1. There are several ways to eat plums
1. Plum syrup:
Boil the washed plums in water with strong fire, crack the plums, then add two spoonfuls of brown sugar, stir with a spoon according to your own taste, wait until the plum juice becomes thick, and then take it out of the pot. Put it in the refrigerator and chill, and it tastes refreshing and sweet.
2. Plum wine:
Choose two Jin of ripe plums, then wash them, and let the moisture in the skin dry naturally. Then take off your own pulp, add four or two sugars, then stir well, put it into a prepared glass bottle, add high-alcohol liquor and seal it for a week or two.
3. Plum jam:
Wash the plums, take the pulp, and marinate it with white sugar. If you like it sweet, you can add more sugar, then put it in a pot, and then add maltose. It also depends on the taste. Boil the plums into a paste and add lemon juice when you are out of the pot.
4. Rock sugar plums:
Peel and core the plums. Add rock sugar, put it in a steamer, and let it burn for about 2 minutes. After the rock sugar melts, put it in the refrigerator.
5. Pickling plums in sweet and sour:
Put the cleaned plums in a glass bottle, add cool boiled plums, add two spoonfuls of salt, and leave them in the shade for about two or three months. After discoloration, add sugar, and continue pickling for one week.
Second, the nutritional value of plums
(1) Plums have a good maintenance effect on liver diseases. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, once said: "Liver diseases should be eaten." This is because plums are sweet and sour, cool in nature, and have the effects of clearing away liver heat, promoting body fluid production and promoting urination. They are especially suitable for treating symptoms such as thirst, dry throat, abdominal edema and dysuria caused by liver disease and insufficient stomach yin.
(2) The beauty effect of plums is very peculiar. Eating fresh plums often can make the face smooth as jade, which is a rare natural essence of modern beauty. Plum wine is also known as "color wine", because Li Ziren contains fruit acid and vitamin E, which has the effect of removing spots and caring skin. The fruit acid contained in plums has a significant effect of removing spots. Now some beauty shops advocate Li Ziren dressing beauty method because of the special effect of plums.
3. Precautions
(1) Don't eat immature plums
(2) Plums should not be eaten too much. Plums contain a lot of fruit acid, and excessive consumption can easily cause stomach pain. As the saying goes, "peaches support people, apricots hurt people, and plums carry people to death." Eating more plums will make people phlegm, help dampness, and even make people feel weak and hot, and their brains swell. Therefore, people with weak spleen and stomach should eat less. Judging from the nature and taste of plums, plums are cold, and excessive consumption will cause mild diarrhea.