Apricot is the first fresh fruit listed in Xia Hou. Fruit has a high nutritional value. What is particularly striking is that it contains many substances with anti-cancer effects: carotene contains l.79 mg per 100 grams, and it also contains catechol, flavonoids and amygdalin, all of which have anti-cancer effects. Fiji, an island country in the South Pacific, is a country in the world that has no cancer so far. Everyone in this country has a special diet habit of eating apricots. They often eat dried apricots as we eat staple foods such as rice and flour. Therefore, eating apricots, dried apricots or almonds often is very beneficial to cancer prevention and health care. 　

Apricot is sour and sweet, warm in nature, and has the functions of moistening lung, relieving asthma, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Fresh food can cure stomach yin deficiency, thirst, dry throat, lung meridian dryness and heat, and cough. According to research, apricot is the fruit with the richest vitamin B 1, and vitamin B 17 is an extremely effective anticancer substance, which can kill cancer cells. It is reported that hospitals in the United States and local areas used vitamin B 1 to treat cancer. Of the 250 patients treated, 248 were effective. So far, 4,000 patients with advanced cancer have been saved with vitamin B 17. Therefore, apricots are suitable for a variety of cancer patients. 　

Because apricots are warm, you should not eat too much at a time, otherwise you will get angry. In addition, it should be noted that bitter almonds contain amygdalin, which can decompose into highly toxic hydrocyanic acid. Therefore, if you eat almonds, you must first soak them in water and heat them to boil, so that hydrocyanic acid can be dissolved in water or evaporated before eating them.