Green plum detoxifies! 1 20 calories per tablet helps to remove stool

Around the Qingming Festival is the best time to eat green plums. Nutritionists point out that green plums have a low calorie content of about 20 calories per piece and contain a large amount of organic acids and minerals. Although they taste sour, they are alkaline foods that have the function of balancing the body's pH value. They not only aid digestion and eliminate toxins from the body, but also help eliminate stool and prevent constipation.

Around the Qingming Festival is the best time to eat green plums. (Photo provided by Taipei Farmers Association)

Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital nutritionist Su Yijun pointed out that plums are a specialty of my country and Japan. Around the Tomb-Sweeping Day every year, plums are in full production. Generally, green plums are harvested. Because of their high acidity and low sweetness, they are usually used to make pickled plums. They are also exported to Japan or dried for making candied plums.

Eating green plums has many benefits

Basically, the dark green plums harvested around the Qingming Festival are suitable for making crispy plums, and when the fruits turn light green, they are suitable for making perilla plums, preserved plums, tea plums and plum wine. When the plums mature and turn yellow-green, they can be used to make plum vinegar or plum jam or juice. Fully ripe plums that turn red are not suitable for processing.

Green plum fruits are rich in citric acid, malic acid, vitamins B1, B2, C, carotene, as well as minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, and potassium. Recent studies have found that plums have therapeutic effects such as increasing appetite, improving physical fitness, eliminating abdominal distension and motion sickness.

Green plum is rich in minerals such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, iron and citric acid, and is a high-alkaline food. (Photo provided by Taipei Farmers Association)

Green plum is an alkaline food that promotes digestion and eliminates stool

Nutritionist Su Yijun emphasized that green plums are rich in minerals such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, iron, and citric acid. They are high-alkaline foods and long-term consumption is beneficial to health. Not only can you DIY crispy plums, Q plums, etc. at home, you can also make plum vinegar or plum wine, and even add them to cooking to make a variety of plum dishes that are hygienic, healthy and delicious.

Fresh green plum is also a kind of fruit. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, it can promote digestion, enhance gastrointestinal motility, and also help to expel stool. However, pickled green plum is a processed product with a lot of sugar and salt added to it. It has a great burden on the body of patients with diabetes, hypertension, and peptic ulcers, so it should be consumed in moderation.

Green plums are sweet and sour in the dish

《1. Plum Chicken》

Ingredients: boneless chicken thighs, soy sauce, a little plum juice, and plums.

practice:

1. Fry the chicken until 80% done.

2. Add soy sauce and plum juice and mix with the chicken.

3. Collect the sauce and remove from heat.

《2. Plum Fried Rice》

Ingredients: white rice, eggs, diced carrots, green beans, shrimps, plum juice, olive oil, and soy sauce.

practice:

1. Blanch the diced carrots, green beans and shrimps, and dice the plums for later use.

2. Add appropriate amount of olive oil to fry the eggs and rice, then pour in the reserved ingredients.

3. Pour in plum juice and soy sauce, stir-fry evenly and remove from heat.

【4 tips for tasting green plums】:

1. People with poor stomachs are not suitable for overly acidic foods as they increase the burden on the stomach.

2. A lot of sugar and salt are added to pickled green plums, so people with hypertension and diabetes should eat less.

3. One fresh green plum contains about 20 calories, and eating too much is not helpful for weight loss.

4. Kidney patients should try to eat less pickled foods to avoid adding burden to the body.

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