White fruit is a dried mature seed of the deciduous tree Ginkgo biloba in the family Ginkgo biloba family. The seeds are harvested when ripe in autumn, remove the outer layer of the fleshy seed coat, steam or cook slightly, and then dry. It is as white as jade, and overeating is easy to cause diarrhea. Ginkgo biloba is the oldest surviving seed plant. Botanists often compare ginkgo biloba to dinosaurs and are known as the giant pandas of the plant kingdom. Ginkgo biloba belongs to the category of dried fruits, and among the many dried fruits, ginkgo biloba ranks third in economic value. The value of white fruit is mainly reflected in edible and medicinal use.
White fruit should be avoided by the crowd
Contraindicated people: children under the age of five, those who have real evil should not take it. White fruit has a small poison, should not eat more often.
Suitable for people: It can be eaten by the general population. Especially suitable for tuberculosis cough, the elderly weak asthma; Women have a lot of vaginal discharge, middle-aged and elderly sperm is white and turbid, urinate frequently, and children enuresis.
Efficacy and function of white fruit
Sweet, slightly bitter, astringent, warm, with a little poison. It can warm the lungs and improve qi, fix wheezing and coughing, shrink the stool, stop the stagnation, stop diarrhea, and benefit the spleen.
1. Anti-aging
Ginkgo biloba also has the effect of unblocking blood vessels, improving brain function, delaying brain aging in the elderly, enhancing memory ability, treating Alzheimer's disease and cerebral blood supply deficiency, etc. Ginkgo biloba has the ability to resist aging. The scientific influence in Germany and France was great.
2. Protect the liver
Ginkgo biloba also protects the liver, reduces arrhythmias, prevents fatal bronchoconstriction in allergic reactions, and can also be used to deal with asthma, transplant rejection, myocardial infarction, stroke, organ protection and dialysis.
3. Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases
The flavonoid glycosides and bitter endolipids in the seed kernel also have special preventive and therapeutic effects on cerebral thrombosis, senile dementia, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, cerebral hypofunction and other diseases.
Nutritional value of white fruit
White nuts contain a variety of nutrients, in addition to starch, protein, fat, sugar, but also contain vitamin C, riboflavin, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium and other trace elements, as well as ginkgolic acid, white fruit phenol, five-carbon polysaccharides, liposterol and other components. It has therapeutic and medical effects such as beneficial to lung qi, cough and asthma, stop belt worms, shrink stools, smooth wrinkles, protect blood vessels, increase blood flow and so on. Its toxic component is white fruit phenol.
The purchase of white fruit
The dried seeds are inverted ovate or oval in shape, slightly flattened, 1.5 to 2.5 cm long and 1.8 cm short. The shell (seed coat) is white, off-white to light brownish yellow, smooth, hard, with 2 ridges coiled at the edges, tapering at the apex, and 1 to 2 dot-like seed stalk marks at the base. Inside the shell are long, flattened, rounded seed kernels with a pale brown film at one end when peeled off. The seed kernels are pale yellow or yellowish green, white on the inside, and powdery. There is a gap in the center. There are 2 or more cotyledons near the apex. Slightly gaseous, sweet and slightly bitter. It is better to have a white shell, a full seed kernel, and a white color inside.
How to eat white fruit
Ginkgo biloba should not be eaten raw. Cooked food should not be too much, each time to take 10 ~ 15g is appropriate, otherwise it is easy to poison. Ginkgo biloba mainly consists of stir-fry, grilled, boiled, side dishes, pastries, preserves, canned food, drinks and alcohol.
The toxic components of ginkgo biloba are ginkgo biloba poison and white fruit neutrals (white fruit acid, white fruit alcohol and white fruit phenol, etc.). Ginkgo biloba poison has a hemolytic effect, too much dosage, easy to poison, raw products are more toxic, and green germ is the most toxic. The toxic components of white fruit can be dissolved in water, heating can be destroyed, so this product is cooked with little toxicity, if it is used as food, it should be removed from the seed coat, germ, soaked for more than half a day, cooked thoroughly before it can be eaten. General symptoms of intoxication are nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea, fever, irritability, convulsions, mental atrophy, dyspnea, cyanosis, coma, pupils are slow or absent to light.
How to eat fresh white fruit
1, cooking, you can cook the white fruit with the skin, to stir-fry, without putting oil. It can also be paired with beef, sheep, pork or poultry eggs, and is made into a delicious dish by stir-frying, steaming, simmering, stewing, simmering, braising, roasting and other methods. (Folk cuisine: Ginkgo whole duck, Ginkgo biloba chicken, white fruit stewed chicken, white fruit chicken diced, ginkgo steamed eggs, hummus white fruit porridge, honey juice white fruit, white fruit lak rice, white fruit porridge, white fruit west valley rice, white fruit brown seed, white nut steamed cake, white fruit assorted round cake, white fruit mooncake, white fruit cheese, heartless sugar white fruit, etc.).
2, if the ginkgo fruit is eaten raw, it is generally shelled, removed from the inner membrane skin, and eaten directly to the germ. Because ginkgo biloba contains small poisons, it is generally best for children to eat up to three to five capsules, and adults are guaranteed to be within ten grains. In general, the simplest way to eat ginkgo biloba fruit is to eat it in the microwave.
3, roasted to eat: you can roast it like a roasted peanut with a shell, peel off the shell, remove the bitter (slightly toxic) buds, and then eat.
4, brew tea: can be used as tea, with boiling water brewing and drinking.
Preservation method of white fruit
1. Dry
Some white fruits are very wet when they are bought, and if they are not dried, they will be moldy, so they should be placed in a ventilated and cool place to turn them over once a day. Until the shaking, you can hear the shaking of the nuts and then collect the white fruits and put them in the refrigerator. However, do not put the white fruit under the sun to expose, because after the sun, the white fruit will dry outside and be hot and moist, so that the white fruit will be more likely to mold.
2. Refrigerate
The best way to store fresh white fruit is to refrigerate it. If the indoor room temperature is above 27 degrees Celsius, it is useless to put the white fruit in the cold room. Because the refrigerator door is often opened, the room temperature will sneak into the refrigerator, so it will still deteriorate. Therefore, refrigerating the white fruit in the refrigerator freezer is the best choice. And the nuts of the white fruit can be placed in the refrigerator freezer to keep it fresher.
3. Canned
Find a few glass bottles with good sealing, pour the white fruit into the bottle, seal the bottle mouth well, so that the air and other bacteria can not touch the white fruit, this storage method can also let the white fruit store for a long time.
4. Vacuum bagging
If time permits, you can buy the kind of small air tube that pumps, and then buy the kind of plastic bag specially used to store food, put the white fruit into the plastic bag, use the small air tube to pump all the air inside the plastic bag, and then seal the plastic bag.
5. Peel and freeze
The foolproof way to keep the white fruit fresh is to peel off the shell and put the nuts in the refrigerator freezer to keep them fresh.
6. Soak in honey
Buy a bottle of honey, peel all the white fruit, peel the shell and membrane, cook it into a green ripe white fruit, and then soak it in honey. When you want to eat it, you can directly fish it out and eat it, which is both nutritious and healthy and convenient.
Can the white fruit shell be eaten if it is moldy?
The shell of the white fruit is moldy and cannot be eaten. From a scientific point of view, anything that expires will affect its quality to varying degrees, but then again, if the pulp is not broken and the color is normal, it is edible. White fruit is more difficult to preserve, generally with plastic bags are easy to moldy, not breathable, wrapped in newspaper and placed in the refrigerator can be stored for a long time.