Kumquat is best eaten whole-without peeling.

Their sweetness actually comes from the peel, while the juice is sour. The only thing to note is that if you are allergic to the skin of ordinary citrus fruits, you may need to rotten kumquat. If the sour juice is inedible, you can squeeze it dry before eating the fruit. Just cut off or bite one end of the fruit and squeeze it. However, many people suggest putting the whole fruit in your mouth and taking a bite, which will mix sweet and sour tastes.

Before eating, you can also help gently roll the fruit between your fingers. This helps to release the essential oil from the peel and mix the flavors of sweet peel and sour pulp.

Besides, please chew kumquat carefully. The longer the chewing time, the sweeter the taste. If you want to soften the peel of the fruit before eating it, you can put it in boiling water for about 20 seconds and then rinse it in cold water. But this is not necessary. As for kumquat seeds, you can eat them (though bitter), spit them out, or pick them when cutting fruit.

Second, the medicinal value

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kumquat is warm and sweet, enters the lungs and gallbladder, and has the effects of regulating qi and relieving depression, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. It is suitable for fever, dry mouth, cough and excessive phlegm. Proper intake of citrus fruits such as kumquat has a good effect on preventing and treating some physical discomfort.

1, treating sore throat

300g kumquat, 300g tomato and 300g kiwi fruit. Wash the above ingredients, peel kumquat and kiwi fruit, squeeze them into juice, and add appropriate amount of warm water for tea drinking.

2. Treat cough and phlegm

Kumquat100g (washed in half), 20g of sweet almond, 200g of white radish and 20g of ginger. Decoct in water, add appropriate amount of honey to taste, eat fruit and drink soup.

3. Treat chest tightness and abdominal distension

Kumquat100g (washed in half), rose10g, water chestnut (washed) 30g, hawthorn100g (washed), water-fried, and fruit-eating soup.

4. sober up

300 grams of kumquat, 500 grams of orange and 200 grams of cherry tomatoes. Wash the above ingredients, squeeze them into juice, add appropriate amount of boiling water and drink them frequently instead of tea. Hypertensive kumquat 300g (washed in half), white chrysanthemum10g, hawthorn 30g. Decoct in water, eat fruit and drink soup.

5. Treat hyperplasia of mammary glands

Kumquat100g (washed in half), kelp 30g, honeysuckle10g, dandelion15g. Decoct in water and drink frequently. Edema kumquat100g (washed in half), melon skin 40g, corn stigma 20g. Decoct in water and drink frequently.

6. Treat kidney disease

Patients can take kumquat 500g, strawberry 200g, grape100g and tomato 30g. Wash the above ingredients, peel kumquat, squeeze it into juice, and add appropriate amount of warm water to serve. Efficacy: nourishing yin, promoting fluid production and invigorating qi and blood. It is suitable for patients with kidney disease with weak waist and knees and unfavorable urination.

Extended data:

provenance

Kumquat factory originated in China. The earliest historical records about kumquat appeared in the imperial literature of12nd century. For a long time, they have been cultivated in other parts of East Asia (Japanese and Taiwan Province), South Asia (Indian) and Southeast Asia (especially the Philippines).

They were introduced to Europe in 1846 by Robert Fortune, a collector of the Horticultural Society of London, and were soon brought to North America.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-kumquat