How to make plum wine

Plum wine

Ingredients for plum wine

3 jin of green plums, 4 bottles of 310ml rice wine, 2 jin of yellow rock sugar

How to make plum wine

1. Wash the green plums and dry them (it is said that it is best to blanch them with boiling water, but I didn’t)

2. Wash the wide-mouth wine bottle and pour a little rice wine into it to disinfect it.

3. Slowly pour the dried green plums into the wide-mouth wine bottle, add yellow rock sugar, and then pour in the rice wine, just fill it to 80%, leaving some room for the green plums to make wine.

4. Seal the wine bottle and place it in a dry and cool place. It is best to put a label and indicate the date. Wait patiently

5. The best tasting period of green plum wine: 3 months (about 90 days). The one that is soaked for more than a year is the best. In recent years, it has been widely said around the world that "red wine is good for health". Recently, medical experts attending the Indian Healthcare Summit unanimously overturned the above argument, saying that wine, beer and any form of alcoholic beverages will not promote human health.

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HK Chopra, president of the World Society of Cardiology and a senior cardiologist, said: "I have carefully studied nearly 16 million articles on human health and found that none of them can prove that alcohol is good for health (especially for the heart). "Drinking red wine is good for the heart, but it is just a feeling of people. Why not use grape juice instead?"

"Wine companies promote their products on the pretext that red wine contains antioxidants, so many people blindly believe it and start drinking a lot of wine but never drink juice," said Mishra, head of surgery at the Indian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Chairman BK Rao said India needs more fitness centers, not hospitals. "Most people are not aware of the importance of health. They consume junk food, carbonated drinks and alcohol while constantly complaining about the heavy burden on their bodies." "No one advocates the benefits of fitness, but advertisements promoting the health benefits of wine are everywhere. This trend is really worrying. What we need is healthy food and regular exercise, not wine."

SC Manchanda, former director of AIIMS cardiology, also agrees with the above view and advises people not to drink wine but to drink water instead, "Water will purify the body." Nutritionist Shikha Sharma also criticized the argument that red wine is good for health. She believes that people's bodies are already burdened with heavy loads, and in this case, drinking wine or other alcoholic beverages will only increase the burden. What we need is a balanced diet.

A recent survey by the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ASSOCHAM) shows that in 1999, the number of deaths from chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes in the country was 3.78 million, and by 2020, the number will rise to 7.63 million.