Yuzu, also known as Wendan, is sweet and sour, juicy, and many people like to eat this food. Moreover, eating grapefruit can also reap many benefits, and grapefruit is even called "the most therapeutic fruit" by the medical community.
Of course, in addition to its deliciousness, grapefruit is also a multifunctional fruit and rich in nutritional value. And for many chronic diseases have a good prevention and treatment effect, so what are the benefits of eating grapefruit?
Eating grapefruit regularly will reap 4 benefits:
1. Remove stains
Grapefruit is rich in vitamin C, which can reduce the pigmentation in the skin, so grapefruit is a good beauty product.
After cutting the grapefruit, pour some honey, and then gently apply and massage the skin, which can whiten the skin well.
2. Good for weight loss
Nutrition experts have found that eating half a grapefruit every day before meals without changing other eating habits, and then insisting on it for more than twelve weeks, can play a very good weight loss effect.
The main reason why this happens is that because a compound contained in grapefruit can effectively accelerate fat burning, grapefruit is also a natural weight loss fruit.
3. Prevent blood clots
The incidence of cardiovascular disease is now very high, and most cardiovascular diseases are related to blood clots. Especially in winter, the weather is relatively cold, the blood flow rate is relatively slow, and the possibility of cardiovascular disease is greatly improved.
If you can eat more grapefruit at ordinary times, you can effectively reduce the viscosity of blood and prevent blood clots.
4. Prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
Grapefruit is rich in vitamins B1, B2, etc., which are necessary vitamins for the human body, and it is easy to get neuritis and other diseases if it is lacking. At the same time, grapefruit is rich in vitamin C, which can prevent various diseases caused by blood viscosity, such as blood clots caused by cardiovascular and cerebrovascular blockage.
Moreover, vitamin C is a good antioxidant, often eat grapefruit, can help cells anti-oxidation, anti-aging.
Today I learned that grapefruit can not be eaten casually, for the sake of health, these 5 types of people, please leave your mouth merciful!
1. People taking statins
The main role of statins is to lower blood lipids, which are metabolized in the liver and small intestine, and require some metabolic enzymes in the body to participate.
Some ingredients in grapefruit will inhibit this enzyme and reduce its activity, so that patients will have muscle aches, fatigue and other phenomena.
It can even easily develop rhabdomyolysis, so try not to eat grapefruit while taking statins.
2. Poor liver function
The nutritional value and edible value of grapefruit are very high, but grapefruit contains an active substance that has an inhibitory effect on an enzyme in the intestine.
It will disturb normal drug metabolism and affect blood concentration, thereby affecting the liver's detoxification function. It is easy to cause impaired liver function and even liver toxicity.
3. Patients with high blood pressure
For patients with high blood pressure, it is not advisable to eat grapefruit during taking antihypertensive drugs, because grapefruit is rich in vitamin C and various insulin and other ingredients, which itself has a hypotensive effect.
People with high blood pressure who eat grapefruit while taking the drug can cause their blood pressure to drop sharply.
After a certain extent, uncomfortable symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, palpitation, and decreased blood pressure may occur, which can induce angina, myocardial infarction or stroke.
4. Women during menstruation
Although grapefruit has the effect of clearing the lungs and intestines, replenishing blood and strengthening the spleen, this does not mean that grapefruit can be consumed during menstruation.
If you eat too much grapefruit during menstruation, it will inhibit the functioning of the blood, which can easily lead to discomfort during menstruation and even painful menstruation.
Eating grapefruit can also increase the coolness of the body, and grapefruit contains a large amount of organic acids, so eating grapefruit has a certain astringency, which will not be conducive to the smooth discharge of menstrual blood.
Therefore, it is not recommended that women eat more grapefruit during menstruation so as not to affect their physical health.
5. People with weak spleen and stomach, cold body, and heavy moisture
Grapefruit is cold in nature, and people with weak spleen and stomach may aggravate gastrointestinal discomfort after eating, causing or aggravating symptoms such as loose stools, bloating, abdominal pain, and indigestion, so people with weak spleen and stomach try not to eat grapefruit.
People with cold body and heavy humidity should not eat grapefruit to avoid adverse reactions.
Three major differences between red grapefruit and white grapefruit:
One: nutritional value
There is a clear difference in the nutritional value of red grapefruit and white grapefruit, and the nutritional value of red grapefruit is much higher than that of white grapefruit. The flesh of pomelo contains a lot of carotene and flavonoid pigments, which is the main reason for its red flesh.
The content of carotene and flavonoids in white grapefruit is relatively small, and the content of sugars and pectin in red grapefruit is much higher than that of white grapefruit. From these aspects, it can be seen that the nutritional value of red grapefruit is higher than that of white grapefruit.
Two: taste
If you taste it carefully, you can find that red heart pomelo is sweeter than white heart pomelo; And the flesh of red heart pomelo will be more tender than white heart pomelo, and there will be less residue when spitting out.
White heart pomelo tastes a little bitter, and red heart pomelo has a less obvious bitterness. This is why many people are willing to pay more for pomelo hearts.
Three: flesh color
The most important difference between red grapefruit and white grapefruit is that their flesh color is different, these two types of grapefruit are not obviously different from the appearance, but after cutting, you will find that the flesh of red grapefruit is red, while the flesh of white grapefruit is white.
There are also some subtle differences between the appearance of red grapefruit and white grapefruit, the size of red grapefruit is smaller and the surface of the peel is smooth, while the size of the white grapefruit is larger and the smoothness of the peel is poor.
Extension: The 3 best ways to eat grapefruit
1. Honey grapefruit tea
Take a grapefruit and soak it in hot water for 5 minutes with the aim of removing dust and bacteria from the surface. Wash and dry, then peel, take a little less white bowl inside, add a little salt and marinate for 10 minutes.
Take out the pulp, break it up, then put the pulp, grapefruit peel, rock sugar and an appropriate amount of water into a clean pot and cook on high heat for an hour, until the soup is golden and transparent. After the soup has cooled, add the honey and store in the refrigerator.
2. Make a salad
A delicate Thai yuzu salad is made by tossing the refreshing pomelo pulp into a sauce made with coconut milk, red curry paste, chili oil and sugar, shrimps or shredded chicken, and sprinkled with roasted shredded coconut or crushed peanuts.
3. Stir-fried shrimp with grapefruit
The ingredients are as follows: 300g of shrimp, 1 clove of yuzu meat, 1 piece of ginger, 1 tsp salt, 1 tablespoon light soy sauce, 1 tablespoon oyster sauce, water starch to taste
Blanch the shrimp and remove it for later use, then start the pan, add shredded ginger, stir-fry over low heat until fragrant, then add the grapefruit meat, stir-fry evenly, then add half a bowl of water, add a little salt, add 1 tablespoon light soy sauce, add 1 tablespoon oyster sauce.
After boiling over high heat, turn to low heat and cook for 5 minutes to bring out the sour taste of the grapefruit. Then pour in the shrimp, add the water starch, stir-fry over high heat to collect the juice, and when the soup is thick, you can take it out of the pan and put it on a plate!