What are the effects of kumquat? How do you eat it? Where is the origin?

There is no shortage of kumquat (tangerine) when entertaining guests during the Spring Festival every year. It has different names in different places, such as golden jujube, jindan and horsewater tangerine. Do you know how the small kumquat is loved by people? what are the effects? How do you eat it? Where is the origin?

First, what are the effects of kumquat?

Kumquat is small and exquisite, golden is very likable, and it is also very nutritious, including:

Table of nutritional components of kumquat

vitamin C

Citrinin

Protein

Cellulose

Magnesium

Iron

Phosphorus

Sodium

Manganese

In addition, the efficacy of kumquat is also many:

1. Kumquat has the function of beauty care and anti-aging: the vitamin contained in kumquat is a great skin care expert. It can prevent the precipitation of pigments in the skin and make the skin shiny and elastic. It also has a certain effect on preventing skin relaxation and wrinkles.

two。 Kumquat can give birth to body fluid, quench thirst and appetizer: usually kumquat has one of the raw materials used to make food therapy and health products, and the candied fruit made of kumquat not only has an appetizer, but also makes the body fluid sufficient, making our intestines and stomach more comfortable and spleen and lungs healthier.

3. Kumquat has the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, soothing up alcohol and relieving depression: Golden orange sweet temperature and rock sugar stew, it can relieve cough and asthma, and it also has a certain effect on bronchitis.

4. Kumquat can improve cold resistance and prevent colds: you can drink burnt kumquat with boiled water when you catch a cold, or fry fresh kumquat peel with water and sugar.

5. Kumquat can regulate blood pressure, prevent capillary rupture and relieve hardening: kumquat has a certain protective effect on our cardiovascular system, and is very suitable for people with diseases such as hypertension and cardiovascular sclerosis.

Second, how to eat kumquat?

1. The simplest and roughest way to eat kumquat is to wash it clean and eat it raw, so as to keep the nutrients from being destroyed, and eat the skin and meat together, because the skin is more nutritious than the flesh.

two。 Kumquat and other foods can be juiced with any one of radish, Hawthorn, ginger and lemon. It tastes good and nutritious. The only drawback is that it destroys its plant fiber.

3. Make kumquat fruit tea: you can use apple, pineapple, lemon and other fruit slices and tea bags to boil together with water, you can add some honey appropriately.

4. Salty (sugar) pickled kumquat: before pickling, wash the salted kumquat and dry it in the sun. Put the kumquat in a container with a layer of salt and place it in a cool place for a year to eat.

Before making candied kumquat, soak the washed kumquat in salt water for about 10 minutes, then make a few openings on it, crush the seeds and sprinkle them with sugar in a bowl. after two or three days, the sugar can be melted into water and boiled to a sticky shape, waiting for it to cool and ready to eat.

Where is the origin of kumquat?

1. Kumquat likes sunny, warm and humid places, so cold places like the north are not suitable for its growth.

two。 Kumquat is native to southern China and is distributed in the Yangtze River Basin and warm southern regions, among which Guangdong is the most widely planted and is known as the hometown of kumquat.

The following are the reference prices of kumquats in Beijing and Jiangsu:

Product Name

Quotation market

Price (yuan / jin)

Kumquat

Wuxi Xicheng Fruit Wholesale Market

6.87

Kumquat

Beijing Dayang Road Agricultural products Wholesale Market

eleven