Grapefruit is a winter fruit, the fruit period is October-November.

Grapefruit is also called grapefruit, Zhu Luan. Because the fruit is dense, clustered, like grapes hanging in bunches, it is called grapefruit. Department of citrus subfamily citrus rutaceae citrus genus evergreen tree fruit trees.

It has a clan relationship with citrus, tangerine, orange, and grapefruit have close blood relations. It is one of the four major citrus groups (sweet oranges, broad-skinned citrus, lemons, grapefruits and pomelos), and one of the most favored beverages among the upper classes of the developed Western world.

China's introduction of grapefruit has a history of nearly a hundred years, the earliest from the United States in 1917 to Taiwan, China, and then in some areas of China's mainland also began to introduce cultivation. 1980s, China's Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guangxi, Hainan and Yunnan and other places are introduced to cultivation.

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The efficacy of grapefruit

1, red grapefruit helps digestion

Red grapefruit is rich in fruit acids, which can help promote the increase of digestive juices to help digestion, regulating the stomach and intestines.

2, red grapefruit helps beauty skin

Red grapefruit contains natural vitamin C and vitamin P, these two substances can help enhance the function of the skin pores, to help eliminate toxins, but also involved in the body's collagen synthesis, to achieve the beauty of the skin, the effect of delaying the aging.

3, red grapefruit to help prevent constipation

Red grapefruit contains citric acid, calcium, potassium and sodium, can help digestion, regulating the stomach. At the same time red grapefruit in the dietary fiber is also a lot of these substances can help intestinal peristalsis, absorption of water, to help defecation, to prevent constipation.

4, red grapefruit helps to improve immunity

Red grapefruit is rich in nutrients, it's not low in vitamin C. Vitamin C helps to improve the health of the immune system, according to research, eat half a red grapefruit every day to get the recommended daily amount of vitamin C 78%.

5, red grapefruit helps to enhance hair

Red grapefruit is rich in vitamin C, vitamin C can be involved in the synthesis of collagen, collagen in addition to cosmetic benefits, but also help promote hair growth, consolidate the hair root, nourish the hair, and enhance the hair.

6, red grapefruit helps reduce cholesterol

Red grapefruit contains pectin, can help reduce the content of low-density cholesterol, without harming the beneficial high-density cholesterol of the human problem, so as to reduce blood lipids, to prevent cardiovascular disease.

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