1. Pomelo, alias: pomelo, snow pomelo, also known as wendan, fragrant throw, commonly known as reunion fruit, for the rutaceae (Rutaceae) plant evergreen fruit tree pomelo tree mature fruit, also known as throw, Zhu Luan, Lei Pomelo, gas citrus, wendan and so on. In the many fall fruits, pomelo can be considered the largest, usually more than 1 kg. It is ripe around the 15th of August in the lunar calendar every year, the skin is thick and resistant to storage, generally can be stored for three months without losing flavor, so there is a "natural canned fruit," the name. Pomelo has a round shape, symbolizing the meaning of reunion, so it is also the fruit of the Mid-Autumn Festival. More importantly, pomelo "pomelo" and shelter "blessing" homophonic, pomelo is blessing, is considered to have an auspicious meaning.

The Chinese medicine believes that pomelo taste sweet, sour, cold, have a healthy stomach and food, down the gas phlegm, light and happy color and other functions. Modern medical research has found that pomelo meat is very rich in vitamin C and insulin-like components, so there are lowering blood sugar, lowering blood lipids, weight loss, skin care and other effects. Regular consumption, hypertension, diabetes, vascular sclerosis and other diseases have auxiliary therapeutic effects, obese people have health and beauty function.

Pomelo also has a stomach, lung, blood, intestinal, diarrhea and other effects, can promote wound healing, sepsis and other good auxiliary effect. In addition, pomelo contains physiologically active substances, skin glycosides, can reduce the viscosity of the blood, reduce the formation of blood clots, so the cerebrovascular disease, such as cerebral thrombosis, stroke, etc. also has a good preventive effect. The fresh pomelo meat is an ideal food for diabetics because it contains insulin-like components.

Origin: China's cultivation of pomelo tree history is very long, as far back as the B.C. Zhou Qin era has planted. Now China's Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Zhejiang, Sichuan and other places are cultivated. Now in addition to China's planting, in many countries and regions in Southeast Asia are cultivated, the United States, Cuba, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina and Japan is also the main origin of pomelo. Therefore. Pomelo can be regarded as one of the international popularized fruit.

Nutrition: Pomelo contains sugar, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, vitamin P, carotene, potassium, phosphorus, citric acid and so on. The main components of pomelo skin are naringin, new hesperidin, etc., pomelo kernel contains fat oil, phellodendron, phellodendron lactone. Pomelo is rich in nutrients, per 100 grams of edible portion, containing 84.8 grams of water, 0.7 grams of protein, 0.6 grams of fat, 12.2 grams of carbohydrates, calories 57 kcal, 0.8 grams of crude fiber, calcium 41 milligrams, 43 milligrams of phosphorus, 0.9 milligrams of iron, 0.12 milligrams of carotenoids, sulphatidic acid 0.07 milligrams of riboflavin 0.02 milligrams of niacin 0.5 milligrams of ascorbic acid. 41 mg.

Therapeutic health care: pomelo fragrance, sweet and sour, cool moist, nutritious, high medicinal value, is one of the valuable fruits that people like to eat. Chinese medicine, pomelo pulp cold, sweet, sour, cough and asthma, clearing heat and phlegm, spleen, food, alcohol in addition to the medical role; pomelo skin, also known as orange red, wide orange red warm, bitter, pungent, with qi, phlegm, spleen, food, dispersal of cold and dry dampness; pomelo for the grapefruit seeds, containing phellandrene ketone, phellandrene lactone, de-acetyl farnesolide, etc., and another fat oil, inorganic salts, proteins, crude fiber, and so on. Efficacy and orange kernel is similar to the main treatment of hernia; pomelo leaves, containing volatile oil, with anti-inflammatory, analgesic, diaphoretic and other effects.

Therapeutic formula: 1, the treatment of senile cough asthma. Ingredients: grapefruit peel. Methods: brewed with boiling water, drink instead of tea. 2, the treatment of lung heat cough. Ingredients: 100 grams of pomelo, 100 grams of pear, a little honey. Method: Wash and boil the above ingredients together, add honey or rock sugar and take. 3, treatment of phlegm cough. Ingredients: pomelo, wine, honey. Method: Peel and remove the core of pomelo, cut into slices and soak in wine overnight. Boiled, mixed with honey, when swallowed. 4、Treatment of frostbite. Ingredients: 50 grams of grapefruit peel. Methods: After decoction, use it to soak the frostbite parts, several times a day. 5, treatment of headache. Ingredients: pomelo leaves and scallion white equal amount. Method: Pound the two together and stick them on the temples. 6, treatment of joint pain. Ingredients: pomelo leaves, ginger, tung oil 20 grams each. Method: Pound them together and put them on the painful place. 7, cure indigestion. Ingredients: 15 grams of pomelo peel, 10 grams each of chicken gold, hawthorn, 5 grams of sand nuts. Method: Decoction with water. 8, cure acute mastitis. Ingredients: 200 grams of pomelo pulp, 50 grams of green peel, dandelion 30 g. Method: water decoction. 8, often cold, cough, asthma people, can be used fresh pomelo a leave the skin to remove the core, with Zhengbei apricot, shellfish, fungus 50 grams, plus several bottles of honey stewed for a day, often served to strengthen the lungs.

However, there are contraindications to eating grapefruit. People with spleen deficiency and diarrhea will have diarrhea if they eat pomelo. Pomelo can not be served with certain medicines, clinical observation found that patients with hyperlipidemia with a cup of grapefruit juice served a piece of lovastatin (also known as the United States to lower the fat), the results are equivalent to a cup of water served 12 ~ l5 pieces of lovastatin lipid-lowering effect, the patient will therefore appear muscle pain, and even kidney lesions. Some patients taking anti-allergy drug terfenadine during the period, if you eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice, light dizziness, palpitations, arrhythmia, etc., serious may be sudden death.

Shopping tips: the way to buy pomelo is generally "smell", "knock" two links. Smell, that is, smell the aroma, ripe sleeves, aroma; knock, that is, press knocking fruit skin, skin whether there is subsidence, subsidence without elasticity of the quality of the poor, knocking to listen to the sound, identify the fruit ripe and quality of the advantages and disadvantages. Selection of pomelo is best to choose the standard type of the upper tip of the lower width, the skin must be thin and glossy, and the color is light green or yellowish, if it seems to be soft, juicy look better. Just picked down the pomelo, the taste is not the best, it is best to be placed indoors for a few days, usually two weeks later, to be gradually evaporated fruit water, this time the sweetness increases, eat taste more beautiful.

Guanxi honey pomelo native to Pinghe County, Zhangzhou, Fujian. It is a famous product of cultivated pomelo.

Main traits: Koon Kee honeydew belongs to subtropical evergreen small tree fruit trees, crown round head shape, strong, open and drooping branches, dense branches and leaves, large leaves, long ovoid, leaves rubbed without irritation