The edible parts are pulp and red seed coat.
You can't eat the seeds. It's a traditional Chinese medicine for external use, called Momordica cochinchinensis, so be careful to pick out the seeds.
Momordica sinensis fruit is very suitable for long-term health care, but it is best to cook it, so that the lycopene contained in the pulp of Momordica sinensis fruit can be better absorbed.
The fruit of Trionyx sinensis is also rich in β-carotene, which needs to be cooked before it can be fully absorbed.
both β -carotene and lycopene are fat-soluble, so oil should be added when cooking, but the fruit of Trionyx sinensis contains natural lipid, so it is unnecessary to add oil.
Vietnamese people have been eating wooden turtle fruit for thousands of years. The usual practice is to make glutinous rice with the outer membrane of wooden turtle fruit seeds, which is called "Xoi gac". It is made by mixing wooden turtle fruit with cooked rice to make it have a red and unique flavor. Therefore, "Xoi gac" is provided on festival days, such as weddings, Lunar New Year and other major celebrations, which covers the white color of rice (because white is considered as the color of death) and brings people nutritious food.
In addition to making "Xoi gac", the outer membrane of its seeds is used as the best nutrition for children, lactating and pregnant women, and young women regard it as a treasure to keep their skin rosy and shiny. At the same time, local doctors also use it to treat "dry eye" (xerophthalmia) and night blindness.
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every 1g of fruit pulp (red part) contains:
1, lycopene: 1546.5-353.6 micrograms
2, β-carotene: 636.2-836.3 micrograms
3, α-carotene: 67.-16.8 micrograms <
The following is a comparison table of lycopene content of various vegetables and fruits (every 1g):
Momordica sinensis fruit: 155-35mg
Tomato: .2-2mg
Guava: 5.23-5.5mg (pink)
Papaya: .11-5.3mg.. 78 mg
Pumpkin: .38 ~ .46 mg
Sweet potato: .2 ~ .11 mg
Apricot: .1 ~ .5 mg
Its beta-carotene also ranks first among all kinds of plants.
The following is a comparison table of β -carotene content of various vegetables and fruits (per 1g):
Momordica sinensis: 83,63 micrograms
Spirulina: 38,81 micrograms
Lycium barbarum:? 975 micrograms
Broccoli:? 721 micrograms
Green tea: 58 micrograms
Carrots:? 413 micrograms
seabuckthorn fruit:? 384 μ g
Mango: 897 μ g
Tomato: 375 μ g
Modern scientific research on soft-shelled turtle fruit began in 1941. Two French scientists, Guich and Bui, went to Vietnam and found that local people called a kind of fruit "the fruit from heaven", which was not only used to celebrate important festivals, but also eaten by people to improve their health, especially for pregnant or lactating women. After a period of research, two scientists found that the fruit of Trionyx sinensis is rich in lycopene, β-carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E, essential fatty acids, cryptoxanthin and various minerals, and the nutritional content of this fruit is unprecedented. The research results of the two scientists were published in the outline of important university chronicles in 1941. （Guichard, F.; Bui, D. S. La matiere colorante du fruite du Momordica cochinchinensis Spr. Annales de l? Ecole superieure de medicine et de pharmacie de l' indochine 1941, 141, 42.)
On December 3, 23, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) published the research results of Momordica sinensis fruit on its official website. At the same time, in the academic journal "Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry", volume 52, P.274-279, An academic research report entitled "Fatty acid and Carotenoid composition of GAC (Momodica cochinchinensis Spreng) fruit" (the content of fatty acids and carotenoids in the fruit of Trionyx sinensis) was published (by Ishida). The research report points out that the fruit of Trionyx sinensis is the fruit with the richest carotenoid content so far, in which the content of lycopene is 76 times that of tomato and the content of β -carotene is 15 times that of carrot. What is more valuable is that in the fruit of Trionyx sinensis, lycopene and β -carotene are both naturally fatty, and a considerable proportion of them are cis- structured. Due to the extremely high content of cis-natural fat carotenoid in the fruit of Trionyx sinensis, its absorbability in human body is much higher than that of lycopene extracted from tomato and β -carotene extracted from carrot, which makes Trionyx sinensis become a "super fruit" by some foreign media.
since modern science first studied this "super fruit" with a long history in 1941, the United States, Japan, Germany, France and Vietnam have successively published authoritative research reports on the fruit of Momordica sinensis, and at the same time, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has certified that the fruit of Momordica sinensis is the safest health care product with no toxic side effects and can be sold in the American market.
Modern people are used to using computers for a long time. However, computer radiation can lead to peroxidation. The damage of skin after oxidation is like the experience of peeled apples-peeled apples are exposed to air, and their surfaces will soon oxidize and produce "rust spots". In order to resist computer radiation, in addition to shortening the time of "close contact" with computer electromagnetic waves every day, people often recommend eating fruits rich in lycopene, because lycopene is the carotenoid with the strongest antioxidant capacity found so far, its antioxidant capacity is 1 times that of vitamin E, and it has a strong ability to scavenge free radicals, which is called plant gold.
The amazing lycopene content in the fruit of Trionyx sinensis has become the best choice for anti-radiation and anti-oxidation among all vegetables and fruits.
In fact, people who often work in front of the computer are not only harmed by radiation, but also often feel dry and painful eyes, dull eyes and lack of water. β -carotene is the best provitamin A found to protect eyes, because it can be converted into vitamin A in human body, and vitamin A can protect retina and lens of eyes from "free radicals". In a word, β -carotene is like natural eye drops, which protects the lubrication and transparency of cornea and promotes eye health.
Practice has proved that after more than one month's intake of lycopene, the skin irradiated by computer can be restored to ruddy luster, and long-term intake of lycopene can protect the skin from becoming yellow, dry and dull due to computer radiation. Long-term intake of β -carotene can protect your eyes, relieve the symptoms of dryness and pain, and prevent dry eye and cataract in old age. However, the eyes can't be protected by lycopene alone, and the skin can't be protected by β -carotene alone. The uniqueness of the fruit of the wooden turtle makes it the most advanced and hottest health care product against computer radiation at present.
The light emitted by TV and computer will "bleach" rhodopsin. If there is enough vitamin A in the human body, rhodopsin will regenerate quickly and completely, so the eyes will be less tired.
Therefore, besides correct living and study habits, it is also very important to supplement diet, especially vitamin A (retinol). Natural vitamin A only exists in animal food, and β -carotene in plants is called provitamin A, which can be converted into vitamin A after being ingested by human body. Excessive consumption of animal liver can easily lead to obesity, and excessive intake of vitamin A can also cause poisoning, so plant β -carotene has become the first choice to supplement vitamin A. Ultra-high content of β -carotene in soft-shelled turtle fruit is the best choice to protect vision.
The extremely high content of lycopene in the fruit of Trionyx sinensis makes it have the health-care function of protecting prostate. For details, please refer to the function of lycopene.
The seed of Momordica sinensis fruit is Momordica sinensis seed, which is a traditional Chinese medicine for external use, and its seed kernel contains toxic saponin. After people eat it, it can cause dizziness, nausea, salivation, vomiting and abdominal pain. Once poisoned, you should go to the hospital for vomiting, infusion and anti-inflammatory treatment, and most of them can be cured. Therefore, when eating, when you have children, you should avoid eating seeds.
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