Alias of small files of fruits and vegetables: sweet plum and eight apricots.
Branch: apricot
Flowering and fruiting period: summer
Nutritional components: protein, carotene, etc.
Tropism of nature and taste: flat in nature, sweet in taste, and entering the lung meridian.
Health care function of apricot moistening lung and relieving asthma: Chinese medicine believes that apricot has the function of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and can treat dry cough and acute asthma caused by lung dryness.
Balance blood pressure: Eating apricots is beneficial to the balance of human blood pressure.
How to choose apricots
The essentials of choosing apricots: First, look at the color. Ripe apricots are yellow to golden yellow in color, while blue apricots are sour. The second is to pinch. Picking up soft apricots means that they are ripe and sweet to eat, while pinching up hard apricots makes them sour. If you eat too much, you will have a "sour tooth" phenomenon.
How to eat the most nutritious apricots directly or make jam is more conducive to the absorption of nutrients?
Suitable for people: generally everyone can eat, especially patients with respiratory diseases.
Not suitable for people: pregnant women, young children and diabetics should not eat apricots and their products.
Suitable match: Apricot is suitable for eating with watercress and milk. Conducive to expectorant lung, cough and asthma.
Not suitable for matching: eating apricots and millet together will cause abdominal discomfort.
It is suggested that apricots be made into apricot juice drinks or soaked in water several times before eating, which is not only safe, but also beneficial to health.
How to store the freshest apricots in a cool and ventilated place; It can also be squeezed into juice and stored in the refrigerator.
Food Link Homemade Apricot Cake
Material: 10 apricot.
Practice: (1) Wash apricots, drain water and peel off the epidermis. (2) Put the peeled apricots on a bamboo drawer, dry them in the sun and in a ventilated place, and gently squeeze them into cakes by hand. (3) Put the squeezed apricots back on the bamboo drawer to dry, and squeeze them again in turn for about 8- 10 days. (4) Put the dried apricot cakes into a small jar evenly, seal the jar mouth with plastic wrap and cover it, so that the apricot cakes can be put into the box.
Efficacy: moistening lung and relieving asthma.
Almond Yin Fei soup
Ingredients: pig lung 1 pair, sweet almond 75g, onion 13g, ginger and salt 8g, monosodium glutamate 3g, pepper 0.5g, cooking wine and chicken soup.
Practice: (1) Rinse the pig lungs with clean water, completely white and bloodless, control the water, then add cooking wine and mashed onion ginger with boiling water, stew until the lungs are rotten, and take out the cut slices. (2) After the almonds are swollen with boiling water, peel them, put them in a container, add water, and steam them on a drawer with strong fire. (3) Pour the chicken soup into the pot, then pour the pig lung and almond juice together, add pepper, monosodium glutamate and salt to taste, boil and remove the floating foam.
Efficacy: Eliminating phlegm and relieving cough, moistening lung and relieving asthma.