Medicinal value
Pineapple
Pineapple is flat, sweet, slightly acidic, slightly astringent, slightly cold in nature, has a summer thirst, digestion and diarrhea, spleen and stomach, solid energy, benefit blood, digestion, dampness, skinny and other effects, for the summer seasonal medical food and the best seasonal fruits, but should not be eaten too much at a time. (Li Shizhen, "Compendium of Materia Medica")
Pineapple contains a substance called "pineapple prion enzyme", which can break down proteins, help digestion, dissolve the blockage in the tissues of fibrin and blood clot, improve local blood circulation, dilute lipids, eliminate inflammation and edema, and can promote blood circulation. Especially after eating meat and greasy food, eating some pineapple is more appropriate, can prevent fat deposition.
Pineapple protease can effectively break down the protein in food and increase gastrointestinal motility. This enzyme in the stomach can decompose protein, supplement the body's digestive enzyme deficiency, so that patients with indigestion to restore normal digestive function. This substance can prevent gel aggregation and can be used to make milk sour or soften other fruits, but this characteristic will be weakened in cooking.
In addition, the sugar and enzymes contained in pineapple have a diuretic effect, which is beneficial to people with nephritis and high blood pressure, as well as an adjunctive effect on bronchitis. Due to the role of fiber, constipation treatment also has a certain efficacy. When there is indigestion, eat some pineapple can open the stomach and smooth gas, relieve grease, can play a role in digestion, but also can relieve constipation. In addition, pineapple is rich in vitamin B1, can promote metabolism, eliminate fatigue.
Pineapple juice has a cooling effect, and can effectively prevent bronchitis, but fever is best not to eat. After medical research, since ancient times, human beings have often relied on the pineapple contains bromelain to ease the symptoms of sore throat and cough. Pineapple skin is rich in pineapple enzyme, has rich medicinal value, according to foreign experts for more than 20 years of experiments, long-term consumption of pineapple skin, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular, the incidence of diabetes is significantly reduced, and has a certain anti-cancer effect. It also contains an enzyme that can break down proteins.
Eating value
Pineapple as a fresh food, golden flesh, rich flavor, sweet and sour taste, crisp and juicy. In addition to fresh food, pineapple fruit is mostly used for canning, which is widely loved for its ability to maintain its original flavor. Processed products canned pineapple is known as "international canned fruit", can also be made into a variety of processed products, widely welcomed by consumers.
Pineapple, like some fruits, will make some people allergic to eat, allergic reactions can occur as soon as 15 minutes, such symptoms are called "pineapple disease" or "pineapple poisoning". For example, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, headache, dizziness, skin flushing, itching, limbs and tongue numbness, allergy is more serious, but also appeared in respiratory distress, shock and other reactions.
Soak the pineapple in salt water and then eat it, but also make part of the organic acid contained in the decomposition of the salt water, remove the acidic flavor, so that the pineapple tastes sweeter. You can also put it in boiling water and cook it before eating. Bromelain in 45 ℃ ~ 50 ℃ began to denature, to 100 ℃ when more than 90% are destroyed; glycosides can also be destroyed at the same time to eliminate; 5-hydroxytryptamine is dissolved in water. The taste is also improved after boiling. Each time you eat pineapple should not be too much, excessive consumption is harmful to the stomach and intestines. The first time to eat the baby only eat a cookie-sized piece, if there is no abnormality, the next time you can increase the appropriate amount.