Introduction: passion fruit is also called Brazil nut, passionflower, because its fruit shape is like an egg, and the color of the juice is like the yolk, so many regions call passion fruit egg fruit.
When ripe, the fruit has a fragrant aroma, and its juice can give off the rich aroma of more than 10 kinds of fruits such as pineapple, pomegranate, strawberry, banana, mango, lemon, etc. And according to the analysis, passion fruit contains 165 aroma components, and has always had the reputation of "the king of drinks".
In the legend, passion fruit is the mysterious fruit eaten by Adam and Eve, so passion fruit is also called love fruit, acacia fruit, and lover fruit.
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The nutritional value of passion fruit
The "Sichuan Drug Record" has this record of passion fruit: "Warm, bitter, non-toxic." Remove wind and heat, relieve cough and phlegm. Cure wind, heat, dizziness, nasal congestion and runny nose".
Passion fruit also contains 17 kinds of amino acids necessary for the body, as well as more than 160 kinds of beneficial ingredients such as various trace elements and vitamins.
In addition, passion fruit is also rich in bioactive ingredients, such as flavonoids, including isotera, luteolin, apigenin, quercetin flavonoids, ceramin and so on.
Alkaloids include halman, hal alcohol, halmin, etc., which have very good nutrition and health care effects for body health.
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What benefits can you bring to the body by eating passion fruit often?
Prevention of cardiovascular disease
In our current life, the problem of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases is also very high, which seriously affects people's lives and affects people's health.
Therefore, in daily life, we need to pay attention to the maintenance of blood vessels, especially for those elderly middle-aged and elderly people, you can usually eat some passion fruit.
Passion fruit is a highly antioxidant polyphenolic compound, which can protect blood vessels, promote blood circulation, and effectively remove toxins and garbage in blood vessels, thereby helping to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Improves human immunity
Passion fruit is rich in vitamin C, a substance that not only does a good job of removing harmful free radicals from the body.
It can also help improve immunity, achieve antioxidant, anti-aging, and delay aging.
Laxative
Passion fruit also has a great effect on moisturizing the intestines and relieving constipation. Nowadays, there are more and more people with constipation, which is mainly due to irregular diet and irregular bowel movements.
Long-term constipation, the body's toxins can not be excreted in time, accumulation in the body will not only easily increase the burden on the intestines, but also easy to reduce immunity, so that the skin is stimulated, thus bringing unhealthy problems.
Passion fruit is rich in dietary fiber, which can well absorb toxins and garbage in the intestines, and eliminate the body, which can moisturize the intestines and help protect intestinal health.
Moisturize the lungs and relieve cough
Passion fruit is rich in vitamin C, which can not only be a good antioxidant, but also have a very large effect on diluting sputum and promoting sputum excretion.
In addition, the active substances in passion fruit have a certain relief effect on inflammatory problems such as cough and asthma in the respiratory tract, and can well moisturize the lungs and relieve cough.
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How to eat passion fruit?
You can directly eat passion fruit fresh, that is, cut the passion fruit with a knife, use a spoon to dig out the bag, and eat it directly, passion fruit seeds can be eaten rich in high-grade protein and high-grade fat.
In addition, making juice from passion fruit is also a very delicious and healthy drink. Take a passion fruit, put the pulp in a cup, add appropriate water, if it feels sour, you can add appropriate honey to taste. After stirring, you can get a glass of nutritious juice with a full color and aroma.
In addition to extracting pectin, processing feed to extract pharmaceutical ingredients, passion fruit shells can also be used to make tea, wine, and cook dishes.
Passion fruit shell tea: divide the fruit shell into 2, put it in a cup, then put the appropriate rock sugar or honey, and brew it in boiling water for 5~8 minutes.
Flavor enhancement of dashi stock: After cleaning the whole fruit and putting it into the stock, the umami of the soup can be extracted, which can make the taste of the stock better.
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Passion fruit has high nutritional value, but the doctor reminds: these 2 types of people, usually try not to eat
Diabetics
Passion fruit is particularly rich in nutritional value, but at the same time passion fruit is also a high-sugar fruit.
Each 100 grams of passion fruit contains about 11.2 grams of sugar and 23.28 grams of carbohydrates, which is not a good food for diabetics who need to control their blood sugar.
If diabetics use passion fruit, it will easily make the blood sugar level change greatly, so it is not recommended that diabetics eat passion fruit.
Patients with upset stomach
Passion fruit is an acidic food, which contains a lot of organic acids and citric acid, and these acidic foods will easily bring certain irritation to the gastric mucosa.
For people with a bad stomach itself, it will lead to excessive gastric acid secretion and will easily damage the stomach wall, resulting in gastrointestinal discomfort, resulting in nausea, vomiting, bloating and other problems in patients with stomach discomfort.
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What foods should passion fruit not be eaten with?
Milk
This is because passion fruit is rich in acidic substances, milk contains a lot of protein, the combination of the two will easily produce indigestible substances in the stomach, which will easily affect gastrointestinal health.
shrimp
Passion fruit is rich in vitamin C, and shrimp meat is rich in pentavalent arsenic, these two substances together, will convert the pentavalent arsenic in shrimp meat into trivalent arsenic, and trivalent arsenic is a toxic substance that will bring harm to health.
crab
Passion fruit is rich in tannic acid, and soaking passion fruit in water before eating crab will form crystals in the stomach that are not digestible.
This will easily increase the burden of gastrointestinal digestion, and long-term consumption of a large number of crystals will polymerize together, and in severe cases, it will even easily bring stone problems.
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Read the extension – the more passion fruit is wrinkled, the better, is it true?
In fact, the more passion fruit is wrinkled, the better, this is indeed true, this is mainly due to the passion fruit skin depression and skin folds performance, so that passion fruit taste will be more sweet, will not be too sour problems.
In special cases, the passion fruit caused by wrinkling, rotting or hairy, this passion fruit can no longer be eaten.
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How to preserve passion fruit
Method 1:
The passion fruit that cannot be eaten in the short term can be dug out of the pulp, sealed in a jar and refrigerated in the refrigerator, and this preservation method is relatively short, generally in 5~8 days;
Method 2:
Wrap the passion fruit in plastic wrap and place it in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator for freezer storage.
Take out the part before eating and thaw it in advance, so that the storage time is very long, generally up to one month.
Conclusion: Passion fruit is a very common fruit in daily life, proper and reasonable intake, can bring certain benefits to our health, but also to see if it is suitable for themselves, if it is not very suitable, then do not blindly eat!