Ginkgo biloba fruit is commonly known as white fruit, which consists of fleshy outer testa, bony middle testa, membranous inner testa and seed kernel. It can be boiled or fried, and has the efficacy of expectorant, cough, moistening the lungs, and fixing the wheezing, but it can cause poisoning after eating in large quantities. White fruit contains hydrocyanic acid toxin, toxicity is very strong, after heat toxicity is reduced, so raw food is more likely to be poisoned. The general poisoning dose is 10-50 pills, and the symptoms of poisoning occur 1-12 hours after eating white fruit. In order to prevent white fruit poisoning, it is not advisable to eat more and more should not eat raw white fruit. This disease is mostly seen in children.
What causes ginkgo poisoning (white fruit poisoning)
This disease is due to a large number of raw food or eat uncooked white fruit, and white fruit contains hydrocyanic acid toxin caused
They all have different medicinal value, and here focus on ginkgo nuts health care role. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "cooked food warm lungs, beneficial to the qi, set wheezing and coughing, shrinking stools, stopping the white turbidity; raw food to reduce phlegm, disinfection and insecticide". Modern science has proved: ginkgo seed kernel has the effect of anti-E. coli, diphtheria bacillus, staphylococcus, tuberculosis bacillus, streptococcus. Chinese medicine to ginkgo seed kernel treatment of bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis, tuberculosis, leucorrhea, gonorrhea, spermatorrhea and other diseases. Ginkgo seed kernel also has the role of eliminating spots and wrinkles, treatment of sores, ringworm. Cough phlegm sparse patients, with 30 grams of ginkgo seed kernel, 15 grams of rock sugar decoction water service, 2 times a day, half a month can be cured; children's enuresis, with ginkgo seed kernel 5 simmering, take the kernel at bedtime every night, half a month can be effective.
Ginkgo seeds, remove the yellowish outer seed coat, the hard seed shell (in the seed coat) white, so called white fruit. The edible part of the white fruit is the seed kernel, the endosperm of the seed kernel is fleshy, with a mushy sweet and slightly bitter taste. White fruit species tender, raw food cooked food can be, raw food flavor fragrance, meat crisp, but the inner seed coat is difficult to peel, eat more easy to poison, so raw food is rare, cooked food more. Fruit shelled fried, shelling to the inner seed coat, eating its seed, soft and fragrant, very tasty; Fruit seed can also be used as a dish accompaniment, in Japan, the United States, restaurants, side food stores have fruits coleslaw and side dishes for sale. China's Song Dynasty white fruit has been widely used in cooking, more and pigs, sheep, cattle, and poultry, eggs, food matching, using fried, steamed, simmered, stewed, stewed, braised, burned, simmered, and other methods of cooking, made of delicious dishes, such as ginkgo steamed eggs, ginkgo chicken, ginkgo duck, etc., and recently the Shandong Qufu International Travel Agency and the Beijing Confucius Cuisine Hall of the cooks, but also fine craftsman skillful production of the Ken characteristics of the famous dishes "! Panda smelling ginkgo", this dish is not only color, aroma, taste are good, and make eaters appreciate to a fine crafts, in addition, the white fruit can also be made canned food, moon cake, snacks, processed into alcohol, beverages and other treasures varieties of food for people to eat. As mentioned earlier, because the seed kernel of white fruit contains white fruit acid, white fruit phenol, white fruit alcohol and other toxic substances, so each time you eat white fruit should not be too much, otherwise it will cause poisoning. In order to prevent poisoning, in the cooking of white fruit fruit, the pot lid should not be covered not tightly, and be sure to cook the white fruit cooked, so that the toxin volatilization, uncooked do not eat.
The medicinal value of white fruit is very high. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "cooked food warm lungs, beneficial to the qi, fixed lah, shrink stools, stop white worms; raw food to reduce phlegm, disinfect and kill worms". Traditional Chinese medicine has been used to treat bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis, tuberculosis, leucorrhea, gonorrhea, spermatorrhea and other diseases. For example: asthma cough, phlegm sparse patients, available white fruit kernel 30 grams, 15 grams of rock sugar, decoction to the seed kernel cooked even slag service, 1 to 2 times a day; children with enuresis, take the white fruit 5, simmering cooked shell, take the kernel flea, once a night before bedtime to eat up; tuberculosis patients can be removed from the shell of the kernel of the white fruit, soaked in cod liver oil, half a year after the available service, once before meals, 3 times a day, served 1 to 3 months to be cured; refers to the raw fruits of white fruit Flesh pulp rubbed on the affected area can be blister flat wrinkles, in addition to scabies, shoot lice, on the treatment of facial black spots, ringworm blisters also have a certain degree of efficacy. Modern medical research has proved that the white fruit has the role of anti-bacillus coli, diphtheria bacillus, staphylococcus, tuberculosis bacillus, streptococcus.
White Fruit Roasted Chicken
Information: 1 new tender hen (weighing about 1250 grams), 250 grams of white fruits (ginkgo), 30 grams of wine, 15 grams of ginger, 10 grams of salt
Specialties: "White Fruit Roasted Chicken" is a traditional dish of the Castle Peak area in Chengdu. Mount Qingcheng has beautiful scenery and is known for its seclusion. The food here is unique and has the name of "four greats", i.e. one great "Dongtian Tribute Tea", with excellent tea quality, clear juice color, and mellow tea flavor; two greats "Roasted Chicken with White Fruit", with thick and white soup and exceptionally tasty chicken; three greats "Roasted Chicken with White Fruit", with exceptionally tasty chicken; and three greats "Roasted Chicken with White Fruit". Chicken exceptionally tasty; three absolute "Qingcheng pickles", crisp and fresh, deep aftertaste; four absolute "Dongtian Milk Wine", the flavor of wine is strong but not strong, sweet but not greasy.
Legendary "white fruit roasted chicken" for the Qingcheng Mountain Tianshi cave Taoist priests created. It is said that two or three hundred years ago, a senior Taoist priest on Mount Qingcheng was sick for a long time and became increasingly thin. There is a ginkgo tree on Mount Qingcheng that has a history of more than 500 years, and the white fruit it bears is large and firm. Tianshidong a Taoist priest has repeatedly taken the tree with the white fruit, with tender hen soup, stewed thick fire, to the Taoist food dump, so that the Taoist condition improved, and soon returned to health, renewed spirit. From then on, "white fruit roast chicken" will be famous for Rongcheng and the entire Sichuan region, become a specialty dish
-operation: 1, the chicken slaughtered, de-feathered, gutted, washed with water. With a knife along the backbone of the chicken cut open (abdomen do not cut open), with cold water into the pot to boil will be taken out, wash with water, remove the blood meal to be used.
2, will be cracked open the shell of the white fruit, even the shell into the pot of boiling water slightly blanched out, peeled shell clean.
3, the whole tender hen into the pot, add water (to the degree of submerged chicken), put ginger, wine, covered Jiong burn 30 minutes or so, until the chicken half-cooked, soup tends to be thick, and then poured into a large casserole, put the white fruit, salt, cover the fire about 15 minutes, until the chicken meat is crispy, soup thick pot, poured into a large round soup plate, the chicken belly up, back down, the white fruit around that is complete.
Features: yellowish color, thick white soup, tender chicken, slightly sweet fruits, soft and tasty.
The key: must take the fat tender hen, remove the blood wash. When cooking, first use the high fire to cook the chicken crisp, soup, and then into the casserole stewed in the fire
White fruit taro puree
Information: 〖main ingredient〗: half a catty of Lifu taro net meat, three taels of white fruits, sugar, half a cup of lard four tablespoons, three tablespoons of sugar
〖Supplementary
To be used in the preparation of the soup.