Pineapple is flat, sweet, slightly sour, slightly astringent and slightly cold. It has the effects of clearing away summer heat, quenching thirst, promoting digestion, relieving diarrhea, invigorating spleen and stomach, strengthening body constitution, invigorating qi and blood, promoting digestion and eliminating dampness, and caring skin and slimming.

Pineapple contains a substance called bromelain, which can decompose protein, help digestion, dissolve fibrin and blood clots blocked in tissues, improve local blood circulation, dilute blood lipids, eliminate inflammation and edema, and promote blood circulation. Especially after eating meat and greasy food, eating pineapple is more suitable to prevent fat deposition.

Bromelain can effectively decompose protein in food and increase gastrointestinal peristalsis. This enzyme can decompose protein in the stomach, supplement the deficiency of human digestive enzymes, and restore the normal digestive function of patients with dyspepsia. This substance can prevent gel aggregation and can be used to make milk sour or soften other fruits, but this property will be weakened when cooking.

In addition, the sugar and enzymes contained in pineapple have a certain diuretic effect, which is beneficial to nephritis and hypertension, and also has an auxiliary effect on bronchitis. Because of the function of cellulose, it also has a certain effect on the treatment of constipation. When you have indigestion, eating pineapple can stimulate appetite, relieve greasy, help digestion and relieve constipation. In addition, pineapple is rich in vitamin B 1, which can promote metabolism and eliminate fatigue.

Pineapple juice has a cooling effect and can effectively prevent bronchitis, but it is best not to have a fever. According to medical research, since ancient times, human beings often rely on bromelain contained in pineapples to relieve the symptoms of sore throat and cough. Pineapple peel is rich in bromelain and has rich medicinal value. According to the experiments of foreign experts for more than 20 years, the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and diabetes is obviously reduced after long-term consumption of pineapple peel, and it has certain anti-cancer effect. It also contains an enzyme that can decompose protein.

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Jackfruit (Latin name: jackfruit. ) is an evergreen tree of Moraceae and Paramita. The height of the tree is 10-20m, and the bark is dark brown. Leaf leather oval, spiral arrangement; Flowers are monoecious, and when the fruit matures, the epidermis is yellow-brown, and there are tumor-like processes and coarse hairs on the surface.

Jackfruit is a tropical fruit and the heaviest fruit in the world. It generally weighs 5-20kg, and the heaviest fruit is over 59kg. The pulp can be eaten fresh or processed into canned food, preserved fruit and juice. Seeds are rich in starch and can be cooked; Sap and leaves can be used medicinally to reduce swelling and detoxify; The pulp has the effects of quenching thirst, promoting lactation, invigorating middle warmer and benefiting qi; Jackfruit is a beautiful shade tree and street tree with neat tree shape, thick crown and strange fruit. A century-old jackfruit tree with golden wood and hard material can be used to make furniture and yellow dyes.

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Jackfruit-Baidu Encyclopedia