Yangtao is a small evergreen tree or shrub, the berries alternate and alternate throughout the year. Long-standing reputation as one of the best fruits of Lingnan. Poppy seed is divided into two categories: sour poppy seed and sweet poppy seed. Sour poplar fruit is large and sour, commonly known as "three ripening", less raw food, more for cooking ingredients or processing preserves. Sweet peach can be divided into "big flower", "flower", "white shell" three strains, sweet, no dregs, delicious flavor. The edible rate of poplar peaches is more than 92%. In fact, the sweet (sweet) and sour taste of poplar peaches is related to varieties, cultivation climate and management differences.

Chinese name: Yang Peach

Extrinsic name: Carambola

Alias: five convergence of the son, Yang Peach, peach, three Lianzi

Synonymy: Averrhoa carambola L

Boundary: Botanical

Family: Edelweiss

Genus: five convergence of the son genus

[Edit Paragraph p>[edit paragraph] Name origin

Yang Peach in the Jin Dynasty was introduced to China, because of its hanging branches and called "peach", and so the fruit is across the ocean, help called "foreign peaches", and later due to a clerical error became the "peach".

[edit this paragraph]Morphological features

Yang peach is the fruit of Averrhoa carambola Linn. in the Oxalidaceae family of the edelweiss family. Appearance and color: the appearance of Yang peach five diamond-shaped, green or light green when not ripe, ripe yellow-green to bright yellow, single fruit weight of about 80 grams. Thin skin such as film, less fiber, crisp juice, sweet and sour, aromatic sweet. Yang peach edible rate of 92% or more.

The poplar peach is a small evergreen tree or shrub, berries alternate throughout the year, but the quality of flowering in July, the autumn equinox fruit ripe for the best, the highest yield. Before and after the mid-autumn for the peak production period of poplar peach.

[Edit Paragraph]Yang peach eating method

1. Directly eat

Clean, then use a knife to cut off five (or six) rhombus, note that only need to cut off the thinner rhombus can be, do not need to cut off the whole rhombus all, in that case, the whole Yang Peach is not much left, and then use a knife to cut into thin slices of the pentagram, can be eaten.

2. Egg and milk stewed poppyseed:

Poppyseed is rich in sugar, fiber and acid, can solve the internal organs of the accumulated heat, clear dryness and intestines. Use it to do dessert can skin care and skin care, suitable for people who stay up all night.

Ingredients include: poppy seeds 1 to remove the hard side of the core and cut into small pieces, 2 eggs, 250ml of milk, sugar at random.

The production method is simple, the first poplar peach pieces, milk, sugar in the pot with low heat and cook until the sugar dissolves off the fire, cool (poplar peach with cooking is to make the milk soup has the flavor of poplar peach). Then filter out the milk, add the milk to the beaten egg and mix well, sieve filter foam and beat the egg white, and finally add the poppy seeds, cover the plate with high heat and steam until solidified.

3. Plucked popcorn:

The outer form of the popcorn pentagonal rhombus (a few hexagonal rhombus), cross-cut like a star, also known as the star-shaped fruit. Now introduces a home dessert - plucked popcorn, delicious not to mention, the most pleasing to the eye is its lovely star-shaped, wrapped in plucked crispy pulp, in the sunshine to see extra crystal transparent, so it gave it a good image of the name, called "glass star "

Materials

Ingredients: 2 popcorns, 1 cup self-raising flour, 5 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp sugar gum (or maltose).

How to make: Wash and remove the hard edges of the peaches and wipe dry, cut into thick pieces. Add 3/4 cup of water to the flour and mix into a crunchy batter. Dip the peaches into the crunchy batter and deep-fry in hot oil until golden brown and crispy, then drain the oil and set aside. With a little oil and slow fire sugar, sugar gelatin, half a cup of water until thick almost gelatin, remove from the heat, add the crispy peaches and mix well.

4. American peach buns:

Ingredients: 150g high gluten flour, 30g low gluten flour, 1 and 1/2 tsp dry yeast, 80ml lukewarm water, 20g butter, 2 tbsp sugar, 1/3 tsp salt, 2 tbsp milk powder. 2 poppies, 2 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp corn starch, 1 tbsp cream (can be omitted), 1 tsp egg white, 25g powdered sugar.

To make this recipe, preheat the oven to 175 degrees Fahrenheit, place in the middle of the oven and bake for about 15 minutes. Pit and cut the peaches into small pieces, beat them with a blender, add the sugar, cornstarch and cream, bring to a boil and allow to cool.

After the basic fermentation, divide the dough into 12 equal parts, flatten slightly and make a dent in the center, and let it ferment for 30 minutes. Fill the holes with the filling and bake with the egg-sugar mixture. Mix powdered sugar with egg white, put it in a small plastic bag, and squeeze thin threads on the baked bread as decoration.

[edit]Nutritional composition

Yang peach is a lot of water fruit, fresh fruit soluble solids of 9%. Each 100 grams of edible part contains 6.2 grams of carbon hydrate, vitamin C 7 mg, containing sucrose, fructose, glucose, malic acid 46.8 grams, oxalic acid 7.2 grams, citric acid and vitamins B1, B2, and calcium, potassium, magnesium, trace fats and proteins and other various nutrients, it is a kind of nutrient composition more comprehensive fruit.

[edit]Health effects

Yang Peach for the human body has a digestive, nourishing, health care functions, for malaria has an antibiotic effect. Juice can promote appetite, help digestion, the efficacy of treatment of skin diseases.

Yang Peach fresh fruit, sex is slightly cold, easy to eat to make the spleen and stomach wet and cold, loose stools and diarrhea, hindering appetite and digestion and absorption. If for therapeutic purposes, whether eating raw fruit or drinking juice, it is best not to cold and ice diet.

[Edit Paragraph]Planting Management

One, choose a place to build a garden

Four Seasons sweet poplar for the tropical evergreen fruit trees, suitable for economic cultivation in the tropics, southern subtropical poplar areas. Because of the preferred high temperature and humidity, more shade, avoid cold, afraid of drought, afraid of the wind, therefore, in the appropriate area, but also should choose the soil layer deep fertile, moisture, drainage, convenient, back to the south of the wind of the garden; if the mountain garden, it is appropriate to choose a water source can be irrigated, the soil quality is better, the slope of the south, southeast of the lower and middle slopes. In general, ditches should be dug for drainage and irrigation. In the Pearl River Delta paddy field area, poplar peach garden irrigation ditches up to about 1 meter deep. But the depth of the irrigation ditch should be based on the water table level. Mountain gardening to improve soil conservation and soil improvement, improve fertility, solve the irrigation water.

Two, planting

Four seasons of sweet popcorn in addition to too cold weather, can be planted throughout the year. The earlier the planting, the longer the growing time, the higher the yield that year. The depth of planting to the soil into the hole, slightly below the surface is appropriate, too deep seedling growth is slow; too shallow seedling is susceptible to drought damage, reduce the survival rate. When planting, pay attention to pour enough water to set the root, and then pour water every day or every other day, until the survival. Planting specifications: 3 × 4 meters, 3 × 5 meters, 40-50 plants per 667 square meters (mu), to be thinned out after the canopy handover. Before planting, you should dig a large planting hole and apply enough rotted organic matter as base fertilizer. Flat orchard planting hole depth and width of 50 cm, if the soil is sticky and hard can be properly deepened and widened; mountain orchard planting hole depth and width of 1 m, after planting still have to expand the hole year after year to change the soil, each hole of soil and miscellaneous fertilizer 25 kg, livestock manure 10 kg, mushroom hawthorn 10 kg, cake fertilizer 2 kg, and another calcium and magnesium phosphorus fertilizer, lime 1 kg and the soil mixing back to the hole and cultivated into a mound of 20 cm above the ground. When the soil sinks, can be planted. Planting seedlings should be right, the soil around the root compaction, cover grass. In addition, after planting, at least once a year need to plow, in order to promote the weathering of the soil, to achieve good aeration, good water permeability, conducive to root growth.

Three, between the seeds

Four Seasons sweet peach has early results habit, generally planted at the beginning of the year, the end of the fruit, but the initial plant rows between the open space, and the peach is afraid of the hot sun, requires semi-shade, moist environment, so it should be reasonable planting of papaya, bananas, vegetables, soybeans and other crops for proper.

[Edit Paragraph]Other related

Yangtao tea

Here is the introduction of a Yangtao tea

Yangtao for the edelweiss plant Yangtao's fruit, is one of the prestigious Lingnan fruit. The peach grows alternately throughout the year, but blossoms in July, the autumn equinox fruit ripe for the best, so before and after the mid-autumn is the best season for the peach market. The peach is divided into two categories: sour peach and sweet peach, and the most famous one is the peach produced in Fangcun Huadi, a suburb of Guangzhou, which is tasty and delicious when eaten raw, and has the effect of eliminating heat, generating fluids, and inducing diuresis. Sour peach less raw, more for cooking ingredients or processing preserves, or for medicinal purposes. Peach skin is smooth and bright with waxy, yellow flesh is bright and tender, crisp and juicy. Peach contains a variety of nutrients, can reduce the body's absorption of fat, but also hepatoprotective and hypoglycemic effect, so especially for people suffering from cardiovascular disease or obesity. Poppy seeds are rich in sugar, vitamin C and organic acids, fruit juice, can quickly replenish the body's water, thirst, eliminate fatigue. The juice contains a lot of oxalic acid, citric acid, malic acid, etc., which can promote the digestion of food. Poplar peaches contain a large number of volatile components, which can eliminate inflammation of the throat and mouth ulcers. Yang peach roots, branches, leaves, flowers and fruits can be used for medicinal purposes, the most commonly used is the pulp. According to the "compendium": "the main treatment of wind-heat, the birth of the thirst". So the poplar peach also has the reputation of being able to cure sore throat.

Raw materials: poppy seeds 2, sugar half a catty, black tea.

Production: 1. Yang Peach cut off the edges of the angles, cut into five pronged flower-like thin slices spare; 2. cut Yang Peach plus sugar marinade, marinade sealing a week can be; 3. marinated Yang Peach slices, the original juice with water to boil, drying spare; 4. black tea brewing, add Yang Peach slices of 4 to 5 slices can be.

The fresh fruit of poplar peaches is slightly cold in nature, as the "Pharmacognosy" says: "Eating more cold spleen and stomach, moving the 澼". Therefore, overconsumption is likely to lead to dampness and coldness in the spleen and stomach, loose stools and diarrhea, hindering appetite and digestion and absorption. Therefore, whether you eat fruit or drink juice, it is best not to cold and ice diet.

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