May and June are the best time to taste bayberry, bayberry is sweet and sour, full of juice, it is hard not to love!
Bayberry is beautiful and delicious, but there will always be some minor problems, such as "fading" and "small bugs", especially the latter makes people a little diaphragm. Don't worry, in this article, we will first learn about the nutrition of bayberry, and then tell you how to clean bayberry to "repel insects", so that you can rest assured to "show" bayberry.
Nutrition of bayberry
Bayberry is a specialty fruit originating from the mainland, and there have been records of artificially cultivated bayberry as early as 2,000 years ago. More than 90% of the world's bayberry are produced in the mainland, bayberry likes warm and humid climate, widely planted in the subtropical areas of the mainland, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places are distributed, mainly in Zhejiang, there is a saying that "the world bayberry looks at China, and the Chinese bayberry looks at Zhejiang".
In addition to being cleaned and eaten directly, fresh bayberry fruits can also be processed into bayberry wine, bayberry powder, bayberry juice and dried bayberry fruits, which taste good. The nutrition of bayberry is also recommended in fruits, with low sugar content, and the carbohydrate content is only 6.7g/100g.
Potassium: The potassium content of bayberry is moderate, 149mg/100g, although it is not as good as bananas, but it is higher than the apples we often eat, which is very suitable for people who need to control blood pressure.
Flavonoids: Bayberry is also rich in flavonoids, which have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, tumor prevention, and cardiovascular health protection. It also contains terpenoids, and at present, 35 kinds of terpenes can be identified in bayberry fruits, accounting for nearly half of the total content of volatile flavor substances, which can not only provide bayberry with woody, rosin, sweet and fruity flavors, but also have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, liver and kidney protection effects.
Vitamin C: As for the vitamin C in bayberry, the data in the "Chinese Food Composition Table" shows that its vitamin C content is low, only 9mg/100g. However, it is mentioned in the literature that the vitamin C content of some bayberry can reach 40.95~98.67mg/100g, and the vitamin C content of bayberry in the young fruit stage is the most abundant.
Water: Bayberry has a moisture content of 92%.
Bayberry is not only good-looking, but also has a pleasant sweet and sour taste, and many people can't stop eating it. I want to remind everyone that although the calories of bayberry are not high, only 30kcal/100g, it must also be controlled, and eating too much will also gain weight.
According to the recommendations in the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents", the daily intake of fruits is best controlled at 200~350g, and the edible part of 6 slightly larger bayberry is about 100g, and if you eat bayberry all day, you can eat up to 20 pieces.
Why does bayberry fade
In the process of cleaning bayberry, the bayberry will more or less fade, and some people will suspect that the bayberry is dyed.
In fact, it is normal for bayberry to fade, this is because bayberry is rich in anthocyanins, which is a water-soluble pigment, when we clean bayberry, it is easy to break the bayberry, and the anthocyanins will flow into the water after the cell wall of bayberry pulp is damaged, resulting in the color of the water. Generally speaking, the more ripe the bayberry, the higher the anthocyanin content and the darker the color it looks.
Anthocyanins have certain antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, eyesight protection, cancer prevention, and cardiovascular health protection. A large number of epidemiological experiments have shown that the intake of anthocyanin-rich diets can prevent a variety of free radical-mediated chronic diseases or complications.
Don't be afraid of bayberry insects
Chubby little bugs often appear in the flesh of bayberry, which makes it difficult for many people to swallow.
This small bug in bayberry is the larvae of Drosophila. Drosophila larvae are very small and difficult to detect under normal circumstances, and it is normal to be eaten on the stomach, female flies are generally about 2.5mm long, and males are smaller than females, with eggs only about 0.5mm.
Some friends may be worried: Will this insect continue to crawl around alive in the body after eating it in the stomach? Or is it parasitized in the human body?
Don't worry about that, not at all! Fruit fly is a kind of heat-intolerant organism, the upper limit of survival temperature is 35~36 °C, higher than 36 °C for a little longer will die, our normal body temperature is higher than 36 °C; And we still have stomach acid in our stomach, fruit flies really can't stand it, even if they don't die of heat, they will be digested by stomach acid.
If you mind eating bugs, we can soak them in light salt water for 10~20 minutes, and the fruit fly larvae will come out on their own.
If you really don't want to see live fruit flies, you can refrigerate or freeze bayberry before eating. This is because the most suitable temperature for the survival of fruit flies is 25 °C, the lower limit temperature is 8~10 °C, and below 5 °C, it will be in a state of shock and will freeze to death after 12~24 hours.
How to store bayberry?
The color, flavor and texture of the bayberry bought back are easy to change, because the skin of the bayberry is easy to break, and then it is easy to deteriorate; In addition, the respiration effect of bayberry is still strong after picking, the metabolism is vigorous, and the loss of nutrients is relatively fast.
Therefore, it is very important to store bayberry reasonably. Low temperature refrigeration can better maintain the quality of bayberry pulp, and the recommended storage temperature is 0~4 °C, which can better reduce the loss of water, fragrance and nutrients of bayberry, inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria, and effectively prevent fruit rot. It can also reduce the respiration effect of bayberry. It can be stored for up to 7 days.
Therefore, the bayberry bought back should not be kept at room temperature, but can be directly put in the refrigerator. If you're worried that the little bugs will die in the bayberry because they're refrigerated, buy less and eat them at room temperature as soon as possible. In fact, you can also soak all the bayberry you bought in light salt water to force out the small insects, and then drain the water and then put it in the refrigerator to refrigerate!
Source: People's Daily