Showing posts with label dried fruits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dried fruits. Show all posts

Saturday, June 18, 2011

We Should Not Eat Too Much Persimmon

Eating fruits is very good for our physical and mental health, especially in the summer. Many women like to eat different types of fruits in the summer, which not only can relieve the heat but also can help to digest the foods and even lose weight. However, not all fruits are suitable for mass consumption in summer. The following six kinds of fruits should be eat less in the summer.

Persimmon
Among the fruits, persimmon is known as one kind of the sweetest fruits. In addition, if it made into persimmon cake, it even would become sweeter. Persimmon is not only delicious but also nutritious. However, persimmon has shortcomings and eating too much persimmon can damage your health. Persimmon contains a certain number of persimmon tannin (tannic acid) and the peel of the persimmon contains more of this kind of chemical substances. Just because of the tannic acid our mouth may feel reche and the tongue may feel numb when we eat the persimmon especially when it hasn’t become grape.

Tannins have a strong convergence effect, which can be combined with the acid in the stomach easily and then it would be solidified into blocks. Therefore, we can't eat too much persimmon and we should remove the peel before we eat the persimmon.

Friday, November 5, 2010

Four Dried Fruits have Good Effect on Replenishing Blood

As for women, anemia is a disease easily can be seen. The lack of blood make women's complexion has no brilliancy and hair becomes dry and other symptoms. And more seriously, it can affect our life. So, it is a wise to replenishing blood from foods. Then which kind of foods can provide us a good result. Let's have a look.

Mulberry

Mulberry contains the most abundant natural iron among the fruits. Nearly per one hundred grams contains 42.5mg. It is called to be the fruit for replenishing blood. The recommended method to eat mulberry is to use it for cooking congee. And every day a bowl of mulberry porridge can supplement the blood and make us beauty. However, the pregnant women should not eat mulberry.

Raisin


Raisin is a very beneficial to replenishing blood. Make the grape into raisin, and the content of iron about 9.1mg in per one hundred grams. And during the process of sun-curing, the grape skin has been kept at maximum. The nutrition that grape skins contain is higher than the flesh contains.

Longan

Each one hundred grams of longan contains about 3.9mg iron, and it is also rich in iron among those fruits. It can be used to as a kind of food treatment for anemia. In general it is used to stew porridge and cook soup. Although longan is good, we should not eat it a lot at a time.

Dried date

Among dried dates, black date and glaced date are the best. The iron content is about 3.7mg to 3.9mg in per one hundred grams. So it can be considered as a fine food among those replenishing blood foods. The dried dated are also rich in vitamin C, which is an important factor to promote the absorption of iron, and so that our body absorb iron will be very efficient.