Health care function of coconut
Coconut has a wide range of uses and is known as the "tree of life" and "treasure tree". It tastes sweet and cold, and contains protein, sugar, vitamin C, calcium and potassium. Coconut is rich in juice and nutrition, which can quench thirst and relieve summer heat, promote fluid production and diuresis, and treat fever. Its pulp has the effects of benefiting qi, expelling wind, expelling toxin and caring skin. Mature coconut meat is rich in protein and fat, and is often made into canned food, desiccated coconut, etc. Although coconut milk contains high potassium, it also contains high magnesium, which can increase the human body's tolerance to potassium. It is effective in treating gastroenteritis and dehydration.
Nutritional value of coconut
Coconut is the fruit of coconut tree and an important tropical woody oil crop. Coconut originated in Southeast Asia and Central America, and is currently cultivated in more than 80 tropical countries around the world, especially the Philippines, India, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. Many provinces in southern China are also cultivated, among which coconut in Hainan Province is the most famous. Coconut has become a symbol of Hainan, and Hainan Island is also called "Coconut Island".
Coconuts grow at the roots of leaves. A coconut tree can generally bear more than a dozen coconuts, and each string can bear one or twenty fruits. Coconut fruit is drupe, generally oval or oval, and some are triangular. Immature coconuts are turquoise and dark brown when mature. A mature medium-sized coconut fruit has 1500-2000 grams. Coconut skin is thick, smooth and soft, which can protect the fruit from being broken when it falls to the ground and prevent the invasion of water. When you eat coconut, you should peel off the skin and remove the hard shell first. There are several white spots on the hard shell, poke them open, suck coconut juice with a straw, and then scrape off the white pulp with a knife. It tastes better after freezing. Moreover, there is a lot of knowledge about eating coconuts. For example, the taste of coconut juice changes when it leaves the coconut shell. Coconut juice poured out in the morning is sweeter and lighter in the afternoon. Fresh coconut juice is "clear as water and sweet as honey", which is cool and sweet after drinking, delicious, unique in flavor and high in nutritional value. It is the best drink to relieve summer heat. Coconut meat is fragrant, smooth and crisp. Besides being eaten as fruit, it can also be made into dishes or candied fruit: Hainan people often use Hainan high-quality glutinous rice, natural coconut meat and coconut juice to make "coconut rice", also known as "coconut boat". Other dishes made of coconut include: coconut stewed chicken, Qiongzhou coconut cup and so on.
Coconut has high nutritional value. Chinese medicine believes that coconut meat is sweet and flat, and has the effects of invigorating spleen and stomach, killing insects and eliminating malnutrition; Coconut juice is sweet and warm, which has the effect of promoting body fluid and benefiting water. Modern medical research shows that coconut meat contains protein and carbohydrates; Coconut oil contains sugar, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin C and so on. Coconut juice contains many nutrients, such as sugar, glucose, sucrose, protein, fat, vitamin B, vitamin C and trace elements and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. It can be seen that coconut is a good product for both medicine and food. When the spleen and stomach are tired, the appetite is poor, the limbs are weak, and the body is weak, the coconut meat is chopped, and a proper amount of chicken and glutinous rice are added, and the effect is better after steaming, because chicken, glutinous rice and coconut meat are nourishing, and the nourishing effect is more obvious when treated by stewing soup; Coconut and winter melon seeds can diarrhea lung fire; Adding cool snow meat or nourishing yellow ear can neutralize the warmth and dryness of coconut; When you have a cold and cough, you might as well eat coconut meat to relieve cough and resolve phlegm. People who are full of heat in the body should not eat coconuts; If you sleep at night for a long time, love to eat fried food, easily lose your temper and get thirsty, remember not to eat more coconuts.
Besides its fruit, coconut has many other functions: coconut shell can be used to burn activated carbon or process coconut carvings and musical instruments; Dried coconut can be processed into coconut oil; Coconut wood is hard and beautiful, and can be used as furniture or building materials. There are more than 360 kinds of coconut comprehensive utilization products, which are called "precious trees" and "Tree of Life" abroad.