What are the nutritional effects and functions of winter jujube? Which vitamin C is more in winter jujube or lemon? In our daily life, winter jujube is a common food, which has a good health care function. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that winter jujube "nourishes the mind and calms the stomach", while modern medicine believes that winter jujube has the functions of protecting the liver and preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases. Winter jujube is rich in aspartic acid, threonine and other amino acids needed by human body, with a total content of 0.985 mg/100g. The proportion of protein in winter jujube is 1.65%, dietary fiber is 2.3%, flavone is 0.26%, and vitamin C is also very rich.

Function and efficacy of nutritional components of winter jujube

Protect the liver

Winter jujube is rich in glycogen and vitamin C, and its unique component, cyclic adenosine monophosphate, has a vital effect on alleviating the harm of various organic chemicals to the kidney. Cyclic adenosine monophosphate can also promote the production of egg white in the liver, which in turn has a good auxiliary effect on liver cirrhosis and early liver cirrhosis.

Prevention of cardiovascular diseases

Winter jujube is rich in vitamins, including vitamin C, vitamin P, vitamin A and vitamin E, and various nutritional elements such as potassium, sodium, iron and copper in winter jujube can strengthen capillaries and improve the ductility of blood vessel walls, which is of great benefit for preventing angiosclerosis. Winter jujube is also rich in rutin, so winter jujube can prevent myocardial infarction, high blood pressure and other diseases, which have a very full assistance effect.

Adjust immunity

Dongzao jujube has the effects of improving cardiac contractility, maintaining coronary artery, lowering cholesterol, etc. Dongzao jujube contains sufficient components such as cyclic adenosine monophosphate, which is a major physiologically active substance to participate in various physiological activities in human body.

Which vitamin C is more, winter jujube or lemon?

When it comes to vitamin C supplementation, many people think of eating lemons. The vitamin C content of lemon is not very high, which is about 23mg per100g, while the biggest feature of Dongzao is its extremely high vitamin C content, which reaches 380-600 mg per100g of fruit (vitamin C supplements can generally give 60mg), which is 70 times that of fruits and/kloc of oranges.

According to the reference supply of dietary nutrient elements for residents in China, the daily vitamin supply for adults must be 100mg. Take the experimental winter jujube as an example, the net weight of two winter jujubes is 42.5 g, and the converted vitamin C content is 105mg, which has already met the needs of adults for one day.

Many people don't eat lemons directly, but like to soak them in water. So the experimenter simulated the common method of brewing lemonade: cut two slices of lemons, soak them in 500ml warm water for 10 minute, and take water samples to detect the content of vitamin C. The results showed that the content of vitamin C in it was only 0.55mg/ 100g.