Loquat, alias: lute orange, golden pill, lute branch. Rosaceae, loquat plants, loquat native to southeastern China, because of the shape of the leaves like a pipa instrument and the name, its flowers can be used as medicine. The tree is 3 to 5 meters tall, with large, long, thick and velvety leaves that are long oval and shaped like a pipa. The alias is also known as lute orange, lute branch, golden pill, inflammatory fruit, and jiaozi. Unlike most fruit trees, the loquat blossoms in the fall or early winter, and the fruit ripens in the spring to early summer, earlier than other fruits, so it is said to be "the only fruit tree that is ready for the four seasons". Loquat's flowers are white or yellowish, with five petals, about 2 centimeters in diameter, with five to ten in a bunch, can be used as a honey crop.

I. Effectiveness of loquat

To treat lung-heat coughing and wheezing, vomiting, thirst. The main effects are to moisturize the lungs and lower the qi and quench thirst, can also be used to treat lung fever and cough, prolonged cough, dry throat and thirst and stomach qi deficiency and other conditions.

1. Prevention of colds

Loquat fruit and leaves have the effect of inhibiting influenza virus, often eaten can prevent the four colds.

2. Promote digestion

Organic acid contained in loquat can stimulate the secretion of the digestive glands, improve appetite, help digestion and absorption, quench the thirst of summer heat has a considerable role.

3. Moisten the lungs and relieve cough

Loquat contains bitter amygdalin, can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, expectorant, treatment of various coughs.

4. Prevent vomiting

Loquat leaves can be dried and made into a tea, there is a heat and gas, and the stomach to lower the effects of vomiting, so as to vomit of the good, can be a variety of treatment of vomiting and retching.

5. Weight loss

Loquat is rich in crude fiber and mineral elements. Each 100 grams of loquat meat containing 0.4 grams of protein, 6.6 grams of carbohydrates, and contains vitamin B1 and vitamin C, is a very effective weight loss fruit.

Second, the role of loquat

(1) moisten the lungs and relieve cough

Loquat kernel contains bitter amygdalin, can suppress cough and expectorant, treatment of various coughs.

(2)Prevention of influenza

Batch put the fruit and leaves have the effect of inhibiting influenza virus, can prevent the four colds.

(3) lowering the stomach to stop vomiting

The leaves of the batch of leaves to drain the heat and bitter downward, down the gas to lower the reverse, until the vomiting of the good, can treat all kinds of vomiting and retching.

Nutritional value of loquat

Three, the nutritional value of loquat

1. loquat contains organic acids, can stimulate the secretion of the digestive glands, to enhance appetite, help digestion and absorption, quench the thirst of the summer heat has a considerable role;

2. loquat contains bitter amygdaloid glycosides, can moisten the lungs to relieve coughing and phlegm, treatment of all kinds of cough;

3. loquat Fruit and leaves have inhibited the role of influenza virus, often eat can prevent colds and flu;

4. Loquat leaves can be dried and made into a tea, there is a heat and gas, and the stomach to lower the effects of the vomit, so as to vomit of the good, can be a variety of vomiting and erosion of the treatment.

Four, loquat eating skills

1. not yet ripe loquat do not eat.

2. Loquat fruit kernel contains bitter amygdalin, poisonous, do not eat, so as not to jeopardize health and life.

3. Eat loquat to peel. In addition to fresh loquat, there are also loquat meat canned in sugar water, or loquat wine.

4. Loquat is not only the flesh of the fruit can be used as medicine, its core, leaves, roots also have medicinal value. Fresh loquat is washed, eaten raw, you can treat dry mouth and thirst and other discomforts. In addition, the fresh loquat 50 grams, washed and peeled, plus rock sugar 5 grams, boiled half an hour after taking, for tonsil inflammation caused by sore throat redness and swelling is particularly effective.

Loquat eating skills

Five, loquat dietary taboos

Diabetics avoid eating loquat, spleen diarrhea caution. Unripe loquat can not be eaten. The hydrocyanic acid contained in loquat kernel is toxic, do not eat loquat kernel with loquat. Loquat contains fruit acids, easy to combine with seafood and protein-rich foods in the calcium precipitation, so that protein coagulation, easy to cause stomach pain and stones, so loquat should not be eaten with.

Purchase of loquat

In the purchase of loquat, to the head of a large and proportional, obovate, orange peel, and velvet hair intact, juicy, thin skin and thick flesh, no green fruit is good. If the hairs fall off, it means the loquat is not fresh enough. If the surface color varies, the loquat is likely to have spoiled.

Storage of loquat

Loquat will turn black due to excessive water vapor if it is kept in the refrigerator, so it can be stored in a dry and ventilated place. If you immerse it in cold, sugary or salty water, it will prevent discoloration.