Sugar-Coated Berry is a traditional snack in China, which originated in the Southern Song Dynasty. It is made by stringing wild fruits with bamboo sticks and dipping them in maltose syrup, which quickly hardens in the wind. The common snacks in northern winter are generally made of hawthorn, which is thin and hard, sour and sweet, and very cold.
During the Song Dynasty, the ancient practice was started. The Chronicle of Yanjing Years Old records that Sugar-Coated Berry used bamboo sticks, which were permeated with hawthorn, begonia fruit, grapes, yam, walnut kernel and bean paste, and dipped in rock sugar, which was sweet, crisp and cold. Teahouses, theaters, streets and alleys can be seen everywhere, and now it has become a traditional snack in China. Sugar-Coated Berry has the functions of appetizing, caring skin, increasing intelligence, relieving fatigue and clearing away heat.
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Sugar-Coated Berry is rich in vitamin C, pectin, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, maslinic acid, oleanolic acid, quercetin, ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, hyperoside, epicatechin and other organic acids and nutrients. Using modern technology to remove the stone, it is a natural nutritious food with bright color, no pigment, no food additives and good taste. Hawthorn has many medicinal effects, such as promoting digestion, removing blood stasis, expelling tapeworms and stopping dysentery.
Especially to help digestion, it has been an important medicine for resolving food stagnation since ancient times, especially for resolving meat stagnation. Li Shizhen, an outstanding medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, once said, "When you cook hard chicken meat, it is easy to rot when you put a few hawthorn fruits in it, and the product will be eliminated, and the cover can be pushed." In addition, hawthorn also has the functions of lowering blood lipid and serum cholesterol.
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