Autumn is the season of harvest persimmons, when eating persimmons fresh is conducive to the maximum absorption of nutrients.
Persimmons are rich in nutrients and have many benefits for good health, and can alleviate dry stools, hemorrhoids, high blood pressure and other conditions. The organic acids and tannins contained in persimmons have the effect of promoting food digestion and increasing appetite.
Chinese medicine believes that fresh persimmons clear the heat and moisturize the lungs, quench thirst, detoxify; persimmon cakes strengthen the spleen, astringent intestines, eliminate blood, raw and dry; whitening; persimmon cream moisturizes the lungs to relieve cough, raw jin throat, hemostasis. Persimmons can be used to treat coughs, hot diarrhea, etc.
There is a question that everyone must be very confused, can persimmons eat the skin in the end?
Persimmons can not be eaten with the skin, because after the persimmons are ripe, the persimmon skin and flower holder contain a large amount of tannic acid, persimmon phenol, tannins and gum, which may interact with gastric acid in the stomach and form insoluble hard masses, affecting the health of the gastrointestinal tract. Symptoms such as stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, and even stomach and duodenal ulcers, gastric dilation, gastric perforation, and gastric bleeding may occur. Especially when persimmons are not fully ripe and have an astringent taste, there is more tannic acid in the persimmon skin. Therefore, persimmons should be eaten after meals, and they should not be eaten with skin.
Having said so much, how to eat persimmons is good?
The best time to eat persimmons is preferably 1 hour after a meal, or between meals. Do not eat persimmons on an empty stomach.
In Xi'an, there is a snack called Huanggui Persimmon Cake, which is made of very famous local fire crystal persimmons and yellow gui sauce, which is golden in color, sticky and sweet in persimmon noodles, and fragrant in yellow gui. According to legend, Li Zicheng claimed the throne in Xi'an and wanted to attack Beijing, when there was a famine, the people used local persimmons to make cakes for the soldiers to eat, forming huanggui persimmon cakes.
Persimmons are very sweet, is a natural dessert raw material, can be made persimmon sauce, persimmon bread, caramel persimmons, etc., as afternoon tea or small snacks to eat, change the pattern, love.
In addition, because women will lose a lot of blood during menstruation, need to supplement iron, and persimmons contain tannic acid, easy to combine with iron to hinder the body's intake of iron, excessive consumption of persimmons will induce or exacerbate the symptoms of female anemia, dizziness, fatigue, pallor and other uncomfortable symptoms, so women should avoid menstrual period consumption as well, iron deficiency anemia is also good to eat less.
Poor digestive function, especially people with weak spleen and stomach, eating persimmons too much is easy to cause indigestion, diarrhea, and bloating. Because persimmons are more sugary, patients with high blood sugar or diabetes should eat them with caution.