Hawthorn is also known as mountain red, now in the northern winter full of street sugar gourds, in fact, is hawthorn wearing a string wrapped in a layer of sugar, can be described as crystal clear, tart and delicious.

Nutritional value:

Hawthorn's fruits are small, delicate, red and lovely, and at the same time have a high nutritional value, containing a wealth ofCarbohydrates, dietary fiber, calcium, iron, potassium and vitamin C.

Health benefits:

1. Hawthorn contains flavonoids, which can prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and has the effects of dilating blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow, improving heart vitality, exciting central nervous system, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, softening blood vessels as well as diuretic and sedative.

2. Hawthorn can open the stomach and eliminate food, especially for meat and food stagnation of the elimination of food better. Hawthorn is used in many digestive drugs, such as hawthorn pills.

3. Hawthorn has the effect of activating blood circulation and removing stagnation, which helps to lift local stagnation and has auxiliary therapeutic effect on bruises and injuries.

4. Hawthorn contains flavonoids and vitamin C, carotene and other substances can block and reduce the generation of free radicals, can enhance the body's immunity, have anti-aging, anti-cancer effect.

5. Hawthorn has ingredients that calm asthma and resolve phlegm, inhibit bacteria, and treat abdominal pain and diarrhea.

Who should never eat hawthorn

1. Hawthorn is not suitable for pregnant women to eat, because hawthorn can stimulate uterine contraction and may cause miscarriage.

2. Hawthorn helps digestion and promotes the secretion of digestive juices, so it is not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach.

3. Children should not eat too much hawthorn or hawthorn slices, hawthorn cake, it will be unfavorable to the growth of children's teeth. Of course, all people should not eat too much hawthorn, and also pay attention to rinse the mouth in time after eating, to prevent damage to the teeth!

In short, hawthorn has been consumed by people long time ago, and motherland medicine also considers hawthorn as a food belonging to the same source of medicine and food, so it is a good choice to use hawthorn to make water or porridge or soup.

Reference: Yu Kang, "Be Your Own Nutritionist

Author: Shanshan Chong

National Level II Public Nutritionist

National Senior Health Manager

Prof. Wang Xingguo Nutritional Special Training Course III Participants

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It was the summer of 2008, the Olympic Games were in full swing, and our home was also in the Olympic territory, so naturally we had to express and demonstrate as hosts.

At that time, when my father's cancer was raging, my family was very busy with the surgery for the old man and the Olympics. Our family is the eldest son, naturally bear the brunt of the younger siblings are not necessary to accompany the old man to the end of the stick, but our family is not aside, we must go all out to solve the old man's immediate needs.

I don't have to tell you how agonizing the surgery was, or how my dad's body was able to handle such a huge procedure. What I am most grateful for is the honesty and sincerity of many of my fellow patients.

A chattering old brother, seems to be a rough man, but also as meticulous as a hair ---- He is accompanying his daughter-in-law to come over to see the doctor. Daughter-in-law's disease is not trivial, is a person to see people abused cancer, surgery has been the past five years, it seems to have been able to rest on their laurels, but this old brother is vigilant and unusual, often observing his daughter-in-law's every move, hairs between the vigilance extraordinary.

Suddenly one day, my brother's daughter-in-law bought a little hawthorn, under the desire for more greedy a few mouths, but do not want to instantly get the return: hawthorn stuck in the middle of the stomach and intestines, on not to come down, immediately triggered a chain reaction, the stomach instantly have a discomfort reaction symptoms, immediately hit the horse drove to the hospital, was told by the doctor must be surgically disposed of, or else if the attack of gastric cancer can not be handled, listen to the doctor so that! I was dumbfounded immediately, not wanting a small hawthorn triggered such a huge trouble.

The nicknamed sister-in-law regret not fall, can only allow the doctor to do an emergency surgery, nasal tube inserted difficult and sad, but also can not do anything, can only listen to it, hanging a nasal tube all day long apprehensive, and people say that they regret, should not be greedy for a few hawthorns of the moment of speed ......

Time has passed for a long time, but the images are vivid in my mind. Hawthorn has become a standard for fasting for a while, and a taboo for greedy appetite, and I dare not have the slightest slackness or blasphemy.

Hawthorn, also known as Shanlihong, the most recognized effect is to eliminate food and relieve greasiness, eating two hawthorns also has the effect of appetizing when the diet is not week and the appetite is not good. The general population can eat, with stomach ulcers or usually easy to acid reflux spit acid water people try to eat less.

In terms of nutritional content, hawthorn is rich in vitamin C, with 52 milligrams per hundred grams, contains 52 milligrams of calcium, and is also very rich in potassium, with nearly 300 milligrams per hundred grams.

Hawthorn can be eaten in many ways, besides directly eaten raw, made into sugar gourd, boiled hawthorn water, boiled hawthorn sauce or stewed meat when put a few grains can be, eat hawthorn, especially boiled hawthorn sauce, do not put too much sugar first, the best time to eat when adding some white sugar or honey, otherwise the addition of sugar will be very much.

Directly eat, soak water to drink, ice candy gourd, hawthorn slices ...... about hawthorn eat a variety of ways, but the constant is that the sweet and sour flavor, just think about it, you feel mouth saliva secretion out.

Hawthorn's most well-known effect - appetizing and eliminating food - is related to this flavor, especially after eating too much meat eat a little hawthorn can be very good to help digestion.

Of course, the benefits of hawthorn go far beyond that.

1. Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases

This is because of the flavonoids in hawthorn, which both dilate and soften blood vessels and lower blood pressure and blood cholesterol levels.

2, anti-aging to enhance immunity

Hawthorn contains a certain amount of vitamin C and carrot and other substances that can reduce the production of free radicals in the body, which in turn can play a role in anti-aging and enhance immunity.

3、Relieve localized bruises

Hawthorn can activate the blood to increase the blood flow of coronary artery, thus it has certain alleviating effect on the bruises caused by bruises.

In addition, medical practitioners have found components in hawthorn that can inhibit bacteria.

However, hawthorn is not perfect, the following 3 kinds of people are best not to eat.

1、Obese people

Don't look at hawthorn as small, it is quite high in sugar and calories.

2. Pregnant women

Hawthorn has a contracting effect on the uterus, and when eaten by pregnant women, it has the potential to cause miscarriage.

3. People with bad teeth

The sweet and sour hawthorn is a huge threat to your teeth, so always remember to rinse your mouth carefully after eating it.

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Hawthorn is the fruit of Shanlihong or Hawthorn of the Rosaceae family. It mainly contains organic acid components: citric acid, chlorogenic acid, etc.; flavonoids: quercetin, chrysin, etc.; triterpenes: ursolic acid, betulinol, etc.; it also contains carotene, vitamin C, vitamin B1, etc.; and it contains a large amount of dietary fiber, calcium, iron, potassium and so on.

Hawthorn can strengthen stomach and eliminate food, good at digesting greasy meat and food stagnation; it can also promote qi and blood circulation, dissipate blood stasis and relieve pain, used for blood stasis and menstrual occlusion, post-partum stasis, chest paralysis and cardiac pain; it can also dissolve turbidity and reduce fat, used in the treatment of hyperlipidemia.

What kind of people are not fit to eat hawthorn?

1. People with weak spleen and stomach

Although hawthorn can enhance appetite, it is not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach without stagnation.

2. People with excessive gastric acid secretion

Hawthorn should not be eaten on an empty stomach, and people with excessive stomach acid should not eat more because hawthorn will promote the secretion of stomach acid.

3. Pregnant women

Pregnant women, especially in the early stage of pregnancy, should not eat hawthorn. Because hawthorn will excite the uterus and promote uterine contraction.

4. People with high blood sugar

Hawthorn has high sugar content and belongs to "high sugar" fruits. People with high blood sugar should not eat more, and should control the dosage. Especially made of dried hawthorn slices, diabetics try not to eat.

In addition, hawthorn is rich in tannic acid, should not be eaten at the same time with seafood, easy to stimulate the stomach and intestines, inducing diarrhea.

There are raw hawthorn, fried hawthorn, burnt hawthorn and hawthorn charcoal. Raw hawthorn has stronger effect on activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and is also strong in eliminating food. Stir-fried hawthorn has a weaker acidic flavor, which can ease the stimulation to the stomach and is good at eliminating food and resolving the accumulation of stagnant food. Therefore, for people with weak spleen and stomach, such as young children, it is best to choose fried hawthorn to reduce food stagnation. Burnt hawthorn has a weaker acidic flavor and is good at eliminating food and stopping diarrhea. Hawthorn charcoal is good for stopping diarrhea and bleeding.

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Hawthorn has a sweet and sour taste, and is a delicious fruit that can eliminate accumulation and dissolve food. It can also be made into ice candy gourd, hawthorn sugar water and other delicious snacks. Although hawthorn is a green health food, but not everyone can eat, some people are not suitable to eat hawthorn.

These people should not eat hawthorn

1、Patients with high gastric acid secretion and gastric ulcers

Hawthorn has a sweet and sour taste, which can increase appetite and is a good food for digestion. However, hawthorn can promote gastric acid secretion, so some people with excessive gastric acid secretion and peptic ulcer patients should not take hawthorn.

2、Digestive dysfunction

Raw hawthorn contains a lot of tannic acid, which easily combines with protein after encountering gastric acid in the stomach, thus forming a substance called ellagitannin, which is the most common reason for the formation of stomach stones. Gastric stones are not easily digested in the digestive tract and can easily cause various stomach diseases such as gastric ulcer, gastric hemorrhage and gastric perforation. Therefore, raw hawthorn is not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach and poor digestive function.

3, pregnant women and taking tonic period should not be taken.

Hawthorn may induce miscarriage when taken by pregnant women. It is not suitable to take hawthorn during taking ginseng, western ginseng and other tonic products.

Second, the efficacy of hawthorn

Hawthorn is rich in nutrition as it contains many kinds of fruit acids, vitamins and minerals. It is found that the biological enzyme contained in hawthorn can effectively promote food digestion, especially the digestion of fatty food, at the same time, hawthorn can promote the secretion of gastric acid and promote the action of digestive enzymes, so it has appetizing and eliminating effect for the old people and the children who have stagnant food and those who are full of meat. And it is also very suitable for patients suffering from fatty liver and hyperlipidemia.

In addition, studies have found that hawthorn also has the effect of preventing cardiovascular, activating blood circulation, relieving blood stasis, calming asthma and resolving phlegm.

Third, how to eat hawthorn?

1、Hawthorn snacks should be eaten less

Supermarkets sell a variety of hawthorn snacks, such as hawthorn fruit preserves, hawthorn slices, hawthorn cake, etc., after a variety of processing of high sugar content, children eat easy to have caries, and there are a variety of starch, additives, eat more easily indigestion.

2、Hawthorn bubble water drink effect is exact

Hawthorn can be eaten raw, or you can buy burnt hawthorn and dried hawthorn in water. The herbal products of hawthorn do not pursue the taste of hawthorn snacks and do not contain high sugar content, but they are effective in eliminating food and resolving stagnation. Therefore, for people with loss of appetite and food stagnation, you may want to buy some burnt hawthorn and dried hawthorn to soak in water or boil water to drink.

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Nutritional value of hawthorn:

(1) Hawthorn has the ability to nourish the face and slim the body, and contains vitamin C, carotene and other substances. It can enhance the immunity of the organism and has the effect of anti-aging and anti-cancer. Eating more hawthorn can eliminate body fat and reduce fat absorption.

(2) Hawthorn has the ability to lower blood pressure, reduce fat, antioxidant, enhance immunity, remove harmful bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, etc. It can also prevent liver cancer. For fatty liver, hawthorn is the first choice. Hawthorn, can help digestion, has the effect of nourishing the liver and removing fat.

(3) Hawthorn can lower serum cholesterol and triglycerides, effectively preventing atherosclerosis.

(4) Hawthorn can enhance myocardial contractility, increase cardiac output, dilate coronary blood vessels, increase coronary blood flow, and reduce myocardial oxygen consumption.

Hawthorn Notes:

(1) Patients with gastrointestinal diseases should not take hawthorn on an empty stomach, such as gastritis, gastric ulcer, hyperacidity or esophagitis. People suffering from these diseases will not only not be able to promote health after taking it, but will aggravate the disease.

(2) It is not possible to take too much at one time with hawthorn, as this can lead to chronic gastrointestinal problems in the body.

(3) Hawthorn contains a lot of fruit acid, has the effect of stimulating gastric mucosa, the old man's spleen and stomach function is weak, children's spleen and stomach function development is not yet complete, eat hawthorn more will hurt the stomach, reduce the digestive ability, cause indigestion or emaciation.

(4) Eating too much hawthorn will affect the health of pregnant women and the development of the fetus. At the same time, hawthorn can also strengthen the contraction of the uterus, which can cause premature labor or miscarriage.

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First let's look at Hawthorn

Also known as Shanli fruit, Shanli red, Rosaceae hawthorn genus, deciduous trees, up to 6 meters high.

It has the effect of lowering blood fat, blood pressure, strengthening the heart, anti-arrhythmia, etc. It is also a good medicine for strengthening the spleen and opening the stomach, eliminating food and stagnation, activating blood and removing phlegm, and it has a good curative effect on the chest and diaphragm and spleen fullness, hernia, blood stagnation, and amenorrhea. The flavonoids within hawthorn, poncirin, is a kind of drug with strong anticancer effect, and its extract has a certain effect on the inhibition of growth, proliferation and infiltration and metastasis of cancer cells in the body.

1. Lowering blood pressure

The flavonoids in hawthorn have a significant improvement in blood pressure

2Lipid Lowering

Can significantly lower LDL and raise HDL

3Beauty

Eliminates body fat and reduces fat absorption

4 Activate blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis

Hawthorn has the obvious effect of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis

5Anti-cancer, anti-cancer

Inhibition of aflatoxin production

6 Anti-Aging

Vitamin C in hawthorn is an effective antioxidant and strengthens the body's immunity

dietary taboos

①Not for pregnant women

Hawthorn has the effect of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and is forbidden for pregnant women to consume.

②People with excessive stomach acid, eat with caution

③It is best to eat hawthorn after cooking, raw hawthorn is high in ellagic acid, so it is recommended to eat it after cooking.

④Not suitable for babies during the period of tooth changing

⑤ Hawthorn rolls and hawthorn cakes are high in sugar and should not be eaten.

Hawthorn, also known as Shanlihong, is a very common fruit with a sweet and sour taste and high nutritional value, but hawthorn is also rich in more ellagic acid, and eating it incorrectly also carries the risk of stomach stones.

First of all, the nutritional value, check the nutritional composition table can be seen, every 100 grams of hawthorn contains dietary fiber (insoluble) 3.1g, vitamin C 53mg, potassium 299mg.

Compared with common fruits, hawthorn's dietary fiber content is relatively high, for example, apple dietary fiber content is 1.2%, peach dietary fiber content is 1.3%, citrus dietary fiber content is 0.4%. And in addition to rich insoluble dietary fiber, hawthorn is also rich in soluble dietary fiber - pectin, pectin content of 3% to 6%, in common vegetables and fruits, pectin content is also very prominent. Rich in dietary fiber satiety, conducive to weight control and constipation prevention, pectin can also delay blood sugar and cholesterol absorption, regulate the balance of intestinal flora, are beneficial to health.

Vitamin C and potassium are also rich in vitamin C. Vitamin C is a well-known water-soluble vitamin with antioxidant effect, and the organic acid rich in hawthorn can also protect vitamin C, so that vitamin C is less destroyed during storage and transportation as well as digestion and absorption. In short, hawthorn is not only rich in vitamin C, but also has a high absorption rate, making it one of the good food sources of vitamin C.

In addition, hawthorn is rich in organic acids, but also can promote the secretion of gastric acid, aiding digestion, which is also many people familiar with the role.

As for what kind of people must not eat, this is not, hawthorn does not contain toxic and harmful ingredients, all people can eat. But it should be noted that hawthorn and persimmons, tannic acid content is high, eat too much on an empty stomach (especially less ripe or astringent hawthorn), there is a risk of stomach stones, or to pay attention to.

In the fruit, it can make people feel that there is a feeling of sour and want to drool except for lemon when it is hawthorn. So this hawthorn eat in the end what nutritional value? What kind of crowd is not suitable to eat? Read on to understand!

[Hawthorn Nutritional Profile]

Hawthorn itself is rich in organic acid, can be appetizing to help digestion, which is why the mention of hawthorn will have the urge to want to drool; hawthorn itself is also rich in dietary fiber, the peel is insoluble dietary fiber, the pulp contains soluble dietary fiber, can promote intestinal peristalsis, prevention of constipation.

In addition hawthorn is rich in flavonoids, which can effectively protect the heart and cardiovascular health.

Because hawthorn is rich in organic acids that can protect vitamin C very well, and hawthorn itself is not low in vitamin C, it is indeed a good source of vitamin C supplement in fruits.

[Hawthorn is good, are there any dietary contraindications when eating it?]

1. Hawthorn itself is quite acidic, so it should not be consumed on an empty stomach, as it will stimulate excessive secretion of stomach acid;

2. Eat with caution for the elderly and young children with weak gastrointestinal tracts;

3. Hawthorn itself is quite acidic, so you should clean your teeth immediately after eating it. If you eat hawthorn products, you should also clean your teeth instantly after eating them (hawthorn products are particularly sweet) to avoid damage to your teeth, especially for children.

Summarize is hawthorn is a very good fruit, but also is very "personality" fruit, like to eat, can accept the feeling of sour, in the hawthorn down, eat some quite good, but no matter what people eat, can't be gluttonous.