Everyone has different dietary preferences. Just like some people like durian, some people don't, and some people who don't like carambola will think it's not delicious. Especially those who love sweets will think carambola is not delicious.
Medicinal value:
Carambola tastes sweet and sour, and has the functions of promoting fluid production, relieving cough, reducing qi and harmonizing the middle energizer. Carambola can relieve visceral heat accumulation, clear dryness and moisten intestines, and dredge stools. It is the most suitable heat-clearing fruit for people with lung and stomach fever. Carambola juice contains a lot of oxalic acid, citric acid and malic acid, which can improve the acidity of gastric juice and promote the digestion of food.
Carambola can protect the liver, reduce blood sugar, blood lipid and cholesterol, reduce the body's absorption of fat, and prevent diseases such as hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Carambola is rich in sugar, vitamin C and organic acid, and its fruit is rich, which can quickly replenish human body's water, promote fluid production and quench thirst, and excrete heat or alcohol poison with urine to eliminate fatigue.
Carambola contains a large number of volatile components, such as carrot compounds, sugars, organic acids, B vitamins, vitamin C, etc., which can eliminate throat inflammation and oral ulcers and prevent toothache caused by wind and fire. Eating carambola can kill malaria insects. The leaves of carambola have diuretic effect, the flowers of carambola can cure cold and heat, and the roots of carambola can cure joint pain.
Refer to the above? Baidu encyclopedia-carambola