When kumquat is on the market again, it is indispensable for every table and snack. We all know that kumquat can be used to make tea, mix salad, or simply take a rough bite ... Although kumquat is not big, it is not as sweet as grapefruit, orange and orange pulp, and it is really a golden fruit for health in winter.

Kumquat is rich in vitamins A and C, which can prevent pigmentation, improve skin luster and elasticity, slow down aging and avoid skin relaxation and wrinkling. Kumquat also contains vitamin P, which is an important nutrient for maintaining vascular health and strengthening microvascular elasticity.

Kumquat also has high medicinal value. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kumquat has the functions of regulating qi, tonifying middle warmer, relieving depression, promoting digestion, dispelling cold, resolving phlegm and sobering up, and can be used to treat chest distress, drunkenness, thirst, dyspepsia, anorexia, cough and asthma.

According to the Japanese medical journal, kumquat can enhance the cold resistance of human body, prevent and treat colds, reduce blood lipids, and is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of senile diseases. Patients with cholecystitis, hepatitis, tracheitis, hypertension and arteriosclerosis often eat kumquat or kumquat cake, which is of great benefit.

Compendium of Materia Medica records that kumquat peel "tonifies the same medicine, purges the same medicine, ascends the same medicine, and descends the same medicine." In fact, 80% of vitamin C in kumquat is stored in the peel, so eating kumquat with pulp is more nutritious.

Kumquat peel is thick and smooth, with many oil cells (that is, pressing it will produce aromatic gas). Fresh food with skin has many advantages, but many people worry that their skin will be waxed. So can kumquat be eaten safely with skin?