As the old saying goes: in the middle of August, grapefruit is the meal. Around August every year, grapefruits are on the market in large quantities. Pomelos are sour and sweet and are one of many people's first choice fruits. But many people just throw away the peel after eating the grapefruit. In fact, you don’t know that what you are throwing away is a piece of treasure.

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Please check the effects of grapefruit peel below

1. Delay aging

Grapefruit peel contains flavonoids such as naringin and rutin, which have strong Antioxidant activity, often boiled with grapefruit peel water can enhance the scavenging effect of free radicals, delay aging, especially has a good health care effect on the skin, can beautify the skin.

2. Treat chilblains

Cut the grapefruit peel into small pieces, put it in a basin, add water and boil it, then let it cool for a while, immerse the affected part in the water, and take out a piece of grapefruit peel and enjoy it. Gently rubbing the frostbite area with heat can relieve itching and reduce swelling.

3. Prevent vomiting of pregnancy

Vomiting of pregnancy is a shadowy existence for many pregnant women, but it can actually be easily solved with grapefruit peel. Decoction of grapefruit peel and taken orally three times a day can treat pregnancy vomiting.

4. Treat postpartum abdominal pain

Improper postpartum care can easily leave the hidden danger of abdominal pain. Put the fresh grapefruit peel in the vagina to dry, decoct it with water and take it, which can effectively relieve postpartum abdominal pain.

5. Treat bad breath

Squeeze the juice from a grapefruit, add 9 grams of tangerine peel, 6 grams of ginger, add an appropriate amount of brown sugar, boil it in water and drink it, 1 dose a day, drink several times in a row sky.

6. Treat cough and asthma

Take 1 grapefruit peel, peel off the white flesh inside the peel, chop a thin layer of grapefruit peel, and put it into a tea cup Add appropriate amount of maltose or honey, steam over water until thoroughly cooked, take 1 spoon each morning and evening, mix it with a little rice wine, it has the effect of relieving cough and asthma.

7. Reducing phlegm

Steamed grapefruit peel: Take 30 grams of grapefruit peel, chop it into pieces, add 15 grams of cockscomb oil and an appropriate amount of rock sugar, mix well, steam until cooked, and divide. 2 times use, especially suitable for patients with physical weakness and coughing phlegm.

8. Treat athlete's foot

Boil grapefruit peels in boiling water for half an hour and wash your feet. It can sterilize and reduce inflammation, and help relieve the symptoms of itchy and stinky feet caused by athlete's foot. If you have small blisters on your feet, you can use a sterile needle to prick them and then soak your feet for better therapeutic effects.

9. Anti-cancer

1. Cut 1 grapefruit with skin into strips, add 15 grams of sugar, add water to decoct the soup, add an egg and take it. Anti-gastric cancer effect.

2. Core and chop the grapefruit with skin, put it in a sand pottery, and soak it in rice wine overnight. Boil it till mashed, mix it with an appropriate amount of honey, and keep it in your mouth until it melts. This can help prevent side effects caused by radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer.

3. In vitro experiments on grapefruit peel hot water extract show that grapefruit peel has the effect of inhibiting cervical cancer and liver cancer, and the inhibition rate of cervical cancer is 70% to 90%.

10. Treat pneumonia in children

Put the peel of grapefruit in a cool place to dry. When the child coughs and has pneumonia, boil water with the dried grapefruit peel and feed it to the baby. Keep drinking it for a few days. It will get better, especially for pneumonia caused by lung heat.

Do you like to drink honey grapefruit tea? It costs at least ten yuan to buy a cup outside. It is better to make it at home.

Experts teach you how to make grapefruit tea. It is really delicious. For crystal clear grapefruit tea, both grapefruit peel and meat must be added. The white one is not added, as it is bitter. Rub the grapefruit peel with salt. Make it clean and rinse it with water so it won't be bitter. After it's boiled, let it cool and add some honey to make honey grapefruit tea.

The world of foodies cannot be without snacks, and preserved fruits are also very popular as one of the snacks. Sometimes if you are tired of eating dried plums or apricots, you can try three red grapefruit peel preserved fruits

Zhang Tu teaches you how to make three red grapefruit peel preserved fruits at home

Ingredients: grapefruit peel, white sugar, Xianjin plum

To be honest, this is the preserved fruit I made myself. Like it? Come flirt

Come on, hoard the grapefruit peels