◆Nutritional value
Pomegranate shape such as a tumor, the skin has a child, harvested in autumn when the fruit is ripe to eat, the taste of its roughly sour, sweet two kinds. 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 it is cool and delicious when processed into drinks. Pomegranate is not only nutritious, but also beautiful color. Jin Pan Yue in the "Pomegranate Fugue" wrote "pomegranate, the world's strange trees, nine continents of the famous fruit," "colorful lei fall, drooping light Yew quality, taste dip liquid, fragrance overflow". The pomegranate color, aroma, taste, shape written in a hundred winks and a 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, and less fat, protein content, 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, help digestion, anti-gastric ulcer, soften blood vessels, lowering blood lipids and blood sugar, lower cholesterol and many other functions. It can prevent coronary heart disease heart disease, high blood pressure, and can achieve the effect of stomach refreshing, appetite enhancement, benefit life talk pie extension, for those who drink too much alcohol, decoction 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 relevant 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, E. coli has a good inhibitory effect. In addition, the pomegranate rind contains alkaline substances, insect repellent effect; pomegranate flowers have haemostatic 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 slow down the aging process
Researchers at the Israel Institute of Engineering and Technology have found that pomegranate contains a high level of antioxidants that slow down the aging process, preventing atherosclerosis and slowing down the process of cancer, and that pomegranate wine, pomegranate juice and pomegranate juice can be very beneficial to the human body. 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 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 oxidizing agent that can be used to fight inflammation and the damaging effects of oxygen free radicals in the body.
Researchers say that atherosclerosis, aging, and cancer are all long, slow processes. 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
Israel Academy of Engineering Sciences, Professor Aviram, in the United States, "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 reduce the retention and deposition of density lipoproteins reduced to a minimum level. Bright and colorful pomegranate red as 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
Bright and colorful pomegranate, red as agate, white like crystal, very amusing.
Pomegranates are freshly eaten, sweet and sour, and processed into drinks, which are also refreshing and delicious. Pan Yue of Jin Dynasty praised pomegranate in "Pomegranate Fugue", which is "to cure the thirst of the machine, to relieve the effect of drink and stop drunkenness". Throughout the ages, there have been a lot of medical books on its medical use, and it is still used for medicinal purposes. Folk with a sour pomegranate, even its son of a chewed and swallowed, the treatment of appetite, indigestion.
Treatment of mouth and tongue sores and mouth ulcers, the acid pomegranate with seeds broken, soaked in boiling water, filtered and cooled, gargled several times a day. For bad breath and sore throat, it is also advisable to apply.
The pomegranate calcined charcoal sex, research into fine powder, add the right amount of sugar and mix well, daily with boiling water to serve 6 grams, 2 times a day, for the treatment of hemorrhoids blood. People eat 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.
In ancient times, the thousand gold for dysentery formula is to use sour pomegranate with skin and seeds together with the juice, 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 right amount of brown sugar, divided into 2 times before meals; or pomegranate peel roasted and powdered, add the right amount of brown sugar mixed, every morning with rice soup served 6 grams; or pomegranate peel 15 grams of sorghum 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 drive out 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, not castor oil as a laxative, in order to avoid poisoning.