Besides being eaten as fruit, apples have many little-known uses and functions.

1. Keep potatoes fresh. Put the potatoes that need to be stored in the carton, and put some green apples in it at the same time, then cover them and put them in the shade. Because apples themselves can emit ethylene gas, potatoes can keep fresh and not rot.

2. Go to persimmon astringency. Mix persimmon and apple in a closed container for 5-7 days, and the astringency of persimmon will be gone.

3. Mature bananas and kiwis. Put the same amount of immature bananas or apples into a plastic bag and tie the bag tightly. In a few hours, the green banana will become Huang Xiangjiao. This method is also suitable for ripening kiwifruit.

Clean aluminum pot. Aluminum pot will turn black if it is used for a long time. Put the fresh apple peels into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil for a quarter of an hour, and then rinse with clean water, and aluminum pot will become as bright as new.

5. Treatment and prevention of diseases. Insist on eating an apple with skin every day (be sure to wash it clean), which has certain curative effect or preventive effect on senile diseases such as diabetes, arteriosclerosis and arthritis.

6. Treat constipation. Eating apples on an empty stomach in the morning and evening is beneficial to the treatment of constipation in middle-aged and elderly people.

7. Beauty. Eating apples before meals every day can make women slim and have good skin.

Six alternative uses of Chinese prickly ash

1: grain pest control

If the stored grain is eaten by insects, as long as a few pieces of pepper are wrapped in cloth, the insects will run away or die by themselves.

2. Anti-rancidity of oil

Put a proper amount of pepper powder in the oil to prevent the oil from deteriorating!

Step 3 Prevent ants in the kitchen

Prevent dozens of fresh peppers in the kitchen, and ants are afraid to go in.

4. Food for flies

Put some pepper beside the food and on the meat, so that flies won't land on the food.

5. Anti-boiling oil overflow

When cooking, if the oil is heated to the boiling point, it will overflow from the pot, but put a few peppers and the boiling oil will disappear immediately.

6. Toothache prevention

If it is a toothache caused by hot and cold food, put a handful of pepper on the painful tooth and the pain will gradually disappear.