Lantern fruit nutritional value:

1, supplemental nutrition

Lantern fruit has the human body needs 18 kinds of amino acids, vitamin C, calcium, magnesium, iron minerals, consumption of lantern fruit can be supplemented with a variety of micronutrients needed by the human body.

2, protect the liver, enhance vision

Lantern fruit is rich in vitamin A and carotene, can play a role in alleviating liver aging, promote the synthesis of retinal quality, so as to achieve the protection of the liver, enhance vision.

3, phlegm, cough, swelling and pain

Lantern fruit is slightly cold, has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification, especially for the treatment of tonsil inflammation is better, can relieve cough, phlegm and other symptoms. We will lantern fruit external application, can also play a role in the effect of pain relief.

4, alleviate the symptoms of anemia

Lantern fruit vitamin C content is higher than most fruits, second only to the kiwi, about every one hundred grams of lantern fruit in the possession of 200 milligrams of vitamin C. Frequent use of the lantern fruit to a certain extent can be the treatment of aplastic anemia.

Extended information

Girls fruit and currants are called lantern fruit

The difference between the two is mainly manifested in the following aspects:

1, the appearance of different

Lantern fruit: spherical, the fruit is a little bit larger than the thumb, there is a longitudinal lines, as if the skeleton of the lantern is named.

Girls fruit: a lantern-shaped outer skin, shiny and transparent, a few longitudinal vascular bundles clearly visible, very much like a lantern, so it is sometimes called lantern fruit

2, different flavors

Lantern fruit: immature taste very acidic, ripe yellowish-green, fully ripe was purple-red, sweet and sour taste.

Girls fruit: not ripe when very bitter, but in the fall after frost, the outer skin into a fiery red, inside the fruit into a yellow, girls fruit ripe not only sweet and also with a little milky flavor.

3, the taste is different

Lantern fruit: there are a lot of small seeds, not much water, eat the feeling like pomegranate.

Girl Fruit:Relatively have some moisture, eat with seedless raisins almost.

4, different morphological characteristics

Lantern fruit: belongs to the currant family tea I perennial shrubs. The bush is about 1.2 meters high, old branches gray-black, twigs gray to gray-brown, pilose when young, skin striped or flaky exfoliation, with 1-3 thick thorns at the nodes of the lower part of the leaf.

Girls fruit: girls fruit, also known as sour pulp for the Solanaceae sour pulp perennial erect herb, plant height 50-80cm, aboveground stems are often unbranched, longitudinal ribs, nodes dilated, young stems are densely pilose.

5, growing conditions are different

Lantern fruit: sex like temperature 20 ~ 25 ℃, like light in 3000 ~ 4000 meters above sea level within the sunshine, the soil requirements are not strict, the nutritional conditions of the high requirements.

Girls fruit: very adaptable, cold, heat, like cool, humid climate, do not choose the soil, especially the native Asian girls fruit in 3 ℃ -42 ℃ temperature range are able to grow normally.

6, the value of different uses

Girls fruit in addition to the same as the lantern fruit has a certain food value and medicinal value, but also has a garden value, because it grows strong, resistant to -25 ℃ low temperature, reproduction of fast growth, suitable for garden cultivation. It is often used as cut flowers and perennial flower beds for ornamental purposes.

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