Tropical fruit

Longan is a cactus strong prickly bulb plants, but also belongs to the south of a tropical fruit, such as Guangdong and Guangxi are more abundant. Northern people call longan as "Guiyuan" more. This fruit is rich in nutrition. Fresh longan taste good, dried longan meat generally soup or sugar water for more.

Tropical fruit is grown in tropical areas of fruit. Hainan is located in the tropics, the island produces a variety of tropical fruits, some of which most people have not seen the rare and exotic fruits, the general public to Hainan, in addition to the full view of the island scenery, full of all kinds of seafood, eat all kinds of tropical fruits is also an important travel project. Sour horn for Yunnan's unique tropical fruits, has been made into a sour horn cake. Late ripe mango for the Sichuan Panzhihua Yanbian County unique tropical fruits, has the characteristics of late ripening.

Longan origin

Longan is a tropical fruit, this fruit is native to the southern region of China, is now widely distributed in Hainan, Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangxi, Yunnan and other provinces, Southeast Asia, but also rarely cultivated.

Longan ripening season and month

Generally speaking, longan belongs to the summer fruit, its ripening time is more concentrated in July-August, the price of each catty longan on the market ranges from 13-20 yuan.

Longan shape and appearance

Longan fruit head is small, the whole is round ball, fruit diameter in 1-2 cm, the outer skin is yellowish brown, the skin is not smooth some rough.

Longan taste

The Chinese medicine believes that the longan is warm and sweet, has the yang yiqi, tonic heart and spleen, nourishing the blood to tranquilize the spirit, moisturizing and beauty and other efficacy, can be the treatment of anemia, palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness, neurasthenia, and after the disease, post-partum weakness and other diseases, but if you eat too much longan, it will lead to "Longan disease" attack, longan eat more harm:

1, longan in the high calorie content, eat more easy to get fat.

2, longan eat more will cause constipation, dry mouth and other symptoms.

3, longan is very high in sugar, diabetics are best not to eat.

4, normal women eat too much longan if you will "attack the fire on the body", resulting in a long face, serious will affect the menstruation.

The nutritional value of longan is very high, but because longan is warm, eat longan to moderate, normal people every day on the nutritional intake of longan as long as 5 can, and then should not be eaten, longan eat more fire, not easy to digest, the burden on the stomach and intestines.

The number of longan consumed in a day time should be controlled at about 4 two, not more than 6 two per day at most.