I never expected that these peels still have a wonderful use, don't throw them away in the future

Near the Mid-Autumn Festival, oranges and grapefruit are on the market in large quantities, and the sweet and sour flesh and refreshing fruit aroma make people feel the beauty of autumn, these fruits not only taste good, nutritious, but also have many effects!

Guide the experts

Zheng Yanhua, Deputy Director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Panyu Branch of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University

tangerine

Guangdong oranges are not necessarily the best to eat, but the well-known tangerine peel, derived from the dried ripe peel of oranges and their cultivated varieties, is preferably based on the tea branches and oranges produced in Guangdong, called Guang tangerine peel. And Guangchen pi is based on Xinhui's tangerine peel as the top product. Tangerine peel tastes hard, bitter, warm, and belongs to the spleen and lung meridian. It has the effect of rationalizing qi, regulating, drying and wet, and reducing phlegm. Special reminder, although the orange peel is good, but the fresh orange peel should not be used to soak water to drink, because the fresh orange peel contains more volatile oil, easy to stimulate the digestive tract. Fresh orange peel is dried and prepared, airtight and stored for more than 1 year, at this time the orange peel is not strong and dry, the smell is pure and rich. Special attention is paid to the fact that when drying your own tangerine peel, you should also pay attention to the appearance of moldy orange peel and do not use it. Hua orange red, also known as "Huazhou orange red", is also a kind of Guangdong provincial medicinal materials. Orange red itself is not orange, derived from the rue family plant Huazhou grapefruit immature or nearly ripe dried outer peel, can disperse cold, dry and wet, sharp gas, phlegm elimination effect, used for cold cough, throat itching phlegm, food accumulation of wounds and wine, vomiting and stuffiness and so on. As a good product of medicinal and food homology, tangerine peel is widely used and can be used to cook soups, brew tea, and cook porridge.

1. Tangerine crucian carp soup: Ingredients: 10 grams of tangerine peel, 250 grams of crucian carp, appropriate amount of condiments. Method: Soak the tangerine peel, wash and cut into strips, slice the ginger, finely chop the pepper, cut the green onion into sections, remove the scales of the crucian carp, wash it clean; put the tangerine peel, ginger, pepper, green onion, etc. into the belly of the fish, and then put the crucian carp in a bowl, put the ginger slices on top, and then add yellow wine, vinegar, salt, monosodium glutamate and water to taste, simmer in water and then take it. Efficacy: Suitable for chronic diarrhea, abdominal pain, etc. 2. Tangerine peel porridge Ingredients: tangerine peel 10 g, rice 50 g. Method: Wash the tangerine peel, cut it finely, fry it in water to remove the residue to get the juice; rinse the rice, put it into the pot, add the tangerine peel juice and water to an appropriate amount, cook it for thin porridge to eat; or grind the tangerine peel into a fine powder, take 3 to 5 grams each, and adjust it into the thin porridge to take it. Effect: Tonify qi and strengthen the spleen, phlegm and cough, suitable for coughing phlegm, chest full of stuffiness and so on. 3. Tangerine peel bath: Put the sun-dried tangerine peel into a cloth bag, soak in the bath water for a while, and then take a bath. Effect: It can make the bath water fragrant and attractive, the mood after the bath is comfortable, the spirit is multiplied, and the skin is smooth and comfortable.

grapefruit

Unlike tangerine peel, the skin of a ripe grapefruit cannot be used in medicine. However, it can be used without preparation, for a long time, and the taste and smell are excellent.

1. Yuzu peel lean broth Ingredients: 100 grams of fresh grapefruit peel, 50 grams of chicken gizzard, 15 grams of hawthorn meat, 250 grams of lean pork, 3 red dates, 3 slices of ginger. Method: First roast the outer skin of the fresh grapefruit peel on a low heat for about 3 minutes, wash it with water, cut it into thick slices, wash the lean pork and cut into large pieces; split the red dates and pit them. Then, together with the washed chicken gizzard, hawthorn meat and ginger slices, put them in a casserole dish, add 3 liters of water, a little rice wine, boil over high heat and then simmer over low heat for an hour and a half, season with salt. Benefits: Stomach digestion. 2. Rock sugar grapefruit peel tea Method: Soak the whole grapefruit in hot water for about 10 minutes, and gently rub the grapefruit with table salt to remove the sealing wax. Peel off the grapefruit peel, use a knife to slowly scrape off the white urn inside, and finally scrape the grapefruit peel into thin slices to reduce the bitterness. Scrape the grapefruit peel into thin slices and cut into thin strips, the finer the better. The grapefruit meat removes the outer film and seeds and strips into pieces. Boil water in a pot, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, simmer and add the cut grapefruit peel and cook for about 10 minutes, let it fully absorb the sweetness of the rock sugar water. Once the grapefruit skin is cooked until it is translucent, you can add the grapefruit meat. After about 30 minutes, the color of the grapefruit tea will change from white to yellow, which is the role of rock sugar to dry up the water to turn off the fire, at this time the grapefruit tea has become dark yellow. After cooling, the color of the grapefruit tea will change again, and then add an appropriate amount of honey and bottle it to drink. Benefits: Relieves heat and relieves greasiness. 3. Yuzu skin soak feet Fry the grapefruit peel in water, then soak the feet with water, wait for the water temperature to reach about 40 degrees, you can soak your feet. Benefits: Relieves itching.

Writer: Nandu reporter Li Chunhua Correspondent: Xu Yongyi Xian Yongqi