Bergamot is the fruit of bergamot of Rutaceae. Also known as Fushou Citrus, Finger Citrus and Honey Citrus. It should be unfamiliar to most people. Its origin is India, and it is also cultivated in Guangxi, Anhui, Yunnan, Fujian and other provinces. When the fruit matures, the carpels are separated to form slender and curved fruit petals, which are like fingers, hence the name bergamot. Usually used as traditional Chinese medicine, or as an ornamental plant because of its peculiar fruit shape, it has the effects of regulating stomach and relieving pain, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, soothing the liver and regulating qi, and treating leukorrhagia in women. In addition, bergamot will be made into a large number of preserved fruits to eat and sell.

nutritive value

Bergamot contains crude fiber, ash, a large amount of carbohydrates, dimethoxycoumarin, acrylic acid, palmitic acid, limonin, trihydroxydimethoxyflavone, limonin, carotene, a small amount of geraniol and hesperidin.

Functional action

Bergamot is warm, pungent, bitter and sour, and has the effects of aromatic regulating qi, invigorating stomach and stopping vomiting, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.

economic value

Because bergamot has high ornamental value and medicinal value, its economic value is relatively high. All kinds of medicinal liquor made from bergamot are fragrant, sweet and delicious, and have been affirmed by experts many times; The health tea made of bergamot has won the national patent. It has been identified by the Tea Quality Supervision, Inspection and Testing Center of the Ministry of Agriculture that bergamot contains amino acids, vitamins and various trace elements needed by the human body, which is a new excavation of the treasure house of Chinese herbal medicine. Aromatic oil extracted from the fruit, skin and leaves of bergamot has been used as an important raw material for high-grade tobacco flavor internationally. Experts believe that using bergamot to process food, drink and brew bergamot wine has a very broad prospect.