In October, the autumn wind blew yellow rice, red maple leaves and ripe autumn dates of a tree.
It’s the season of jujube market again, and the round, sweet and nutritious fresh jujube on the market is especially popular.
Sweet Fruits through Thousands of Years
In China, the cultivation history of jujube is as long as 7,000 years, and the cultivation history with written records is at least 3,000 years.
There are many varieties of jujube, which are produced in the Central Plains, North China Plain and Southwest China. The jujube produced in these places has different shapes and tastes, including red dates that are round like eggs, thick in meat and small in kernel, and plate dates that are flat and round in shape and sweet and sweet.
People’s love for jujube has also passed through thousands of years, which is naturally inseparable from the nutrition and delicious taste of jujube.
Sweet and delicious King of Vitamin C
Jujube contains a lot of sugar.
More than 70% of fresh jujube is water, carbohydrate can account for about 20%, that is to say, the sugar content in 100 grams of fresh jujube can be as high as about 20 grams. The sugar content in dried jujube and candied jujube is higher, reaching 70% ~ 80%.
This also reminds us that we should take it easy to eat jujube, especially for friends with high blood sugar and diabetes, one or two is enough, don’t eat too much.
Among the nutrients contained in jujube, vitamin C is most praised by people.
Common fresh jujube varieties can contain 243 mg of vitamin C per 100g, while the content of vitamin C in wild jujube is even higher, reaching 900 mg. Therefore, eating fresh jujube helps people to obtain vitamin C. However, it should be reminded that the content of vitamin C will be greatly reduced only when the fresh jujube is processed and dried to become red jujube.
Therefore, to supplement vitamin C, one must still choose fresh jujube or wild jujube.
In addition, jujube is also rich in dietary fiber, which is also of great help in improving intestinal activity and preventing constipation.
Can jujube enrich blood?
In this era of national health preservation, jujube is also regarded as a nourishing product by people. The most famous function of red dates is to enrich blood. Is this true?
On hearing of enriching the blood, People naturally think of the content of iron. Indeed, Iron supplementation is crucial to the production of more red blood cells. However, the average iron content per 100 grams of dried red dates is only 2 milligrams, while the iron content of pork liver of the same weight can reach more than 25 milligrams. In addition, the iron absorption rate in red dates is very poor. Therefore, the effect of red dates [enriching blood] is not as good as everyone thinks.
Here, Dr. Clove should remind everyone that if you feel dizzy, insomnia and lack of strength, observe white lips and nails, reduce female menstruation and suspect yourself of anemia, you should go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible. If it is indeed anemia, you need to find out the cause of anemia, and at the same time, you should adjust your diet comprehensively. Don’t think that eating a few jujube grains can be easily solved.
However, although it is unreliable to rely on jujube to supplement iron and blood, However, it does not prevent us from enjoying the delicious jujube. Fresh jujube is rich in vitamin C and tastes sweet and palatable. For friends with low blood sugar, it can be used as snacks between meals. In addition, dried jujube is also an important material for making traditional soup and dessert, such as tremella jujube soup, jujube longan eight treasures porridge, jujube cake, eight treasures rice, etc., which also tastes very good.
Autumn Dessert: Red Jujube Tremella Lotus Seed Soup
Today, Dr. Clove recommends a dessert that is very suitable for autumn, red dates, tremella and lotus seed soup. Let’s try it together.
Raw materials: red dates, tremella, lotus seeds, medlar, crystal sugar.
Practice:
1. Tremella and lotus seeds are soaked two hours in advance;
2. Remove that root of the soaked tremella and tear it into small pieces; Wash red dates;
3. Place lotus seeds, tremella and longan into a pot, add enough water, boil and simmer over low heat;
4. Add red dates, medlar and crystal sugar after half an hour, and continue stewing until the soup is sticky.
Hint: If friends with high blood sugar can put less or no crystal sugar, and when they come out of the pot, add a proper amount of aspartame, stevioside and other sugar substitutes for seasoning, so that they can enjoy delicious food and are not afraid of blood sugar fluctuations.