In spring, it's best to eat fewer cold-natured fruits. The following 5 fruits are not in season during spring, and most of what we eat is long-term stored, so we can't taste their best flavor or get adequate nutrition. Let's take a look at which fruits are not recommended to eat too much in spring.
Pineapple
Problem: Some people experience allergic reactions after eating pineapple, such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, numbness of the lips, and itching of the skin.
Reason: This is because pineapple contains glucosides and bromelain. To prevent allergic reactions, pineapple must be soaked in light salt water for more than ten minutes after cutting to destroy the bromelain before eating.
Nutritionist: Pineapple is a tropical fruit rich in dietary fiber and bromelain, which is very beneficial for preventing constipation and indigestion, making it a great choice for summer fruits. As the weather gradually warms up, we will see more and more vendors selling pineapple. Many vendors soak pineapple in salt water in fiberglass containers, with a chopstick inserted in each piece. This reminds everyone to consider when the salt water in the fiberglass container was last changed and whether the chopsticks are new. This is not only a hygiene issue but can also cause secondary contamination.
Banana
Problem: To make the banana peel tender and yellow, some unscrupulous vendors use excessive sulfur dioxide to ripen them, but the flesh is still hard and not sweet at all. Sulfur dioxide is harmful to the human body.
Tips: The correct method should be to ripen them by heating.
Nutritionist: Banana is a nutritious tropical fruit, sweet in taste and cool in nature, with the effects of moistening the intestines and clearing heat. Its mature season is every summer.
Strawberry
Benefits: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that strawberries have the effects of reducing internal heat, relieving summer heat, and clearing heat. In spring, people's liver fire is often more vigorous, and eating some strawberries can have an inhibitory effect. In addition, it is best to eat strawberries after meals because they contain a lot of pectin and fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal motility, aid digestion, improve constipation, and prevent hemorrhoids and colon cancer.
Problem: Strawberries that are hollow in the middle, misshapen, irregular, and overly large are, with a few exceptions of high-yield new varieties, generally caused by excessive hormones. After using ripening agents or other hormone drugs, the growth cycle of strawberries is shortened, the color becomes brighter, but the inherent aroma is diluted, and they lack a fresh taste when eaten.
Nutritionist: Strawberry is a very attractive fruit with a high vitamin C content, so eating fresh strawberries is a good choice. The natural ripening period for strawberries is late May each year.
Grape
Problem: Some unscrupulous vendors and growers dilute the ripening agent ethylene with water, and soak immature green grapes in the diluted solution. After a day or two, the green grapes will turn purple.
Nutritionist: August and September are the grape season each year. Grape is sweet and slightly sour, and neutral in nature, with the effects of nourishing qi and blood, strengthening muscles and bones, and promoting urination. Its sugar content is relatively high, so diabetics should be careful to only have a small amount.
Sugarcane
Problem: Most sugarcane in spring is from the autumn harvest. After being stored for a whole winter, it is highly prone to spoilage, with fluff-like or hairy white substances appearing at the end of the sugarcane. After cutting, there will also be red, thread-like substances on the cross-section.
Harm: Some people do not select carefully when buying sugarcane. When they see the red thread-like substances after cutting, they think it is a normal phenomenon, and as a result, they suffer from sugarcane poisoning after eating it.
Nutritionist: Sugarcane is a good "heat-clearing" food. It is sweet in taste and cool in nature, with the effects of clearing heat and promoting fluid production, reducing qi and moistening dryness, and harmonizing the stomach and lowering adverse qi. The mature season for sugarcane is November. Besides spoilage due to improper storage, unripe sugarcane will also spoil after being cut down.