What are the benefits of soaking dried lemon slices in water?
1, lemon is an appetizing fruit: lemon produces body fluid and relieves summer heat.
Although the taste of lemon food is sour and slightly bitter, it can't be eaten raw or fresh like other fruits, but lemon peel is rich in aromatic volatile components, which can promote fluid production, relieve summer heat, stimulate appetite and strengthen the spleen. Summer is hot and humid, and many people are very tired. After working or studying for a long time, you often have a bad appetite. Drinking a cup of lemon soaked in water, the fresh and sour taste makes people feel refreshed and can open their appetite. Lemon is often used as a seasoning for seafood in western food to remove the fishy smell, while Southeast Asian food is directly cooked with it to highlight its sweet and sour taste. Lemon is also indispensable among the roast ducks and geese loved by southerners in China.
2. Lemon is a fruit for lowering blood pressure: preventing cardiovascular diseases.
Lemon is rich in vitamin C and vitamin P, which can enhance the elasticity and toughness of blood vessels and prevent and treat hypertension and myocardial infarction. In recent years, foreign research also found that green lemon contains an insulin-like component, which can reduce abnormal blood sugar levels.
3, lemon is an expectorant fruit: often eat lemon to clear away heat and phlegm.
Lemon can also resolve phlegm. Lemon peel has stronger expectorant effect than citrus. It is hot and humid in summer. If you don't pay attention to the diet, the internal dampness of the human body and the external dampness of the natural climate interact, and phlegm will be produced over time. So in summer, there is a lot of phlegm and my throat is uncomfortable. Adding warm water and a small amount of salt to lemon juice can successfully cough up the thick phlegm accumulated in the throat.
Lemon is an anti-inflammatory fruit: it has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects.
Lemon is rich in vitamin C, which acts like a natural antibiotic on human body. Has antibacterial, antiinflammatory, and immunity enhancing functions. You can drink more hot lemonade to maintain your health.
5, lemon is a beauty fruit: delaying aging and inhibiting pigmentation.
Lemon contains vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin C and other nutrients, and is also rich in organic acids and citric acid. Lemon is a kind of high alkaline food, which has strong antioxidant effect and is very effective in promoting skin metabolism, delaying aging and inhibiting pigmentation.
6, lemon is an antiemetic fruit: lemon "should be mother and child" to eliminate morning sickness
Cantonese, a work of traditional Chinese medicine in Guangdong and Guangxi, records: "Lemon is suitable for mother and child, and tastes extremely sour. Pregnant women are addicted to it because of liver deficiency, so it is suitable for mother. It is better to hide more than old when people bid, and juice can replace vinegar. " In other words, pregnant women can put some lemons beside the bed and get up in the morning to smell them, which can eliminate morning sickness.
In addition, some lemon slices are dry and some are fresh. However, the main difference between dried lemon slices and fresh lemon slices is the sweating amount of trace elements. Lemon is best soaked in warm water, because vitamin C is easy to die at high temperature, and if it can't be soaked in a thermos for a long time, some toxic qualities in plants will be soaked out. Lemon contains a lot of vitamin C, which is easily oxidized. The vitamin C content of dried lemon slices is definitely lower than that of fresh ones. The taste of water will be slightly worse, but the difference is not very big. If you soak in water, there is little difference in efficacy. Soaking dried lemon slices in water can also whiten the skin. Drying lemon slices will only evaporate water and a few ingredients, and most of the ingredients will remain. Why else would dried lemon slices be soaked in water? But the whitening effect of dried lemon slices soaked in water is not as good as that of fresh lemon slices. The nutritional components of dried lemon slices are still slightly worse than fresh ones, and the absorption is not as good as fresh ones.
Correct soaking method of dried lemon slices in water
1 First of all, when we make lemonade, we will buy dried lemons or sliced lemons from the market, but whether it is dried lemons or sliced lemons, we must clean the lemons first, because there will be some fruit wax or residual pesticides on the lemons, so it is best to clean the surface of the dried lemons with salt. Make dried lemons cleaner.
Secondly, after we wash the dried lemons, it's time to drain them. Put some cold boiled water in the beginning. Never use very hot water. If the temperature is too high, it is easy to destroy the useful substances in dried lemons. We use cold or warm boiled water to dry lemons, stir them a little and leave them for a while, which will help all the useful substances in the dried lemons to come out of the water.
Finally, many people hate lemon because of its sour taste. In fact, friends who are afraid of acid can add honey to dry lemonade. The combination of honey and dried lemon water can increase the efficacy of dried lemon water, which not only plays a whitening role of lemon, but also can enhance beauty beauty and laxative effect. Therefore, it is necessary to soak dried lemonade and honey in the right way.
Correct method of soaking raw lemon slices in water
1, raw lemon slices refer to slices cut from fresh lemons. He also has a lot of lemon juice, which is especially good in water. When soaking, you need to put the sliced raw lemon directly into the cup, then add some honey, and then pour it into warm water of about 50 degrees. You can drink it directly after mixing.
2, raw lemon slices soaked in water to drink, you can also put raw lemon slices into a clean glass bottle in advance, add a proper amount of honey, stir and marinate for 3 to 5 days. At this time, you will find that a lot of lemon juice can be pickled in the bottle. When you want to soak in water, you can take out 2 or 3 slices of pickled raw lemon, and then take out the right amount of lemon juice with a spoon. Finally, mix it with cold water and you can drink it directly. It tastes very good.
The efficacy of lemonade
Lemon itself is a fruit with high nutritional value and medicinal value. Lemon is rich in citric acid and is known as the "citric acid warehouse". Besides sugar, the main nutrients in lemon are calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin C and nicotinic acid. Drinking lemon juice can increase the level of citrate in urine, and citrate can prevent minerals in urine from forming crystals in the kidneys, that is, kidney calculi. Lemon is rich in vitamin C, which has many functions, such as anti-bacteria, improving immunity and assisting the formation of bone collagen. Drinking lemonade regularly can supplement vitamin C. Besides antibacterial and enhancing immunity, it also has the functions of stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, promoting fluid production to quench thirst and relieving summer heat. What is even less well known is that lemon can also expectorate, and the expectorant effect is stronger than that of oranges and citrus.