Six benefits of eating cherries:
1. Anti-anemia, promotes blood production
Cherries are high in iron content, ranking first among various fruits. Regular consumption of cherries can supplement the demand for iron in the body, promote hemoglobin regeneration, prevent iron deficiency anemia, and enhance physical fitness, brain, and intelligence development.
2. Prevention and treatment of measles
When measles is prevalent, drinking cherry juice to children can prevent infection. Cherry core has the effect of sweating, penetrating rash, and detoxification.
3. Dispelling rheumatism
Cherry has a good effect on rheumatism, and waist and leg pain.
4. Pain relief
Folk experience shows that cherries can treat burns and scalds, astringe and relieve pain, and prevent wounds from blistering and suppurating. At the same time, cherries can also treat mild and severe frostbite.
5. Beautify your face
Cherries are rich in nutrients and contain higher protein, sugar, phosphorus, carotene, vitamin C, etc. than apples and pears, especially with high iron content. Cherry juice is often used to rub the face and wrinkles, which can make the facial skin rosy, and tender.
6. Insecticide
The root of the cherry tree also has a strong deworming and insecticidal effect, which can drive and kill roundworms, pinworms, tapeworms, etc.
Precautions:
1. Ordinary people can eat 10 cherries a day. Those who are fat and full, with thick and greasy tongue coating should not eat more.
2. Do not eat cherries on an empty stomach. In the fasting state, the secretion of gastric acid will increase, and the combination of gastric acid and pectin and soluble substances in cherries will form precipitates that are difficult to dissolve, which can cause indigestion or diarrhea.
3. The potassium content in cherries is high, 258 mg per 100 grams. Patients with kidney disease can eat a small amount when their kidney function is normal, and they should not eat it when their kidney function is abnormal and oliguria.
4. Cherries are sweet, and diabetic patients should not eat more.
Cherry Desserts:
1. Cherry jelly
Materials: An appropriate amount of cherries, 150g of water, 15g of sugar, 5g of gelatin, and a few drops of lemon juice.
Steps:
a. Wash and dry the cherries.
b.Soak gelatin sheets in cold water until soft.
c. Melt sugar in water, melt gelatine tablets in warm water and mix with sugar water evenly.
d. Take a small amount of sugar-water mixture and refrigerate.
e. Put cherries in the mold, pour the mixture of sugar water, and gelatin and freeze in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
f. Put the jelly in the sugar-water mixture and refrigerate for four hours.
