Or mangosteen, mangosteen, mangosteen. Small trees, 12-20 meters high, with many dense branches, opposite, and obvious longitudinal edges on branchlets. Leaf blade is thickly leathery, glossy, ovate or elliptic-oblong, short-pointed, broadly wedge-shaped or nearly round at base. Male flowers 2-9 clustered at the top of branches of short pedicels; Female flowers are solitary or paired, inserted at the top of branches, slightly larger than male flowers; Ovary 5-8-loculed, style rarely, stigma 5-6 parted. When the fruit is ripe, it is purplish red with yellowish brown patches, smooth, with 4-5 seeds, and the aril is juicy and white. Flowering period is September -65438+ 10, and fruiting period is11-65438+February.

Main value

eat

preserved fruit

Persimmons can be eaten raw or pickled. Mangosteen can be eaten raw, juiced, made into salads, canned food and so on. Mangosteen peel tastes bitter. When peeling, it is necessary to prevent the peel juice from staining the meat flap, so as not to affect the taste.

make tea

Dried persimmon leaves can be used to make tea.

nutrition

Nutritional components persimmon pulp is rich in dietary fiber, sugar, vitamins and mineral elements such as magnesium, calcium, phosphorus and potassium. It has a good nourishing effect on the body, and has a good conditioning effect on infirmity and malnutrition.

Nutritional Efficacy Persimmon contains a special substance, which has the functions of reducing dryness, cooling and relieving fever, so that mangosteen can overcome the heat of durian. Mangosteen is rich in protein and lipids, which has a good nourishing effect on the body, and has a good recuperating effect on weakness, malnutrition and illness.

Applicable people can eat it by ordinary people. Sick people are more suitable.

ingredient

Because of its chemical composition, the aroma of persimmon is about 1/400 of that of aromatic fruit. The fragrant smell of mangosteen is mainly composed of volatile components, including hexyl acetate, leaf alcohol (cis -3- hexenol) and only one kind of kaempferone (pinene).

Edible taboo

Obese people and patients with kidney disease and heart disease eat less; People with diabetes should not eat it. People with deficiency and cold constitution can only eat less, not more.

Eat up to 3 mangosteen every day. Eating too much will cause constipation. If you accidentally eat too much, you can cook ginger tea with brown sugar to blend it.

Persimmon with awn should be eaten with cold foods such as watermelon, soybean milk, beer, cabbage, mustard, bitter gourd, wax gourd and lotus leaf.

When eating mangosteen, it is best not to dye purple juice on the meat flap, which will affect the taste.

Menstrual women or people with cold dysmenorrhea should not eat.

Persimmon with mango is rich in nutrition and has strong antioxidant and health care effects. But it should be eaten in moderation, because although xanthone in the study has been pointed out to have anti-disease effect, excessive intake of this substance will increase the possibility of acidosis. α-mangostin is a kind of xanthone, which has obvious antioxidant effect and has been widely used in the field of medicine. However, excessive use will have toxic effects on mitochondrial function, damage respiratory function and cause lactic acidosis.