There is a kind of orange that can be eaten with the skin
It is best to clean it and eat it with the skin.
The characteristic of kumquats is that the peel and pulp are eaten together. After chewing, you will feel moist in your throat and fragrant in your mouth. Kumquat 80% vitamin C is concentrated in the peel, up to 200 mg per 100 grams. In addition to being eaten fresh, kumquats can also be made into tea for drinking. A larger use is to process it into sugar kumquat cake, licorice kumquat cake, jam, orange peel wine, kumquat juice, etc. Fragrance oils can also be extracted from the peel.
Kumquat has high medicinal value. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that kumquat peel is tonic when used with tonics, laxatives when used with laxatives, ascending when used with ascending drugs, and descending when used with descending drugs. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that raw kumquat has the functions of regulating qi, replenishing the body, relieving depression, digesting, dispersing cold, resolving phlegm, and sobering up. It can be used to treat chest tightness, drunkenness and thirst, indigestion, loss of appetite, cough and asthma. Patients with cholecystitis, hepatitis, stomach problems, tracheitis, hypertension, and vascular sclerosis often eat kumquats or kumquat cakes, which have an auxiliary therapeutic effect. According to a Japanese medical journal, kumquat can enhance the body's ability to resist colds, prevent and treat colds, lower blood lipids, and is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of senile diseases. Kumquat core can cure eye diseases, lymphatic tuberculosis, pharyngitis, etc. Kumquat root has the effect of promoting qi and dispersing stagnation, and can treat stomachache, vomiting, hernia, lymphatic tuberculosis, etc.