Introduction: Passion fruit is also called Brazil nut and passion fruit. Because its fruit shape is like an egg, and the color of its juice is like an egg yolk, there are many In the region, passion fruit is also called egg fruit.
The fruit is fragrant after ripening, and its juice can emit pineapple, pomegranate, strawberry, banana, mango, Intense aroma of more than 10 kinds of fruits including lemon. And according to the analysis, passion fruit contains 165 kinds of aroma components, and has always been known as the “king of drinks”.
In legend, passion fruit is the mysterious fruit eaten by Adam and Eve, so passion fruit is also called Love fruit, acacia fruit, lover fruit.
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Nutritional value of passion fruit
There is such a record of passion fruit in “Sichuan Drug Records”: “Warm in nature, bitter in taste, non-toxic. It can eliminate wind and heat, relieve cough and reduce phlegm. It can treat wind-heat dizziness, nasal congestion and runny nose. snot”.
Passion fruit also contains more than 160 beneficial ingredients such as 17 kinds of amino acids necessary for the body and various trace elements and vitamins.
In addition, passion fruit is also rich in biologically active ingredients, such as flavonoids, including isoorientin, luteolin apigenin, quercetin, orientin, etc.
Alkaloids include Harman, Haralol, Harmin, etc., which have very good nutrition, health benefits.
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Eating passion fruit often, what benefits can it bring to the body?
Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
In our current life, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are also very common, seriously affecting people’s lives and also affecting people’s health.
So in daily life, everyone needs to pay attention to the maintenance of blood vessels, especially for those middle-aged and elderly people who are old, You can often eat some passion fruit.
Passion fruit is a high antioxidant polyphenol compound, which can protect blood vessels, promote blood circulation, and effectively Remove toxins and garbage in the blood vessels, which can help prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Improve human immunity
Passion fruit is rich in vitamin C, which can not only remove harmful free radicals from the body.
It can also help improve immunity, achieve anti-oxidation and anti-aging , Anti-aging effect.
Laxative
Passion fruit also plays a very important role in laxative and relieving constipation. Nowadays, there are more and more people with constipation, which is mainly due to a phenomenon caused by irregular diet and irregular bowel movements.
Long-term constipation, the toxins in the body cannot be discharged in time, and accumulation in the body will not only increase the burden on the intestines, but also easily reduce the immune system Force, so that the skin is irritated, resulting in unhealthy problems.
Passion fruit is rich in dietary fiber, which can well absorb toxins and garbage in the intestinal tract, and remove them from the body, which can moisturize the intestines well Laxative to help protect intestinal health.
Moisturizing the lungs and relieving cough
Passion fruit is rich in vitamin C. This substance can not only be a good antioxidant, but also can dilute sputum and promote sputum discharge, which has a very important effect.
In addition, the active substances in passion fruit have a certain relieving effect on inflammation problems such as cough and asthma in the respiratory tract , can moisten the lungs and relieve cough very well.
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How to eat passion fruit?
You can eat passion fruit directly, that is, cut the passion fruit with a knife and dig it with a spoon It can be eaten directly from the pulp bag. Passion fruit seeds can be eaten, which is rich in high-grade protein and high-grade fat.
In addition, using passion fruit to make juice is also a very delicious and healthy drink. Take a passion fruit, put the pulp in a cup, add appropriate amount of water, if it feels sour, you can add appropriate amount of honey for seasoning. Finally, after stirring, you can get a cup of nutritious fruit juice with complete color, flavor and taste.
The husk of passion fruit can be used not only to extract pectin and process feed to extract medicinal ingredients, but also to make tea, wine, and cooking dishes.
Passion fruit shell tea: divide the shell into two, put it into the cup, and then add the appropriate amount of rock sugar or honey , soak in boiling water for 5-8 minutes.
Stock flavor enhancement: After cleaning the whole fruit, put it into the broth, which can extract the umami of the soup and make the broth The taste is better.
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diabetics
Passion fruit is particularly rich in nutritional value, but at the same time, passion fruit is also a high-sugar fruit.
Every 100 grams of passion fruit contains about 11.2 grams of sugar and 23.28 grams of carbohydrates, and this The sugar content is not a good food for diabetics who need to control blood sugar.
Diabetics who use passion fruit will easily change blood sugar levels, so it is not recommended for diabetics to go Eat passion fruit.
Sufferers with upset stomach
Passion fruit is an acidic food that 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 poor stomach itself, it will cause excessive secretion of gastric acid and easily damage the stomach wall, which will cause gastrointestinal Intestinal discomfort, leading to nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension and other problems in patients with stomach discomfort.
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Which foods should passion fruit not be eaten with?
milk
This is because passion fruit is rich in acidic substances and milk contains a lot of protein. The combination of the two will easily produce indigestible substances in the stomach, which will easily affect the stomach healthy.
Shrimp
Passion fruit is rich in vitamin C, and shrimp meat is rich in pentavalent arsenic. When these two substances are combined, the pentavalent arsenic in shrimp meat will be converted into trivalent arsenic, and trivalent arsenic is a A toxic substance that can harm your health.
crab
Passion fruit is rich in tannic acid, and eating crab after soaking passion fruit in water will form indigestible crystals in the stomach.
This will easily increase the burden of gastrointestinal digestion, and long-term consumption of large amounts of crystals will aggregate together, and in severe cases, it may even easily cause stone problems .
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Reading extension – the wrinkled the passion fruit, the better, is it true?
In fact, the more wrinkled the passion fruit, the better, this is indeed true, mainly due to The sunken and wrinkled skin of the passion fruit will make the taste of the passion fruit sweeter and avoid the problem of being too sour.
In special cases, the passion fruit will wrinkle, rot or grow hair. You can’t eat any more.
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How to preserve passion fruit
Method 1:
The passion fruit that cannot be eaten in a short time can dig out the pulp , put it in a jar, seal it and put it in the refrigerator to refrigerate, and the storage time of this method is relatively short, usually 5~8 days;
Method 2:
Wrap the passion fruit with plastic wrap, and then put it in the freezer of the refrigerator for freezing save.
Take out part of it and thaw it in advance before eating. This kind of storage time is very long, usually up to one month.
Conclusion: Passion fruit is a very common fruit in daily life. Proper and reasonable intake can give our body Health brings certain benefits, but you have to see if it is suitable for you. If it is not suitable, then don’t eat it blindly!