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What's the difference between northern apricot, southern apricot and almond?
Almonds are divided into north apricot (bitter apricot) and south apricot (sweet apricot). The traditional almond tea we drink is south apricot, and the Chinese medicine shop uses slightly poisonous north apricot.

Eating too much apricots will cause hydrocyanic acid poisoning, which will cause dizziness, palpitation, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms. When eating, it must be heated and boiled to reduce toxicity.

Almond tea has dietotherapy effect. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that almond tastes bitter and sweet, enters the lungs and intestines, and has the effects of relieving cough and asthma, moistening the intestines and relaxing bowels.

South Star is sweet and can moisten lung, relieve cough and relax bowels. It is usually made into almond tea, almond tofu and other foods. Nanxing is a good drink for people with poor lung function, chronic cough or dry stool.

What is the difference between almond milk and almond tea?

In fact, the so-called almonds are generally divided into almonds and almonds (also called almond fruit), which are completely different plant fruits. Almond is the fruit of apricot peach, and almond is a frequent visitor to general comprehensive nuts, which is football-shaped, with pointed ends, round middle and light red peel.

The former is almond tea, and the latter is almond milk. The following is a comparison between the two:

Almond milk

Almond (almond fruit) belongs to "oil and nut seeds" in six kinds of food. Almond milk is made by soaking, pulping and filtering. It is rich in vitamin E, protein, unsaturated fatty acids, dietary fiber, minerals and other nutrients, especially calcium.

Almond milk is a good calcium supplement for vegetarians and people who are intolerant of dairy products, and the almond milk sold in the market is not high in calories, which is suitable for people who need to control calories.

Almond tea:

Made from apricots in almonds, it has obvious special fragrance, and its efficacy is as mentioned above.

Homemade traditional almond tea at home

Materials:

South almond 200g

White rice100g

Crystal sugar 100g (can be adjusted according to personal preference)

Cold water 1500cc

Exercise:

Wash the almonds and soak them in water for about 4 hours. Drain the soaked water for use.

Put almonds, white rice and cold water into a blender and stir until they are fine. You can test their fineness with a sieve.

Boil the filtered almond pulp with low fire, and then add rock sugar.

Almond tea has many functions, but you should be careful when making tea.

Almond has the highest toxic component in the bark tip, so the ancient method will remove the bark tip and then fry and grind it.

General recommended intake of almonds:

Adults 10 20g per day can achieve the purpose of health preservation.

It is also suggested that almonds should be cooked or fried before eating, not eaten raw.

In addition, pregnant women should be especially careful when eating almonds.

Apricots are poisonous and are generally not used by pregnant women; As for the almond food on the market, almonds are mostly used, and their toxicity is quite low. Moderate consumption will not pose a threat to pregnant women, but it is recommended to control the daily consumption below 5 grams.