Pineapple is flat, sweet, slightly sour, slightly astringent and slightly cold. It has the effects of relieving summer heat, quenching thirst, promoting digestion, relieving diarrhea, invigorating spleen and stomach, strengthening vitality, 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 a time. (Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica)

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.

Edible

As a fresh food, pineapple is golden in color, rich in fragrance, sweet and sour, crisp and juicy. Pineapple fruit is mostly used for canning except fresh food, and is widely loved because it can keep its original flavor. Canned pineapple is known as "international canned fruit" and can also be made into a variety of processed products, which are widely welcomed by consumers.

Pineapple, like some fruits, can make some people allergic, and the allergic reaction can appear within 15 minutes at the earliest. This symptom is called "pineapple disease" or "pineapple poisoning". For example, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, headache, dizziness, skin flushing, itching all over the body, numbness of limbs, mouth and tongue, dyspnea, shock and other serious allergic reactions.

Before eating, the pineapple is soaked in salt water, and some organic acids contained in it can be decomposed in salt water to remove the sour taste and make the pineapple taste sweeter. You can also scald it with boiling water before eating.

Bromelain began to denature at 45℃~50℃, and more than 90% was destroyed at 100℃. Glycosides can also be destroyed and eliminated at the same time; Serotonin is soluble in water. After cooking, the taste is also improved. Don't eat too many pineapples at a time. Excessive consumption is harmful to the stomach. The baby who eats for the first time only eats the size of a biscuit. If there is no abnormality, the amount can be increased appropriately next time.

Edible taboo

1. Because pineapple contains stimulating glycoside and bromelain, it will decompose protein in the body and stimulate the young epidermis of human oral mucosa and lips. If you don't soak the pineapple in salt water before eating, you will feel paralyzed and tingling.

So trim the skin and thorns, cut the pulp into pieces, soak it in light salt water or sugar water, and leach out the glycosides before eating. After pineapple is soaked in salt water, it can effectively destroy the internal allergic structure of "pineapple prion", thus losing the ability to make people allergic and the toxicity to some constitutions.

After eating meat or greasy food, eating pineapple is good for your health. "Pineapple Goo Old Meat" and "Pineapple Beef" are both safe dishes to eat.

3, pineapple and honey can be eaten at the same time, pineapple honey soup can cure bronchitis. However, people who are unwell or have diarrhea symptoms are advised not to eat like this.

4, pineapple: the proteolytic enzyme contained is quite strong, if eaten before meals, it is easy to cause stomach wall damage.

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Edible mode

The pulp and juice of pineapple are used in delicacies all over the world. In many tropical countries, pineapples are made into snacks and sold on the roadside. You can sell it as a whole or in half. The whole piece with core and cherry in the middle is a common decoration of western ham.

Pineapple pieces can be used in desserts such as fruit salads, pickles, including pizza stuffing, or as baking rings on hamburgers.

Traditional dishes using pineapple include hamonado, Africa, kaeng som pla and Hawaiian haystacks. Pineapple slices can be used in yogurt, jam, candy and ice cream. Pineapple juice as a drink is also a cocktail (such as pi? Coca) and drinks Hedyotis diffusa.

In the Philippines, since18th century, a traditional jelly-like dessert called Natadepi has been made. A: It is made of pineapple juice fermented by Komagataeibacter xylinus.

Pineapple vinegar is an ingredient in Honduras and the Philippines, and it is locally produced. In Mexico, it is usually made of whole fruit skin instead of fruit juice, but in Taiwan Province cuisine, pineapple juice is usually mixed with grain vinegar.

In 20 12-20 16, the European union consumed 50% of the global total, pineapple juice. In the Netherlands, it is the largest importer of pineapple juice in Europe. Thailand, Costa Rica and the Netherlands are the main suppliers to the EU market in 20 12-20 16.

In 20 17, the countries with the largest consumption of pineapple juice were Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, which together accounted for 47% of the world total. From 2007 to 20 17, the consumption of pineapple juice in Angola increased the most. Compared with the consumption of pineapple juice in India, China has a small population.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-pineapple