Jujube culture
"Three dates a day, the red face does not look old." Red jujube is also called jujube, and it is recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica: "Jujube smells sweet and flat, anzhong, nourishes temper, calms the stomach qi, passes through the nine tricks, helps the twelve sutras, replenishes less qi, less jin liquid... Long service light body prolonged. "It can be seen that jujube has a long history as a healthy food and is deeply loved by the people.
The difference between various dates
1. Jujube (red jujube)
Jujube is also known as jujube, prickly jujube, and jujube. Jujube of the family Rhamnosidae; the fruit changes from red to reddish-purple after ripening, and the flesh of the fruit is thick and sweet. Chinese medicine jujube is one of the common jujubes. In life, jujube is also known as red jujube, and there is no essential difference between the two. Fresh dates are rich in vitamins, a variety of trace elements and sugars; dried dates are lower in vitamins than fresh dates, but the sugar content is higher than that of fresh dates, and the iron content is also higher than that of fresh dates. Jujube has the effect of tonifying the spleen and stomach, improving qi and blood, reassuring the spirit, and regulating the camp guard.
Jujube (Jujube)
Jujube (Jujube)
2. Sour dates
Sour dates are also known as thorns, thorns, wild dates, mountain dates, and kudzu needles. It is mainly distributed in Xinjiang, Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi and other places in the mainland. The skin is red or purple-red, and the flesh is thin, loose, and sweet and sour.
Sour dates contain a large amount of vitamin C, the content of which is 2-3 times that of red dates; rich in a variety of trace elements; sour dates have the effects of replenishing deficiency and qi, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, strengthening the spleen and stomach.
Jujube
3. Black dates
Black jujube is also known as Junqianzi, soft jujube, milk jujube, wild persimmon, clove jujube, jujube and persimmon. Persimmon plants in the persimmon family; ripe fruits are edible or can be made into persimmon cakes; they are easily planted and produced in the mountains, hillsides, valleys of shrublands at an altitude of about 500-2300 meters, or on the edge of forests.
Black dates are rich in vitamins and minerals, which have the effect of nourishing the liver and kidneys and moisturizing the vitality.
Black dates
4. Dates
Dates are also known as date palms, Persian dates, dates, dates, dates, coconuts, and dates. It is a tree of the palm family Acanthoxylum ; it is named for its resemblance to jujube. The date palm is native to West Asia and North Africa, and was later introduced to the coastal provinces and cities of the mainland for cultivation.
Dates have high sugar content and rich nutrition, which can be used as grain, and are raw materials for sugar and winemaking, which have the effect of tonifying qi and removing phlegm cough.
Dates
Dates
5. Dates
Dates are dried fruit foods, which are made of dates and sugar, and are generally used to cook soups, which can increase the sweetness of soups and have the effect of clearing heat and moisturizing the lungs.
The sugar content of dates is relatively high, and friends who lose weight should not eat more.
Dates
Introduce the practice of two foods about dates
Date bitter melon lean broth
Ingredients: lean meat, bitter melon, dates, ginger, salt.
Method: Wash and cut the bitter melon into pieces, blanch the pork after a little cold water, boil the cold water into the pot and then add lean meat, bitter melon, dates, ginger, boil again and turn to low heat for an hour, add the appropriate amount of salt before the pot to taste.
Ingredients for the lean broth of jujube bitter melon
Yam red date millet porridge
Ingredients: millet, yam, dates.
Method: Wash and soak the millet, cut the yam into pieces, boil water in a pot, add millet to low heat and simmer for half an hour, open the lid and put in the yam, boil for 20 minutes to add dates, and then boil for a few minutes to add seasonings.
Yam red date millet porridge
A summary
Jujube (red jujube), sour jujube, black jujube have a very rich nutrients, generally have the effect of strengthening the spleen and calming the spirit, but, from the focus of the jujube (red jujube) emphasis on the spleen, sour jujube in the tranquility, black jujube on the kidney. In addition, dates focus on replenishing qi, and dates focus on moisturizing the lungs.