Children's gastrointestinal development is immature, so many children can't eat what adults can eat. Many people say that children in citron tea can't drink it. Here's how children in citron tea drink in moderation.

Can children in citron tea drink it?

Children can drink citron tea. Citron tea is a health drink with grapefruit and sucrose as raw materials. Nowadays, honey is often used instead of sugarcane to adjust the acidity of grapefruit. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that "diet can eliminate pathogenic factors in the stomach, relieve alcohol toxicity, treat the breath of drinkers, and not think about light diet, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough". There are basically no side effects, and children can eat them. Has the effects of resolving phlegm, relieving cough, stimulating appetite, invigorating stomach, and promoting digestion. However, it should be noted that the quality of citron tea drinks sold in the market is mostly mixed, and there are many bad additives, which are not good for children and harmful to health if they eat too much.

Citron tea's practice recommendation

1, required materials: one grapefruit, 500g honey, rock sugar 100g (more if you like), salt 1 spoon, and appropriate amount of water;

2. Put a layer of salt on the grapefruit and brush it clean; Scrape off the outermost yellow-green skin with a knife, as thin as possible, with less white pulp inside, otherwise it will be very bitter. This is the essence of grapefruit to eliminate phlegm and relieve cough.

3. Peel the grapefruit meat and tear it into small pieces; Cut wampee into filaments about 3 cm long and about 1 mm thick, and the thinner the better; Marinate the cut grapefruit peel with salt water 1 hour.

4. Put the pickled pomelo peel into clear water and cook it for 10 minute on medium fire to soften it and remove the bitterness.

5. Put the treated grapefruit peel and pulp into a clean and oil-free pot, add a small bowl of water and rock sugar, and simmer for 1 hour with low and medium fire until it is sticky and the grapefruit peel is golden and translucent. Pay attention to stirring frequently when simmering to avoid sticking to the pot.

6. After cooling, add honey and stir evenly to make honey grapefruit tea. Put it in a sealed can and store it in the refrigerator. Rinse with warm water when drinking.

Precautions for drinking honey grapefruit tea.

1. Although honey and grapefruit have high nutritional value, not everyone can eat them. For example, people who are weak and have diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, it is best not to eat grapefruit. Eating too much is easy to have loose bowels, so people with spleen deficiency can't drink honey grapefruit tea naturally.

2. citron tea has a high sugar content, so patients with metabolic syndrome such as diabetes should not drink too much.

3. Don't take medicine with citron tea. There has been a saying circulating on the Internet: "If a hyperlipidemia patient takes a lovastatin with a glass of grapefruit juice, the result is equivalent to taking 12~l5 lovastatin with a glass of water, which will lead to muscle pain and even kidney disease." This statement is correct. This is mainly because a flavonoid in grapefruit juice can inhibit drug metabolizing enzymes, thus slowing down drug metabolism and increasing drug concentration in blood. So it's best not to take citron tea.

4. When brewing honey grapefruit tea, be careful not to use boiling water with a temperature higher than 40℃. If the water temperature is too high, the nutritional components of honey will be destroyed, which means that the nutritional function of honey grapefruit tea will be lost. So it is effective to master the method when brewing.

Citron tea can remove spots and whiten skin.

Grapefruit is rich in vitamin C and vitamin P, which can penetrate deep into the skin, prevent pigmentation and whiten the skin. Practice has proved that drinking citron tea can achieve better whitening effect than using cosmetics. Cosmetics are temporary whitening, but citron tea can cut off the source of melanin, and the whitening effect is more lasting.