Red dates are more nutritious
Black dates are persimmons
The scientific name of black dates is Diospyros
Iotus
Linn), belongs to the Persimmon family and the genus Persimmon, and is also known as soft dates, milk dates, wild persimmons, clove dates, etc.
Black dates belong to the deciduous tree of the Prunus family. Simply put, they are a type of "Western plum", also known as Western dates. The fruit is about the size of a baby's fist. The flesh is quite thick and beautiful. The stone fruit is small, but the smell is But it’s very sweet! Currently, some of the black dates seen on the market are dried pulp, and some products are pressed into juice, or black dates are concentrated and refined into honey juice. Currently, the ingredients of black dates can also be seen in baby's non-staple foods. oh!
Black dates are rich in vitamins and minerals, such as vitamin A that protects the eyes, vitamin B complex that helps the body metabolize, and minerals that promote growth - calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, etc. ． ． These nutrients are rich in black dates! In addition, the greatest nutritional value of black dates is that it is rich in dietary fiber and pectin, which can help the baby's digestion and soften stools, so parents no longer have to worry about your little one's defecation problems!
Red dates, also called jujubes, jujubes, jujubes, good jujubes, etc., are one of the specialties of my country. Red dates have thin skin and thick flesh, moderate sweetness and rich nutrition. They are a good tonic for autumn and winter. Red dates have been cultivated in my country for more than 3,000 years.
Red dates can be eaten raw or cooked, and can also be processed into dried dates, date purees, preserved dates, date paste, drunk dates, smoked dates, burnt dates, black dates, candied dates, canned dates, and jujubes. Tea, jujube wine, jujube vinegar, jujube juice drinks, etc. can also be used in cooking. Use it to stew chicken, stew duck, stew pig feet, etc., all of which have unique flavor and are sweet and nourishing. There is a dazzling array of traditional foods made from dates in daily life, with different flavors, such as date rice dumplings, date rice cakes, date flower cakes, date roll cakes, date pot cakes, date hair cakes, fried cakes, longevity cakes, and Made into date paste filling, used to make various pastries. Chinese honey wine and donkey-hide gelatin candied dates made from red dates are sold overseas and are highly praised.
Red dates are very nutritious. Fresh dates contain 20%-36% sugar, and dried dates contain 55%-80% sugar. They contain high calories and can be used as a food substitute. They were often used for disaster relief in history. Vitamin C content ranks among the best among fruits, with a content of 0.0 per 100 grams. l-0.6 grams, about 100 times higher than apples, peaches, etc., and the content of vitamin P is also the highest among all fruits. People praise jujube as a natural vitamin pill. Each hundred grams of fresh dates contains 1.2 grams of protein, which is almost the highest among fresh fruits. Dried red dates produce extremely high amounts of heat. Each hundred grams of red dates can produce about 1,200-1,300 kilojoules of heat, which is close to that of raisins, and the content of protein, calcium, phosphorus, riboflavin and niacin is higher than that of raisins. Therefore, people have always regarded red dates as an excellent tonic.
If you eat three dates a day, you will not look old for a hundred years. Red dates are not only a delicious fruit, but also a good nourishing medicine. They have the effects of strengthening muscles and bones, nourishing blood and promoting qi, and nourishing the skin. Red dates can be used as medicine, which has been described as early as in "Compendium of Materia Medica". It is said that red dates can replenish qi and benefit the middle, nourish the spleen and soil, moisten the heart and lungs, regulate nutrition, soothe yin and blood, produce body fluids, please the color, open the nine orifices, help the twelve meridians, and combine with hundreds of medicines. Li Shizhen, a great medical scientist of the Ming Dynasty, wrote in "Compendium of Materia Medica": The smell of jujube is sweet and flat, it calms the spleen and nourishes the spleen, calms the stomach qi, clears the nine orifices, helps the twelve meridians, replenishes the lack of qi,... long-term use can lighten the body and prolong life. . Modern medical research shows that red dates have curative effects on allergic purpura, anemia, hypertension, acute and chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, and gastrointestinal tumors.