Eating loquat has many benefits, such as strengthening the spleen and appetizing, relieving cough and preventing colds. Loquat contains a variety of organic acids, which can not only stimulate us to secrete a lot of gastric juice, but also greatly improve our saliva secretion like sour plum, thus achieving the purpose of invigorating the spleen, stimulating appetite and promoting digestion.
Loquat fruit is mature, sweet and nutritious, and contains many kinds of fructose, glucose, potassium, phosphorus, iron, calcium and vitamins A, B and C, etc. Among them, the content of carotene ranks third among all fruits.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that loquat fruit has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough and quenching thirst. Peel loquat when you eat it. Loquat meat is not only eaten fresh, but also canned in sugar water, or used to make wine. The leaves, fruits and kernels of loquat contain amygdalin.
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