Pomelo also has another very elegant name called "Wendan". According to legend, in the Qing Dynasty palace, there are special people to collect the flowers of pomelo, used to refine the essence of beauty made of oil, to the concubines make-up time to use. Pomelo is abundantly produced in the south, of which the pomelo produced in Fujian and Guangxi is the most famous. Mature pomelo has a strong aroma, crispy flesh, and is sweet and sour.
The famous poem of the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Tong about the pomelo is "The trees are covered with smoke and fire, and the mountains shine like gold". Pomelo ripens in the golden fall, and is one of the essential fruits for family reunion during the Chrysanthemum Festival.
Pomelo is the autumn fruit in the most large, ordinary weight of about a kilogram or more, picked in the lunar calendar in mid-August to the end of October, the skin thick and resistant to storage, generally can be stored for three months without loss of flavor, so it is the Chinese and foreign fruit experts known as the "natural canned fruit".
Nutritional value of pomelo
Pomelo nutritional value is very high, rich in protein, sugar, organic acids, vitamin A, B1, B2, C, P and calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium and other nutrients, of which every 100 grams of pomelo meat containing vitamin C57 mg, 10 times higher than the pear, containing 519 mg of calcium, greatly exceeding other fruits.
Efficacy:
The Chinese medicine believes that pomelo meat is sweet and sour, cold and non-toxic, and has the efficacy of regulating qi, moistening the lungs and clearing the intestines, tonifying the blood and strengthening the spleen, etc. Fresh pomelo meat is similar to pancreatic insulin. Fresh pomelo meat contains similar insulin components, blood sugar, extremely beneficial to diabetes, cardiovascular disease patients, can cure less food, light mouth, indigestion and other diseases, often eat to help digestion, in addition to phlegm to quench the thirst, the role of qi dispersal.
In addition, pomelo has a healthy stomach and spleen, lung, blood, intestinal, diuretic effect, can promote wound healing, septicemia has a good therapeutic effect. Modern medicine also found that pomelo has the prevention of cerebral thrombosis, anti-cancer, weight loss and other effects, most suitable for middle-aged and elderly people to eat.
Pomelo contains physiologically active substances, such as glucoside, naringenin, naringenin can reduce the viscosity of blood circulation, reduce the formation of blood clots. Middle-aged and elderly people who suffer from cerebrovascular disease, often eat pomelo to help prevent the occurrence of cerebral stroke. Pomelo contains a lot of vitamin C and calcium, which helps prevent the occurrence of intestinal and stomach cancer.
The therapeutic effect of pomelo is particularly obvious, will be a pomelo peeled, peeled the inner layer of white pith, cut sheer, put in a covered bowl, add the right amount of honey, steam cooked, a spoonful every morning and evening, rushed a little bit of wine, can cure the elderly coughing and asthma. Pomelo a peel and leave the meat, the pomelo meat into the chicken has been removed from the hair of the male chicken stewed in water, drink soup and eat chicken, once a week, can cure chronic bronchitis. Pomelo flower contains volatile oil, have to move gas, remove phlegm, analgesic effect, the Qing dynasty palace doctors sent people to collect pomelo flower, extract balsam for the royal family to enjoy, the Ming dynasty Li Shizhen that pomelo flower can be "long hair and dry".
Applicable people: the general public can eat. Heart, brain and kidney disease patients and people with poor respiratory system is particularly suitable. Pregnant women are also suitable for consumption.
Applicable amount: 1 large petal (about 50 grams) per day.
Suitable time: Pomelo is slightly acidic in flavor, so it is not suitable for consumption on an empty stomach, and can be eaten one hour before meals to promote appetite.
Taboo: Who can't eat pomelo?
People with high blood pressure should not eat grapefruit, especially grapefruit. Because it can interact with the drugs that hypertensive patients take on a daily basis, increasing the blood concentration of that drug, making the blood pressure drop significantly and drastically, posing a threat to health.
Grapefruit is cold in nature, and it is not advisable for people with cold bodies to eat more.
Patients who are taking medication, especially the elderly, it is best not to eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice. Because the interaction of grapefruit with the antiallergic drug terfenadine can cause ventricular arrhythmias and even fatal ventricular fibrillation. Other drugs that interact adversely with grapefruit include: cyclosporine, caffeine, calcium antagonists, and cisapride. Drinking a glass of grapefruit juice, the possibility of interaction with drugs will remain for 24 hours.
Special note: Grapefruit that is too bitter should not be eaten.
Pomelo skin more useful
Pomelo peeled skin can not be eager to throw away, grapefruit skin has many uses, can be used to bathe, but also beauty and anti-mosquito. Pomelo skin is rich in essential oils, boiled into a soup added to the bath water, not only has a cosmetic effect, but also to prevent mosquito bites, because mosquitoes do not like the flavor of grapefruit. Pomelo can also be used as a deodorizer for the refrigerator, put the peeled grapefruit peel in the corner of the refrigerator, grapefruit peel fragrance can effectively eliminate the odor in the refrigerator.
Several ways to eat pomelo
Fresh pomelo leave the skin and remove the core, with Zhengbei apricot, shellfish, unbleached snow fungus 50 grams each, plus several bottles of honey, stewed and eaten.
Eating method of pomelo skin
Selection of pomelo skin
In the selection of materials, it is best to use the pomelo skin of Thai golden pomelo. Because the skin of Thai Golden Pomelo is thicker and whiter, and the aroma is strong; if you use immature Guangxi Shatian Pomelo skin, it's better, the skin is thicker, the aroma is stronger, it's a rare and good material.
Take pomelo skin method
Take a pomelo, with a fruit knife in the pomelo skin on the vertical carve into 5 petals boat-shaped, and then peel the skin to all sides, from which to take out the pomelo flesh. Be careful when removing the pomelo flesh, it is best not to break the pomelo skin to keep it intact.
Pomelo Peel Processing Method
When you have pomelo peel, first peel off the greenish-yellow skin, which is hard and astringent and inedible, leaving the white "cotton wool" inner layer.
Then use boiling water to roll the pomelo skin for 10 minutes (chopsticks can poke through can), and then pick up, soak in water for a night, and so the next day pick up and squeeze out the water, and then soak in water, such as a few back and forth, to be the pomelo skin in the astringent flavor removed, it will be cut into chunks.
Honey Pomelo Tea
Materials: Pomelo: 500 grams (with flesh), sugar: 100 grams (preferably cane sugar), honey: 250 grams (preferably choose acacia honey and other lighter scented nectar, osmanthus honey is not recommended), glass bottle: can hold 1000cc of the best.
Making: Boil water for 5 minutes to sterilize and set aside Wash grapefruit in warm water at 65 degrees Celsius. If you do not have a thermometer, you can use your hand to test the temperature, probably feel the degree of relatively hot, but can be touched. Then soak for 5 minutes, so that on the one hand, you can wash the grapefruit skin, but also to use the temperature of the water, so that the pores of the grapefruit skin open up. Okay, now that the 5 minutes have passed, absorb the water from the grapefruit with a clean towel. Then you will peel it, taking care to divide it into three parts. First is the skin of the grapefruit, then the white pith between the skin and the flesh of the grapefruit, and finally the flesh of the grapefruit. Cut the skin into about 4 or 5 centimeters long, and the width is 0.1-0.2 centimeters, just like we usually do with shredded potatoes. Do the same with the white flesh. Cut and set aside. Then peel out the flesh of the grapefruit, without the skin and core, put the flesh into a large container, with a spoon or other appliances to "press" it, with a blender can be crushed with a blender. After processing the shredded skin, white pith and pulp, honey, sugar for mixing, in the previous mentioned amount is just a reference value, according to their own preferences to determine how much to put less. After mixing, the grapefruit tea into a prepared glass jar, sealed and placed in the freezer, about 10 days after you can eat, but the longer you put it, the better the flavor.