Snow lotus seed has multiple effects such as protecting liver, moisturizing lungs, nourishing face and beauty.
Snow lotus seed, also known as snow lotus fruit, produced in the Tibetan plateau snow mountain area, after soaking the fruit viscous, crystalline color appearance, eaten with a little chewy, but the taste of sweet and light delicious.
According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, snow lotus seed has multiple effects such as protecting the liver, moisturizing the lungs, and nourishing the face and beauty. Snow lotus seed was once a sweet delicacy that was paid tribute to royalty and nobility, and was available in many restaurants in Guangzhou, becoming a common ingredient for sweet soup after meals for the common people.
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Note:Snow lotus fruit is highly nutritious, but at the same time it has a big "shortcomings", eat no flavor, and sweet apples, oranges and other fruits can not be compared. In fact, there is no sweetness is good, once, the snow lotus fruit eat up a sweet flavor, it shows that its nutritional value has decreased a lot.
Snow lotus fruit is generally listed in the fall and winter seasons, the fresh flesh of the water is very large, eat up very refreshing. With the extension of the storage time, part of the oligofructose in the snow lotus fruit will be decomposed into sucrose, and even glucose and fructose, this time of the snow lotus fruit, although eaten taste and flavor better, but the health benefits have been greatly reduced.
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