Suzhou people have the custom of "seeing three delicacies" in the long summer, among which the earliest cherry on the market is "a must". According to legend, when Kangxi arrived in Nanjing on his fifth southern tour, Jiangning used cherries produced in Yingzhou, Xuanwu Lake to weave Cao Yin as a tribute. Kangxi was overjoyed and said, "I'll use it after being the empress dowager", and then sent officials to send cherries to Beijing.

Cherry is a seasonal fruit in long summer. In the fruit family, the content of iron is generally low, but cherries stand out from the crowd. Vitamin a content is 4 ~ 5 times more than that of grapes, oranges and oranges. Eating cherries in the long summer won the lottery.

2. Loquat

"The old silkworm is ripe." Once in the long summer, loquat, known as Huang Jinguo, went on the market after the spring silkworm matured. Chinese medicine believes that loquat is cool and has the effect of moistening lung and clearing lung. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that loquat is sweet, sour, flat and non-toxic, and has the effects of "stopping diarrhea and lowering qi, benefiting lung and stopping vomiting, controlling excess heat and moistening five internal organs". It is mainly used to treat lung flaccidity, cough, hematemesis, thirst and vomiting.

Do not eat immature loquat; Avoid eating, people with diarrhea due to spleen deficiency should eat less or not. Loquat seeds contain cyanoglycosides, which will release toxic hydrocyanic acid after being hydrolyzed by saliva, which will damage the function of respiratory and vascular movement centers, so the seeds should be removed when eating.

3. Apricot

Fresh apricots are rich in vitamin C, another antioxidant that helps the body absorb iron. Apricot is the fruit with the richest vitamin B 17 content. In recent years, it has been found that B 17 is an extremely effective anticancer substance, which only kills normal and healthy cells. Therefore, apricots can prevent cancer.

Apricots have the effect of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, but because of their dual functions, eating too much may also cause abdominal pain and diarrhea, so adults should not eat more than 10 every day.

4, green plum

Plum is sweet in taste, big in skin and small in flesh, high in acidity, rich in amino acids, fruit acids and vitamin C. Plum contains a lot of organic acids, including acid and malic acid, which have the functions of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst and stimulating appetite. In addition, the fruit of dark plum has a unique effect of regulating gastrointestinal function.

Picking green plums that are about to mature, blackening with fireworks, and making ebony. Mume has the effects of quenching thirst, promoting salivation, stimulating appetite, resolving food stagnation, clearing intestine, stopping vomiting and clearing blood. The most classic way to eat ebony is probably counting. Boil ebony, hawthorn, licorice and rock sugar into water, sweet and sour to stimulate appetite. It's really nice to serve a bowl on a hot summer day. Others include dark plum juice, which is also very popular.

5. Yangmei

"Xiaoman loquat yellow, Yang Meihong, long summer", entered the long summer, bayberry also went on the market. Myrica rubra is the top fruit in summer. It is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that Myrica rubra can eliminate phlegm, promote digestion, promote fluid production and quench thirst, and has the functions of harmonizing the five internal organs, clearing the stomach and eliminating pathogenic factors, and stopping dysentery and diarrhea. As the saying goes, "Myrica rubra is full of trees in May, and at first it was suspected that one plant was worth a thousand dollars."

Because bayberry has no peel, it is picked by hand, and there are a lot of dust and bacteria on it, which will inevitably cause stomach discomfort after eating it. Therefore, when eating bayberry, it is best to soak it for 5~ 10 minutes first, and then filter the water dry, so that on the one hand, some dirty things can be washed away, on the other hand, the flavor of bayberry can be better.