Pomegranate is shaped like a tumor, with seeds inside the skin, and is harvested and eaten when the fruit is ripe in autumn, and its taste is roughly sour and sweet. The bright and colorful pomegranate is as red as agate and as white as crystal, which is very popular. Pomegranate is sweet and slightly sour when eaten fresh, and the processed drinks are also cool and delicious. Pomegranate is not only nutritious, but also beautiful color. Jin Pan Yue in the "Pomegranate Fugue" wrote "pomegranate, the world's strange tree, nine continents of the famous fruit," "colorful lei fall, drooping light Yew quality, taste dip liquid, fragrance overflow". The pomegranate's color, fragrance, taste, shape written a hundred charming thousand delicate, mouth-watering.
Pomegranate in China has a long history of cultivation, there are about 70 varieties, divided into two categories of ornamental and edible. Pomegranate nutrition is particularly rich, containing a variety of nutrients needed by the human body, the fruit contains vitamin C and B vitamins, organic acids, sugars, proteins, fats, and calcium, phosphorus, potassium and other minerals. According to analysis, pomegranate fruit contains 17% carbohydrates, 79% water, sugar 13 to 17%, of which the content of vitamin C is 1 to 2 times higher than apples, while the fat, protein content is less, the fruit is mainly eaten fresh, but also can be made into fine beverages.
In addition, pomegranate juice contains a variety of amino acids and trace elements, has aided digestion, anti-gastric ulcer, soften blood vessels, lowering blood lipids and blood sugar, lower cholesterol and other functions. Can prevent coronary heart disease heart disease, high blood pressure, can achieve stomach refreshing, appetite enhancement, beneficial conversation pie to prolong the effect of drinking too much alcohol, alcohol has a miraculous effect.
Pomegranate can be said to be the whole body is a treasure, peel, roots, flowers can be used as medicine. Its pericarp contains malic acid, tannin, alkaloids and other components, according to experiments, pomegranate skin has obvious antibacterial and astringent function, can make the intestinal mucosa astringent, so that the intestinal mucosal secretion is reduced, so it can effectively treat diarrhea, dysentery and other diseases, dysentery bacillus, Escherichia coli has a better inhibitory effect. In addition, the pomegranate rind contains alkaline substances, insect repellent effect; pomegranate flowers have hemostatic function, and pomegranate flowers soak water to wash the eyes, there is a brightening effect.
◇Red pomegranate is rich in minerals and has two major antioxidant components - red pomegranate polyphenols and anthocyanins, but also contains linoleic acid, vitamin C, B6, E and folic acid. Pomegranate contains calcium, magnesium, zinc and other mineral extracts, which can quickly replenish the skin's loss of moisture, so that the skin texture is brighter and softer.
◆Medical value
◇Pomegranate can delay aging
Israel Institute of Engineering and Technology researchers have found that pomegranate contains a high level of antioxidants to delay aging, prevent atherosclerosis and slow down the process of cancer, pomegranate wine, pomegranate juice on the human body are very beneficial. This finding provides the first scientific evidence for the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of pomegranates and their products.
Both the freshly squeezed juice and the fermented pomegranate wine contain more flavonoids than red wine, which can neutralize oxygen free radicals in the body that induce disease and aging. The researchers also noted that the polyunsaturated oil extracted from dried pomegranate seeds contained up to 80% garnetate. This is a very unique and effective oxidant that can be used to fight inflammation and the damaging effects of oxygen free radicals in the body.
Atherosclerosis, aging, and cancer are all long, slow processes, according to the researchers. If you can start from the age of 20 or even earlier to adhere to moderate drinking with pomegranate wine or pomegranate juice, beneficial to their health and longevity.
◇Pomegranate juice can prevent heart disease
Professor Aviram of the Israel Academy of Engineering Sciences, in the U.S. "Clinical Nutrition" magazine on the impact of fruit juice on cardiovascular disease published its latest research results, he said that the prevention and treatment of arteriosclerosis caused by heart disease, pomegranate juice is better than red wine, usually in the body of the oxidation of cholesterol, deposition of arteriosclerosis can result in triggering Heart disease, Aviram's research confirms that if you drink 2-3 cups of pomegranate juice a day for two weeks can slow down the oxidation process by 40% and reduce the oxidized cholesterol deposited, even if you stop using it, this miraculous effect still lasts for a month, he asserted that pomegranate juice in the fight against cardiovascular disease is extraordinary in the clinical effectiveness of Aviram's initial test was conducted on a mouse, he asserted that This mouse, which was in an artificially atherosclerotic formative phase, suffered half the hardening damage to its arterial sites after 11 weeks of drinking pomegranate juice as a comparison group of mice that did not drink pomegranate juice.
In subsequent human arterial experiments he found that pomegranate juice contains a limited number of components that not only attenuate the process of cholesterol oxidation, but also simultaneously lower the retention and deposition of density lipoproteins reduced to a minimum level. Bright and colorful pomegranate red like agate, white like crystal, very popular, pomegranate fresh taste sweet and sour, processed into a drink is also cool and delicious.
◇Pomegranate flesh and skin are medicine
Brightly colored pomegranate, red as agate, white like crystal, very amusing.
Pomegranate fresh food, sweet and sour flavor, processed into a drink, but also cool and delicious. Jin Pan Yue in the "pomegranate pomegranate fugue" in praise of pomegranate, "the machine to cure thirst, drinker to stop drunkenness". Throughout the ages, there have been many medical books on its medical use, and it is still used for medicinal purposes. Folk with a sour pomegranate, even its seeds chewed and swallowed, the treatment of appetite, indigestion.
The treatment of mouth and tongue sores and mouth ulcers, the acid pomegranate with the seeds broken, soaked in boiling water, filtered and cooled, gargling several times a day. For bad breath and sore throat, it is also suitable for application.
The pomegranate calcined charcoal sex, research into a fine powder, add the right amount of sugar and mix well, daily with boiled water 6 grams, 2 times a day, for the treatment of hemorrhoids hemorrhoid. People eat the pomegranate, casually discard the peel, it is a pity. Because the pomegranate skin is the main medicinal part of the pomegranate, warm and astringent, with insect repellent, astringent, diarrhea effect.
Anciently, the ancient Qianjin prescription for dysentery is to use sour pomegranate with the skin and seeds together with the juice of the pomegranate, plus tea, ginger and decoction, treatment of cold and chronic dysentery. Modern folk use pomegranate skin, hawthorn 30 grams each decoction. For chronic diarrhea, diarrhea is not cured, can also be used as appropriate pomegranate peel 15 grams of decoction, add the appropriate amount of brown sugar, divided into 2 times before meals; or pomegranate peel roasted and powdered, add the appropriate amount of brown sugar, mixed, every morning, with 6 grams of rice broth; or pomegranate peel 15 grams of sorghum flowers 6 grams of decoction in 2 times, please note that, for acute dysentery and acute gastroenteritis caused by diarrhea, can not be casually used pomegranate peel astringent antidiarrheal.
Pomegranate peel can also be used to expel worms. With 15 grams of pomegranate skin, betel nut 9 grams of the same decoction, the treatment of ascariasis and tapeworm disease. Pomegranate peel 45 grams of a large bowl of warm water soaked 12 hours, filtered and decocted into a small half bowl, the first half of the morning on an empty stomach, half an hour and half, and then half an hour and then 10 grams of Xuanming powder, to expel tapeworms have a certain effect. Please note that the use of pomegranate peel deworming, only the use of magnesium sulfate or Xuanming powder and other salt laxatives, can not use castor oil as a laxative, to avoid poisoning.