Still eating fruit raw? You're so last season.

What? Eating fruits raw! Let me tell you, you're so behind the times! Why must perfectly good oranges be steamed and perfectly good apples be boiled? Let me tell you, steamed oranges can effectively relieve cough symptoms, and boiled snow pears are excellent for moistening the lungs! I swear on a lightbulb, it absolutely works!

1. Cinnamon Red Wine Boiled Apples

Effect: Boil平安平安 (Ping'an) apples with red wine, and add fresh lilies which nourish the heart, calm the spirit, nourish yin, and moisten dryness, as well as cinnamon which warms the kidneys, supplements the kidneys, dispels cold, and alleviates pain. This not only brings good luck but also beautifies the skin, prevents aging, and relieves menstrual pain.

Ingredients: 1 apple, 300ml red wine, half a lily, 1 slice of lime, appropriate amount of cinnamon powder, appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Method:

1) Slice the lime and soak it in cold water. 2) Wash and peel the lily into petals.

3) One apple, peeled and cored, then cut into eight pieces. 4) Quickly put it into the cold water with lime.

5) In a stew pot, add red wine, and add an appropriate amount of cinnamon powder and rock sugar according to personal taste. 6) After bringing to a boil over high heat, add the apples and lilies.

7) Stew over medium heat for 15 minutes, then turn off the heat. After letting the apples soak in the red wine for 2 hours, they are ready to eat.

2. Lychee, Water Chestnut, and Dragon Fruit Sugar Water

Lychee, Water Chestnut, and Dragon Fruit Water

Effect: Eating lychees alone can easily cause "heatiness" (上火), but using them to make sugar water can clear heat and relieve dryness. The sugar water boiled with water chestnuts is sweet and delicious, and drizzling in the peach-colored dragon fruit juice makes the color stunning~

Ingredients: 250g water chestnuts, 300g lychees, 100g dragon fruit, appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Method:

1) Prepare lychees, water chestnuts, red-fleshed dragon fruit, and rock sugar. 2) Peel and pit the lychees, wash them clean, wash the water chestnuts, peel them, and cut them into small pieces for later use.

3) Peel the red-fleshed dragon fruit and extract the juice for later use. 4) Place cold water in a pot, put the prepared lychees and water chestnuts into the pot.

5) After bringing to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam, turn to low heat and simmer for 20 minutes. 6) Add rock sugar and simmer for another 5 minutes.

7) After the sugar water cools down, pour the dragon fruit juice into a cup and refrigerate for two hours before eating.

3. Salt-Steamed Orange

Salt-Steamed Orange

Effect: Salt-steamed oranges cure coughs, beating all cough and anti-inflammatory medicines.

Ingredients: 1 orange, appropriate amount of salt.

Method:

1) Prepare materials. 2) Rub the orange's surface clean with salt.

3) Cut one end of the orange, then sprinkle a small amount of salt inside. 4) Use chopsticks to poke the pulp a bit to let the salt seep in.

5) Cover the orange with the cut-off cap, place it in a pot and steam for 10 minutes.

4. Rock Sugar Boiled Apple

Ingredients: 1 apple, appropriate amount of rock sugar, appropriate amount of water.

Method:

1) One apple. 2) Peel and dice. 3) Heat a pot, add the diced apple.

4) Add rock sugar. 5) Add an appropriate amount of water. 6) Boil until soft.

5. Wood Ear Snow Pear Soup

Snow Pear Tremella Sweet Soup

Effect: Loquat is a great ingredient for stopping coughs and moistening the lungs. Using white fungus and pears to clear heat and detoxify has a super great effect~

Ingredients: 6 loquats, 1 pear, appropriate amount of rock sugar, appropriate amount of goji berries, appropriate amount of white fungus, appropriate amount of pineapple.

Method:

1) Prepare ingredients. 2) First, break the white fungus into pieces.

3) Peel and pit the loquats and pears, slice the pineapple for later use. 4) First, put the white fungus in an electric pressure cooker for 10 minutes with a large bowl of water.

5) After the pressure cooker has depressurized, add the pineapple. 6) Add the pear. 7) Add the loquats.

8) Finally, add goji berries and sugar and press for another 3 minutes (if you don't mind the trouble, you can also simmer in a clay pot for 15 minutes).

6. Sugar Water Peaches

Sugar Water Yellow Peaches

Effect: Super suitable for summer. Peaches have the effects of nourishing yin, promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, and invigorating blood. They are very effective for summer thirst, constipation, menstrual pain, deficiency and labor, wheezing and coughing, spontaneous sweating, and night sweats.

Ingredients: 800g fresh peaches, 150g rock sugar, 3500ml water.

Method:

1) Boil water in a pot. 2) Wash the peaches.

3) Remove the pits and peels, and cut into small pieces. 4) After the water boils, add rock sugar.

5) Add peach pieces. 6) Bring to a boil over high heat.

7) Cover, simmer over low heat for 20 minutes.

7. Fried Red Fruits (Hawthorn)

Fried Red Fruits (Hawthorn)

Effect: It has a certain effect on treating obesity, abdominal bloating and pain, indigestion, and chronic diarrhea in children due to spleen deficiency.

Ingredients: 300g hawthorn, 100g rock sugar, 1g salt.

Method:

1) Prepare ingredients. 2) Soak and wash the fresh hawthorns.

3) First, use the cap of a pen to twist forcefully into one end of the red fruit, then pull it out. 4) At the other end of the red fruit, use the same method to twist the pen cap in, and the pit can be poked out whole by the pen cap. This method is very convenient and can keep the red fruit intact.

5) In a clean pot, add water and a little salt. 6) Put the prepared hawthorns in.

7) Bring to a boil over high heat. 8) After the water in the pot boils, skim off the foam, turn to medium heat, cover the lid, and cook for three to four minutes until the water reduces. 9) Uncover the lid, pour in the rock sugar.

10) Keep stirring over medium heat for a few minutes until the water in the pot is reduced, then it's ready to be taken out. After it's completely cooled, you can bottle it, drizzle with some honey, and refrigerate it to eat, which has a more unique flavor.

The world of fruits is diverse, but fruits are also categorized as hot, cold, warm, and cool in nature. Therefore, for people with a weak spleen and stomach, it's difficult to digest cold and cool fruits. If you change the way you eat them by steaming or boiling the fruits, this problem can be effectively solved. Have you learned it?