The cape gooseberry looks like a small peach heart-shaped lantern, and the fruit inside is red when it is ripe.
Gooseberry is a fruit native to Peru and Chile in South America with very high nutritional value.
In addition to the amino acids and vitamins required by the human body, it also contains a lot of trace elements, so eating more cape gooseberry in life has great health benefits.
The efficacy and role of cape gooseberry
1. Cape gooseberry is rich in vitamin C, and the treatment of aplastic anemia has a certain effect.
2. The fruit has a diuretic effect, external application can be anti-inflammatory, especially for tonsillitis is very effective.
3. Cape gooseberry can dissolve phlegm and treat sore throat and lung-heat cough.
4. Cape gooseberry can treat pediatric whooping cough, acute bronchitis, diabetes (not effective for those who inject insulin), and edema.
5. Cape gooseberry has the effect of softening cardiovascular and cerebral blood vessels, regulating blood lipid and blood pressure, which is very practical for middle-aged and elderly people.
The nutritional value of cape gooseberry
1. Cape gooseberry is rich in sour berry alcohol AB, sour berry red pigment, alkaloids, citric acid, carotene, sour berry xanthan, graminosteroid, obtuse leaf alcohol, cyclic wood pineapple enol, lanolin-8-3B-ol, etc.
These are the trace elements needed in human growth.
2. Cape gooseberry contains 5%-11% sugar, 0.9% - 2.3% organic acid, 18 kinds of amino acids needed by the human body, B1, B2, and also contains iron, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, zinc, and other trace elements.
3. Cape gooseberry has a high content of bioflavonoids, which have the effect of softening blood vessels, lowering blood lipids and blood pressure, replenishing calcium and enhancing human immunity, anti-cancer, etc.
Medicinal value.
1. Lowering blood pressure
The consumption of cape gooseberry can play a role in stabilizing blood pressure.
2. Diuretic
Eating cape gooseberry can have the effect of clearing heat and diuretics.
Cape gooseberry common eating methods
1. Cleaned directly after eating
Fresh ripe cape gooseberry sweet with acid, after washing.
2. Pickled with icing sugar to eat
Cape gooseberry can be eaten with icing sugar pickle, the specific practice is to clean the fresh cape gooseberry, and the surface of the water is drained.
Cape gooseberry will be crushed and put into a clean glass jar, will be an appropriate amount of rock sugar in the glass jar, and put it in the refrigerator.
Usually, it takes 3-4 days to finish pickling, stir well and then you can eat it directly.
Pickled sweet and sour, suitable for summer consumption.
3. Infuse water to drink
You can clean the cape gooseberry sun-dried, sun-dried cape gooseberry storage better.
When drinking water, you can put 3-4 sun-dried cape gooseberry, and wait for about 5 minutes to drink.
