Oranges, oranges, what's the use of their skins?

It's the season for oranges. Oranges are widely loved by people because of their golden peel, bright appearance and sweet and sour pulp. Unfortunately, most people throw away their skins after eating oranges. In fact, orange peel is a traditional Chinese medicine called "Chenpi", which is warm in nature, pungent in taste, reasonable in regulating qi and resolving phlegm, and can be made into various delicious dishes, which can not only stimulate appetite, but also eliminate chest fullness, vomiting, cough and excessive phlegm. Here are some ways. (Text/Bill)

Orange peel porridge

When cooking rice porridge, put some clean orange peels before the porridge is boiled. Porridge cooked is not only fragrant and delicious, but also appetizing, which can play a role in diet therapy for people with full breasts or cough and phlegm.

Chenpi decoction

When making broth or sparerib soup, put a few pieces of orange peel, which not only tastes delicious, but also has a faint orange flavor, which will make people feel greasy.

Orange peel tea

1. Cut the washed orange peel into shreds, dices or slices. When in use, it can be brewed with boiled water alone or with tea leaves. When drinking, it not only tastes fragrant, but also has the effects of appetizing, ventilation and refreshing.

2, orange peel ginger tea. Wash orange peel, scrape off the inner white film with a knife, and cut into filaments for later use; Wash and shred tender ginger, add two bowls of water to boil, turn to low heat after the fire is turned on, cook for about 5 minutes, then add orange peel and cook for 20 seconds, and turn off the fire. Drink as tea. It has the effects of soothing the liver, relieving depression and relieving pain, and can improve abdominal pain caused by qi depression and bad mood during pregnancy.

Orange peel wine

Soak the washed and dried orange peel in Chinese liquor for about 20 days. Orange wine has the effect of clearing lung-heat and resolving phlegm. If the soaking time is longer, the wine will taste better.

Orange peel vegetable

After eating oranges, collect fresh orange peel, clean it, soak it in clear water for 2 days, then cut it into filaments, and then marinate it in white sugar for 20 days, which becomes a very delicious appetizer, which is not only sweet and refreshing to eat, but also has the effect of relieving alcoholism.

Diced orange peel

Remove pedicels and rotten parts from fresh orange peel, wash with clear water, drain water, cut into cubes with a knife, and then marinate with honey or sugar for 20 days. It can be used as stuffing for sweets such as sugar packets and glutinous rice balls, and has a refreshing and sweet taste.

Spiced orange peel

Soak clean orange peel in clear water overnight, remove pedicels, heads and moldy parts, squeeze dry, put it in a boiling water pot for 30-40 minutes, then squeeze out water to drain, cut it into small pieces with a square of 1 cm, add 20 grams of salt to 500 grams of wet orange peel, put it in the pot for 30 minutes, take it out and sprinkle a layer of licorice powder on the wet side. It tastes very long and has the effect of drug treatment.

Orange peel jam

Orange peel can be used to make jam, dry or fresh. First, wash the orange peel with clear water, put it in a pot and add water to boil for a few minutes, then pour out the water, add new water to boil for a few minutes, and repeat this for 3-4 times until the orange peel water is not too bitter. Then squeeze the orange peel dry by hand or cloth and chop it with a knife. The more ground the better, the better if it can be ground with a meat grinder. Put the cut orange peel back into the pot, add appropriate amount of brown sugar, white sugar and saccharin according to the amount of orange peel, add a little water, boil it and simmer it to a thick paste, and the orange peel jam will be ready.

Eating oranges regularly is good for cardiovascular health-it's the season when oranges turn red again. Oranges are colorful, sweet and sour, and are common delicious fruits in autumn and winter. Oranges are also very nutritious, and 1 orange almost meets the daily vitamin C requirement of human body. Oranges contain 170 kinds of plant compounds and more than 60 kinds of flavonoids, most of which are natural antioxidants. The rich nutrients in oranges have the functions of reducing blood fat and anti-atherosclerosis, which is of great benefit to the prevention of cardiovascular diseases.

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Knowledge of eating citrus

In autumn and winter, a large number of oranges are on the market. The pulp of fresh citrus is rich in vitamin C, which is dozens of times higher than that of apples, pears and grapes, and the content of vitamin C in orange peel is also more than that in pulp. Vitamin C can not only improve the body's immunity, but also improve the relaxation and tension between cells, so that the structure of brain cells is firm and the skin is delicate and elastic. Medical research shows that eating an orange every day can protect people from certain cancers (mainly oral cancer, laryngeal cancer and gastric cancer), and oranges can also reduce the chances of cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes. Although citrus is delicious, we must pay attention to how to eat citrus.

Don't lose the orange net when eating oranges: Many people like to tear the white net outside the orange pulp. In fact, this way of eating is unscientific. The white mesh network outside the orange pulp is often called "orange mesh". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that orange collaterals have the functions of dredging collaterals, resolving phlegm, smoothing qi and promoting blood circulation. It is not only a good diet for patients with chronic diseases such as chronic bronchitis and coronary heart disease, but also an auxiliary treatment for chest pain caused by chronic cough. Modern nutrition research believes that orange complex contains a substance called Luding. Rutin can maintain the normal elasticity and compactness of blood vessels, reduce the brittleness and permeability of blood vessel walls, and prevent cerebral hemorrhage in hypertensive patients and retinal hemorrhage in diabetic patients. For people with bleeding tendency at ordinary times, especially the elderly with arteriosclerosis tendency, eating orange collaterals is more beneficial and harmless.

Don't eat more than three oranges a day: because it is enough for everyone to eat three oranges a day, and eating too much is harmful to the mouth and teeth. At the same time, citrus contains Phyllobin. If you take too much, the blood content will suddenly increase and accumulate in the skin, which will make the subcutaneous fat-rich parts, such as palms, fingers, soles, nasolabial grooves, nostrils and other skin yellow, just like "icteric hepatitis". This special disease is called "carotene anemia" in medicine. This is because after eating a lot of citrus, the carotene in the blood increases obviously, and the liver has no time to convert excess carotene into vitamin A, so the carotene content in the skin increases obviously.

Don't eat oranges and radishes together: don't eat oranges immediately after eating white radishes. This is because white radish contains more enzymes, which will generate a thiocyanate after being ingested by the human body. This salt produces an antithyroid substance-thiocyanate in metabolism, which can prevent the thyroid from taking iodine and inhibit the formation of thyroxine. Orange contains flavonoids, which can be converted into hydroxybenzoic acid and ferulic acid after being decomposed by bacteria in the intestine, which can strengthen the inhibitory effect of thiocyanate on thyroid. Therefore, if the two are often eaten together, it will induce or lead to goiter. Besides radish, oranges should not be eaten with milk, otherwise the fruit acid in oranges will coagulate protein in milk, which will not only affect absorption, but also cause abdominal distension, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms in severe cases. So after drinking milk 1 hour, you should eat oranges. (decadent)

Just a word of caution.

Be careful when making tea with orange peel.

Orange peel is a good thing in itself. It is a traditional Chinese medicine and is often used as a condiment. Pharmacologically speaking, it has the effects of regulating qi, invigorating stomach, resolving phlegm and stopping vomiting, and has no toxic or side effects. It is precisely because of these benefits of orange peel, plus its simple source, cheap and easy to use, so some people like to make tea directly with orange peel. But making tea like this is very harmful?

This is not because the orange peel itself is not good, but because pests often occur during the growth of oranges, and fruit farmers use drugs to kill them, so that many toxins stick to the orange peel, which is difficult to disappear and cannot be cleaned. If you drink it as tea, it will do great harm, from nausea and vomiting to fatal danger. In addition, in the circulation process, in order to keep fresh, oranges will be soaked or sprinkled with preservatives. Although this can keep the orange pulp fresh, the orange peel is seriously polluted and contaminated by many toxins.

Therefore, orange peel must not be soaked in water and drunk directly.

According to Professor Lu Guangshen, a senior researcher at China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, besides taking medicine to prevent SARS, dietotherapy is also one of the optional methods. Using a white radish, half an orange peel, three slices of ginger, two slices of onion, a lock of parsley and other soup to drink can achieve the effect of enhancing respiratory protection.

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