Ginkgo biloba fruit, also known as white fruit, its role is:

1, "Compendium of Materia Medica" in the value of ginkgo biloba fruit is also recorded: "white fruit cooked food warm lungs and beneficial to qi, set wheezing and cussing, shrinking stools, and stopping white turbidity."

2, ginkgo biloba fruit contains a variety of nutrients, has a flat chapped, protect blood vessels, increase blood flow and other therapeutic effects and medical effects.

3, according to modern medical research, ginkgo also has a smooth blood vessels, improve brain function, slow down the aging of the elderly brain, enhance memory capacity, treatment of Alzheimer's disease and cerebral blood supply deficiencies and other efficacy of the ginkgo anti-aging instincts in Germany and France has a great impact on science.

4, ginkgo biloba can also protect the liver, reduce cardiac arrhythmia, and prevent fatal bronchoconstriction in allergic reactions.

Expanded Information:

. p>While ginkgo nuts are rich in nutritional value, it doesn't mean that the more you eat the better, because unprocessed ginkgo nuts are loaded with toxins. Like many nuts, ginkgo nuts reportedly contain toxic ingredients such as cyanogenic glycosides, which can be converted into hydrocyanic acid in the human body, a highly toxic and deadly substance.

Therefore, consuming a large amount of ginkgo nuts can lead to poisoning, and those who consume them raw are especially vulnerable. If a child eats 5-10 raw berries at a time, and an adult eats 10-50 berries, it can lead to poisoning and even death.

Raw ginkgo nuts can not be eaten, fried ginkgo nuts after the toxicity is reduced, but still can not eat more. Ginkgo biloba fruit toxic ingredients are soluble in water, heating will reduce the toxicity, so before eating water can be used to soak for more than 1 hour to remove the flesh of the green germ, and then heated and cooked, can greatly improve the safety of eating ginkgo biloba fruit.

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