When do fresh walnuts usually come on the market? How much half a kilo? What is the nutritional value?

Fresh walnut, also known as green walnut, as its name implies, is a walnut that has not gone through the drying process. When does it usually go on sale? How much can I buy per jin? What is the nutritional value? I learned from Hu Jigang, a walnut grower, that fresh walnuts usually bear fruit in July and are on the market from August to September. So friends who like to eat fresh walnuts should not miss it.

How much is a jin of fresh walnuts?

Generally speaking, it costs 20 to 30 yuan per jin. When there are fresh walnuts, the old walnuts cost more than ten yuan per jin, and there are about 30 to 50 walnuts per jin!

The following is the price of fresh walnut in some areas provided by Walnut Price Network on September 13:

Hexi Agricultural and sideline products Market in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province-Walnut Price: 40.00 yuan / kg

Jinan Dikou Fruit Wholesale Market-Walnut Price: 24.00 yuan / kg

Henan Wanbang International Agricultural products Logistics Co., Ltd.-Walnut price: 19.00 yuan / kg

The average price of walnut on September 13, 2017 is as follows: 29.5 yuan / kg (flat)

What is the nutritional value of fresh walnut?

1. Phospholipids in fresh walnut. It has a good health care effect on the brain nerve. Walnut oil contains unsaturated fatty acids, which has the effect of preventing and treating arteriosclerosis. Walnut kernel contains zinc, manganese, chromium and other indispensable trace elements. The contents of zinc and manganese decrease day by day in the process of aging, and chromium can promote glucose utilization, cholesterol metabolism and protect cardiovascular function. The antitussive and antiasthmatic effect of walnut kernel is also very obvious, and it has an excellent effect on patients with chronic tracheitis and asthma in winter. It can be seen that eating walnuts often can not only be healthy, but also anti-aging. Some people often take tonics, but in fact, it is very helpful to eat a few walnuts every morning and evening, which is often better than taking tonics.

2. Fresh walnut is a good food therapy. Whether it is used in medicine, or eaten raw, boiled, dipped in sugar and cooked vegetables alone, it has good effects such as tonifying blood and nourishing qi, tonifying kidney and essence, relieving cough and asthma, moistening dryness and relieving defecation and so on. Walnut can be eaten in many ways. Boiling walnut with an appropriate amount of salt water, drinking water and eating dregs can treat kidney deficiency, low back pain, spermatorrhea, impotence, forgetfulness, tinnitus, frequent urination and so on. Walnut and barley seeds, chestnuts and other cooking porridge to eat, can treat frequent urination, spermatorrhea, stool diarrhea, five-change diarrhea and other diseases. Walnut and sesame, lotus seed dipped in sugar, can tonify the heart and brain, but also can cure night sweats. Eating walnut, longan meat and Hawthorn raw can improve heart function. Walnut is also widely used in the treatment of neurasthenia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, emphysema, stomachache and so on.

3. Eat fresh walnuts to replenish the brain. Walnut kernels and rock sugar can be mashed into "walnut paste", hidden in the porcelain jar, take two spoons each time, rinse with boiling water, when the cup has a layer of white liquid floating, this is "walnut milk", plump and delicious.

4. Help beauty. If you eat "walnut porridge" cooked with walnut kernel grinding powder for a long time, it can nourish the skin and make people white and tender, especially when the skin of the elderly is aging.

5. Fresh walnut can also resist aging. Walnut kernel contains vitamin E, which can protect cells from oxidative damage caused by free radicals, and is recognized as an anti-aging substance in the medical community, so walnut is known as "longevity fruit" and "longevity fruit".

6. it should be noted that it is generally believed that it is appropriate to eat 5 to 6 walnuts a day, about 20 to 30 grams of walnut kernel; if you eat too much, it will cause phlegm and nausea; in addition, people with yin deficiency and fire, those with fecal diarrhea, those with hematemesis and nosebleed should eat less or fast walnut kernels.