Where is the origin of the latest goat milk fruit?

Goat milk fruit is known as Elaeagnus, also known as semi-Chunzi, sweet mallet, bird's crisp, goat milk, etc., is the mature fruit of Elaeagnus in the family Elaeagnaceae, perennial evergreen climbing shrub, mature fruit bright red to purplish red, fresh fruit raw food, in the past most of it is wild, now it has been cultivated, cultivation can be sowed or cut, let's take a look at where the goat milk fruit is produced!

Where is the producing area of goat milk fruit?

Goat milk fruit is a specialty in southwest China, which is widely distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places. Generally used for fruit food, there are two varieties, one tastes sweeter, the other fruit shape is smaller, and the small fruit type is still wild on the mountain.

Morphological characteristics of goat milk fruit

Goat milk fruit simple leaves alternate, petiole rust-colored, papery or subleathery, elliptic, apex acuminate or obtuse, base broadly cuneate, obtuse or rounded, entire. Flowers brown, covered with brown scales, often 1-3 clustered in leaf axils, perianth tube cylindric, distal 4-lobed, lobes broadly triangular, inner surface densely stellate pubescent. Stamens 4, filaments very short, anthers elliptic. Style glabrous, nearly flush with perianth lobes. The fruit is large, long oval, with rust-colored scales and a conspicuous eight-ribbed stone. The flowering period is from October to November and the fruiting period is in March of the following year.

Nutritional value of goat milk fruit

1. The goat milk fruit is rich in nutrition, with an edible rate of 73.3% to 91%. Every 100 grams of fresh fruit contains 2.45% crude protein, 2.8% crude fat, 5.1% total sugar, 90.6% water, 1.45% total acid and so on. Fruit juicy and non-toxic, fresh food can also be processed into fruit juice, soda, canned, candied fruit and other food. Due to the early ripening of its fruit, it can be used as a new variety of raw material for fruit off-season market and food industry.

2. Sheep's milk fruit is used as medicine in roots, fruits and leaves, which has the effect of relieving cough and asthma, astringent and antidiarrheal effect. it mainly treats hematemesis, hemoptysis, sore throat, cold, infantile convulsion, ringworm and other diseases. it can also treat asthma, deficiency cough, chronic bronchitis, enteritis, diarrhea, falling swelling pain, rheumatism pain, jaundice.