Apricot nutrition is extremely rich, containing more sugar, protein and calcium, phosphorus and other minerals, and also contains vitamin A, vitamin C and B vitamins. Apricot warm, suitable for slow metabolism, anemia, cold extremities of the cold body people eat; suffering from wind, tuberculosis, phlegm cough, swelling and other diseases, often eat apricot great benefit;

People eat apricot fruit, almonds, after digestion and decomposition, the hydrocyanic acid and benzaldehyde produced by the two substances can play a role in preventing, fighting cancer, cancer, long ate also prolonged life; almonds can stop coughing! Almonds can relieve cough, asthma, laxative, eating often have the role of beauty and skin care. Apricots can be made into apricot preserves, apricot sauce, etc.; almonds are mainly used to extract oil, can also be made into food.

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The main cultivars of apricot in China can be divided into the following three categories according to their uses.

1, edible apricots Fruit large shape, fat and juicy, sweet and sour moderate, brightly colored, mainly for raw food, can also be processed. In North China, Northwest China, there are about 200 or more cultivars. According to the rind, flesh color can be divided into three categories: yellow-white rind varieties, such as Beijing crystal apricot, Hebei Daxiang white apricot; rind yellow, such as Gansu Golden Mom apricot, Shandong Lixing Dayu apricot and Qingdao ShaoShan red apricot, etc.; rind nearly red varieties, such as Hebei GuanLaoYi face, Shanxi YongJi red plum apricot and qingxu shaJinHongAng, etc.. These are all excellent edible varieties.

2, benevolent apricot class Fruit smaller, thin flesh. Seed kernel fat, sweet or bitter taste, mainly almonds, for food and medicine, but some varieties of pulp can also be dried. Excellent varieties of sweet kernels, such as Hebei's Baiyu Bian, Longwang Bian, Beishan Dabian team west of the late bang bang, Clara and so on. Bitter kernel of good varieties, such as Hebei's Xishan Dabian, Jidong small flat and so on.

3, processing apricots thick flesh, sugar, easy to dry. Some sweet kernel varieties, can be meat, kernel both. For example, Xinjiang's Aksimisi, Kizil bitter Manti, Kizil Dallas, etc., are fresh, dry and take the kernel of the excellent varieties.

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