Brightly colored, sweet and sour, oranges are a common and delicious fruit in fall and winter. Tangerines are also very nutritious, and 1 tangerine is almost enough to meet the amount of vitamin C the human body needs every day. Oranges contain more than 170 kinds of plant compounds and more than 60 kinds of flavonoids, most of which are natural antioxidants. The rich nutrients in oranges have the effect of lowering blood lipids, anti-atherosclerosis, etc., which is beneficial to the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Orange juice contains a substance called "Nomilin", which has the ability to inhibit and kill cancer cells, and has a preventive effect on gastric cancer
In a study conducted by Canadian researchers, the total cholesterol (TC) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels of 16 adult males and 9 adult females were higher than the total cholesterol (TC) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels in all of them. -C) levels were higher than normal, and they drank 1 cup (250 ml), 2 cups, and 3 cups of orange juice per day for 4 weeks. It was found that drinking 1 cup, 2 cups and 3 cups of orange juice per day for 4 weeks increased plasma vitamin C levels by 2.1, 3.1 and 3.8 times respectively, and drinking 3 cups of orange juice per day for 4 weeks increased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels by 21%, folic acid levels by 18%, and lowered the ratio of LDL/HDL by 16%. HDL removes cholesterol from the walls of arterial blood vessels and prevents atherosclerosis. Research suggests that drinking 750ml of orange juice every day can effectively improve lipid metabolism in patients with hypercholesterolemia, which is beneficial to cardiovascular health.
The World Health Organization in the "diet, nutrition and prevention of chronic diseases," the report put forward citrus fruits can effectively prevent the occurrence of cardiovascular disease. Citrus fruits in folic acid has the effect of reducing plasma homocysteine, the latter can damage the arterial vasculature, is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Citrus fruits are rich in potassium, which helps regulate blood pressure and maintain normal heart rhythm. Vitamin C, carotenoids and flavonoids have anti-lipid oxidation effects, which can prevent the occurrence and development of atherosclerosis.
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) reviewed and analyzed 48 studies on citrus fruits and diseases, and found that eating one fruit a day (non-citrus) can reduce the risk of stroke by 4%, while eating one orange fruit a day can reduce the risk of stroke by 19%. This strongly suggests that citrus fruits have an extraordinary cardiovascular protective effect.
Oranges can be eaten often, but do not eat too much, recommended to eat 1-3 oranges a day. Eating too much at once is easy to "fire", can promote stomatitis or periodontitis, and may appear yellow skin.
One, orange peel medicinal:
Cleverly prevent motion sickness
One hour before getting on the bus, with fresh orange peel, folded inward into a double layer, aligned with the nostrils, fingers squeeze pinch the orange peel, the skin will be ejected countless strands of fine orange oil mist and be inhaled into the nostrils.
Continuing to squeeze and inhale at any time after getting into the car can effectively prevent motion sickness.
Cleverly cure frostbite
The orange peel will be charred with fire, research into powder, and then adjusted evenly with vegetable oil, smeared in the affected area.
Continuous bronchitis
Orange peel 5 to 15 grams of water as a tea, commonly used.
Cough
With dry orange peel 5 grams, add 2 cups of water decoction, put a small amount of ginger, brown sugar while hot to take: can also take the fresh orange peel appropriate amount, chopped up with boiled water, add sugar to drink tea, phlegm effect of cough.
Continue to treat constipation
Fresh orange peel 12 grams or dry orange peel 6 grams, decoction soup to take, can cure constipation.
Cleverness
With 30 grams of fresh orange peel, add a little salt decoction and drink, the effect of sobriety is quite good.
Technical treatment of sleep teeth
10 minutes before going to bed, mouth with a piece of orange peel, and then fall asleep, it is best not to spit out the orange peel, if you feel uncomfortable, and then spit out.
To prevent the teeth from "souring"
Eating sour oranges is not suitable for the elderly or people with dental allergies. In fact, as long as the food sour orange, that is, with the rest of the fresh orange peel soak boiled water to drink, you can prevent teeth "sour down".
Mastitis
Raw orange peel 30 grams, licorice 6 grams, decoction soup drink, can cure mastitis.
Cure bad breath
Put a small piece of orange peel in the mouth, or chew a small piece of fresh orange peel, can cure bad breath.
Cleverly resolve the poison of fish and crab
Drinking the appropriate amount of orange peel in decoction soup can alleviate the poisoning after eating fish and crab.
To cure stomach cold and vomiting
The orange peel and ginger slices will be decocted with water, and the soup will be drunk to cure stomach cold and vomiting.
They can be used to reduce gas and bloating
Use fresh orange peel to soak in boiling water, add the right amount of sugar, for the orange peel tea, after drinking can reduce gas and bloating, and moisten the throat.
Contact indigestion
Soak 50 grams of orange peel in wine. This wine has the effect of warming the spleen and stomach, and is used for indigestion, regurgitation and vomiting, etc. It is especially effective for indigestion caused by eating too much grease and not thinking about food.
Clean lungs and phlegm
The orange peel is washed and placed in white wine, soaked for more than 20 days to drink, and its flavor is mellow and refreshing, and there is a role in clearing lungs and phlegm.
If the soaking time is a little longer, to the Spring Festival or the beginning of spring and then drink, the flavor is better.
To cure wind-cold and cold
Fresh orange peel, ginger slices, plus brown sugar in the right amount of decoction to drink, can treat wind-cold, cold, vomiting, cough.
Cleverly refreshing appetizer
The orange peel is washed and shredded and dried, and the tea is placed in storage together, when drinking, with boiling water, the taste of the flavor of the delicious, appetizing, ventilation, refreshing effect.
Clever treatment of pancreatitis
With 30 grams of orange peel, 10 grams of licorice and water **** decoction as a tea. Helps to treat acute pancreatitis.
The skillful lowering of blood pressure
The orange peel is cut into silk and dried as a pillow, there is a smooth, antihypertensive effect, the high blood pressure patients are very applicable.
Technical foot sandworms
Toes were sewage stains, easy to itch, if scratching, then broken skin and water, the smell is unbearable, this time available fresh orange peel rubbing itchy, itching effect is very good.
Two, delicious food
Orange peel porridge: in the simmering rice porridge,
Before the porridge burns, put a few small pieces of clean orange peel, and so on after the porridge is cooked, not only fragrant and appetizing, on the chest and abdomen bloating or coughing phlegm, can play a dietary therapy role.
Orange Peel Soup: When making broth or pork chop soup, put a few pieces of orange peel, not only the soup is delicious, but also a light orange flavor, which will make people eat without a greasy feeling.
Orange Peel Tea: Cleaned orange peel cut into silk, ding or block, can be used alone with boiling water, but also with tea to drink, not only the taste of incense, but also appetizing, ventilation, refreshing effect.
Orange Peel Wine: Wash and dry orange peels in appropriate amounts soaked in white wine, about 20 days later you can drink. Orange wine has the effect of clearing lungs and resolving phlegm. If soaked for a little longer, the wine tastes better.
Orange peel dishes: after eating oranges, the fresh orange peel collected, cleaned, soaked in water for 2 days, then cut into thin silk, and then pickled in sugar for 20 days, it became a very delicious wine dishes. Not only does it taste sweet and refreshing, but it also has the effect of relieving alcohol.
Orange peel: the fresh orange peel, remove the tip and bad rotten part, wash with water, drain and then cut into small pieces with a knife, and then put in honey or sugar immersion marinade for 20 days, you can do sugar packets, dumplings, and other sweet food fillings, eat fresh and sweet.
Five spice orange peel: clean orange peel in water soaked in a day and night, remove the tip, head and moldy parts, squeeze dry and put in a pot of boiling water to boil for 30-40 minutes, and then squeeze the water to drain, and then cut into 1 cm square small pieces, according to the ratio of 500 grams of wet orange peel with 20 grams of salt and then in the pot to boil for 30 minutes, fish out, sprinkle a layer while wet! Licorice powder, every 500 grams of licorice powder 15 grams or so, after drying that is sweet, fragrant, sour, salty and slightly bitter flavor of the five spice peel. It has a long flavor and a medicinal healing effect.
Orange peel marmalade: orange peel marmalade, dry and fresh are available. First of all, the orange peel will be washed with water, put into the pot with water and boil for several minutes, the water will be poured out, add new water and then boil for several minutes, so 3-4 times, until the orange peel water is not too heavy bitter taste until. Then use your hands or cloth to squeeze the orange peel dry, use a knife to chop the orange peel into pieces, the more broken the better, if you can use a meat grinder to fine grind better. Put the chopped orange peel back into the pot, according to the number of orange peels to add the appropriate amount of brown sugar, sugar and saccharin, and add a little water, boil and then simmer into a thick paste, orange peel marmalade is ready.
Su Shi once had a poem: "a year of good scenery you have to remember, the most is orange, yellow, orange and green time". Although modern people have been confused about orange and tangerine, but both orange and tangerine have rich nutritional value. Oranges contain vitamin C, calcium, fiber, a small amount of protein, fat, as well as rich glucose, fructose, sucrose, malic acid, raffinic acid, citric acid, as well as carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, ascorbic acid, etc., can reduce cholesterol to prevent coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis. The nutritional value contained in oranges is also very high, its pulp in addition to water, mainly vitamin C, malic acid, succinic acid, sugar, pectin and so on. It can appetize and quench thirst, help digestion, and prevent constipation.
Citrus is a native plant of China, and its cultivation has a long history of nearly 4000 years. There are many varieties, including: early orange, milk orange, water orange, bag orange, warm orange, kumquat, sand orange, honey orange, sheep orange and so on. In China, the orange also represents "good luck" and "reunion", in many places to get married, the new house and the custom of eating oranges, meaning that the early birth of noble children. In ancient times, it was very common to use orange as the name of a place: Xiaoxiang has orange township, Dongting has orange, Pengze has orange city, Changsha has Orange Island, etc.
Orange is the name of a place in the world.
Tangerine can be said to be the whole body is a treasure, its pulp, skin, core, complex can be used as medicine. The outer rind of orange is called "Chenpi" after drying in the sun (because it is good for medicine with Chen, so it is called Chenpi). The white net-like filaments above the orange flesh are called "tangerine complex", which contains a certain amount of vitamin P, and has the effect of clearing up the complex, resolving phlegm, regulating qi, and eliminating stagnation, etc. The kernel of tangerine is bitter in flavor, and has no bitter taste. Tangerine kernel is bitter and non-toxic in nature, and can be used to treat hernia and lumbago by regulating qi and relieving pain. Even orange roots and leaves can be used as medicine, with different functions such as soothing the liver, strengthening the spleen and harmonizing the stomach. Citrus pulp is also an important raw material for light industry, which can be processed into canned food, candied fruit, jam, fruit cake, peptones, fructose, and can also be made into fruit juice, fruit wine and other beverages. During processing, pectin, citric acid, hesperidin, essential oils can be extracted, and orange peel can be used as a raw material for extracting vitamin A, vitamin P, vitamin C. Orange peel in daily life also has a lot of ingenious, wonderful use, it can be beauty care, clean porcelain with tea rust, deodorization, but also as fertilizer.
However, although the orange is good, do not eat!
Special tips
1, eat too much orange caused by stones
Orange high water content, nutrient-rich, containing a large number of vitamin C, citric acid and glucose and more than ten kinds of nutrients. Eat properly, can benefit the body, especially for patients with chronic hepatitis and hypertension, eat more mandarin oranges can improve liver detoxification, accelerate the transformation of cholesterol, to prevent atherosclerosis. Appropriate consumption can enhance appetite, but if consumed improperly instead of beneficial.
2, children especially should not eat more oranges
Oranges are rich in carotenoids, such as a large number of eaten, about 500 grams a day for two months, there can be hypercarotenemia, which is manifested in the hands, palms of the skin yellow, gradually infected with the whole body, can be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, fatigue and other symptoms, and sometimes easy to confuse with hepatitis.
Carotenoids are converted into vitamin A in the liver, and a large amount of carotenoids cannot be converted in the pediatric liver in time, so they are deposited with the blood all over the body, which has an adverse effect on the body.
Some children eat too many oranges will also appear in traditional Chinese medicine called "fire" performance, such as inflammation of the tongue, periodontitis, pharyngitis. Therefore, we believe that children should not eat more oranges. If you eat more, you should stop eating 1 to 2 weeks before eating.
The following points should be noted when eating oranges:
First, control the amount of food.
It is measured, eat 3 oranges a day, can meet a person a day on the amount of vitamin C needs. If you eat too much, excessive intake of vitamin C, the body metabolism of oxalic acid will increase, easy to cause urinary stones, kidney stones.
Second, oranges should not be eaten with radishes.
In recent years, scientists through a large number of clinical observations found that cruciferous vegetables such as radish ingested into the human body, can quickly produce a substance called thiocyanate, and soon metabolized to produce a kind of anti-thyroid substance - thiocyanic acid. The amount of the substance produced is directly proportional to the amount of intake. At this time, if the intake of a large number of fruits containing plant pigments, such as oranges, pears, apples, grapes, etc., the flavonoids in the intestinal tract by the bacterial decomposition, can strengthen the role of thiocyanic acid inhibition of the thyroid, which led to the enlargement of the thyroid gland.
Therefore, experts remind people to pay attention to the fact that it is not advisable to eat oranges, apples, grapes and other fruits immediately after eating cruciferous vegetables such as radish. So you should pay attention when you eat these foods!
Third, oranges and milk should not be eaten together.
The protein in milk is easy to react with the fruit acids and vitamin C in oranges, solidified into blocks, not only affecting digestion and absorption, but also cause bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms.
In addition, the stomach and intestines, kidneys, lungs function of the cold elderly can not eat more, so as not to induce abdominal pain, waist and knee weakness and other symptoms.
Pregnant women should not eat more than 3 citrus per day, with a total weight of 250 grams or less.
Tips to make sour oranges sweet
Winter is the season when oranges taste the best. However, sometimes you come across sour oranges. At such times, there is a way to turn sour oranges into sweet ones. The method is super simple, put the oranges in the basket of your bike and take a spin around the neighborhood. When you come back, you taste the oranges in the basket again, and ah, it's unbelievable. Sour oranges have somehow turned into sweet oranges. In winter, people usually like to be bored at home, push the bike around, just to relieve the lack of exercise, and eat oranges can get vitamin C, really beauty and health in one fell swoop ah. Be sure to try ah.
Put the oranges in the basket of your bike and go around the neighborhood. Why do oranges become sweet? Do oranges really get sweeter after using this method? If you test the composition of the orange, you can find that the sugar content of a sour orange with a sugar content of 11.6 is still 11.6 after using this method. but it will feel obviously sweeter when you eat it. In fact, the change in sweetness is related to the difference in acidity contained in the orange. Oranges contain both sugar, which produces sweetness, and acid, which produces sourness. Acid is very susceptible to shock, so when it is shocked, it decreases. In other words, it feels sweet because the acid is reduced. If you test the acidity, it was 6.6 before using the method, and it became 2.1 after using the method. due to the shaking of the bicycle basket, the acid received a shock, so it was reduced. Giving an orange a shock like this will make it sweet, but I don't favor giving it too much of a shock. A shock of the degree of the bicycle basket is optimal.
There are three contraindications to oranges:
When consuming oranges you should pay attention to the following:
First, control the amount of food consumed.
It is measured, eat 3 oranges a day, can meet a person a day on the amount of vitamin C needs. If you eat too much, excessive intake of vitamin C, the body metabolism of oxalic acid will increase, easy to cause urinary stones, kidney stones.
Second, oranges should not be eaten with radishes.
Radish into the body, will quickly produce a substance called sulfate, and soon metabolized to produce an anti-thyroid substance - thiocyanic acid. If you eat oranges at this time, the flavonoids in oranges will be broken down in the intestine and transformed into hydroxybenzoic acid and ferulic acid, which can strengthen the inhibitory effect of thiocyanic acid on the thyroid gland, thus inducing or causing goiter.
Third, oranges and milk should not be eaten together.
The protein in milk is easy to react with the fruit acids and vitamin C in oranges, solidifying into blocks, not only affecting digestion and absorption, but also causing bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms.
In addition, the stomach and intestines, kidneys, lungs, cold function of the elderly can not eat, so as not to induce abdominal pain, lumbar and knee soreness and other diseases