First, the five benefits of eating persimmons
1. Vitamin supplements
Many people do not know what the benefits of eating persimmons are, in fact, there are many benefits to eating persimmons. Persimmons contain a large amount of vitamin C. Vitamin C is an essential element of the human body, and vitamin C is well absorbed. One or two persimmons a day can meet the human body's vitamin C needs. Vitamin C is conducive to the regeneration of immune cells and greatly strengthens the body's resistance to disease. In addition, it has the effect of lightening pigmentation and whitening the skin.
2. Laxative
Persimmon contains a lot of dietary fiber and natural pectin, which is a water-soluble fiber. It is especially helpful for human digestion. After being absorbed by the body, it can moisturize the intestines and prevent constipation. Persimmons can also speed up the body's metabolism, decompose the body's lipids, and allow people to dump waste accumulated in the body. Eating more persimmons can detoxify and lose weight.
3.Heat Relief and Cough
After persimmons are made into persimmons, there is often a layer of hoarfrost on top, which is actually persimmon frost. Persimmon has a sweet taste and cool nature. After eating, it can clear the throat and relieve cough. It has wonderful effect on people with lung fever, cough and aphthous ulcer, and has high medicinal value. If someone at home coughs and is afraid of medicine, you might as well buy some persimmons to treat them effectively.
4.Can hangover
Persimmons contain active ingredients that can be used to purify the blood. After drinking alcohol, the amount of ethanol in the human body will increase greatly, and the active ingredients of persimmon can oxidize ethanol, decomposing the alcohol and eliminating the body. In this way, the ethanol content of the human body will return to the normal value after the alcohol is eliminated, and the drunken state of the human body will be reduced.
5, blood and blood pressure
Eating more persimmons can stimulate hemoglobin in the blood, making it quickly synthesize iron, and persimmons contain a large amount of iron, which is very helpful for patients with iron deficiency anemia. Especially for women, you can eat more persimmons during the menstrual period to replenish qi and blood. And persimmons are beneficial for lowering blood pressure and softening blood vessels.
How to choose persimmons
1. Look at the shape
When choosing persimmons, try to choose ones that are not damaged in appearance. Generally buy a bigger persimmon, choose the fresher color, no specks. The shape of the persimmon should be as long as possible, and it should be square and square. Don't pick something that looks strange and strange. Generally, the deformed persimmon does not develop well. If it is a soft persimmon, choose those with an orange-red outer skin, which are usually mature; if it is a hard persimmon, choose those with a green skin.
2. Feeling
When buying time, it is best to pinch the persimmon with your hand, so that you can better grasp the maturity of the persimmon. If you buy a soft persimmon, squeeze it gently with your hands, don't use too much force, or you will hurt the persimmon fruit. If the surface of the persimmon is evenly distributed on the surface, and the whole is soft, then this persimmon is better. If you feel it hard when you squeeze it by hand, some parts are soft, it proves that the persimmon is poor. If you buy hard persimmon, squeeze it with your hand. If you have a hard feeling, it is a good persimmon.
Third, the taboo of persimmons
1. Don't eat persimmon peel
Persimmon skin contains a large amount of tannic acid. If a large amount of persimmon skin is eaten, then the human tannic acid will increase, and the balance in the body will be broken, which will easily cause stomach persimmon stones. The tannic acid in persimmon can interact with calcium, iron, magnesium and other minerals contained in other foods, and produce a compound that the human body cannot absorb and use, resulting in less intake of these substances in the human body and affecting human development.
2. Don't eat on an empty stomach
Persimmons contain a large amount of tannic acid. If eaten on an empty stomach, gastric acid will cause tannic acid to precipitate and coagulate and stay in the stomach, causing gastric persimmon stones, and it is not easy to be punctured and treated. Eating persimmons on an empty stomach for a long time will make the persimmon stones larger and larger, which will cause hyperemia and erosion of the gastric mucosa. In severe cases, it may cause gastric perforation. People with indigestion should pay more attention to eating persimmons.