The Mid-Autumn Festival is the season when melons and fruits are ripe. Eating fruit during this time also carries beautiful symbolism. Do you know what fruits are eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Below, we introduce you to 10 of the most suitable fruits for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and these fruits carry wonderful auspicious meanings.
1. Grapes
Legend has it that on the night of the full moon, sitting under a grapevine allows you to hear the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl talking. Today's high-rise buildings have made grape arbors a luxury, but the juicy, sweet grapes are also an indispensable fruit on the Mid-Autumn table. Moreover, grapes are not only delicious but also highly nutritious. The sugar content in mature berries can be as high as 10%-30%, mainly glucose. The various fruit acids in grapes aid digestion, and eating a moderate amount of grapes can strengthen the spleen and stomach. They are especially suitable for people who have eaten too much rich food during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
It is said that "you eat grapes, don't spit out the grape skins," but eating grape skins is beneficial. Resveratrol in the grape skin can help lower blood lipids and enhance immunity. Tannic acid can resist allergies, delay aging, and also has the effects of enhancing immunity and preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Anthocyanins have strong antioxidant properties, anti-mutagenesis, and protect the cardiovascular system, among other benefits.
Grape and Watermelon Juice
2. Fresh Jujubes
When talking about fruits for the Mid-Autumn Festival, the crisp, tender, and sweet fresh jujubes must be mentioned. Fresh jujubes are rich in vitamin C and antioxidant flavonoids, making them an excellent fruit for autumn beauty care. Fresh jujubes are sweet, crisp, refreshing, have a unique flavor, and are particularly nutritious. They have the effects of strengthening and moistening the spleen and stomach, nourishing the blood, and replenishing qi. Moreover, fresh jujubes are rich in organic acids, carotene, protein, and trace elements like iron, calcium, phosphorus, and selenium that the human body needs. They also contain nutrients such as "cyclic adenosine monophosphate" and "glucoside," which have miraculous effects on beauty and health care, treating high blood pressure, and preventing cancer. Therefore, a famous saying has been passed down through the ages: "Eat three jujubes a day, and you will never show old age."
Fresh Jujube and Millet Pocket
3. Pomelo
Pomelo is one of the essential items for the Mid-Autumn Festival because the word for "pomelo" (柚, yòu) is a homophone for "bless" or "protect" (佑, yòu), symbolizing the hope for the moon's protection. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pomelo is sweet, sour, and cold in nature, with functions of strengthening the stomach to aid digestion, promoting qi to resolve phlegm, and lightening the body and improving complexion. Modern medical research has found that pomelo flesh is rich in vitamin C and insulin-like components, thus it has effects of lowering blood sugar, lowering blood lipids, weight loss, and skin beautification. Regular consumption has a辅助 therapeutic effect on high blood pressure, diabetes, and arteriosclerosis, and has a body-building and beautifying effect for obese people. After eating sweet mooncakes, eating some sweet and sour pomelo can whet the appetite and cut through the grease.
Honey Pomelo Tea
4. Chestnuts
Autumn is the season for chestnuts. The sweet and chewy chestnuts are always so irresistible that people can't stop eating them. Chestnuts contain a large amount of nutrients such as starch, protein, fat, and B vitamins, earning them the title "king of dried fruits." The fragrant and delicious chestnuts have been regarded as a precious fruit since ancient times, being a leader among dried fruits. Chestnuts belong to the nut category and are high in starch. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chestnuts have the effects of tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the spleen, strengthening the body and bones, and benefiting the stomach and calming the liver. Therefore, chestnuts have also gained the beautiful name "fruit of the kidneys."
Research has found that the vitamin C content in fresh chestnuts is more than that in tomatoes, which are known to be rich in vitamin C, and more than ten times that of apples! The minerals contained in chestnuts are also very comprehensive. The content of potassium, magnesium, iron, zinc, and manganese is much higher than in common fruits like apples and pears. Especially, the potassium content is prominent, which is 4 times higher than that of apples, which are said to be rich in potassium.
Honey Date and Chestnut Rice Dumpling
5. Pomegranate
The Mid-Autumn Festival is precisely when pomegranates are ripe. With their vibrant colors and numerous, full seeds, pomegranates are often used as festive fruits, symbolizing many children and grandchildren, a full house, reunion, and good fortune. Therefore, it is one of the essential fruits for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pomegranate is sweet, sour, astringent, and warm in nature, with effects such as killing parasites, astringing, stopping diarrhea, and relieving dysentery. Pomegranate fruit is nutritious, with a vitamin C content one to two times higher than that of apples and pears.
Modern research has found that pomegranate fruit contains vitamin C and B vitamins, organic acids, sugars, proteins, fats, and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, and potassium, which can supplement the trace elements and nutrients that the human body lacks. It is also rich in various acids, including organic acids and folic acid, which have health benefits for the human body.
Pomegranate Juice
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