Fruit can maintain health because it is a natural food, rich in vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber and antioxidants, which can nourish the body, promote metabolism, increase the body's resistance and immunity, and has the effects of maintaining health and nourishing, preventing and treating diseases.
The principle of eating fruit in spring
1. Eat cold and hot fruits together.
Warm fruits mainly include: cherry, peach, chestnut, jujube, walnut kernel, orange, kumquat and so on. However, eating too much warm fruit is easy to get angry.
Cold fruits mainly include bananas, sugar cane, mangoes, loquats, apples, pears, strawberries, grapefruit and oranges.
The main fruits are pineapple, carambola, papaya, lily, lotus seed, peanut, hazelnut and black sesame. Among the fruits we usually eat, the proportion of flat fruits is relatively large, followed by warm fruits and cold fruits.
Traditional Chinese medicine mainly emphasizes the balance and harmony of yin and yang, so people with hot constitution are suitable to eat more cold food, while people with cold constitution should eat more warm food. Of course, eating fruit is the same.
2. Eat sweet and sour fruits separately
Among spring fruits, sour and sweet fruits are more common. Sour fruits mainly include oranges, grapefruit, loquat, hawthorn and pears. They generally have the effects of astringing, stopping sweating, stimulating appetite, promoting fluid production and helping digestion. Sweet is sweet. There are many such foods, such as sugarcane, pears, peanuts, watermelons, bananas, cherries, oranges, black sesame seeds, chestnuts, Chinese dates, lotus seeds, longan pulp, medlar and so on. They usually have the effects of nourishing, tonifying deficiency and relieving pain. Some fruits, such as apples, papaya, carambola, pineapple, strawberry, lily, pine nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts, raisins, etc., are mostly classified as flat.
Six kinds of fruits suitable for spring consumption
1. Pear: moisten lung and relieve cough, nourish stomach and stomach.
Pear is the first choice among fruits in winter and spring. It contains malic acid, citric acid, glucose, fructose, calcium, phosphorus, iron and various vitamins. Pear has the functions of moistening throat, promoting fluid production, moistening lung, relieving cough and nourishing stomach and intestines, and is most suitable for patients with fever in winter and spring. It is especially suitable for cough due to lung heat, cough due to wind heat in children, dry throat and sore throat, and dry stool.
In addition, pears also have the functions of lowering blood pressure, clearing away heat and calming the nerves. Patients with hypertension, if they have symptoms such as dizziness, palpitation and tinnitus, often eat pears, which can alleviate the symptoms. Pears are rich in sugar and vitamins, which can protect the liver and help digestion. However, people with pear-shaped cold, spleen and stomach deficiency cold, dyspepsia and postpartum blood deficiency should not eat more.
2. Lemon: skin care, beauty and anti-drying.
If you want to have smooth skin, lemon is definitely the best choice for skin care. Lemon has always been a beauty product in fruits. Lemon contains a lot of nutrients, such as vitamin C, organic acids and minerals, which are needed to protect the skin. However, it should be noted that when using lemon to protect skin, it is best to drink lemon juice or implant lemon into vegetables, so as to better achieve the effect of skin care.
(health)
3. Loquat: Eliminating phlegm, relieving cough and skin care
Loquat is cool, sweet and sour, and contains many nutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, iron, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and so on. It has extremely high nutritional value. Loquat contains a lot of carotene, which can protect eyesight and skin. Loquat contains fruit acid and citric acid, which can stimulate the secretion of digestive glands, promote appetite and help digestion and absorption. Loquat also contains antioxidant polyphenols which can prevent cancer and delay aging. Amygdalin, a unique ingredient in loquat, can moisten the lungs, relieve cough, eliminate phlegm and treat various coughs.
4. Cherry: invigorating spleen and appetizing, supplementing the middle and benefiting qi.
Known as "the first branch of spring fruit", it is cultivated all over China. Cherry fruit is plump, delicious, juicy, bright in color and rich in nutrition, and its iron content is particularly prominent, which is more than 20 times that of citrus, pear and apple, ranking first among fruits. Cherry is warm, sweet and slightly sour, and has the effects of nourishing middle jiao, benefiting face, strengthening spleen and appetizing. Eating cherries in spring can make people sweat, benefit qi, dispel wind and penetrate rash. It should be noted that cherries belong to fire and should not be eaten more, and those with yin deficiency and fire are forbidden to eat or eat less. If you can't eat cherries, strawberries are also a good choice.
5. Pineapple: Clean the stomach and nourish the skin.
Bromelain can effectively decompose protein in food and increase gastrointestinal peristalsis. In addition, rich vitamin B can effectively nourish the skin, prevent chapped skin, moisturize the brightness of hair, and at the same time, it can also eliminate the tension of the body and enhance the immunity of the body. Its pulp can be used as a mask and is the sweetest care product.
6. Carambola: Promoting salivation to quench thirst and prevent diseases.
The fruit juice and fiber rich in carambola can quench thirst, quickly replenish human body's water, and make the accumulated heat or alcohol poison in the body excrete with urine, which is beneficial to clearing away dryness and moistening intestines and eliminating fatigue. Carambola contains a lot of volatile components, carotene, sugar, vitamins B and C, etc. It can eliminate throat inflammation, aphtha and oral ulcer, prevent toothache due to wind-fire and cough due to wind-heat, treat common cold, and relieve short, red and astringent urine pain. Carambola can also reduce the body's absorption of fat, reduce blood lipids and cholesterol, prevent cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and arteriosclerosis, protect the liver and lower blood sugar. Carambola is an excellent health food in spring. Carambola is cold and suitable for people with cardiovascular disease or obesity.
Under normal circumstances, it is advisable to eat half a carambola at a time. People with spleen and stomach deficiency or diarrhea should eat less, and people with poor renal function should stay away from carambola.
Eat less out-of-season fruits.
strawberry
There are hollow, irregular and huge strawberries in the middle, which are usually caused by too many hormones. After using ripening agent or other hormone drugs, the long-term growth of strawberry becomes shorter, the color becomes fresh, but the fruit taste becomes weak.
banana
In order to make the banana peel yellow and beautiful, some unscrupulous traders ripen it with sulfur dioxide, but the pulp is still hard and not sweet at all. Sulfur dioxide is harmful to human body.
watermelon
Excessive use of ripening agents, swelling agents and highly toxic pesticides makes watermelons toxic. The stripes on this watermelon skin are uneven, and the flesh is particularly bright after cutting, but the melon seeds are white and have a bad smell in the mouth.
grape
Some unscrupulous traders and fruit farmers use ethephon, a ripening agent. After users dilute ethephon in proportion with water, they soak immature green grapes in the diluent, and the green grapes will become purple grapes in a day or two.
Summary: Through the introduction of Bian Xiao above, do you know what fruit to eat in spring? Do you still remember some fruits suitable for spring consumption introduced by Bian Xiao? The nutritional value of fruit is very rich. Everyone should get into the habit of eating fruit, but also pay attention to eating fruit correctly.