Is Taiwan mandarin fruit a fruit? What are the nutritional values and uses of the fruit?

Is the wood nut a fruit? How would you like it? In order to popularize the original characteristic crop, the Taitung District Agricultural improvement Farm of the Committee of Agriculture of the Executive Yuan (hereinafter referred to as Taitung Field) held the "presentation on the Multi-Application of the original characteristic crop", and published the research and development achievements of "excellent Seedling Propagation Technology of the original species,"Creative Cooking of Wood Fruit" and "simple production Technology of Wood Fruit Juice". Through the development and application of multiple technologies, it is hoped that through the development and application of multiple technologies, from first-class agricultural production. The combination of secondary crop processing and tertiary product promotion, the integration of aboriginal cultural experience and tourism, to create the added value of new crops.

Chen Xinyan, director of Taitung Field, said that Muzhuo is a dioecious fruit and vegetable crop of the family Cucurbitaceae. Taiwan is one of its places of origin, and all indigenous peoples have applied records. Ami is called sukuy (pronunciation is fast), and Peinan is called hamunly (pronunciation is Hamley). Because more wild fruits are eaten with green fruits, the yield and quality are unstable, and most of the cooking methods are boiled soup, and the application is relatively simple.

Foreign literature pointed out that the fruit is rich in nutrients and multiple. It has the laudatory name of "fruit from heaven" in Europe and America, and is favored by the international market. In order to develop and industrialize the native characteristic crops, Taitung market developed excellent seedling propagation techniques, creative recipes and processing techniques for the native species, and cooperated with the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology to analyze the functional components. The results showed that the native species had strong growth, good palatability, rich lycopene and β-carotene, which was different from the fruit juice products sold in the market. In addition to tasting, you can get rich nutrients and have great potential for development.

The aril of the native species is rich in nutrients, including nicotine, vitamin B5, dietary fiber, minerals and carotenoids, etc., which are good functional foods; how to enable consumers to use native fruits to create delicious and healthy food is also the key to the promotion of new crops. Taitung market through the "three low and one high" conditioning techniques, the use of low-fat, low-sugar, low-salt seasoning, combined with the native species of wood fruit high fiber nutrition High-fiber and nutritious young leaves, green fruits and ripe fruit aril are used to create nutritious and delicious flavor recipes, including wood clover health pot, vegetarian stewed rice, hericium Erinaceus soup, "scalded wood" young leaves with firewood fish and golden sand fruit, etc., so that people with different eating habits can enjoy the magical power of wood nuts.

Taitung Farm first developed a "simple production technology" of wood juice suitable for small rural processing, using high temperature and atmospheric pressure sterilization and low-cost equipment to produce safe, stable and delicious native wood juice. The experimental results show that its nutritional composition is 23.4kcal per 100ml of calories, vitamin B5 is 2.2ppm and β-carotene is 0.84mg. Through processing technology, β-carotene can be easily absorbed and used. In terms of taste and flavor, the fruit juice made from native seeds has a light sweet smell of melons, which is different from Vietnamese processed products in fishy taste or fuel consumption, and does not have the special smell of Fresh Carrot Juice. It is more suitable to be paired with fruits and vegetables, and can be developed into a characteristic crop processing raw material with health care function.

In addition, wooden fruit has the potential to become a healthy food. In the future, Taitung will continue to work with scholars and experts to develop more wood fruit-related technologies, hoping to shine in the development of the health and biotechnology industry. so that people can have more new choices of health food.