1, lantern fruit, also known as fragrant bubbles, hanging golden lanterns, red lanterns, currants, mountain cherries, belonging to the currant family tea tree genus perennial shrubs. Bush height of about 1.2 meters, the fruit is a set of lantern-type pods of small round fruit, a little larger than the thumb, there are many small seeds.

2, immature flavor is very sour, ripe yellow-green, fully ripe purple-red. Very sweet, can be used to bake fruitcake, make jam.

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One of the edible value of the lantern fruit

The fresh fruit containing pectin is particularly large, can be processed into high-quality jams, fruitcakes, fruit juices and other health food products, products due to the unique flavor of the smell is well received by the consumer favorite. Lantern fruit fruit is rich in sugar, protein, fatty acids, amino acids, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. In addition, it also contains citric acid, malic acid, tannin resin, saponins, flavonoid glycosides and other physiologically active substances.

Second, the medicinal value of lantern fruit

1, lantern fruit is a traditional Chinese medicinal plants, "Shu Materia Medica", "Kai Bao Materia Medica", "Compendium of Materia Medica", "plant names and truths of the long compilation of charts," and so on are recorded.

2, lantern fruit not only has solid essence and astringent intestines, tonifying the kidney and aphrodisiac, shrinking urine and stopping diarrhea, inhibit hypercholesterolemia, enhance the body's hematopoietic, improve the vitality of a variety of enzymes and to prevent the cellular aging of medicinal functions, but also on the skin tumors, neurasthenia, dysentery, jaundice, edema, chronic pharyngitis, and skin and early cervical cancer, and other diseases have obvious therapeutic effects.

3, lantern fruit also has a significant antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, as well as immunomodulatory effects.?

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