The famous poem of the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Tong about the pomelo is "The trees are covered with smoke and fire, and the mountains are illuminated by the sun like hanging gold". Pomelo ripens in the golden fall, and is one of the essential fruits for family reunion during the Chrysanthemum Festival.
Pomelo is the autumn fruit in the most large, ordinary weight of about a kilogram or more, picked in mid-August to the end of October in the lunar calendar, the skin thick and resistant to storage, generally can be stored for three months without loss of flavor, so it is the Chinese and foreign fruit experts known as the "canned natural fruit". Pomelo has high nutritional value, rich in protein, sugar, organic acids, vitamin A, B1, B2, C, P and calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium and other nutrients, of which, per 100 grams of pomelo meat containing vitamin C57 mg, 10 times higher than pear, containing calcium 519 mg, greatly exceeding other fruits.
Effectiveness: According to Chinese medicine, pomelo meat is sweet and sour, cold and non-toxic, with the efficacy of gasification, moistening the lungs and clearing the intestines, replenishing blood and strengthening the spleen. Fresh pomelo meat contains similar insulin components, blood sugar effect, extremely beneficial to diabetes, cardiovascular disease patients, can cure less food, light mouth, indigestion, etc., often eat to help digestion, in addition to phlegm to quench thirst, the role of qi dispersal.
In addition, pomelo has a healthy stomach and spleen, lung, blood, intestinal, diuretic effect, can promote wound healing, septicemia has a good therapeutic effect. Modern medicine also found that pomelo has the prevention of cerebral thrombosis, anti-cancer, weight loss and other effects, most suitable for middle-aged and elderly people to eat.
Pomelo contains physiologically active substances, such as glucoside, naringenin, naringenin can reduce the viscosity of blood circulation, reduce the formation of blood clots. Middle-aged and elderly people who suffer from cerebrovascular disease, often eat pomelo to help prevent the occurrence of cerebral stroke. Pomelo contains a lot of vitamin C and calcium, which helps prevent the occurrence of intestinal and stomach cancer.
The therapeutic effect of pomelo is particularly obvious, will be a pomelo peeled, peeled the inner layer of white pith, cut sheer, put in a covered bowl, add the right amount of honey, steam cooked, a spoonful every morning and evening, rushed a little bit of wine, can cure the elderly coughing and asthma. Pomelo a peel and leave the meat, the pomelo meat into the chicken has been removed from the hair of the male chicken stewed in water, drink soup and eat chicken, once a week, can cure chronic bronchitis. Pomelo flower contains volatile oil, have to move gas, remove phlegm, analgesic effect, the Qing dynasty palace doctors sent people to collect pomelo flower, extract balsam for the royal family to enjoy, the Ming dynasty Li Shizhen that pomelo flower can be "long hair and dry". Applicable people: general people can eat. Heart, brain and kidney disease patients and people with poor respiratory system is especially suitable. Pregnant women are also suitable for consumption.
Applicable amount: 1 large petal (about 50 grams) per day.
Suitable time: Pomelo is slightly acidic in flavor, so it is not suitable for consumption on an empty stomach, and can be eaten one hour before meals to promote appetite.
Taboo: Who can't eat pomelo? Hypertensive patients should not eat grapefruit, especially grapefruit. Because it can interact with the drugs that hypertensive patients take on a daily basis, increase the blood concentration of the drug, so that the blood pressure obviously dropped significantly, posing a threat to health. Grapefruit is cold in nature and is not suitable for people with cold body. Patients who are taking medication, especially the elderly, it is best not to eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice. This is because the interaction of grapefruit with the antiallergic drug terfenadine can cause ventricular arrhythmias and even fatal ventricular fibrillation. Other drugs that interact adversely with grapefruit include: cyclosporine, caffeine, calcium antagonists, and cisapride. Drinking a glass of grapefruit juice, the possibility of interaction with drugs will remain for 24 hours. Special note: too bitter grapefruit should not be eaten.
Grapefruit skin more useful peeled grapefruit skin can not be eager to throw away, grapefruit skin has many uses, can be used to bathe, but also beauty and anti-mosquito. Pomelo skin is rich in essential oils, boiled into a soup added to the bath water, not only has a cosmetic effect, but also to prevent mosquito bites, because mosquitoes do not like the flavor of grapefruit. Pomelo can also be used as a deodorizer for the refrigerator, put the peeled grapefruit skin in the corner of the refrigerator, the fragrance of grapefruit skin can effectively eliminate the odor in the refrigerator. A few ways to eat pomelo Fresh pomelo skin and core, with Zhengbei apricot, shellfish, unbleached snow fungus 50 grams each, plus several bottles of honey, stewed and eaten. Pomelo skin eating.