The fruit of the purple leaf plum can be eaten, but the taste is not good there is a bitter feeling, in addition to the food must first be put into the water to wash, the pesticide residues on the skin to wash off before eating, in addition to the fruit of the purple leaf plum has no nutritional value, and for a long time by the impact of vehicular exhaust and dust, so it is best not to consume daily, if you planted the trees of the purple leaf plum can be eaten.

The purple plum is an ornamental plant, often planted on both sides of the road, to play the effect of greening, so the purple plum fruit can eat, the fruit can be eaten, but in the consumption of taste is not good some of the bitterness, so very few people in our daily lives to eat.

Purple plum fruit ripe color is bright red, very attractive, its fruit is no toxin, you can rest assured to eat, but the roadside trees are often irregular spraying of pesticides, so in the consumption of the first time in the water to clean, wash off the pesticide residues of the fruit skin, to avoid accidental food poisoning.

Although the nutrients in the fruit of the purple plum is very good, but there is no great food value, so in the daily as little as possible to eat as well, and it is sour taste, there are some residual pesticides on the rind, if you do not wash the food will jeopardize human health, so it is not recommended to go to the edible purple plum fruit.

The purple plum blossoms in March to April each year, the leaves are purple and shiny, the trees have a high appreciation value, the fruit is subject to vehicle exhaust and dust hazards, easy to be contaminated, so try not to eat the street purple plum fruit, if the home-grown is edible.