"A ride on the red dust consort laughs, no one knows it's lychee." Du Mu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote this famous poem for Yang Guifei, the favorite of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. Both in ancient and modern times, fresh fruits are rich in many nutrients. But in fact, many fruits, the most nutritious place is not in the flesh, but the skin.

And in addition to the immense nutritional richness of the rind, there are many other wonderful uses ~

a. The wonderful use of the rind - eat!

Don't get me wrong, this is not to suggest that you don't peel the skin directly to eat the peel. Many of the ways to eat the rind are also quite elaborate.

#Watermelon

For example, in the summer, we all like to eat watermelon, after eating watermelon, a lot of watermelon rind is thrown away. Especially those watermelons with thick rinds, it does feel like a waste. But in fact, cold watermelon rind is a very tasty flavor of summer cold dishes.

Just peel off the reddish flesh of the eaten watermelon rind, the outermost layer of the thickest skin of the darkest color, and then cut the remaining green flesh part of the watermelon into thin slices, or scrape the shredded, can be.

Then pour your favorite seasonings on the plate, such as chili oil, salt, vinegar, green onions and garlic, etc.

Mix according to your own taste and serve.

Cool watermelon rind

Watermelon rind part of the nutrition is actually not inferior to the pulp, vitamin C content and the number of amino acids and even far more than the pulp. Therefore, the watermelon cream tablets that we usually buy in the drugstore are actually basically made of watermelon rind.

#Dragonfruit

Besides watermelon, the skin of dragonfruit can also be juiced. Eat the inner most flesh of dragonfruit, peel off the hard skin of the outermost layer, then put the red flesh part into a juicer, and then deep fry the red juice, add sugar, put it into the refrigerator for a little while, and then take it out and add ice cubes and a piece of mint.

A gorgeous glass of dragon fruit juice on a hot summer day!

If there are friends who like to DIY, try to add some other drinks flavored, may also be able to make a cup of exclusive taste of their own drinks Oh ~

Two, the peel of the wonderful - to remove the odor

In addition to the most common eaten, the peel of the fruit because of all the fruity flavor, so the most common use, is the to remove the odor or as a deodorant.

Particularly in closed or semi-closed spaces such as refrigerators, closets, shoe cabinets and toilets. Because the air does not flow, so it is easy to produce strange smells, this time will be placed in the corners of these places in the fruit peel, can play in the removal of bad odors, so that the space covered with a special fruity effect.

Fruits that can be used as deodorizers are citrus, grapefruit, oranges and other fruits with aromas.

Tips: However, there is a need to pay attention to one point is, because the fruit skin is also a shelf life, and will be moldy and rotten. So these peels should remember to regularly replace Oh, otherwise it will be easy to rot and breeding bacteria.

Three, the peel of the wonderful -- other

Orange peel soup to the stink

Orange peel is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, in the "Rihuazi Materia Medica" inside, there are phlegm and cough effect.

Tangerine peel after drying, bring mutton soup when put two halves into the soup, the soup will also have the aroma of orange, remove the stink has a certain effect.

Homemade cleaner

Orange peels soaked into a glass jar full of white vinegar, completely soaked orange peels, and then stood for about 2 weeks, and then diluted with water, can be used as a homemade cleaner, spray a spray need to clean the place, and then wiped, fun and interesting DIY production.

Compost

In fact, a lot of fruit leather is rich in nutrients, to be used as fertilizer, flowers, kind of vegetables are very good, the home of the elderly is often peeled down to the fruit leather to vegetable pots inside the compost use.

As long as you pay attention to observe, fruit leather such as seemingly useless things, but also can be very good secondary use Oh ~