1, loquat
Every year around Tomb-Sweeping Day, it is a good time for hiking and loquat ripening. Loquat is soft and juicy, sweet in taste and delicate in meat. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that loquat has the functions of moistening lung, quenching thirst and lowering qi, and dietotherapy is used for adjuvant treatment of lung flaccidity, cough, vomiting blood, epistaxis, thirst, vomiting and other diseases. Mature loquat is sweet and nutritious, and its carotene content ranks third among all kinds of fruits, which helps to maintain the health of eyes and skin and improve night blindness and rough skin.
When buying loquat, it is best to be big and symmetrical, inverted oval, with orange peel, complete and juicy fur, thin skin and thick flesh, and no olives. Hair loss means loquat is not fresh enough. If the surface color is different, it means that loquat has probably deteriorated.
2. Mango
April is also the season when mangoes are on the market. The precursor carotene of vitamin A contained in mango is particularly high, which is rare among all fruits. Secondly, the content of vitamin C is not low. Minerals, protein, fat, sugar, etc. It is also its main nutritional component. Mango is one of the famous tropical fruits. Because of its delicate pulp and unique flavor, it is deeply loved by people, so it is known as the "king of tropical fruits".
Choose mangoes that can smell the fragrance far away. The appearance should be full and round, with no spots on it. If there are spots, it means that the inside is broken and the wrinkled skin means that it is not fresh. If you buy food now, buy soft ones. If you leave it for two days, buy a pinch that is neither soft nor hard.
3. Mulberry
Generally, the time for mulberry to go on the market is from March to May, so April is the best time for mulberry to taste delicious. Mulberry is sweet and sour, cold in nature, and has the effects of nourishing yin and enriching blood, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness, moistening intestines and expelling toxins. Clinically, dietotherapy is commonly used to treat dizziness, backache, tinnitus, premature whitening, insomnia and dreaminess, body fluid injury, thirst, thirst, intestinal dryness, constipation and other symptoms caused by deficiency of liver and kidney and blood essence. For women who love beauty, nourishing yin and enriching blood of mulberry helps to nourish skin and make complexion rosy.
When selecting mulberries, it is better to be sweet and sour, bright in black, big in size, full in particles, thick and fleshy, purple and black in color, compact and full of sugar. If the mulberry is dark in color and sweet in taste, but it is raw inside, you should pay attention. Maybe it's dyed. So be sure to pay attention when buying.
4.cherry
Cherry has been called "beauty fruit" since ancient times, and it is said in ancient Chinese medicine books that it can "moisturize the skin" and "make people feel good and beautify". Eating regularly can make the skin smoother and more moist. This is mainly because the iron content in cherries is extremely rich. The iron content per hundred grams of pulp is 6 times that of strawberry, 0/0 times that of jujube, 0/3 times that of hawthorn and 20 times that of apple, ranking first among all kinds of fruits. Eating more cherries can not only alleviate anemia, but also treat a series of gynecological diseases caused by it.
Choose cherry, the cherry skin is a little hard, and the skin is the best. Look at the fruit stalks and choose the green ones. Cherry is afraid of heat, and the suitable temperature is 2℃~5℃, so it is best to keep it in the refrigerator like other fruits. In the process of storage, try not to use airtight packaging to seal, such as packaging boxes, plastic bags, plastic wrap, etc. Because cherry will decompose its own nutrients in an oxygen-deficient environment to obtain more nutrients, its own nutrients are completely decomposed.
5.mangosteen
Mangosteen ripens in April, and eating more is effective. Mangosteen contains a special substance, which has the functions of reducing dryness, reducing temperature and relieving fever, so that Mangosteen can overcome the dryness and heat of durian. In Thailand, people regard durian mangosteen as "the fruit of husband and wife". If durian gets angry after eating too much, eating a few mangosteens can relieve it. Mangosteen is rich in protein and lipids, which has a good nourishing effect on the body, and has a good recuperating effect on weakness, malnutrition and illness.
When choosing mangosteen, you must choose fresh fruit with green stems and soft fruit, otherwise you will buy "dead bamboo". You can gently press the case with your fingers. If the skin is hard and dry, you can't make the skin sag with your fingers, and the color of the pedicle leaves is dim, which means that Mangosteen is too old to eat. The soft case means that it is still fresh and edible. You can also look at the pedicled petals under the fruit. If there are several petals, it means that the fruit has several petals. Generally, a mangosteen has only one big seed, so be careful when eating.
6. Summer orange
Fruits are hung in April every year and mature in April the following year, with golden color and sweet and sour juice. Oranges contain a lot of vitamin C, flavonoids and carotenoids, which can not only resist oxidation, enhance immunity and inhibit the growth of tumor cells, but also soften and protect blood vessels, promote blood circulation and reduce cholesterol and blood lipids. A medium-sized orange can provide people with vitamin C for one day and improve the body's ability to resist bacterial invasion.
How to choose? Be careful not to just look at the smooth appearance. You know, if it is particularly smooth, there are no flaws or holes at all, it may be the result after beauty. And you can wipe it with a paper towel to see if the paper towel has color. If so, don't buy it, because it is colored. It is not recommended to soak the skin with water, because the preservative sprayed with oil in the skin can not be cleaned simply with water.
7.pineapple
Pineapple, also known as pineapple, usually grows in tropical areas, and the growth time is from March to June. Pineapple is rich in nutrition, containing almost all vitamins and 16 natural minerals needed by human body. A large amount of protease and dietary fiber in pineapple can help the digestion of human stomach, and because dietary fiber is large in size and good in adsorption, it can take away excess fat and other harmful substances in the intestine, so it is a very suitable fruit after meals for people who eat too much meat and greasy food for a long time. It has obvious effect on preventing and relieving constipation symptoms.
High-quality pineapple fruit is cylindrical or oval, with slightly sharp ends, uniform and moderate size, regular fruit shape and few bud eyes. The epidermis is light yellow or bright yellow, with blue-green at both ends and blue-brown leaves at the top of pineapple; If the pineapple skin turns yellow, gently press the soft one with your hand, which means it has reached nine ripeness. This pineapple juice is rich in sugar, rich in flavor and very good in taste. If you don't eat it right away, you'd better choose a slightly harder pineapple with a light yellow color and a green luster. It's best to have a pineapple that is about 70% ripe. If the whole pineapple is golden yellow, it is completely mature and tastes sweeter.
8.strawberries
Spring is the season when strawberries are ripe, so eating strawberries is the most popular thing in spring. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that strawberry is sweet and cool, and enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridians, which has the effects of moistening the lungs, promoting fluid production, invigorating the spleen and regulating the stomach, promoting diuresis, reducing swelling, relieving fever and dispelling summer heat. Office workers are generally stressed and easy to get angry. Eating strawberries can play a restraining role. Strawberry contains a lot of pectin and cellulose, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, help digestion, improve constipation, prevent hemorrhoids and intestinal cancer, and can strengthen the spleen and lose weight with yogurt.
Normal growing strawberries have a heart-shaped appearance. But some strawberries are bright in color, big in size, and have abnormal protrusions on the particles, but they are very light to eat and hollow in the middle. Try to choose the whole fruit with bright red and uniform color. The "white sesame" on the surface of strawberry should be golden yellow. If the sesame you see is red, it may be dyed. Strawberries with bright green pedicel leaves, fine villi, bright surface and no damage and decay are good strawberries, and those with white and gray spots on the surface may be sick strawberries.
In spring, human metabolism begins to flourish. In addition to eating more fruits to supplement nutrition, we should choose spicy, sweet and flat products in our diet.
The principle of keeping healthy by eating fruit in spring
1, eat warm fruit to nourish yang
The ability of digestion and absorption is not strong enough, and fruit is the most suitable food in this period. More importantly, eat more warm fruits, such as papaya, orange, hawthorn, pineapple, cherry and so on. And you can also adapt to the rise of spring in early spring and resist the cold in winter. People have found in long-term experience that different fruits have different properties. Chinese medicine believes that fruits are generally divided into several attributes: heat, temperature, neutralization, coolness and coldness. Warm fruits are generally fruits with high calorie density and high sugar content. This kind of fruit has the effects of dispelling cold, warming menstruation, dredging collaterals and helping yang. Eating them will increase your body energy; However, cool fruits are low in calorie density, rich in fiber and low in fat and sugar. If you eat too much of this fruit, people will lose more energy, become more and more afraid of the cold and become weaker. So in the cold early spring, it is safer to eat more warm fruits. In addition, Chinese medicine believes that the skin of fruit is generally positive, while the pulp is relatively negative. Therefore, in spring, we should try to eat as many skins of fruits as possible, such as apples, pears, dates and carambolas. As long as the fruit is carefully disinfected and washed, it is good for your health.
2, less acid and more sweetness benefit the spleen and stomach
"Less acid and more sweetness to nourish temper" is one of the principles of diet nutrition in spring, and this principle is also applicable to fruit health. Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow and the source of qi and blood metaplasia; Spleen and stomach are full of qi, and people can prolong life. Liver belongs to wood and tastes sour; Spleen belongs to soil, which tastes sweet and wood can overcome soil. Therefore, it is advisable to eat less sour fruits in spring, otherwise too much sour taste will encourage liver qi and make it too vigorous, which will naturally affect the health of the spleen and stomach. If you can eat more sweet fruits, such as sugarcane, dates, cherries, strawberries, pineapples, chestnuts and so on. It helps to increase your temper and is of great benefit to disease prevention and health care in spring.