1. As food: Ginkgo biloba is rich in nutrition, containing crude fat 2. 16%, starch 62.4%, sucrose 5.2%, reducing sugar 1. 1%, nucleoprotein 0.26%, minerals 3% and crude fiber/kloc-0. And vitamin c66.8-129.2mg/100g, vitamin e6. 17-8.05mg/100g, riboflavin, carrot, carotenoid, anthocyanin,17 amino acids. Trace elements include iron, copper, manganese, zinc and macroelements such as calcium and magnesium. Has high edible value. But it also contains small toxic substances, so pay attention to how to eat ginkgo when eating. In order to prevent ginkgo poisoning, eating less cooked food is the fundamental method, and raw ginkgo should be controlled at about 10 per day.
2, as a medicinal: eating ginkgo fruit can inhibit bacteria, relieve cough, resist waterlogging and insects, stop turbidity and lower serum cholesterol. In addition, Ginkgo biloba leaves can reduce the level of lipid peroxidation, reduce freckles, moisturize the skin and make a beautiful appearance. Flavonoids glycosides and flavonols in Ginkgo biloba leaves are free radical scavengers, which can protect dermal cells, improve blood circulation and prevent cells from being oxidized to produce wrinkles. Ginkgo biloba is one of the herbs with the ability to resist active genes. Ginkgo biloba is very effective in protecting lipid (a component of cell membrane) from free radical damage.
3. As an economic tree species: Ginkgo wood is of high quality and low price, and is known as "India wood" or "Yin Mu". Ginkgo wood can be used to make carved plaques, wooden fish and other handicrafts, and can also be used to make high-end furniture such as cabinets and desks. Ginkgo biloba has the characteristics of singing, guiding sound and elasticity, and is an ideal material for making musical instruments It can be used to make surveying and mapping instruments, pens and other cultural goods, and it is also the first-class wood for making chessboards, chess pieces, sports equipment, seals and small handicrafts. In industrial production, silver wood is most suitable for making machine models and wooden models of X-ray machine filter plates, textile printing and dyeing rollers, bodiless lacquerware, plywood, chopping boards and wooden telephones. Tannin can be extracted from the testa of Ginkgo biloba.
4. As garden ornamental plants: it can be used as an ideal cultivated tree species for landscaping, roads, highways, field forest nets and windbreaks. It is listed as one of the four long-lived ornamental tree species (pine, cypress, locust and ginkgo) in China.