Nutritional value of sugarcane
1. Sugarcane stems are crisp, tender and juicy, sweet and delicious, and are suitable for eating as fruits. Fruit cane has high sugar content, high water content, low fiber content, short and thin fiber, thin skin and crisp stem. Has the effects of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, cooling and detoxicating.
2. Huangpi fruit cane is also rich in 18 kinds of amino acids, which has the effects of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening lung, relieving cough and invigorating stomach. It can not only be eaten raw, but also be processed into various drinks by juicing, which is widely used and deeply loved by diners.
3. Sugarcane is sweet and cold, belonging to lung and stomach meridians; It has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, regulating stomach to stop vomiting, nourishing yin and moistening dryness. Indications: dry mouth, insufficient body fluid, dysuria, dry stool, dyspepsia, nausea and vomiting, hiccup, high fever and excessive drinking.
4. Yellow-peel fruit cane has the advantages of thin skin, juicy, sweet, fragrant and delicious flowers. It is one of the most popular winter fruits. It tastes sweet and cool, and has the effect of clearing away heat. It can relieve lung heat, stomach heat, cough due to lung heat, excessive phlegm and yellow and thick phlegm. Its sugar content is very rich, about 18-20%. The sugar content of Huangpi fruit cane is composed of sucrose, fructose and glucose, which is easily absorbed and utilized by human body. It also contains a large number of trace elements necessary for human body, such as iron, calcium, phosphorus, manganese and zinc. Among them, the iron content is particularly high, reaching 9 mg per kilogram, ranking first among fruits, so there is cane element. Blood-enriching fruit Good name.
Efficacy of sugarcane
1. Drinking raw sugarcane juice can clear away heat and help digestion. People with dry mouth, nausea and vomiting, indigestion and fever can drink it.
2. Sugarcane is also a kind of oral cleaner. Chewing sugar cane can improve the self-cleaning and caries prevention ability of teeth and exercise facial muscles. People with bad breath or oral inflammation can swallow sugarcane juice after gargling, which helps to remove odor and relieve pain.
3. Drinking sugarcane juice after heating can benefit the spleen and stomach.
4. If sugar cane is baked before eating, it will not only be sweeter, but also have better throat moistening effect, which is a good dietotherapy to protect the throat.
5. Different colors of sugarcane skin have different therapeutic effects. Sugarcane with purple-black skin is mild and nourishing, which can satisfy hunger, relieve cough, strengthen stomach and replenish physical strength, but it is not suitable for people with sore throat and fever. Sugarcane with bluish yellow skin has the effect of clearing away heat, especially good at relieving lung heat and gastrointestinal heat, but it is not suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold pain in the stomach.
Sugarcane related recipes
Sugarcane radish soup:
200g sugarcane and150g fresh radish. Chop, add water until radish is cooked, remove residue and take juice, and take it as needed.
Originated from Shan Qing Jia Gong. What shall we take? Sugarcane can be turned into wine and reeds can be turned into food. ? When they are used together, they can clear away heat, relieve annoyance, relieve alcoholism and promote digestion. Used for overeating, red face due to hot annoyance, vomiting and eating less.
Sugarcane ginger juice:
250-500g of sugarcane and 0/5-30g of ginger/kloc. Chop them separately, squeeze the juice slightly, take them evenly, or fry them hot.
Can be taken in 3-4 times.
A prescription from Ji. This recipe uses sugarcane juice to nourish the stomach and ginger to promote qi and stop vomiting. Although sugarcane juice is cold and ginger juice is warm, it is more peaceful to use together. Can be used for treating deficiency of vaginal fluid, gastric qi upwelling, nausea, vomiting or choking.
Sugarcane pulp and rice porridge:
500g sugar cane, chopped and slightly pounded, juiced, added with 60g millet (green rice) and appropriate amount of water, and boiled into porridge.
From the east. This prescription takes sugarcane juice to benefit the stomach, moisten the lungs and dryness, and millet benefits the spleen and stomach; Both can remove heat. Used for spleen and lung deficiency, yin deficiency and lung dryness, vexed heat and cough, and adverse throat.
Sugarcane purchasing skills
What should be mastered to identify sugarcane? Touch, see and smell? The principle of touch is to test the hardness of sugarcane; It depends on whether the pulp of sugarcane is fresh (fresh sugarcane has a hard texture, milky white pulp and obvious fragrance); Smell is to identify whether sugar cane smells or not. Mildew sugarcane has soft texture, slightly dark pulp color, light brown, tasteless or slightly wine trough flavor.
Storage skills: don't cut the leaves clean at the tail, let them wrap the sugarcane body; Put it vertically, and put the root in the water (soak for 2 ~ 3 knots); Store in a cool place.
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