Efficacy, Function and Taboos of Citrus Citrus is a kind of fruit of Rutaceae citrus, which can also be commonly called "orange". Citrus is colorful, sweet and sour, and it is a common delicious fruit in autumn and winter. Let's share the efficacy, functions and taboos of citrus.
Efficacy, Function and Taboo of Citrus 1 Nutritional Value of Citrus
Citrus fruits include orange, tangerine, pomelo, citron, sweet orange, lime, kumquat and lemon. Citrus fruits have been planted in China for a long time, and began to grow as early as 2 1 century BC.
1. Citrus is rich in vitamin C, which can improve human immunity. In addition, we know that vitamin C has a significant effect on whitening skin and lightening pigmentation.
2. Citrus is rich in citric acid, which has a protective effect on vitamin C, so even if it is processed into juice, vitamin C that is easily destroyed can be preserved to a great extent.
3. Citrus also contains dietary fiber and pectin, which can not only relax the bowels, but also lower the cholesterol in the body, and has a good effect on preventing coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis and other diseases.
4, citrus peel also contains volatile oil, which can increase the secretion of gastric juice, help food digestion and absorption, and relieve loss of appetite.
Efficacy and function of citrus
Citrus is sweet and sour, cool in nature, enters the lung and stomach meridian, and has the functions of appetizing, regulating qi, relieving cough and moistening lung. It is mainly used to treat qi stagnation in chest and diaphragm, vomiting and anorexia, deficiency of stomach yin, dry mouth, cough due to lung heat and excessive drinking.
Citrus is full of treasures and can be used as medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dried tangerine peel (dried and mature citrus peel) can regulate qi, strengthen spleen, regulate stomach, stop vomiting, resolve phlegm and relieve cough; Green tangerine peel (immature citrus peel) can soothe the liver and break the qi, promote digestion and eliminate stagnation; Orange collaterals (the tendons in the inner layer of orange peel) are a good medicine for dredging collaterals and promoting blood circulation, regulating qi and resolving phlegm, and treating chronic cough and chest pain; Citrus pit (the seed of citrus) has the effects of benefiting qi, resolving hard mass and stopping hernia swelling and pain.
Citrus taboo
Citrus is easy to get angry, so it is best not to eat more than three oranges a day.
Efficacy, function and taboo of citrus II. Nutritional components of citrus
Citrus includes citrus, orange, grapefruit, citron, sweet orange, lime, kumquat and green lemon. Citrus fresh fruit has a long history of planting in China, and will grow and develop as early as 2 1 year in the new century.
1. Citrus contains vitamin C, which can enhance the body's immunity. In addition, we know that vitamin C has obvious practical effects on skin whitening and senile plaque fading.
2. Citrus contains sodium citrate, which has a maintenance effect on vitamin C, so even if it is produced and processed into juice, vitamin C that is easily destroyed can be preserved at a considerable level.
3. Citrus also contains dietary fiber and gum Arabic, which can not only moisten intestines, but also reduce cholesterol in the body, and has a very good effect on preventing coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis and other diseases.
4. Citrus peel also contains volatile oil, which can improve the metabolism of gastric acid, help digestion and absorption of auxiliary ingredients and reduce poor appetite.
What are the taboos for eating citrus?
Citrus has reddish leaves. If you take too much, blood components will increase sharply and accumulate in the skin in large quantities, which will make the skin of fat-rich parts of the human body yellow, such as palms, fingers, soles of feet, decree lines, nasal cavity edges and so on, which looks like "icteric hepatitis", but the only difference is that the eyes are white but not yellow, and the breath when going to the toilet is normal. This unique disease is called "carrot urine disease" or "leaf red urine disease" in medicine, also called "skin yellow orange disease". The reason is that after ingesting a large number of oranges at one time, the carotene in the blood increases obviously, and the liver can't convert unnecessary carotene into vitamin D, so the carotene in the skin increases obviously.
If oranges and carrots are eaten together, it is easy to cause thyroid nodules. According to overseas authoritative experts in clinical medicine, eating cruciferous vegetables and fruits, such as rubies, can quickly produce a substance called thiocyanate, and quickly metabolize it to form a thiocyanate against thyroid cysts. At this time, if the human body ingests fresh fruit citrus containing a lot of plant pigments, the flavonoids contained in it can improve the effect of thiocyanate on inhibiting thyroid cysts after being dissolved by bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, and then cause or trigger thyroid nodules.
Functions and Taboos of Citrus 3. 1. Functions and functions of Citrus
1, oranges can beautify, and oranges have the highest vitamin C content. Eating more can not only keep the skin tender, but also help to inhibit the formation of melanin.
2, can eliminate fatigue, the content of citric acid in oranges is very high, and citric acid not only has an appetizing effect, but also has the effect of eliminating fatigue.
3, can reduce cholesterol, oranges are rich in dietary fiber, and their pectin can also reduce the incidence of cholesterol.
4, conducive to defecation, the dietary fiber content of oranges is quite high, which is conducive to gastrointestinal peristalsis and can promote defecation.
5, promote cardiovascular health, orange glycoside is of great help to promote capillary toughness and reduce cholesterol in arterial blood vessels, so oranges are of great help to prevent hypertension and coronary heart disease.
6. Conducive to cancer prevention. "Nomilin" in oranges is very helpful to decompose carcinogens in human body, inhibit the growth of cancer cells, improve the activity of detoxification enzymes and protect the perfection of human genes.
7, the role of orange peel, orange peel, also known as dried tangerine peel, is a common Chinese medicine that blindly regulates qi, strengthens the stomach and eliminates phlegm. Soaking orange peel in water instead of tea has the effect of clearing away heat, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, but soaking fresh orange peel in water instead of tea is not healthy. Put a few pieces of orange peel when cooking porridge, which is fragrant and refreshing, and can also play an appetizing role.
Second, the eating taboos of oranges
1, you can't eat more oranges
According to the measurement, eating three oranges a day can meet everyone's daily demand for vitamin C. If you eat too much and take too much vitamin C, your body will metabolize more oxalic acid, which will easily lead to urinary calculi and kidney calculi. In addition, eating too much is harmful to the mouth and teeth. Eating too many oranges is also harmful to children's mouth, teeth and gastric mucosa.
If children eat too many oranges, the heat generated can't be converted into fat and stored in the body, and it can't be consumed in time, which will cause "excessive fire" through accumulation, manifested as stomatitis, periodontitis, pharyngitis, constipation and so on.
2, people with poor gastrointestinal function eat leisurely.
People with poor gastrointestinal function, who eat too many oranges, are prone to stomach stones. Excessive consumption of citrus fruits will cause "orange peel disease" and cause symptoms such as yellowing of the skin.
3. Oranges and milk should not be eaten together.
Protein in milk is easy to react with fruit acid and vitamin C in oranges and coagulate into lumps, which not only affects digestion and absorption, but also causes abdominal distension, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. You should eat oranges after drinking milk 1 hour. In addition, people with gastrointestinal, kidney and lung deficiency should not eat more, so as not to induce abdominal pain and soreness of waist and knees.
4, it is not suitable to eat with radish.
After radish enters the human body, it will quickly produce a substance called sulfate, which will soon be metabolized to produce an antithyroid substance-thiocyanate. If you eat oranges at this time, the flavonoids in oranges will be decomposed in the intestine and converted into hydroxybenzoic acid and ferulic acid, which can strengthen the inhibitory effect of thiocyanate on thyroid, thus inducing or leading to goiter.
5. Take medicine and avoid eating oranges.
Oranges are rich in fruit acid and vitamin C. When taking vitamin K, sulfonamides, spironolactone, aminopterin and potassium supplements, oranges should be avoided.
6, avoid fresh orange peel to make tea.
Most picked oranges are soaked with preservatives before they go on the market. Preservatives are chemical agents, and soaked oranges have no effect on pulp, but the residual preservatives on orange peel are difficult to wash off with clear water. If such orange peel is soaked instead of drinking tea, it will be harmful to health.