Medicinal value of pineapple: 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, nourishing spleen and stomach, strengthening body constitution, invigorating qi and blood, promoting digestion, eliminating dampness, beautifying and slimming. It is a seasonal fruit for both medicine and food in summer, but it is not advisable to eat too much at one time.
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.