Nature will always give the world some wonderful and special gifts, such as fish in the deep sea area or hidden in the deep forest fruits, although "its appearance" but has the inner energy can not be underestimated, Guizhou's prickly pear is so.
Prickly pear is not the same as other pears, because the body covered with dense thorns and named, also known as prickly sour pear and wood pear, is a very rare fruit, is the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the western plateau of Sichuan endemic to the wild resources, so far, more than 300 years of history, the most intensive Guizhou.
Longli ten miles of prickly pear ditch scenic area is the concentration of prickly pear planting in Guizhou Province, is located in the hinterland of Qianzhong, the territory of the hills, low mountains, mountains and river valleys arranged in between troughs, where the soil is fertile, abundant rainfall, pollution-free natural environment formed a natural "China's prickly pear township".
Prickly pear, mainly born at an altitude of 500-2500 meters in the sunny slopes, ravines, roadsides and bushes, belongs to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the endemic plants, the world's best place of origin is only China's Guizhou, is a kind of regional fruit, a side of the soil and water to raise a side of the fruit, because of the scarcity of so it is more precious.
Eat up the human "Vitamin C king"
Prickly pear's appearance is very small, not before the picking of a yellow ball, open the inside of the light pink pulp, there is a refreshing fruit flavor, although it looks like a small hedgehog, looks Although it looks like a small hedgehog, looks a little "fierce", but has a very magical health effects.
Legend has it that, during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang rate of 100,000 troops captured Mengwu, passing through the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau warriors due to climatic discomfort one after another sick, worried about not being able to cure, at this time some people have provided the prickly pear formula, warriors this is only gradually restored to health, the prickly pear is also therefore Zhuge Liang called the army of the sacred, did not expect this small prickly pear, cure Zhuge Liang and his army.
Prickly pear because of its own nutrients by the local people called "prolonged fruit", as early as a few hundred years ago, the local people to prickly pear into medicine, now called by the scientific community, "three kings of the sacred fruit", because of its Vitamin C, Vitamin P, SOD (superoxide dismutase) content is high, and it is also a good source of vitamin C, Vitamin P, SOD (superoxide dismutase). SOD (superoxide dismutase) content is high, for the world known as the first of all fruits.
The content of vitamin C is 500 times that of apples, 10 times that of kiwis, and 75 times that of citrus, which has a strong antioxidant reduction capacity, as well as beauty and anti-fatigue effects.
Medicine and food and beauty
"A can of gold, loaded with some hard rice, do not eat hard rice, to eat the can of gold." This is a riddle circulating in Longli County, Guizhou, the riddle is the prickly pear.
There are many ways to eat prickly pear, the first is raw food, scrape off the skin of the small thorns, dig out the seeds, taste crisp, this time the highest nutrient content, but the disadvantage is that the taste of raw food is not too sweet, if it can be accompanied by a little honey is a unique flavor; the second is a special processed dried prickly pear, not only storage and preservation of convenient and delicious flavor.
The second can be made with dried fruit of prickly pear nutritious prickly pear tea, bubble out of the tea comes with a sweet and sour taste, but also can be brewed, high blood pressure and heart disease has a certain effect.
But was applied more or prickly pear made into dried fruit and candied fruit, is the local people's favorite snacks, eat the mouth has a sweet feeling, one after another to the mouth, simply can not stop.
The process of making dried prickly pear, without adding any preservatives, are local people's handmade, whether it is the elderly or children can rest assured that the use of each piece of dried fruit are full of meat, chewing in addition to feel the joy of sweetness, but also to experience which is preserved the most primitive nutrients and flavors.
Zhong Nanshan academician are praised prickly pear, in order to support the work of poverty alleviation in Guizhou, in the live broadcast spared no effort to introduce Guizhou specialties - prickly pear to the general public.
Thus, whether as a gift or souvenir, prickly pear is a special and heartfelt handwritten letter, containing blessings from nature, is a candied snack food, but also a natural "beauty nutrients"!
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