Jujube is nutritious.
Jujube fruit is very nutritious, which has always been praised by the public as a nourishing food in China and is known as "woody food". Jujube fruit has excellent fresh flavor, and its sugar content is between 19-44%. The sugar content of dried jujube is as high as 5-87%, and the calorific value per 1 grams of pulp is 39 kilocalories, which is similar to rice and refined white flour, so it is called "woody grain". Fruit also contains protein, fat and various mineral elements, such as calcium, phosphorus and iron, which are indispensable nutrients for human body. The content of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in nearly ripe fresh dates is extremely rich, generally 436.4—88.8mg per 1g, which is 1 times that of apples and 15-2 times that of oranges, and 3-4 times higher than that of kiwifruit, which is known as the king of vitamin C.. It contains 18 kinds of amino acids, 8 of which are important ones that the human body cannot synthesize. The calories are close to raisins, and the contents of protein, calcium, phosphorus, riboflavin and niacin are higher than raisins. Therefore, people have always regarded red dates as excellent tonics. Chinese folk proverbs "Eat three jujubes every day, and you will never get old" and "Five grains and jujube are better than ganoderma lucidum" fully illustrate the nutritional value of jujube.
Jujube is boiled and eaten, so the nutrition will not be lost
Jujube is a good food with the effect of enriching blood, so many people think that it is beneficial for women to eat more jujube as a tonic.
in Chinese medicine prescription, jujube is the most common medicine with the same origin as food. It tastes sweet and warm, and its main function is to tonify the middle energizer, nourish blood and soothe the nerves. It is mainly used for the treatment of spleen and stomach qi deficiency, blood deficiency, sallow, blood deficiency, insomnia and dreaminess. Drinking jujube water as usual can improve the pale face and cold hands and feet for women with anemia caused by excessive menstrual blood. However, as a prescription, there are contraindications. For example, during menstruation, some women often have swollen eyes or feet. In fact, this is a sign of wet weight, and such people are not suitable for taking red dates. This is because red dates are sweet, and eating more is easy to produce phlegm and dampness, which leads to the accumulation of water in the body and aggravates the symptoms of edema. At the same time, some women who take red dates as supplements and are hot and dry are not suitable for taking them during menstruation, because it is very likely to cause excessive menstrual blood and harm their health. In addition, because red dates are rich in sugar, especially red dates made into snacks, they are not suitable for diabetics to supplement, so as not to increase blood sugar.
Eating too much fresh red dates is easy to cause diarrhea and damage the spleen. Therefore, people who have colds, fevers, abdominal distension and qi stagnation caused by exogenous wind and heat belong to people who avoid eating fresh red dates.
Generally speaking, it is wise to eat jujube in water, because it will not change the efficacy of tonic and avoid diarrhea caused by raw food.
Functions of jujube:
1. Enhancing human immunity Jujube contains a lot of saccharides, mainly glucose, but also fructose and sucrose, as well as oligosaccharides, arabinan and galactomannan composed of glucose and fructose; It also contains a large number of vitamins such as vitamin C, riboflavin, thiamine, carotene, nicotinic acid, etc., which has a strong nourishing effect and can improve human immune function and enhance disease resistance.
2. Enhance muscle strength and gain weight. The experimental mice were given Jujube decoction every day for ***3 weeks, and their weight increased significantly compared with the control group. In the swimming test, their swimming time was significantly longer than that of the control group, which indicated that Jujube could enhance muscle strength and gain weight.
3. Protecting the liver It has been proved by experiments that jujube decoction was fed to rabbits with carbon tetrachloride liver injury every day for 1 week. As a result, the total protein and albumin in serum increased significantly compared with the control group, indicating that jujube has the function of protecting the liver.
4. the ethanol extract of anti-allergic jujube can inhibit the production of antibodies to specific allergic diseases and also inhibit the reactive antibodies in mice, suggesting that jujube has anti-allergic effect.
5. The flavone-bis-glucoside A contained in calming and tranquilizing jujube has sedative, hypnotic and hypotensive effects, among which the isolated grapefruit aglycone C has central inhibitory effects, that is, reducing spontaneous movement, stimulating reflex and rigidity, so jujube has sedative and sedative effects.
6. Anti-cancer, anti-mutation Jujube contains a variety of three kinds of compounds, among which Yemenic acid and phytic acid have been found to have anti-cancer activity and inhibit sarcoma S-18. Nutrients contained in jujube can enhance the immune function of human body, and have certain effects on preventing cancer and maintaining the function of human viscera. < P > The red skin and thick juice of jujube are rich and sweet, which is like fire, nourishing the yin of heart and spleen and moistening the dryness of flesh and blood. Ginger is used for people with yang deficiency, and licorice is used for people with weak qi, which is the best tonic in peace and is a good medicine for the heart.
stewed mutton with angelica, red dates and ginger has the effects of invigorating qi and nourishing blood. Materials: 12 red dates, 8 slices of ginger and 5g of mutton. Seasoning: fennel 1 yuan, Amomum tsao-ko 2. Practice: stew all the ingredients together for two hours.
Braised bighead fish head with red dates can improve physical fitness. Materials: 1 pieces of red dates, appropriate amounts of angelica, angelica dahurica and gastrodia elata, 6 slices of ginger and one fish head. Practice: simmer for half an hour after boiling.
Jujube porridge, Has the function of invigorating qi and strengthening spleen. Materials: 12 red dates, appropriate amount of glutinous rice, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, and appropriate amount of sugar. Practice: Boil all the materials for about 2 hours < P > Generally speaking, < P > Health care of red dates < P > The vitamin C content of red dates is the highest among 1 fruits, which is 8-9 times higher than that of apples and peaches and 14 times higher than that of pears, and is known as "natural vitamin". In recent years, scientists have found that red dates also contain many other essential substances, which have many new health care functions: < P > Allergy: In China, people used red dates to treat allergic purpura, taking 1 jujubes three times a day, usually taking effect for three days. Later, Japanese scientists found that jujube contains a lot of substances called cyclic adenosine monophosphate, which has the function of dilating blood vessels and antiallergic, enhancing myocardial contractility and improving myocardial nutrition.
Anti-cancer: Jujube is rich in triterpenoids (such as maslinic acid) and adenosine diphosphate. Triterpenoids mostly have the function of inhibiting cancer cells, among which maslinic acid has the strongest ability, surpassing the commonly used anticancer drug fluorouracil. Although adenosine diphosphate does not have the ability to inhibit cancer cells, it can regulate cell division. As a result of the synergistic effect of the two, the abnormal proliferation of cancer cells can be divided beyond normal. Animal experiments have also proved that under the condition of feeding carcinogens, the percentage of malignant tumors in digestive tract of animals added with red dates is only half of that of animals without red dates. Therefore, while applying other anti-tumor measures, tumor patients can take food made of red dates every day, which not only has anti-tumor effect, but also has the effects of benefiting qi and nourishing blood, strengthening physique and alleviating the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
protecting liver: both experiments and clinic prove that red dates can increase the contents of total protein and albumin in serum. Clinical reports show that for patients with acute and chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and patients with high serum transaminase activity, taking jujube and peanut soup (3g of jujube, peanut and rock sugar respectively, first frying peanuts, then adding jujube and rock sugar) every night before going to bed can reduce the serum alanine aminotransferase level.
Alleviate the medicinal properties: Adding red dates into some prescriptions with violent properties can alleviate the medicinal properties, so as to avoid the violent drugs from hurting people.
Rehabilitation: British scientists have done experiments among 163 weak patients. Those who eat dates continuously recover more than three times faster than those who take vitamins alone. Jujube has anti-fatigue effect and can enhance people's endurance. In addition, cooking glutinous rice porridge's regular food with red dates and pig bones is a good dietary supplement, which can nourish essence and blood, especially for blood diseases and the elderly.
It is worth noting that sweet jujube can help damp and stifle qi, and it is easy to cause abdominal fullness when eating too much, so it should be used with caution for any symptoms such as excessive phlegm and abdominal fullness.