Nutritional value of grapefruit
Grapefruit contains precious natural vitamin P, rich vitamin C and soluble cellulose, and is a fruit with less sugar content. Vitamin P can enhance the function of skin and pores, which is beneficial to skin care and beauty. Vitamin C can participate in the synthesis of human collagen, promote the production of antibodies and enhance the detoxification function of the body. Grapefruit contains cellulose, pectin, potassium, vitamin C, folic acid, inositol, bioflavonoids, limonene, etc., and is very rich in nutritional value. Fresh grapefruit contains low calories, with an average of only 82 kilocalories per grapefruit, which is one of the good fruits to lose weight.
Efficacy of grapefruit
Protect cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and lower blood sugar.
Pomelo contains potassium, a natural trace element necessary for patients with hypertension, and does not contain sodium. It is the best fruit for dietotherapy for patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and kidney diseases. In addition, grapefruit contains a lot of vitamin C, which can reduce cholesterol in the blood. Fresh grapefruit meat contains ingredients similar to insulin, which can lower blood sugar and is the best fruit for diet therapy for elderly friends.
skin care
Grapefruit contains precious natural vitamin P, rich vitamin C and soluble cellulose, and is a fruit with less sugar content. Vitamin P can enhance the function of skin and pores, which is beneficial to skin care and beauty.
Protect the fetus and supplement the nutrition of pregnant women
Grapefruit contains natural folic acid. Folic acid is not only very important in early pregnancy, but also essential throughout pregnancy. Folic acid deficiency will not only increase the incidence of pregnancy-induced hypertension and placental abruption, but also lead to megaloblastic anemia in pregnant women, intrauterine growth retardation, premature delivery and low birth weight of newborns. Therefore, grapefruit is also the first choice for pregnant women.
Stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, promoting fluid production and clearing away heat
Grapefruit can clear away heat, promote fluid production, quench thirst, promote qi circulation, stimulate appetite, promote digestion, relieve constipation, eliminate halitosis and intestinal odor, eliminate phlegm, relieve cough and relieve hangover.
Helps bone growth.
Naringin contained in grapefruit can stimulate osteogenic genes in cells and help accelerate bone growth. Eating more grapefruit is good for children.
Prevent colds and gum bleeding.
Grapefruit is rich in vitamin C. Eating grapefruit can prevent colds and bleeding gums. It can also prevent black spots and freckles, eliminate wrinkles and fatigue.
Grapefruit and the treatment of diseases
Grapefruit is not only the first choice for healthy people to lose weight, but also can be used to treat many diseases every day. So what diseases can grapefruit treat?
1, used for gastropathy and dyspepsia: If treating stomach pain and abdominal pain caused by cold, take a grapefruit (left on the tree, wrapped in paper, picked after frost) and a virgin hen (eviscerated), put it in a pot, add appropriate amount of yellow wine and brown sugar, steam it until it is cooked, and eat it one or two days later.
2, treatment of chronic cough, phlegm, asthma: take grapefruit raw food, used to treat drunkenness. To treat cough with excessive phlegm and asthma, take a grapefruit, remove the inner white sac, chop it up, put it in a covered bowl, add proper amount of maltose (or honey), steam it in water, one tablespoon in the morning and one tablespoon in the evening, and pour it into a little hot yellow wine for oral administration.
3, treatment of jaundice: 2 grapefruit, burning ash and grinding into fine powder, take 6-9 grams after meals every day, three times a day.
4, used for phlegm and cough. Cut grapefruit into pieces, remove the core, soak in wine overnight, cook until rotten, mix well with honey and swallow it from time to time. Dosage and usage: raw food, juice, decoction or steamed cooked food.
Xiyou gourmet making
Grapefruit is sweet and sour and refreshing, and it is nutritious to eat directly. At the same time, grapefruit can also make many delicious foods. The following small series has compiled several methods of making grapefruit food, and friends who like grapefruit can learn.
Grapefruit jam
Ingredients: grapefruit 600g, maltose150g, refined sugar120g, lemon 1/2.
Production method:
1, wash the lemon and squeeze out the juice for later use; Cut the grapefruit into 4 ~ 8 pieces, then peel it, remove the pulp and seeds, and tear off the white film for later use.
2. Put the treated grapefruit pulp into an acid-resistant pot, add lemon juice and boil it over medium heat.
3. Turn the heat down and add maltose to continue cooking. When cooking, be sure to keep stirring with a wooden shovel.
4. After maltose is completely dissolved, you can add fine sugar and continue to cook until the sauce is thick.
Grapefruit salad
Ingredients: grapefruit, celery, cheese, grapefruit juice, honey.
Production method:
1. Cut the grapefruit in half, dig out the pulp with a fruit knife, and then dig out all the petals with a spoon to make an empty peel.
2, celery, shredded cheese, cut into small pieces, and even grapefruit fruits are made into salads, placed in leather shells, wrapped in plastic wrap and refrigerated.
3. Mix grapefruit juice with honey and pour it on the salad when eating.
Pomelo jelly
Ingredients: 25g of konjac jelly powder, 90g of fine sugar and 500g of grapefruit juice. Subsurface materials: grapefruit 1, konjac jelly powder 15g, 50g of fine sugar and 300g of cold boiled water.
Production method:
1. Dry-mix the konjac jelly powder and fine sugar in the upper material, pour them into grapefruit juice and mix well, heat them to 80℃ with low fire and cook until the sugar and jelly powder are completely dissolved.
2. Pour it into the model while it is hot until 1/3 is full, and cool it at room temperature for later use.
3. Peel off the skin and membrane of grapefruit, and cut the pulp into cubes for later use.
4. Dry-mix konjac jelly powder with fine sugar, pour it into cold boiled water, mix well, heat it with low fire, cook until the sugar and jelly powder are completely dissolved, and then add grapefruit diced.
5. Pour it into the model of practice 2 while it is hot, and then buckle it out after it is completely cooled, thus completing this beautiful double-layer jelly.
Grapefruit salmon
Ingredients: 500g deep-sea salmon. Ingredients: half a grapefruit, lettuce100g, onion 200g, carrot 200g, Bajin mustard10g, Bajin pepper juice 5g, Meijia fresh soy sauce100g, and sugar 5g.
Production method:
1. Cut the salmon into thin slices with a length of 8 cm and a width of 3 cm; 、
2. Put a 6-inch bowl and arrange the fillets neatly at the bottom of the bowl; Break grapefruit nuts into natural particles and put them into a coded salmon fillet bowl;
3. Place a large disc, buckle the grapefruit salmon into the middle of the disc, and surround the companion with shredded lettuce, shredded onion and shredded carrot; Mix mustard, pepper juice, delicious soy sauce and sugar into juice and pour it on grapefruit salmon.