What does the peel of a bitter mandarin do? Benefits of eating bitter oranges

The main components of bitter mandarin are neohesperidin and naringin, which have been shown to have medicinal effects such as lowering blood pressure, cooling, resistance to hypoxia and increasing coronary flow.

When the citrus is not yet ripe, the skin is first greenish-green, then greenish with orange, and then orange. The bitter mandarin has a unique flavor, the flesh is soft and juicy, sweet and delicious, and the fruit is determined by fruit analysis, and contains grams of water, calcium and vitamin C in 100 grams of bitter orange fruit.

Wenzhou folk are known as "the Dragon Boat Festival bitter orange is like an antelope", and it is widely spread that the bitter orange can reduce fever, treat pharyngitis, headache and other thermal diseases. It can be seen that the "slightly bitter" in the bitter mandarin does have a medicinal effect on the human body.

Bitter mandarin, also called Ou mandarin, originated in Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, is a traditional specialty fruit of Wenzhou. As early as the Tang Dynasty, there was a record of "Wenzhou Tugong citrus", and since then, until the Qing Dynasty, bitter oranges have been used as tribute to the imperial court. The solid content of bitter mandarin is 13%, containing vitamin milligrams, reducing sugars, total sugars per 100 grams, rich in vitamin B17, slightly bitter taste, and then sweet, with special flavor, through pharmacological tests of bitter mandarin juice, clinical observation of the efficacy of bitter mandarin diet therapy on essential hypertension and the extraction and analysis of bitter mandarin bitter substances, it is finally proved that the bitter taste of bitter mandarin comes from naringin, which has been proven by the medical community to be beneficial to the human body.

This is consistent with the Wenzhou folk bitter mandarin has the effect of reducing fever, laryngitis, headache and other thermal diseases. It has the effects of cooling and detoxifying, diuretic and flattening the liver, diarrhea and heart fire. Wenzhou people have a saying that "the bitter orange of the Dragon Boat Festival is better than the antelope".

According to research, the "Yongjia Tangerine Record" records that there were 27 citrus varieties in Wenzhou, and now 26 varieties have been eliminated successively, and only bitter oranges have survived tenaciously.

The efficacy of grapefruit peel.

1. Pomelo peel boiled water to treat pediatric pneumonia.

After eating the grapefruit, leave the peel to dry, put a few pieces in a pot and add water to cook together (the pieces should not be too small, otherwise the effect will be reduced, but it should not be too large).

2. Grapefruit peel boiled water ** chilblains.

Boil water with sun-dried grapefruit peel, and take this water to heat the frostbite when it is very thick, but avoid breaking the skin. Pay attention to the temperature of the hot compress, at the beginning, the temperature of the towel should not be too hot, you can shake the heat and then apply. After the frostbite area is acclimated, gradually increase the temperature, and at the highest point, a towel should be taken out of the pot and a hot compress should be applied directly.

This method, which requires patience and long-term persistence, can promote the recovery of frostbite and effectively prevent recurrence or mitigation in the coming year. If the frostbite area is not broken, you can add a few dried chili peppers.

Pots and towels are best used separately, and the boiled water does not need to be replaced, but it must be boiled each time, and the boiling time must be extended when new water is added.