festivals, families must use carambola as offerings.

Health Benefits of Carambola

1. Star fruit contains a large amount of sugar and vitamins. Regular consumption can supplement the body's nutrition and enhance the body's disease resistance.

2. Star fruit can quickly replenish the body's water and quench thirst, allowing the body's internal heat or alcohol toxins to be excreted through urine.

3. The acidic substances in carambola juice can increase the acidity of gastric juice, promote food digestion, and help digestion.

4. Star fruit can eliminate pharyngitis and oral ulcers, and prevent and treat toothache caused by wind and fire.

How to store carambola

After buying carambolas, place them in a cool, ventilated place. Do not put them in the refrigerator, as they are more likely to turn brown if placed in the refrigerator.

Carambola eating habits

1. It is especially suitable for people with wind-heat cough, sore throat, hot and astringent urination, urinary stones, and those with cardiovascular disease or obesity.

2. People with weak spleen and stomach, poor appetite and diarrhea should eat less.

Carambola delicacies

Candied Carambola

Ingredients: 2 star fruits, 1 cup of self-raising powder (or flour), 5 spoons of sugar, 2 spoons of carambola (or maltose).

Method: Wash the carambolas, remove the hard edges, and wipe dry. Cut into thick pieces. Add 3/4 cup of water to the self-raising flour and mix into a paste. Dip the carambolas into the paste and deep-fry until golden and crispy. Drain the oil and set aside. Use a little oil to simmer sugar, carambolas, and half a cup of water until thick and almost gelatinous. Turn off the heat and add the fried carambolas and mix well.

American Starfruit Bun

Ingredients: 150g bread flour, 30g cake flour, 1.5 spoons dry yeast, 80ml warm water, 20g butter, 2 spoons sugar, 1/3 teaspoon salt, 2 spoons milk powder, 2 star fruits, 2 spoons sugar, 2 spoons cornstarch, 1 spoon butter (optional), 1 teaspoon egg white, 25g powdered sugar.

practice:

1. Preheat the oven to 175 degrees, place the fruit in the middle layer and bake for about 15 minutes. Remove the core of the star fruit and cut it into small pieces. Use a blender to crush it. Add sugar, cornstarch and butter, mix well and boil. Let it cool to make the star fruit filling.

2. After basic fermentation, divide the dough into 12 equal parts, flatten it slightly and make a concave shape in the middle, and ferment for the last 30 minutes. Fill the concave holes with stuffing, apply egg and sugar solution and bake. Mix the powdered sugar with egg whites, put them in a small plastic bag, and squeeze thin threads on the baked bread for decoration.

Bodybuilding Tips

Star fruit is rich in sugar, fiber and acid, which can relieve internal heat, clear dryness and moisten the intestines. Using it to make desserts can protect the skin and beautify the face, and is suitable for people who stay up late.

Carambola stew with egg and milk

Ingredients: 1 star fruit, remove the hard edges and core, cut into small pieces, 2 eggs, 250 ml milk, and some sugar.

Method: First, put carambola cubes, milk, and sugar in a pot and cook over low heat until the sugar dissolves, then turn off the heat and let it cool (cooking carambola together is to give the milk soup the aroma of carambola). Then filter out the milk, add it to the beaten eggs and mix well, sieve to filter out the foam and unbeaten egg whites, and finally add the carambola cubes, cover with a dish, and steam over high heat until solidified.

Remedies for curing diseases

1. To treat spleen enlargement: Crush 5 carambolas and squeeze out the juice. Take it with warm water, twice a day.

2. Treat wind-heat cough and sore throat: Juice 2 carambolas. Juice 60g of tangerine peel. Mix the two juices and drink 2-3 times a day.

3. Treatment of stranguria caused by stones and sand: 5 carambolas (chopped), 30 ml of honey, add appropriate amount of water, decoct and drink, twice a day.

4. Treat hot and astringent urine and hemorrhoid bleeding: chop and mash 3 fresh carambolas and drink with cold boiled water, twice a day.

Knowledge Links

Comments on Carambola in Famous Medical Books

1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": It is mainly used to treat wind-heat, promote the production of body fluid and quench thirst.

2. "Miscellaneous Notes of Lingnan": It can remove the poison of meat and can also remove miasma.

3. "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica": Jerky or soaked in white honey can cure acclimatization and malaria.

4. "Records of Medicinal Herbs in Lingnan": It can quench thirst and relieve restlessness, eliminate heat, promote urination, eliminate mouth ulcers in children, and treat snake bites.

5. Luchuan Materia Medica: It can relieve stagnation, detoxify, and cool blood. It can treat mouth sores and toothache.

6. "Guangxi Chinese Materia Medica": detoxifies alcohol and eliminates stagnation.