Preserved fruit is a kind of food that everyone is familiar with. In normal times, many people like to eat preserved fruit. It tastes sour and sweet, and preserved hawthorn fruit is a very good one. It tastes good and its nutritional value is also very good. So can we make it ourselves? Let's take a look.

Materials of preserved hawthorn fruit

Hawthorn, sugar.

Practice of preserved hawthorn fruit

Wash the hawthorn, put it in a boiling water pot and boil it until the skin of the hawthorn is cracked, then take it out and rinse it with cold water; When the hawthorn is not hot, pull out the pedicel on it, break the pulp and remove the core; Take one-tenth of the white sugar of hawthorn pulp and cook it with hawthorn, add a little salt, and wait until it is thick in the pot and the hawthorn pulp is wrapped in sugar water. Put the preserved fruit on a plate, and then dry it. In the north, you can put it directly on the radiator for two or three days, and in the south, you can put it in the microwave oven. Remember to turn it over every hour or two, and the microwave oven will be on high fire for 7 or 8 minutes. Finally, remember to put the preserved hawthorn into a clean and sealable glass jar to keep it from spoiling.

Edible efficacy of preserved hawthorn fruit

Hawthorn preserved fruit tastes sour and sweet, and many people like to eat it, and its nutritional value is also very rich. The contents of sugar, vitamins, trace elements and fruit acid are rich, so it is a healthy food. Hawthorn has the effect of preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases, can help dilate blood vessels and lower blood pressure and cholesterol, so it is very suitable for middle-aged and elderly people. Moreover, eating preserved hawthorn can also strengthen the stomach and help digestion. When food is stagnant, the stomach will definitely feel uncomfortable. At this time, eating some preserved hawthorn can alleviate the symptoms. In addition, it contains flavonoids, vitamin C, carotene and other substances, which can effectively block and reduce free radicals, help anti-aging and anti-cancer, and enhance the body's immunity. Therefore, we often eat preserved hawthorn fruit, which is very helpful for health.

The nutritional value of preserved hawthorn fruit is very rich, and regular eating will be helpful to our health. First of all, eating preserved hawthorn fruit can help stimulate appetite and digestion, which can well improve the situation of no appetite. At the same time, eating preserved hawthorn fruit can effectively enhance our resistance, so we can often eat preserved hawthorn fruit in peacetime.