Generally choose ginkgo fruit to eat, mainly depending on the nuts of ginkgo fruit. The general selection method is; Remove the hard shell of ginkgo fruit, and then break the core of ginkgo fruit to see the color of the core. Generally, ginkgo biloba is the best. Of course, ginkgo fruit with ginkgo meat and yellow flesh can also be eaten, but the taste of green flesh is a little sweeter than that of ginkgo meat and yellow flesh, and the most important thing is to choose ginkgo fruit without germ to eat.

If ginkgo fruit is eaten raw, it is usually shelled and peeled and eaten directly without germ. Because ginkgo fruit contains less poison, it is best for children to eat at most three to five capsules, and adults are guaranteed to eat less than ten capsules.

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Ginkgo biloba contains a variety of nutrient elements, besides starch, protein, fat and sugar, it also contains trace elements such as vitamin C, riboflavin, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium and magnesium, as well as ginkgolic acid, ginkgolic acid, pentosan and sterol. It has therapeutic and medical effects of benefiting lung qi, treating cough and asthma, stopping leukorrhagia, reducing stool, smoothing wrinkles, protecting blood vessels and increasing blood flow.

Modern medical research shows that Ginkgo biloba also has the functions of dredging blood vessels, improving brain function, delaying brain aging of the elderly, enhancing memory ability, and treating Alzheimer's disease and cerebral blood supply insufficiency. The anti-aging ability of Ginkgo biloba leaves has great scientific influence in Germany and France.

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