Ordinary products-vegetables, fruits, nuts, juices and berries – are not just our taste preferences. That's what makes us who we are. It also enriches and enriches the elements necessary for life. But what if we make changes to our usual diet? After all, each product is a storehouse of certain substances that affect the body. Our health, well-being and mood depend on what we eat. And the task of each of us is to learn this information and learn how to use it.
Longan (Lam Yai)
The skin of the longan is thin and dense, but in fact it is very easily cleaned. The color of longan varies from brown to yellowish-red, the flesh of the fruit is translucent, white or pinkish. Juicy pulp Longana has a sweet, juicy, very fragrant taste, with a distinct taste of musk. To taste longan reminds lychee and in general, these two fruits are very similar. Like the Chinese litchi, the longan fruit contains a solid dark red or black seed. Longan grows in clusters on evergreen trees, the height of which can reach from ten to twenty meters.
Harvest season: June-August. Longan grows mainly in the northern regions of Thailand, in the town of Chiang Mai and Lamfun.
The homeland of Longana is either the land west of Burma, or the area of origin of the province in China. It is in these regions that they are grown on a large scale. Longan has another name - "longyan" - which in Chinese means "eye of the dragon." It is believed that the longan was originally grown in southern India and on the island of Sri Lanka.
Longan is sold as grapes, bunches. The skin of a ripe fruit should be dense, skin cracks are inadmissible. More ripe is not the longan, which has just been torn from the tree, but the one who has already lingered a little on the store counter. Try longan before buying, because the fruits are sweeter or vice versa more acidic.
Longan can be stored two to three days at room temperature or five to seven days in the refrigerator.
Longan contains a variety of vitamins and minerals, including iron, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium, as well as a large number of vitamins A and C. Recent studies of euphoria have shown that the fruit also contains phenols such as gallic acid, ellagic and corrilic acid, indicating that the fruit can have antioxidant properties, reduce the negative effects of chemotherapy and protect the liver.
Longan contains riboflavin and is a natural source of polysaccharides, maintaining health at the cellular level.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the longan is used mainly as a tonic. Tonification is mainly necessary for diseases whose symptoms are fatigue, dizziness, palpitations, paleness and loss of vision. In addition, fruit is also used to normalize sleep, reduce unreasonable excitement, calm and revitalize attention.
There may be an allergic reaction to this fruit.
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