Properties of Yellow Pippin Fruit

1, family genus

Rutaceae, Yellow Pippin genus.

2, origin

Native to the south of China. Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, southern Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan Jinsha River Valley are cultivated. Tropical and subtropical regions of the world between the introduction of species.

3, alias

yellow bullet, yellow skin, yellow quartz, yellow bullet, king altar.

4, Introduction

Huangpi fruit is a member of the Brassicaceae family, the genus Huangpi, the fruit color is golden, bright and shiny, according to the taste, can be divided into two systems of sweet, sour, some varieties of sweet and sour taste, rich in juice and aroma, is the color, aroma, taste of the fruit are good, and can be called with lychee. Leaves, root bark and kernels are used for medicinal purposes.

Small trees, up to 12 meters high. Branchlets, leaf rachis, inflorescence axis, especially on the dorsal veins of unopened leaflets scattered with many obviously raised fine oil spots and densely covered with short straight hairs. Leaves with 5-11 leaflets, leaflets ovate or ovate-elliptic, often oblique on one side, 6-14 cm long, 3-6 cm wide, base subrounded or broadly cuneate, asymmetric on both sides, margins wavy or with shallowly crenate teeth, midvein of the leaf surface often covered with short fine hairs; petiolules 4-8 mm long. Panicles terminal; flower buds orbicular, with 5 slightly raised longitudinal ridges; calyx lobes broadly ovate, ca. 1 mm, outside pubescent, petals oblong, ca. 5 mm, both surfaces covered with short hairs or inner surfaces glabrous; 10 stamens, short or long, long as long as the petals, filaments linear, slightly widened in the lower part, not curved geniculate; ovary densely covered with long, straight hairs, disk minute, ovary stalk short. Fruit orbicular, ellipsoid or broadly ovoid, 1.5-3 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, yellowish to dark yellow, finely hairy, pulp creamy white, translucent, with 1-4 seeds; cotyledons dark green. The cotyledons are dark green. The flowering period is April-May, and the fruiting period is July-August. Produced in Hainan, its flowering and fruiting period are 1-2 months earlier.

Huangpi green shrub or small tree, up to 12 m high, young branches, flower axis, leaf axis, petiole and young leaves below the veins are concentrated into clusters of tufts of short hairs and long hairs, fragrant. Oddly pinnately compound leaves alternate; petiolules 4-8mm long; leaflets 5-13, the apical one the largest, tapering downward, ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, 6-13cm long, 2.5-6cm wide, apex acute or shortly acuminate, base broadly cuneate, asymmetric, margin shallowly undulate or with shallowly obtuse teeth. Cymose panicles terminal or axillary, flowering branches extended, many-flowered; sepals 5, broadly ovate; petals 5, white, spatulate, not more than 5mm long, reflexed when open; stamens 10, alternate in length; ovary superior, 5-locular, densely hairy. Berry globose, oblate, 1.2-3cm long, yellowish to dark yellow, densely hairy. Seeds green. Flowering April-May, fruiting July-September.

Nutritional value of yellow peppercorns, the benefits of eating yellow peppercorns

1, yellow peppercorns sweet and sour and warm, slightly bitter, pungent. Rich in vitamin C, sugar, organic acids and pectin; pericarp and leaves containing volatile oils, leaves and phenols, flavonoid glycosides and amino acids.

2, Huangpi fruit also has a high medicinal value, leaves, fruits and seeds can be used as medicine, with digestion, stomach, qi and spleen, qi and pain, etc., commonly known as "hungry lychee, full of Huangpi fruit" said. The rind of the fruit can eliminate the wind and swelling, go chancre; seeds can cure hernia, centipede bite and pediatric head sores.

3, yellow pericarp seeds are rich in oil, the oil rate of up to 42%, as a good lubricant. Huangpi fruit as a high-quality fruit, its fruit in addition to fresh food, but also can be processed into jelly, jam, candied fruit, fruitcake and refreshing beverages, etc. or salted, candied. Therefore, in the folk Huangpi fruit has been "the treasure of the fruit" of the name.

4, summer eating yellow fruit, you can put the pulp, peel and kernel in the mouth to chew, even with the slag and swallow the juice, taste some bitter, but can play a fire, treatment of indigestion, gastric fullness effect.

5, summer days to travel to the countryside, the heat is compelling, if you can prepare to bring some yellow fruit, especially bitter yellow fruit is better, thirsty or feel hot and uncomfortable, that is, chewing a few yellow fruit, not only to produce fluids, thirst, and have the benefit of preventing heat stroke.

Eating yellow nuts. The best time

Generally summer and fall to eat the most seasonal yellow fruit.

Yellow Pippin fruit selection method

1, round seeds. Fruit spherical, known as the icing sugar sweet yellow skin is such. This is divided into two categories of large grain species and small grain species. By and large, juicy, sweet flavor is superior.

2, oval-shaped species. Fruit oval. Fruit shape is larger, more seeds, sweet and sour flavor, medium quality.

3, broadly ovoid, shaped like a chicken heart called chicken heart yellow skin, earlier than the round seed, smaller fruit, usually 1 seed, sweet flavor, excellent quality.

Yellow Peel Side Effects

1, small children can not eat more yellow peels. Yellow skin taste acidic, sexual flat, slightly cool, eating helps to clear heat, digestion, summer, but the children are still young, the digestive system is not sound, eat more will hurt the stomach, easy to cause diarrhea.

2, the spleen and stomach cold people or people with gastritis should also pay attention to, can not eat more, otherwise it will cause diarrhea.

4, high blood sugar people should be careful to eat yellow fruit. Yellow skin is rich in vitamin C, sugar, can help replenish energy and nutrients, but if the blood sugar long-term high, it is best not to eat.

5, do not eat more yellow fruit, or easy to fire, hair boils.