Figs are not bad, only good!

Benefits

Figs bloom in the summer and bear fruit in the fall.

Figs are not flowerless, the fruit like seeds contain pistils and stamens. The flesh is seedless and sweet, and can be eaten fresh or as a dried fruit for making wine and jam.

The roots, stems and leaves of figs can be used as medicine for treating constipation, sore throat and intestinal infections. It also contains a variety of anti-cancer ingredients, which helps to improve the immune system.

The wild figs are smaller and the cultivated ones are larger, both are purple-black in color.

Based on the strong growth ability of figs, they can be grown in sandy, slightly acidic or saline soils, and are easy to propagate, produce early fruits, and do not have serious insect pests, so they are sold at a low price.

Is it a good snack?

Figs are not only dried, they can also be eaten freshly picked as fruits. It's just that Hong Kong, China is too far away from the figs' origin, so we don't have the chance to eat them.

Figs, also known as the Mandarin, milk berries, Wenxian fruit, according to the medicinal books, it is used for a variety of purposes. The Diannan Materia Medica says it "clears the throat, opens the chest and diaphragm, clears phlegm and resolves stagnation". The Supplement to the Materia Medica refers to it as "five hemorrhoids swelling and pain, decoction and frequent fumigation of the wash, take effect.

Local people must add a few figs to every soup, which is actually very dietary wisdom. According to research, figs can accelerate the recovery of wounds, for peptic ulcers quite effective. In addition, figs are rich in antioxidants, with the role of anti-aging.

Folk prescription is also commonly used figs, figs eaten fresh, bleeding hemorrhoids can be treated. Colorectal cancer patients with this formula also has an auxiliary medical role, because the pectin and fiber contained in figs, water will expand, can adsorb toxic substances in the intestinal tract.

People who are not sick and painless to eat, but also detoxification of health effects.

Similar to apples, figs also have a two-way regulation of gastrointestinal effects, spleen deficiency and diarrhea people eat, can stop diarrhea, on the contrary, constipated people eat it, can be laxative. Fresh fruit or dried products work as well.

The figs are roasted and ground, often taken to help heal stomach ulcers. Not only that, the pulp contains calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, copper, manganese, zinc, boron and other essential minerals and trace elements.

,My school also has figs !!!!

Fig (Ficus carica) is a belong to the mulberry family (Moraceae) fig genus (Ficus) of plants, mainly growing in some tropical and temperate places, is a subtropical deciduous small trees. Fig is now known to have eight hundred varieties, the vast majority are evergreen varieties, only long in temperate places is deciduous varieties. The fruit is bulbous, with a small hole at the end, and the pollen is relayed by wasps.

Hypanthodium is the most important feature of this genus, because the flower is grown in the fruit, called the cryptomeria (syconium), is the biggest difference between fig plants in the mulberry family and other genera. In the fruit of the fruit at the top of the male flowers, the bottom of the female flowers, and the birth of sterile flowers (gall flowers), so the flowers and fruits alone look at the appearance is not distinguishable.

Figs are native to ***, Asia Minor and the Mediterranean coast and other places, the history of cultivation has been more than 5,000 years, due to the appearance of the fruit does not see the flower and so named, but also reflecting the sun fruit, Yutang Bowl, powerful horse, the bottom of the precious tree, honey fruit and other names.

Symbolism

From the attributes of the fig tree's large leaves and figs, there are many who believe that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Book of Genesis is a fig tree. The Old Testament book of Jeremiah describes rotting figs as a sign of destruction, and the New Testament describes Jesus condemning a fruitless fig tree. In the *** religion, the fig tree is one of the two sacred trees. There are many *** disciples who regard the fig tree as holy.

Because of the special nature of the fig tree's flowers, the ancient Indians believed that the tree would not blossom, hence the name "fig". Buddhist and Hindu scriptures sometimes use "fig tree in search of flowers" (Sanskrit: a-pu? pa-phala) to describe a meaningless or impossible things, or a non-existent things. The flower of a fig can also be used to describe something that is extremely rare. Although in fact figs have flowers, but because it is not easy to be found, so the ancients regarded it as normal that the fig tree does not bloom.

Health

Figs contain a lot of glucose, fructose, sugar content of up to 20, but also contains protein, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D. Figs have nourishing Yin spleen, stomach and intestines, clearing away heat and detoxification, reduce swelling and stop bleeding effect. Scientists have found that South American residents who regularly consume figs have a lower incidence of cancer.

In addition, figs contain more than 30 kinds of lipids, and most of them are neutral lipids and glycolipids; 68% of the fatty acids contained in unsaturated fatty acids and a small amount of essential linoleic acid.

History

In June 2006, one of the world's oldest surviving fig trees was discovered in the lower Jordan Valley, believed to be 11,400 years old and a cultivated crop.

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Figs are healthy !!!!!

Figs contain a lot of glucose, fructose, sugar content of up to 20. also contains protein, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D. Figs have a nourishing Yin spleen, stomach and intestines, clearing the heat and detoxification, swelling and stopping the efficacy of blood. Scientists have found that South American residents who regularly consume figs have a lower incidence of cancer.

In addition, figs contain more than 30 kinds of lipids, and most of them are neutral lipids and glycolipids; 68% of the fatty acids contained in unsaturated fatty acids and a small amount of essential linoleic acid.

In addition, figs contain more than 30 types of lipids and most of them are neutral lipids; 68% of the fatty acids are saturated and there is a small amount of essential linoleic acid.