Another year of plum season, the summer solstice plum full of red.
Yangmei, because the shape of the water poplar and taste like plum and named. The appearance of crystal red, smooth and lovely, but a very difficult to keep fresh fruit, with a one-day taste change, two-day color change, three-day color and taste all the characteristics of the change, and therefore happy to mention the "arrogance" of the name.
There are many ways to make prunes, such as chilled prune soup, dried prunes, prune jam, prune wine, frozen prunes, and so on, hot summer, the most people can not stop.
Yangmei is known as the "fruit of the agate", so the efficacy and role of Yangmei and what are the taboos?
Wang Yalan, a dietitian at the First People's Hospital of Hangzhou, said that prunes are warm and sweet. It has the effect of promoting the production of fluids to quench thirst, strengthen the spleen and appetite, and is the main treatment for food elimination, dehumidification, relief of summer heat, dyspepsia, cold, diarrhea, diuretic, and prevention of cholera and other diseases; the kernel of the fruit can be used to treat foot fungus, the root of which can be used to stop the bleeding of the qi, and the bark of the bark to soak the feet can be used to treat bruises, redness, swelling, pain, and so on. Yangmei contains certain anticancer substances, the growth of tumor cells have an inhibitory effect. Yangmei on Escherichia coli, dysentery bacteria and other bacteria have an inhibitory effect, can cure dysentery abdominal pain, dysentery more than a good effect, Yangmei contains a large number of vitamin C, not only directly involved in the human body's sugar metabolism and the redox process, and enhance the permeability of capillaries, and lowering of blood lipids, and to prevent the synthesis of carcinogens in the body and other efficacy.
In addition, with white wine soaked prunes, summer, eating will feel the gas Shu God refreshing, summer relief. When diarrhea, take prunes boiled thick soup to drink to stop diarrhea, with astringent effect.
Although prunes are good, they are not suitable for everyone. Need to pay attention to the following matters:
Where the yin deficiency, blood heat, fire, dental disease and diabetic patients should not eat;
Yangmei on the gastric mucous membrane has a certain stimulating effect, so ulcer patients should be careful to eat;
Yangmei and raw onions with food;
Yangmei should not be consumed in excess, or else it will be the body heat;
After eating prunes, you should rinse your mouth or brush your teeth in time to avoid damaging your teeth.
Eating prunes = eating bugs?
As the saying goes, small summer prunes to bugs, because the prunes are fruit aggregates, there is no rind to protect, the flesh is filamentous, there are a lot of gaps between them, a little longer, it will attract some fruit fly type of bugs, multiply in it, that is, we see the small white bugs. Although harmless to the human body, but still let some people can not look straight, so want to eat without insects and clean prunes, cleaning is very critical.
Here are three ways to clean prunes:
Method 1: Salt water immersion method
500ml of water, 2 teaspoons of salt, stirring until it melts, put 400g of prunes, soak them for 25 minutes.
Method 2: Lye immersion method
500ml water, 2 teaspoons of baking soda (or starch), stir until melted, put 400g of prunes, stirring until the spoils precipitate and fish out, wash with water.
Method 3: Stirring and cleaning
Put the prunes into a container, add the right amount of water, and stir with a spoon or your hand in the same direction until the spoils are separated out, then wash with running water.