Abstract: Soft pears are bland when they first ripen, but after time of brewing, their unique qualities are gradually revealed, delicious and sweet, and they are rare and good food products. It also has the miraculous curative effect of clearing heat and moisturizing the lungs and relieving cough, and is a magical "magic fruit" that is necessary at home.
In winter, the northern weather is cold and dry, and people are prone to colds. Since I was a child, my family was poor and had no money to buy medicine, and the elderly in the family would often consume a bowl of soft pears and give me cough. A few days after the cough got better. The greedy little mouth still can't forget the sweet and refreshing taste, and he will sneak a few soft pears to relieve his hunger.
Soft pear is a kind of late-ripening pear, which is often cultivated in the Lanzhou area, and is highly praised for its special diet among many fruits. Soft pears are picked in mid-to-late October, and the first harvest of pears and fruits, the skin is green and yellow, there is a slight hardness and sourness (there is a big difference from other fruits to eat fresh). After about half a month of touching, it becomes soft, sweet and sour, and it is still not a good product in the autumn when the fruits are abundant. However, after the smelting of time, soft pears gradually revealed their unique qualities in the autumn wind and winter frost. Like Moutai wine, after time of fermentation, it has a beautiful mellow aroma.
"Soft pears in the ice and snow, the first strange in the melon and fruit city, full of red faces, fragrant to be turned into mud." "Shihu Collection of Poetry Notes" "Neiqiu goose pear is the first in the world, the first ripe collection, and the sweat in November is better." "Hidden until the end of winter and the beginning of spring become soft and black, the flesh is pulped, sweet as honey." Eat it up" Dan cheek Xiao Lu fragrance is still there, jade teeth cold ice gnawing nothing". In late winter and early spring, if you eat a soft pear that is "sweaty", it is called a cool.
The effect of soft pears in clearing heat and moisturizing the lungs and relieving cough is recorded in the Ming Dynasty's "Compendium of Materia Medica". In the "Kangxi Zhi", there are also records that "he is rare, ripens late in late autumn, chews without slag, freezes into juice in winter and spring, and natural luscious treasures also". In fact, soft pear is rich in fruit acid, malic acid, citric acid, sucrose and other ingredients, due to the special growth environment, geographical location and long-term sun exposure, soft pear juice is rich in rare trace elements "selenium", the biggest effect is to protect the cardiovascular, liver and lungs. Therefore, to a certain extent, it can play a good role in clearing heat, moisturizing the lungs and suppressing cough, and is one of the necessary medicines for the elderly and children in the family to naturally suppress cough.
Nowadays, refrigerators and freezers are popular in thousands of households and can store frozen soft pears. In the hot summer, eating a bowl of "pulp water surface", and then eating a soft pear, cool and deheating, is really a delicious and beautiful "wonderful fruit" for you.